{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-drivers-hours-and-recording-equipment-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-drivers-hours-and-recording-equipment-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1819",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Drivers' Hours and Recording Equipment Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-drivers-hours-and-recording-equipment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exemption from the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation",
  "text": "(1) ... Exemption is granted from Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation in respect of—\n(a) any vehicle falling within a description specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations, and\n(b) any vehicle—\n(i) which has a maximum permissible mass not exceeding 7.5 tonnes,\n(ii) which is being used to deliver items as part of a universal service by a universal service provider as defined in Article 2(13) of Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services,\n(iii) which is being used within a 100 kilometre radius from the base of the universal service provider, and\n(iv) the driving of which does not constitute the driver's main activity.\n(2) ... Exemption is granted from Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation in respect of any vehicle falling within a description specified in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 52(2)(a) (with reg. 114); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 52(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1)(b)(iii) substituted (2.3.2016) by The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Tachographs) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/248), regs. 1(2), 21(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 52(3)(a) (with reg. 114); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 52(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L15, 21.01.98 p14-25. Directive 97/67/EC has been amended by Directive 2002/39/EC and by Regulation 1882/2003 but these do not amend Article 2 (13)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1819/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:50:22.890031+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}