The Drivers' Hours (Harmonisation with Community Rules) Regulations 1986

Domestic drivers' hours code etc

2.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Regulation, the domestic drivers' hours code shall not apply in relation to any Community driving or work of a driver of a vehicle to which Part VI of the 1968 Act applies.

(2) Paragraphs (3) and (4) below apply where during any working day a driver of a vehicle to which Part VI of the 1968 Act applies spends time both on Community driving or work and on domestic driving or work.

(3) Any time spent on Community driving or work shall be regarded for the purpose of—

(a) applying the limits in the domestic drivers' hours code on periods of driving or length of working day; or

(b) calculating periods of driving for the purposes of section 96(7) of the 1968 Act,

as time spent on domestic driving or, as the case may be, domestic work.

(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (3) above, any time spent on Community driving or work shall not be regarded for the purposes of any of the provisions of the domestic drivers' hours code as constituting or forming part of an interval for rest or an interval for rest and refreshment.

(5) In this Regulation “the domestic drivers' hours code” has the meaning given by section 96(13) of the 1968 Act.

(6) In this Regulation—

(a) any reference to Community driving or work is a reference to driving or, as the case may be, work to which the applicable Community Rules apply; and

(b) any reference to domestic driving or work is a reference to driving or, as the case may be, work to which Part VI of the 1968 Act applies and those Rules do not apply.