Part VI

Drivers’ Hours

Access to downloaded data
97H
1
An officer may, on production if so required of his authority, require a person to make readily accessible to him, either on or from premises occupied or controlled by the person in question, that person’s retained data.
2
Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
3
For the purposes of subsection (1), data is a person’s “retained data” if he is required by article 10 of the Community Drivers’ Hours Regulation
or article 11(2)(b) of the Annex to the AETR
to retain it for at least 12 months following its recording.
Pt. VI (ss. 95–103) modified by S.I. 1986/1459, arts. 2, 3
Pt. VI (ss. 95-103) excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 8(1)(a)(6)(7)
Pt. VI modified (16.8.2006) by The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2167), arts. 1(1), 27
Ss. 97C-97H inserted (5.2.2008) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Downloading and Retention of Data) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/198), regs. 1(1), 2
Words in s. 97H(3) inserted (26.3.2019) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(2), 13