{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-regulations-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-regulations-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/432",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Wheelchair spaces (tables and trays)",
  "text": "(1) If tables or trays (whether fixed, adjustable or folding) are fitted for the use of passengers at not less than ten per cent of the seats (other than priority seats) in a rail vehicle, a similar table or tray must be fitted for use in any wheelchair space in that vehicle by a disabled person in a wheelchair.\n(2) The operator of a rail vehicle must provide assistance to erect a removable or folding table or tray, or to alter the height of an adjustable table, in a wheelchair space upon request made by or on behalf of a disabled person in a wheelchair.\n(3) There must be no obstruction in the space under a table in a wheelchair space other than a table-leg, but any table-leg must be positioned so that unobstructed clearance of not less than 700 millimetres in width is given under the table.\n(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), the lowest point on the underside of a table or tray top in a wheelchair space must be not less than 720 millimetres in height measured vertically from the floor.\n(5) Where an adjustable table is fitted in a wheelchair space—\n(a) it must be capable of being adjusted to meet the requirement of sub-paragraph (4); and\n(b) there must be adjacent to the table a sign clearly visible from the position of an occupant of a wheelchair in the wheelchair space indicating that the height of the table can be adjusted on request made to a member of the operator's staff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/432/schedule/1/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:51:49.835993+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."
}