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2004 No. 954

DISABLED PERSONS

TRANSPORT

The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Mainline Class 222 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2004

  Made 29th March 2004 
  Laid before Parliament 6th April 2004 
  Coming into force 30th April 2004 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 47(1), (3) and (4) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995[1], having consulted the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other persons as he considered appropriate in accordance with section 47(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Mainline Class 222 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2004 and shall come into force on 30th April 2004.

Interpretation
    
2. In this Order - 

Authorisation and exemptions
     3. Subject to articles 4 and 5 - 

Expiry
    
4.  - (1) The exemption given by article 3(d), in respect of regulation 14(c), shall cease at the end of May 2005.

    (2) The exemptions given by article 3(a) to (c), in respect of regulations 7(b), 12 and 14(b), shall cease at the end of May 2019.

    
5. The authorisation given by article 3 shall cease forthwith in respect of any numbered vehicle if the diesel electric multiple-unit of which that vehicle forms a part is operated by a person other than Midland Mainline Limited unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport


Tony McNulty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport

29th March 2004



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order authorises the use for carriage of specified rail vehicles forming part of the fleet of Class 222 diesel electric multiple-units even though they do not conform with certain requirements of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2456, amended by S.I. 2000/3215) because:

The Order imposes time limits on the exemptions.


Notes:

[1] 1995 c. 50.back

[2] S.I. 1998/2456, to which amendments have been made which are not relevant to this Order.back



ISBN 0 11 049031 2


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 6 April 2004


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