Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000 and their application to home-to-school and rail replacement coach services
Published By GOV.UK [English], Tue, Dec 21, 2021 4:15 AM
Buses Minister Baroness Vere wrote to coach, rail and local authority representatives on 16 December 2021 regarding the application of the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000 (PSVAR) to home-to-school (HTS) and rail replacement (RR) coach services.
The letter states the government’s intention to extend existing exemptions for closed-door HTS services to the end of the 2021 to 2022 academic year.
It also confirms that qualified medium-term exemptions will be offered for RR and HTS services that are still not compliant when existing exemptions expire in June 2022 and July 2022 respectively.
These medium-term exemptions aim to ensure that essential HTS and RR services can continue to run while requiring operators to become increasingly compliant with existing legal obligations.
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