{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Tramcar request-stop controls",
  "text": "If a tramcar is fitted with controls for the use of passengers to request a stop by that tramcar:\n(a) there shall be such a control within reach of each person seated in a priority seat;\n(b) there shall be such a control within reach of each person in a wheelchair in a wheelchair space;\n(c) there shall be a such a control adjacent to at least every third row of seats;\n(d) the height of the centre of the control measured vertically above the floor shall be—\n(i) not less than 1,150 millimetres and not more than 1,250 millimetres if the control is for the use of seated passengers, or\n(ii) not less than 1,400 millimetres and not more than 1,500 millimetres if the control is for the use of other passengers;\n(e) the surround of the control shall contrast with the control and with the surface on which that surround is mounted;\n(f) the control shall be operable by the palm of the hand exerting a pressure not exceeding 15 newtons;\n(g) when a control has been operated signs bearing the word “Stopping”, in which the first letter only shall be a capital letter, shall be illuminated and remain illuminated until the tramcar has stopped and one or more of its doors have been opened;\n(h) signs of the type required by paragraph (g) above shall be visible from any part of the passenger saloon of a tramcar.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "restr in pt (1.1.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3952",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/3215",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/3215",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/6",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded (temp. until 30.6.2000)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/6",
      "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2456/regulation/9",
    "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."
}