The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 15th January 2001.

Amendments to the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000

2.  The Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3.  In Schedule 1—

(1) in Part I, for paragraph 10(2) (lighting) shall be substituted—

“(2) Any lighting fitted to a regulated public service vehicle in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) shall have a means of preventing its operation when the vehicle is in motion if its use is likely to affect adversely the driver’s vision.”

(2) in Part II, for the diagram entitled “Diagram A—Wheelchair Dimensions” shall be substituted the diagram shown in the Schedule to these Regulations.

4.  In Schedule 2—

(1) in paragraph 1 (definitions), in the definition of “total floor area” after the word “regulated” shall be inserted the word “public”;

(2) in paragraph 4(4)(a) (steps), for the word “is” in the second place where it occurs, shall be substituted the word “it”; and

(3) in paragraph 5(1)(a)(ii) (handrails and handholds), for the words “from the floor to the ceiling, or to” shall be substituted the words “from the floor or, where there is a wheel arch or similar structure, from the lowest height which is practicable to, in either case, the ceiling or”.

5.  In Schedule 3, paragraph 1, for the word “kilometer(s)” in the definition of “km/h” shall be substituted the word “kilometre(s)”.

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

18th December 2000