Part 12Disabled persons: transport
Chapter 3Rail vehicles
183Exemptions from rail vehicle accessibility regulations
1
The Secretary of State may by order (an “exemption order”)—
a
authorise the use for carriage of a regulated rail vehicle even though the vehicle does not conform with the provisions of rail vehicle accessibility regulations with which it is required to conform;
b
authorise a regulated rail vehicle to be used for carriage otherwise than in conformity with the provisions of rail vehicle accessibility regulations with which use of the vehicle is required to conform.
2
Authority under subsection (1)(a) or (b) may be for—
a
a regulated rail vehicle that is specified or of a specified description,
b
use in specified circumstances of a regulated rail vehicle, or
c
use in specified circumstances of a regulated rail vehicle that is specified or of a specified description.
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4
After consulting the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other persons as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate, the Secretary of State may—
a
make an exemption order in the terms of the application for the order;
b
make an exemption order in such other terms as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate;
c
refuse to make an exemption order.
5
The Secretary of State may make an exemption order subject to such conditions and restrictions as are specified.
6
“Specified” means specified in an exemption order.
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Section 207(2) does not require an exemption order to be made by statutory instrument; but such an order is as capable of being amended or revoked as an order made by statutory instrument.