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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-blackpool-tramway-exemption-order-2014/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2660",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) (Blackpool Tramway) Exemption Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-blackpool-tramway-exemption-order-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions relating to Fleet B tramcars",
  "text": "A Fleet B tramcar is authorised to be used for carriage on the Blackpool tramway even if it does not conform with the requirements of—\n(a) paragraph 9(1)(b) (handholds must have a slip-resistant surface);\n(b) paragraph 9(1)(e) (width of the cross-section of handholds);\n(c) paragraph 10(1)(b) (handrails in a tramcar must be at intervals of not more than 1050 millimetres in its longitudinal plane);\n(d) paragraph 12(2)(c) (request-stop controls must be adjacent to at least every third row of seats);\n(e) paragraph 14(1)(e) (steps must be illuminated);\n(f) paragraph 14(1)(f) (step height must be no greater than 200 millimetres);\n(g) paragraph 14(1)(g) (step depth must be no less than 300 millimetres); and\n(h) paragraph 18(2) (a tramcar which can accommodate 100 or more passengers must have at least 2 wheelchair spaces).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2660/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:00:35.977738+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."
}