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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-london-underground-metropolitan-line-s8-vehicles-boarding-devices-exemption-order-2013/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-london-underground-metropolitan-line-s8-vehicles-boarding-devices-exemption-order-2013/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1931",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) (London Underground Metropolitan Line S8 Vehicles) (Boarding Devices) Exemption Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-london-underground-metropolitan-line-s8-vehicles-boarding-devices-exemption-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“Metropolitan Line” means the London Underground route between Aldgate and Amersham, Chesham, Watford and Uxbridge Stations;\n“MS exempt vehicle” means a rail vehicle of the type known as Metropolitan Line 2010 Tube Stock (S8) and with a number in the series 24001 to 24116;\n“Piccadilly Line” means the London Underground route between Cockfosters and Uxbridge and Heathrow Terminal 5 stations, including the Terminal 4 loop at Heathrow;\n“pre-1999 vehicle” means a rail vehicle to which regulation 4 of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010 applies;\n“step-free access” means access from the station entrance to the platform level without the use of stairs or escalators.\n(2) In this Order a reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to that paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/432 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1931/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:51.983102+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."
}