{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-connex-south-eastern-class-375-vehicles-exemption-order-2000/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-connex-south-eastern-class-375-vehicles-exemption-order-2000/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2050",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Connex South Eastern Class 375 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-connex-south-eastern-class-375-vehicles-exemption-order-2000",
  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The exemption given in article 4(2)(d) above in respect of regulation 12 shall only apply—\n(a) to the first 24 exempted vehicles brought in to passenger carriage service; and\n(b) to the vehicles whilst they are in use as part of a train which consists of no more than 8 vehicles (whether or not those vehicles are exempted).\n(2) The exemption given in article 4(2)(e) above in respect of regulation 13 shall apply only in relation to any exempted vehicle for any 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 (3) below.\n(3) The requirements are that the person shall—\n(a) have attended a training course, which has been approved by the Secretary of State, to be trained in awareness of the needs of disabled persons and persons with hearing disabilities;\n(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\n(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.\n(4) The exemption given by article 4(2)(f) above in respect of regulation 13(7) shall only apply provided that the first letter of, and numbers used in, announcements on visual systems on the front of an exempted vehicle shall not be less than 49 millimetres high.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2050/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:01:37.993365+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."
}