Recent Legislation

• This Order appoints 18th April 2006 for the coming into effect of the supplement to the Code of Practice on the duties under Part 3 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 entitled "Provision and Use of Transport Vehicles" ("the Transport Code"), which was issued by the Disability Rights Commission on 11th April 2006.
  
  Part 3 of the Act was amended by section 5 of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 to replace the earlier exemption from the Part 3 duties for "any service so far as it consists of the use of any means of transport" with a new exemption relating only to the provision and use of transport vehicles. The 2005 Act also introduced a power to enable the Secretary of State to make regulations to lift that exemption, in total or in part, in respect of particular transport vehicles. The Disability Discrimination (Transport Vehicles) Regulations 2005, which come into force on 4th December 2006, will impose, either in total or in part, the Part 3 duties on the operators of rail vehicles, buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles, vehicle hire, breakdown services and vehicles deployed on a system using a mode of guided transport.
• The appointed day for the coming into effect of the Code of Practice "Supplement to Part 3 Code of Practice: Provision and Use of Transport Vehicles" is 18th April 2006.
• Access to document:  Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) Document

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