Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Isle of Wight Railway LCDR No. 2515 Vehicle) Exemption Order 2002 and shall come into force on 31st July 2002.

Interpretation

2. Any reference in this Order to a numbered regulation is a reference to a regulation bearing that number in the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998( 2 ).

Application

3. This Order applies to the vehicle known as the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, 4 wheel, 5 compartment, 3rd Class Carriage, Southern Railway No. 2515 (“the exempted vehicle”) as owned, rebuilt and operated by the Isle of Wight Railway Company Limited.

Exemption

4. —(1) The exempted vehicle is hereby authorised to be used for carriage even though it does not conform with those provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 referred to in paragraph (2).

(2) The provisions with which the exempted vehicle is not required to conform are—

(a) regulation 4(1);

(b) regulation 4(2);

(c) regulation 4(3);

(d) regulation 6(1)(a);

(e) regulation 6(1)(b);

(f) regulation 6(1)(c);

(g) regulation 6(1)(d);

(h) regulation 7(c);

(i) regulation 8;

(j) regulation 11(1)(a);

(k) regulation 11(2)(a);

(l) regulation 11(2)(b);

(m) regulation 12;

(n) regulation 13;

(o) regulation 16(1)(e);

(p) regulation 16(1)(f); and

(q) regulation 19(3).

5. The authorisation granted by article 4(1) shall cease forthwith if the exempted vehicle is—

(a) operated by a person other than the Isle of Wight Railway Company Limited unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person; or

(b) not operated on the Isle of Wight Railway which runs between Smallbrook Junction and Wootton on the Isle of Wight.