The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1998

Made: 11th May 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 70(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995¹ and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1998.

Provisions coming into force

2

Sections 46, 47 and, insofar as it relates to section 46, section 48 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 shall come into force on 13th May 1998.

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions

Glenda Jackson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions — 11th May 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force sections 46, 47 and (partially) 48 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Section 46 empowers the Secretary of State to make rail vehicle accessibility regulations to ensure that disabled persons, including those seated in wheelchairs, may get on to and off rail vehicles in safety and without unreasonable difficulty and may be carried in reasonable comfort.

Section 47 empowers the Secretary of State to make exemption orders exempting vehicles from the rail vehicle accessibility regulations, and to make regulations in respect of applications for exemptions.

Section 48 provides that where an offence is committed by a body corporate, or, in Scotland, a partnership or an unincorporated association, with the consent or connivance of certain persons, those persons shall also be guilty of the offence.

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