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The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000
Public services
Access for disabled people
Vehicles
Transport for disabled people
Coaches
King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
2018-02-13
DISABLED PERSONS
These Regulations apply to single-deck and double-deck buses and to single-deck and double-deck coaches with a capacity of more than twenty-two passengers which are used to provide local and scheduled services (“regulated public service vehicles”). The Regulations, which are enacted under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, are intended to ensure that disabled people can get on and off a regulated public service vehicle in safety and without unreasonable difficulty and, in the case of wheelchair users, can do so whilst remaining in their wheelchairs. They are also intended to ensure that disabled people are carried in these vehicles in safety and reasonable comfort. The Regulations recognise the impact on the bus industry, to both manufacturers and operators, which their provisions will have, particularly with respect to accessibility to smaller buses and high floor coaches, by providing for a phased implementation of their requirements.
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2000 No. 1970
DISABLED PERSONS
The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 40(1), (2) and (6), 41(2), 42(3), (4) and (5), 44(1)(b), 2(b) and (4), 45(1) and 67 of the Disability Discrimination Act 19951 (“the Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and after consultation with the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and such other representative organisations as he thought fit in accordance with section 40(7) of the Act and with such representative organisations as he thought fit in accordance with section 45(4) of the Act, hereby makes the following Regulations: