{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Seats",
  "text": "(1) Not less than 10 per cent of the seats in a regulated rail vehicle or 8 seats (whichever is the lesser number) shall be designated by signs complying with paragraph (6) as priority seats for the use of disabled persons.\n(2) No priority seat may be capable of being tipped up or folded whilst the regulated rail vehicle is used for carriage.\n(3) Each priority seat and the space available to its user shall comply with the specifications shown in diagram B1 and in diagram B2, B3 or B4 in the Schedule.\n(4) Any armrest fitted to a priority seat shall be movable to the extent required to permit unrestricted access by a disabled person to that seat or any other priority seat to which access may be gained past that seat.\n(5) If tables or trays (whether fixed or folding) are fitted for the use of passengers at not less than 10 per cent of the seats (other than priority seats) in a regulated rail vehicle a similar table or tray shall be fitted for the use of persons in each priority seat.\n(6) There shall be a sign on or near to a priority seat indicating that disabled persons have priority for the use of that seat.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1205",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Seaton Tramway Tramcars 9, 10 and 11) Exemption Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr in pt (temp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1747",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Great Western Trains Company Class 180 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001"
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      "type": "restr in pt (temp) (until 31.12.2005) (1.1.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3955",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (C2C Class 357/0 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001"
    },
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      "type": "restr in pt (temp) (until 31.12.2002) (1.1.2002)",
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      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (C2C Class 357/0 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001"
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      "type": "restr in pt (temp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/847",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1704",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South West Trains Class 444 and Class 450 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded (temp. until 31.12.2000)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/6",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/770",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/182",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (LTS Rail Class 357 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/182",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (LTS Rail Class 357 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excl.in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1448",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (LTS Rail Class 357 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1687",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Festiniog Railway Company Vehicle Number 122) Exemption Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "excl",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1436",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Furness Railway Trust North London Coach) Exemption Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1410",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Hull Trains Class 170/3) Exemption Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1694",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Isle of Wight Railway LCDR No. 2515 Vehicle) Exemption Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (East Hayling Light Railway Vehicles) Exemption Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2456/regulation/8",
    "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."
}