The Drivers' Hours (Passenger Vehicles) (Exemptions) (Amendment) Regulations 1970

• Citation: S.I. 1970/649
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations shall come into operation on the 12th May 1970, and may be cited as the Drivers' Hours (Passenger Vehicles) (Exemptions) (Amendment) Regulations 1970.

Section 2

The Drivers' Hours (Passenger Vehicles) (Exemptions) Regulations 1970 shall have effect as though, after Regulation 4, there were added the following Regulation:—

(5) Any driver of a passenger vehicle who spends time on duty during a working day to meet a special need, that is to say work done in connection with the carriage of persons suffering from physical or mental disability to or from any place at which social or recreational facilities for them are specially provided, is hereby exempted from the requirements of section 96(3) in relation to that day, subject to the conditions that—

(a) he is able to obtain rest and refreshment during that day for a period which is, or for periods which taken together are, not less than the time by which the working day exceeds 10 hours,

(b) that day does not exceed 14 hours, and

(c) he has not taken advantage of this exemption from the requirements of section 96(3) on more than one previous working day which forms part of the working week of which that day forms part.