The Drivers' Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Modifications) Order 1986

Light goods vehicles

3.—(1) Where during any working week a driver spends all of the time when he is driving vehicles to which Part VI of the 1968 Act applies in driving light goods vehicles and, in so far as he drives such a vehicle during that week otherwise than for social, domestic or pleasure purposes, he does so—

(a) solely in connection with the carrying on by him or by his employer of the profession of medical practitioner, nurse, midwife, dentist or veterinary surgeon;

(b) wholly or mainly in connection with the carrying out of any service of inspection, cleaning, maintenance, repair, installation or fitting;

(c) solely while he is acting as a commercial traveller and is carrying in the vehicle (apart from the effects of any person carried in it) no goods other than goods carried for the purpose of soliciting orders;

(d) solely while he is acting in the course of his employment by the Automobile Association, the Royal Automobile Club or Royal Scottish Automobile Club; or

(e) solely in connection with the carrying on by him or by his employer of the business of cinematography or of radio or television broadcasting,

that Part of that Act shall have effect, as respects that driver and any working day falling wholly within that working week, not only with the modifications made by article 2 above but also as if subsections (3)(a) and (8)(a) of section 96 were omitted.

(2) In this article “light goods vehicle” means a vehicle which—

(a) is a goods vehicle which has a permissible maximum weight within the meaning of section 110 of the Road Traffic Act 1972(1) not exceeding 3.5 tonnes; or

(b) is a dual purpose vehicle within the meaning of Regulation 3(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1978 (2)

and (in either case) is a vehicle to which Part VI of the 1968 Act applies.

(1)

section 110 was amended by the Road Traffic (Drivers' Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976 (c. 3), Schedule 1, para 5.

(2)

, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.