{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-seaton-tramway-tramcars-9-10-and-11-exemption-order-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-seaton-tramway-tramcars-9-10-and-11-exemption-order-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1205",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Seaton Tramway Tramcars 9, 10 and 11) Exemption Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-seaton-tramway-tramcars-9-10-and-11-exemption-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order authorises the use for carriage of three rail vehicles, known as the Seaton Tramway tramcars 9, 10 and 11, which are operated on the Seaton Tramway in Devon, even though they do not conform with certain requirements of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations (S.I. 1998/2456, amended by S.I. 2000/3215) because:\nthere is a step down to the footwells of the seats on the upper deck;\nthere are no priority seats;\ncoloured markings on the transparent surfaces within the vehicles are not positioned as required by the regulations;\nhandrails are not fitted in the positions required by the regulations;\nthere are no seat-back handholds on the upper deck;\nthere is no public address system for either audio or visual announcements within the vehicles;\nthe words on the external destination boards are in the upper case; and\nthe portable access ramp is narrower than is permitted by the regulations.\nThe Order imposes a condition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1205/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:26:53.735734+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."
}