Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
These Regulations are made partly in consequence of the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 37 – “the 2003 Regulations”), which impose new accessibility requirements for disabled persons (particularly those in wheelchairs) to single-deck and double-deck buses and coaches, and partly in order to apply certain provisions to all public service vehicles on account of the fact that on a voluntary basis more vehicles are being made accessible to disabled persons. Accordingly, amendments are made to the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 447 – “the 1995 Regulations”) to update certain provisions and to provide certain alternative provisions in line with the 2003 Regulations so as to provide for consistency between the requirements under the 1995 Regulations and the provisions that now apply to and regulate new public service vehicles under the 2003 Regulations.