The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Amendment of regulation 5 (door controls)

7.—(1) In regulation 5(1) of the 1998 Regulations, after the words “power-operated door”, there shall be inserted “, other than a device to which paragraph (3) below applies,”.

(2) In regulation 5(1)(b) of the 1998 Regulations for the word “pressure” there shall be substituted “force”.

(3) After Regulation 5(2) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, no control device which opens a door automatically as a passenger approaches that door shall be fitted to a regulated rail vehicle unless:

(a) the door starts to open before any part of a passenger reaches a distance of less than 500 millimetres, measured horizontally, from the vertical centre line of the door surface;

(b) the door, once opened, remains open for a period of not less than 5 seconds before it closes; and

(c) if, after the door starts to close, the edge of the door comes into contact with any part of a passenger the door opens again.

(4) If a control device, to which paragraph (3) above applies, incorporates a photocell device positioned above the door, the requirement imposed by paragraph (3)(a) above will be complied with if the distance from the vertical centre line of the door is measured horizontally from any single point on that line not more than 300 millimetres above the floor”.