The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2003

7.  After regulation 25, insert—

“Doctors in training

25A.— (1) Paragraph (1) of regulation 4 is modified in its application to workers who are doctors in training as follows—

(a) for the reference to 48 hours there is substituted a reference to 58 hours with effect from 1st August 2004 until 31st July 2007;

(b) for the reference to 48 hours there is substituted a reference to 56 hours with effect from 1st August 2007 until 31st July 2009.

(2) In the case of workers who are doctors in training, paragraphs (3)–(5) of regulation 4 shall not apply and paragraphs (3) and (4) of this regulation shall apply in their place.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the reference period which applies in the case of a worker who is a doctor in training is, with effect from 1st August 2004—

(a) where a relevant agreement provides for the application of this regulation in relation to successive periods of 26 weeks, each such period; and

(b) in any other case, any period of 26 weeks in the course of his employment.

(4) Where a doctor in training has worked for his employer for less than 26 weeks, the reference period applicable in his case is the period that has elapsed since he started work for his employer.”