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The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2002

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Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 2981

DISABLED PERSONS

TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Made

3rd December 2002

Laid before Parliament

5th December 2002

Coming into force

31st December 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40(1), (2), (6) and (7) and 67(2) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1) and after having consulted the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other representative organisations as he thinks fit hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 31st December 2002.

(2) These Regulations shall extend to Great Britain.

Amendments

2.—(1) The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000(2) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.

(2) In regulation 4 (exemptions), paragraph (2) for “1 January 2003”, there shall be substituted “1 January 2004”.

(3) In Schedule 1, in paragraph 5 (boarding lifts and ramps), in sub-paragraph (3)(c), for “7°”, there shall be substituted “8°”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

John Spellar

Minister of State,

Department for Transport

3rd December 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000. Their main effect is to put back the date on which the requirements of paragraph 5(3)(b) to (e) of Schedule 1 (boarding ramps) come into effect from 1st January 2003 to 1st January 2004. They also increase the angle of slope of a fitted wheelchair ramp to a maximum of 8°.

(2)

S.I. 2000/1970.

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