Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 1932

The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Central Trains Class 170/5 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999

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     5.  - (1) The exemption given in respect of regulation 4(3)(b) shall cease at the end of 31st December 2000.

    (2) The exemption given in respect of regulation 5 shall cease at the end of 31st July 2000.

    (3) The exemption given in respect of regulation 13 shall cease at the end of 22nd March 2000 in relation to any exempted vehicle whenever it is used for carriage after that date on any service which is scheduled in the operator's public timetable to terminate at a destination station specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Order and to follow a route stopping at all the stations specified, opposite a specified destination station, in the third column of the Schedule to this order (whether or not it stops at other stations).

    (4) The exemption given in respect of regulation 13 shall cease altogether at the end of 7th January 2001.

     6. The exemption given in respect of regulation 5 shall apply in relation to any exempted vehicle only while instructions for the operation of any door which is operated by a control device to which the exemption relates are displayed on a sign:

(a) which is placed on or near that door and on the same side of that door as any such control device; and

(b) on which the letters, numbers or diagrams contrast with their background and are identifiable by touch.

     7.  - (1) The exemption given in respect of regulation 13 shall apply only in relation to any exempted vehicle for a period during which the operator provides in that vehicle or, where an exempted vehicle forms part of a train, in that train a person who complies with the requirements specified in paragraph (2) below.

    (2) The requirements are that the person shall - 

(a) have attended a training course, which has been approved by the Secretary of State, to be trained in awareness of the needs of persons with hearing disabilities;

(b) be equipped with writing paper, a pen and a printed timetable showing the services on the route on which the exempted vehicle is being used and the times of arrival at each station on that route; and

(c) be reasonably available to provide persons with hearing disabilities in the exempted vehicle with the information which is required by regulation 13(4) and (5) to be displayed on public address systems for visual announcements in a regulated rail vehicle which is not an exempted vehicle.

     8. The authorisation shall cease forthwith in respect of an exempted vehicle which is operated by a person other than Central 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 the Environment, Transport and the Regions


Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

7th July 1999

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