Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Bristol Harbour Railway Vehicle Number DB978121) Exemption Order 2003 and shall come into force on 21st October 2003.

Interpretation

2. —(1) In this Order “the exempted vehicle” means the rail vehicle known as the Bristol Harbour Railway’s former ballast wagon number DB978121 as owned, converted and operated by Bristol City Council on the Bristol Harbour Railway at the Bristol Industrial Museum.

(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 ).

Authorisation and exemptions

3. —(1) Subject to article 4, the exempted vehicle is 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 11(1)(a);

(e) regulation 11(2)(e);

(f) regulation 11(3)(a);

(g) regulation 11(3)(c);

(h) regulation 11(3)(d);

(i) regulation 13; and

(j) regulation 16(1)(e).

Revocation

4. The authorisation given by article 3(1) is revoked with immediate effect if the exempted vehicle is—

(a) operated by a person other than Bristol City Council; or

(b) operated in a place other than the Bristol Harbour Railway at the Bristol Industrial Museum,

unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person or place.