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The Community Drivers' Hours (Tankers) (Temporary Exception) (Revocation) Regulations 2000
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- 2000 No. 3115
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These Regulations revoke the Community Drivers' Hours (Tankers) (Temporary Exception) Regulations 2000 (“the principal Regulations”) (S.I. 2000/2960).
Article 13(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3820/85 of 20th December 1985 on harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport (“the Council Regulation”) provides that Member States may in urgent cases grant a temporary exception for a period not exceeding 30 days to transport operations carried out in exceptional circumstances.
The principal Regulations provide that until 3rd December 2000, any time spent driving tankers in the exceptional circumstances occasioned by the exceptional demand for fuel supplies in Great Britain, or the effects or consequences of such exceptional circumstances, shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the application of Article 6(2) of the Council Regulation.
The principal Regulations also provide that in relation to the driving of tankers in the exceptional circumstances mentioned above, Articles 6(1) and 8(3) of the Council Regulation shall have effect subject to certain modifications.
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