{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-accessibility-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-accessibility-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1970",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-accessibility-regulations-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Entrances and exits",
  "text": "(1) Any entrance or exit which is intended to provide access for a wheelchair user shall have a clear unobstructed width of not less than 800mm.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), where an entrance or exit which is intended to provide access for a wheelchair user is fitted with a power-operated boarding lift or a power-operated boarding ramp which is not within the direct field of vision of the driver—\n(a) the entrance or exit shall be fitted with an optical device; and\n(b) the optical device shall enable the driver to have a clear unobstructed view of the inside and outside of the door area and of the operation of the lift or ramp.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) shall not apply to a power-operated boarding lift or a power-operated ramp which can only be operated by a control fitted in accordance with paragraph 5(5)(a)(ii).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 30.8.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1970/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:28.464935+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}