10 Drivers’ hours. E+W+S
In section 96 of the 1968 Act (restrictions on drivers’ hours), after subsection (11A) (added by the M1) European Communities Act 1972, with a view to penalising contraventions of the applicable Community rules), there shall be inserted—
“(11B)But a person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (11A) if—
(a)he proves the matters specified in paragraph (i) of subsection (11); or
(b)being charged as the offender’s employer or a person to whose orders the offender was subject, he proves the matters specified in paragraph (ii) of that subsection.”
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 9, 15(5), 16, 22, 24(4) and Schs. 3 and 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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