Regulation 7 Entries in driver’s record books
An employer of an employee-driver or an owner-driver shall enter or secure that there is entered on the front sheet the information specified in items 4 and 6 of that sheet.
The entries referred to in paragraph (1) shall be made–
in the case of an employer, before the driver’s record book is issued to the driver pursuant to regulation 6, and
in the case of an owner-driver before the book is used.
For the purpose of entering the information specified in item 4, the address shall, in the case of an owner-driver, be the address of the driver’s place of business.
For the purpose of entering the information specified in item 6 the Operator’s Licence No. shall be the serial number of the operator’s licence granted under Part V of the Act by virtue of which each goods vehicle used by the driver during the currency of the record book is an authorised vehicle for the purposes of the said Part V.
A driver shall enter, and where he is an employee-driver, his employer shall cause him to enter, in accordance with the instructions to drivers for the completion of sheets–
on the front sheet the information specified in relation to the front sheet in those instructions; and
in the appropriate boxes in the weekly record sheet the information specified in relation to weekly record sheets in those instructions.
A driver when making an entry in a weekly record sheet (including signing such a sheet) shall ensure by the use of carbon paper or otherwise, that the entry is simultaneously reproduced on the duplicate of that sheet.