The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

SCHEDULE SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED AFTER SCHEDULE 3 TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES (CONDITIONS OF FITNESS, EQUIPMENT, USE AND CERTIFICATION) REGULATIONS 1981

(See Regulation 23 (1A))

“SCHEDULE 3A

Application

1.   This Schedule applies to every vehicle registered on or after the 1st April 1980.Conditions

2.   Save as provided below, the following conditions shall be complied with in relation to every power-operated door which is—

(a) fitted to a vehicle to which this Schedule applies, and

(b) so situated in the vehicle that the whole of the door opening is more than 500 millimetres behind the transverse vertical plane that touches the back of the driver’s seat when the seat is in its rearmost position.

3.— (1) The first condition is that when the door is prevented from closing by the presence of a fixed vertical surface that is 60 millimetres high placed at right angles to the direction of movement of the closing edge—

(a) the force exerted on the surface does not exceed 150 newtons and

(b) the door re-opens automatically and remains open until a closing control is operated manually.

(2) This condition shall not have to be met when a door is within 30 millimetres of its fully closed position, but shall otherwise apply wherever the surface is placed within the door opening (regardless of the stage of closure when the door first strikes the surface or of the part of the closing edge that strikes the surface).

4.— (1) The second condition is that whenever the door is closed on to the fingers or the palm of the hand—

(a) the door re-opens automatically and remains open until a closing control is operated manually, or

(b) the fingers or hand can be readily extracted from the doors without injury.

(2) This condition shall not apply to a door fitted to a coach manufactured before the1st of October 1992 or registered before the 1st of April 1993.

(3) In this paragraph “coach” has the same meaning as in the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(1).

5.   The third condition is that a visual warning device, clearly visible to the driver at all times, is activated whenever the door is not fully closed.

Transitional and Savings

6.— (1) This Schedule shall not have effect until 1st April 1993 in relation to a vehicle manufactured before the 14th May 1990 or first used before the 1st of October 1990.

(2) Nothing in this Schedule shall be construed as derogating from the requirements ofregulation 23(1).”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Atkins

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Transport

12th December 1989

(1)

S.I. 1986/1078; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/1133.