Regulation 18 Tables

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg 18 restr in pt (temp) by Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption 2001 arts 4(1), (2)(k), 5(9)
reg.18(1) excluded by Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption 2000 regs.4(2),5(2)
reg 18 excl in pt (temp) by Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Virgin West Coast Class 390) Exemption 2005 arts 5, 6(3), 7, 8
reg 18 restr by Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Summerlee Tramcar No. 392) Exemption 2002 arts 4(1), (2)(n), 7
reg 18 restr in pt (temp) (until 31.5.2012) by Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Virgin West Coast Class 390 Vehicles) Exemption 2002 arts 5, 7(b), 8(2), 9(2), 10

(1)

If tables or trays (whether fixed or folding) are fitted for the use of passengers at not less than ten per cent of the seats (excluding priority seats) in a regulated rail vehicle a similar table or tray shall be available for use in any wheelchair space in that vehicle by a disabled person in a wheelchair.

(2)

The operator of a regulated rail vehicle shall provide assistance to erect a removable or folding table or tray in a wheelchair space at the request of or on behalf of a disabled person in a wheelchair.

(3)

There shall be no obstruction in the space beneath the table-top other than a table-leg positioned so that the unobstructed space beneath the table is not less than 700 millimetres wide when measured at a right angle to the direction in which the wheelchair faces when facing the table.

(4)

The lowest point on the underside of the table-top shall be not less than 720 millimetres vertically above the floor of the regulated rail vehicle.