The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000

4.—(1) Subject to articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 below, the exempted vehicles are hereby authorised to be used for carriage even though they do not conform with those provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 referred to in paragraph (2) below.

(2) The provisions with which the exempted vehicles are not required to conform are—

• regulation 4(2), but only in so far as it relates to the emission of warning sounds outside an exempted vehicle;

• regulation 4(3)(b);

• regulation 8(3);

• regulation 9(d)(i), but only in so far as it relates to a control on a horizontal handrail adjacent to a priority seat;

• regulation 9(g)

• regulation 13(5)(a) and (8);

• the remaining provisions of regulation 13, but only in so far as they relate to a public address system for visual announcements inside the passenger saloon of an exempted vehicle or to a public address system for audible announcements other than any such announcements required by regulation 13(5)(b), (c) and (d);

• regulation 16(1)(c); and

• regulation 19(4), but only in so far as the gradient of any slope of a vestibule floor adjoining a doorway in the side of an exempted vehicle exceeds five per cent but does not exceed six per cent.