The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (The Chiltern Railway Company Limited Class 168/1 Vehicles) Exemption (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3218

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The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (The Chiltern Railway Company Limited Class 168/1 Vehicles) Exemption (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

7th December 2000

Laid before Parliament

7th December 2000

Coming into force

31st December 2000

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 and such other persons as he considered appropriate 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 (The Chiltern Railway Company Limited Class 168/1 Vehicles) Exemption (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 31st December 2000.

2.  The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (The Chiltern Railway Company Limited Class 168/1 Vehicles) Exemption (No. 2) Order 2000(2) (“the principal Order”) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.

3.  In article 5 of the principal Order the words “and regulation 5” shall be deleted.

4.  After article 5 of the principal Order the following shall be inserted—

“5A.   The exemption given in respect of regulation 5 shall cease at the end of 31st July 2001.”.

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

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

7th December 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (The Chiltern Railway Company Limited Class 168/1 Vehicles) Exemption (No. 2) Order 2000 by extending the date on which one of the exemptions ends.

(1)

1995 c. 50.

(2)

S.I. 2000/2397.