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This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in SI 2003/3122 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1617

DISABLED PERSONS

TRANSPORT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Private Hire Vehicles)(Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.)(England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2006

Made

16th June 2006

Laid before Parliament

22nd June 2006

Coming into force

17th July 2006

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 37A(8)(b) and (9) and 67(2) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995( 1 ).

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Private Hire Vehicles)(Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.)(England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 17th July 2006.

Amendments

2. —(1)The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Private Hire Vehicles)(Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.)(England and Wales) Regulations 2003( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (2) of regulation 2 there shall be substituted—

“ (2) The prescribed manner of exhibiting a notice of exemption for the purposes of section 37A(8)(b) of the 1995 Act shall be—

(a) by displaying it—

(i) on the nearside of and immediately behind the windscreen of the private hire vehicle facing outwards; and

(ii) in a manner that readily permits its removal;

(b) so that—

(i) its front is clearly visible from the outside of the private hire vehicle; and

(ii) its back is clearly visible from the driver’s seat of the private hire vehicle. ” .

(3) For Part 2 of Schedule 1 there shall be substituted the content of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(4) For Part 2 of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the content of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Gillian Merron

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

16th June 2006

Regulation 2(3)

SCHEDULE 1

“ 2. FORM OF BACK OF NOTICE OF EXEMPTION IN ENGLAND

”

Regulation 2(4)

SCHEDULE 2

“ 2. FORM OF BACK OF NOTICE OF EXEMPTION IN WALES

”

( 1 )

1995 c. 50 . Section 37A was inserted by the Private Hire Vehicles (Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.) Act 2002 (c. 37) .

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The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Private Hire Vehicles)(Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.)(England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2006 (2006/1617)

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