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2004 No. 955

DISABLED PERSONS

TRANSPORT

The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (CrossCountry Trains Class 220 and Class 221) 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 sections 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 (CrossCountry Trains Class 220 and Class 221) Exemption Order 2004 and shall come into force on 30th April 2004.

Interpretation
    
2. In this Order - 

Authorisation and exemption for Class 220 DEMUs
     3. Subject to articles 5 to 7 - 

Authorisation and exemption for Class 221 DEMUs
    
4. Subject to articles 5 to 7 - 

Condition
    
5. It is a condition of the exemptions granted by articles 3(b) and 4(b) that the width of the doorway of any toilet cubicle to which regulation 20(1)(b) applies, and which is situated in any of the numbered rail vehicles specified in those articles, shall measure not less than 800 millimetres at any point.

Expiry
    
6.  - (1) The exemptions granted by articles 3(b) and 4(b), in respect of regulation 20(1)(b), shall cease at the end of April 2005.

    (2) The exemptions granted by articles 3(a) and 4(a), in respect of regulation 7(b), shall cease at the end of April 2014.

    
7. The authorisation given by articles 3 and 4 shall cease immediately in respect of any numbered rail vehicle if the diesel electric multiple-unit of which that vehicle forms a part is operated by a person other than CrossCountry Trains 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 specified rail vehicles in the fleets of Class 220 and Class 221 diesel electric multiple-units to be used for carriage 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 a condition on the authorisation and sets time limits.


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 049012 6


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 6 April 2004


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