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The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Seaton Tramway Tramcars 9, 10 and 11) Exemption Order 2004
Transport for disabled people
Access for disabled people
Disabled people
Disability discrimination
King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
2011-07-04
DISABLED PERSONS;TRANSPORT
This 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:there is a step down to the footwells of the seats on the upper deck;there are no priority seats;coloured markings on the transparent surfaces within the vehicles are not positioned as required by the regulations;handrails are not fitted in the positions required by the regulations;there are no seat-back handholds on the upper deck;there is no public address system for either audio or visual announcements within the vehicles;the words on the external destination boards are in the upper case; andthe portable access ramp is narrower than is permitted by the regulations.
The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Seaton Tramway Tramcars 9, 10 and 11) Exemption Order 2004
Order
The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010
art. 21
Sch. 7
art. 1(2)
Condition4
It is a condition of the exemption given by article 3(2)(l), in respect of regulation 23(7)(b), that the width of the portable access ramp shall be not less than 710 millimetres at any point.