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The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010

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Wheelchair spaces (tables and trays)

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21.—(1) If tables or trays (whether fixed, adjustable or folding) are fitted for the use of passengers at not less than ten per cent of the seats (other than priority seats) in a rail vehicle, a similar table or tray must be fitted for use in any wheelchair space in that vehicle by a disabled person in a wheelchair.

(2) The operator of a rail vehicle must provide assistance to erect a removable or folding table or tray, or to alter the height of an adjustable table, in a wheelchair space upon request made by or on behalf of a disabled person in a wheelchair.

(3) There must be no obstruction in the space under a table in a wheelchair space other than a table-leg, but any table-leg must be positioned so that unobstructed clearance of not less than 700 millimetres in width is given under the table.

(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), the lowest point on the underside of a table or tray top in a wheelchair space must be not less than 720 millimetres in height measured vertically from the floor.

(5) Where an adjustable table is fitted in a wheelchair space—

(a)it must be capable of being adjusted to meet the requirement of sub-paragraph (4); and

(b)there must be adjacent to the table a sign clearly visible from the position of an occupant of a wheelchair in the wheelchair space indicating that the height of the table can be adjusted on request made to a member of the operator’s staff.

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