{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-accessibility-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-accessibility-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Gangways",
  "text": "Any gangway between a wheelchair space and an entrance or exit intended to provide access for a wheelchair user—\n(a) shall allow a reference wheelchair to be moved from an entrance to the wheelchair space and from the wheelchair space to an exit, with the wheelchair user moving in a forward facing direction, and to be moved (in either direction) from the gangway into the wheelchair space in the appropriate direction for travel;\n(b) shall not be less than 750mm wide at any point along the gangway; and\n(c) where a vehicle is fitted with more than one wheelchair space, the requirement in (a) above shall be met with any other wheelchair space occupied with a reference wheelchair.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}