{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rail-vehicle-accessibility-networks-exemption-order-2009/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rail-vehicle-accessibility-networks-exemption-order-2009/note.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111486122",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Networks) Exemption Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rail-vehicle-accessibility-networks-exemption-order-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order authorises the use of rail vehicles–\n(i) on networks named or described in the Schedule to the Order (article 3);\n(ii) in depots forming part of networks not named in the Schedule for tourist, educational or recreational purposes (article 3); and\n(iii) on networks indicated in article 4(3), such as a network in the grounds of a dwelling house,\neven though the rail vehicles or their use is not in conformity with provisions of rail accessibility regulations made under section 46(1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c.50).\nIt also authorises each rail vehicle to be used on networks not otherwise covered by the Order during no more than 20 traffic days per calendar year (traffic days being as defined in article 2).\nThe authorisations are subject to conditions (see articles 3(3) and (4) and 4(4)). The authorisation to use rail vehicles on networks named or described in the Schedule or in depots only applies to rail vehicles first brought into use before 1st January 1999.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument because no additional cost on business, charities or voluntary bodies is foreseen and the impact on the public sector is negligible.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111486122/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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