The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 1999

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct arrears in, and inconsequence of an omission from, S.I. 1999/520, and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 586

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The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 1999

Made

5th March 1999

Laid before Parliament

9th March 1999

Coming into force

1st April 1999

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 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 (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

2.  Article 5(2) of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999(2) shall be amended by substituting “31st March 2001” for “31st December 2010”.

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

Glenda Jackson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

5th March 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999 by substituting 31st March 2001 for 31st December 2010 as the termination date for one of the exemptions granted by that Order.

(1)

1995. c.50.

(2)

S.I. 1999/520.