{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Tables",
  "text": "(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "restr in pt (temp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/847",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/770",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excl in pt (temp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/329",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Virgin West Coast Class 390) Exemption Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2873",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Summerlee Tramcar No. 392) Exemption Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr in pt (temp) (until 31.5.2012)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1699",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Virgin West Coast Class 390 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2456/regulation/18",
    "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."
}