The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Cairngorm Funicular Railway) Exemption Order 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/657
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Cairngorm Funicular Railway) Exemption Order 2002 and shall come into force on 3rd April 2002.

Section 2 Interpretation

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 .

Section 3 Application

This Order applies to the rail vehicles which are numbered 1 and 2 (“the exempted vehicles”) as manufactured by Carrosserie Gangloff AG for use by Cairngorm Mountain Limited.

Section 4 Exemption

(1) Subject to articles 5 and 7, 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).

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

(a) regulation 4(1); and

(b) regulation 13(2)(a).

Section 5 Exemption

It is a condition of the exemption given by article 4(2)(a) that the floor surface of the passenger compartment of an exempted vehicle shall contrast, in respect of the amount of light reflected by it, with the surface of the platform adjacent to that floor surface when the vehicle is stationary at Base and Ptarmigan stations.

Section 6 Expiry

The exemptions given by article 4(2) shall cease at the end of 31st December 2011.

Section 7 Expiry

The authorisation given by article 4(1) shall cease immediately in respect of an exempted vehicle which—

(a) is operated by a person other than Cairngorm Mountain Limited, unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person; or

(b) is not operated on the Cairngorm Funicular Railway in Inverness-shire.