{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2456",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Toilets",
  "text": "If a toilet is fitted in a regulated rail vehicle that vehicle shall comply with the following requirements:\n(a) the centre of any door control device on the exterior or the interior of the toilet cubicle shall be not less than 800 millimetres and not more than 1,200 millimetres vertically above the floor;\n(b) any door control device, or other equipment inside the toilet cubicle shall be operable by the exertion of a force of not more than 15 newtons;\n(c) the seat and any lid on the toilet and any handholds in the toilet cubicle shall be coloured to contrast with the adjacent parts of the toilet cubicle;\n(d) the immediate surround of a control device in a toilet cubicle shall be coloured to contrast with that control device and with the part of the toilet cubicle on which it is mounted;\n(e) a control device inside a toilet cubicle shall be so constructed as to be identifiable by touch.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3198",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South Central Class 377/4) Exemption Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr in pt (temp) (until 31.10.2018)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1704",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South West Trains Class 444 and Class 450 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "excl in pt (until 31.10.2018)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1562",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Great Eastern Railway Class 360 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/954",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Mainline Class 222 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/954",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Mainline Class 222 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1410",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Hull Trains Class 170/3) Exemption Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2180",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Hull Trains Class 222) Exemption Order 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2456/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:49.649417+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."
}