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Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 250

DISABLED PERSONS

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The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Connex South Eastern Class 375 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 2001

Made

31st January 2001

Laid before Parliament

8th February 2001

Coming into force

1st April 2001

The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 47 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having consulted the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other persons as he considered appropriate in accordance with section 47(3) of the said Act, hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Connex South Eastern Class 375 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

2.  The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Connex South Eastern Class 375 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000(2) (“the principal Order”) shall be amended in accordance with the following provision.

3.  In article 6(4) of the principal Order for the words “31st March” there shall be substituted “30th September”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

31st January 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Connex South Eastern Class 375 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000 by extending the date on which one of the exemptions in that Order expires.

(2)

S.I. 2000/2050.