Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Provisions supplementary to regulation 3

4.—(1) If an employed driver of a vehicle to which regulation 3 applies fails—

(a)without reasonable excuse to return any record sheet which relates to him to his employer within twenty-one days of completing it; or

(b)where he has two or more employers by whom he is employed as a driver of such a vehicle, to notify each of them of the name and address of the other or others of them,

he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

(2) If the employer of drivers of a vehicle to which regulation 3 applies fails without reasonable excuse to secure that they comply with paragraph (1)(a), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

(3) Where a driver of a vehicle to which regulation 3 applies has two or more employers by whom he is employed as a driver of such a vehicle, paragraph (1)(a) and paragraph (2) shall apply as if any reference to his employer, or any reference which is to be construed as such a reference, were a reference to such of those employers as was the first to employ him in that capacity.