2004 No.2180
The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Hull Trains Class 222) Exemption Order 2004
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 47(1), (3) and (4) of the Disability Discrimination Act 19951, having consulted the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other persons as he considered appropriate in accordance with section 47(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Hull Trains Class 222) Exemption Order 2004 and shall come into force on 4th October 2004.
Interpretation2
In this Order—
a
any reference to “the exempted vehicles” is a reference to the rail vehicles numbered 60191 to 60194 and 60271 to 60274, which form part of the fleet of diesel electric multiple-units numbered 222101 to 222104, as manufactured by Bombardier Transportation Limited in Belgium for use by Hull Trains Company Limited; and
b
any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 19982.
Authorisation and exemption3
Subject to articles 4 and 5, the exempted vehicles are authorised to be used for carriage even though they do not conform with regulation 14(b), in so far as it applies to the deployment of a folding nappy-changing table in any toilet cubicle to which regulation 20 applies.
Expiry
4
The exemption given by article 3 shall cease at the end of May 2019.
5
The authorisation given by article 3 shall cease immediately in respect of any exempted vehicle if the diesel electric multiple-unit of which the exempted vehicle forms a part is operated by a person other than Hull Trains Company Limited unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
(This note is not part of the Order)