{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Prohibition of hinged doors",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (1) and (2) a person shall not operate and an infrastructure controller shall not permit the operation of any rolling stock on a railway line if the rolling stock has hinged doors for use by passengers for boarding and alighting from the train (other than doors which have a means of centrally locking them in a closed position).\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to rolling stock which at the relevant time is being exclusively operated other than for the carriage of fare paying passengers.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply until 31st December 2007 provided that a programme to have such a rolling stock rebodied or to have central locking installed has been approved by the Department and is being implemented.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/47/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:42:57.778248+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."
}