{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-regulations-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-regulations-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-9.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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Handholds",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a handhold must be fitted to the top of the back of each passenger seat which faces towards an end of a rail vehicle and is next to a gangway in a passenger saloon, and must comply with the following requirements—\n(a) it must contrast with the seat to which it is attached;\n(b) it must have a slip-resistant surface;\n(c) any edges or corners in its surface (including those in its mountings with the seat) must be rounded off;\n(d) its exterior design must not incorporate any empty space or gap, including any between it and the seat to which it is attached, having less than 45 millimetres clearance for a passenger's hand; and\n(e) if its exterior design incorporates any empty space or gap, the cross section of the handhold, excluding any mountings, must have a width of not more than 40 millimetres at its widest point and not less than 20 millimetres at its narrowest point.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a seat—\n(a) the back of which touches a partition;\n(b) the back of which touches the back of another seat which faces in the opposite direction and is fitted with a handhold;\n(c) which reclines and which, in the reclined position, touches the back of another reclining seat in the reclined position which faces in the opposite direction and is fitted with a handhold;\n(d) to which a handrail is attached; or\n(e) which is situated no more than 50 millimetres from a handrail, handhold or partition measured from the top of the back of that seat in both the fixed and, as the case may be, reclined position.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}