{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Sleeping accommodation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a regulated rail vehicle with sleeping accommodation for passengers shall have not less than one wheelchair-compatible sleeping compartment.\n(2) If there is more than one regulated rail vehicle with sleeping accommodation for passengers in a train, there shall be not less than two wheelchair-compatible sleeping compartments in the train.\n(3) The doorway into a wheelchair-compatible sleeping compartment and the space beside the bed in such a compartment shall not be less than 850 millimetres wide.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2456/regulation/17",
    "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."
}