Draft (Amendment) Rule. 2023 incorporating Accessibility Standards and Guidelines for Civil Aviation 2022

EXTRAORDINARY PART II —Section 3 —Sub-section ( i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 422] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2023/ASHAD HA 30, 194 5 CG-DL-E-21072023-247515 MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) ) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 21st July, 2023 G.S.R . 528 (E).—Whereas a draft of certain rules further to amend the Right of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub -section (i) vide notification number G.S.R 290 (E), dated the 13th April, 2023, as required under sub -section (1) of section 100 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 (49 of 2016) , inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby, before the expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public. And whereas , the copies of the Official Gazette of the said notification were made available to the publi c on the 13th April, 2023 ; And whereas , the objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said notification were considered by the Central Government; Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub -sections (1) and (2) of section 100 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017, namely: - (1) These rules may be called the Right s of Persons with Disabilities (Amendment) Rules, 2023. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017, in rule 15, in sub -rule (1), after clause (e), the f ollowing clause shall be inserted , namely: - “(f) the A ccessibility Standards and Guidelines for Civil Aviation 2022 , notifie d by the Government of India in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, vide notification number AV-24032/56/2021 -AAI-MoCA , dated the 9th January, 2023 , as ame nded from time to time .” [F. No. 38-05/2023 -DD-III] RAJEEV SHARMA, Jt. Secy . Note : The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub -section (i) vide notification number G.S.R. 591 (E), dated the 15th June, 2017. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi -110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Del hi-110054.