PART III Discrimination in Other Areas
Goods, facilities and services
E221ZAF3Application of sections 19 to 21 to transport vehicles
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E121ZAF2Application of sections 19 to 21 to transport vehicles
C11
Section 19(1)(a), (c) and (d) do not apply in relation to a case where the service is a transport service and, as provider of that service, the provider of services discriminates against a disabled person—
a
in not providing, or in providing, him with a vehicle; or
b
in not providing, or in providing, him with services when he is travelling in a vehicle provided in the course of the transport service.
C22
For the purposes of section 21(1), (2) and (4), it is never reasonable for a provider of services, as a provider of a transport service—
a
to have to take steps which would involve the alteration or removal of a physical feature of a vehicle used in providing the service;
C3b
to have to take steps which would—
i
affect whether vehicles are provided in the course of the service or what vehicles are so provided, or
ii
where a vehicle is provided in the course of the service, affect what happens in the vehicle while someone is travelling in it.
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Regulations may provide for subsection (1) or (2) not to apply, or to apply only to a prescribed extent, in relation to vehicles of a prescribed description.
4
In this section—
“transport service” means a service which (to any extent) involves transport of people by vehicle;
“vehicle” means a vehicle for transporting people by land, air or water, and includes (in particular)—
- a
a vehicle not having wheels, and
- b
a vehicle constructed or adapted to carry passengers on a system using a mode of guided transport;
- a
“guided transport” means transport by vehicles guided by means external to the vehicles (whether or not the vehicles are also capable of being operated in some other way).