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Article 4

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(1)

Subject to articles 5, 6 and 7 below, the exempted vehicles are hereby authorised to be used for carriage even though they do not comply with those provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 referred to in paragraph (2) below.

(2)

The provisions with which the exempted vehicles are not required to conform are—

(a)

regulation 8(3), in so far as diagrams B2, B3 and B4 in the Schedule require a minimum clear headroom of 1250 millimetres for priority seats; and

(b)

regulation 20(2), in so far as it requires that the passageway between the wheelchair space and the toilet cubicle for disabled persons in wheelchairs shall not be less than 850 millimetres wide at any point.