This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Serco Metrolink T68A Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999 and shall come in to force on 19th November 1999.
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.
This Order applies to the rail vehicles numbered 2001 to 2006 of the class known as “T68A Bi-directional Light Rail Vehicles” (`the exempted vehicles') as manufactured by Ansaldo Trasporti S.p.A. for use on the Manchester Metrolink system.
(1)Subject to articles 5 and 6 below, the exempted vehicles are hereby authorised to be used for carriage even though they do not conform with those provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 referred to in paragraph (2) below.
(2)The provisions with which the exempted vehicles are not required to conform are regulations—• 4(3)(b); and• 11(3)(d).
The authorisation shall cease forthwith in respect of an exempted vehicle which is operated by a person other than Serco Metrolink Limited unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person.
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