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The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 2004

S.I. 2004/2150 · Made 18 August 2004

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DISABLED PERSONS

TRANSPORT

Made 18th August 2004

Laid before Parliament 1st September 2004

Coming into force 30th September 2004

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 47(1), (3) and (4) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995f1, having consulted the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other persons as he considered appropriate in accordance with section 47(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1995 c. 50.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 30th September 2004.

2Amendment

(1)

The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001f1 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In article 5(7), for the words “at the end of 30th September 2004”, there shall be substituted “at the end of 30th April 2011”.

(3)

In article 5(8), for the words “at the end of 31st March 2005”, there shall be substituted “at the end of 30th April 2011”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Kim Howells

Minister of State for Transport,

Department for Transport

18th August 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/847), which authorises the use of specified rail vehicles even though they do not conform with the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2456, amended by S.I. 2000/3215). This Order extends the exemptions from requirements in respect of the height of the letters on the internal public information system, and the number of wheelchair spaces, until the end of April 2011.