{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles-milk-collection-temporary-exemption-revocation-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3908",
  "legislation_title": "The Drivers' Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Milk Collection) (Temporary Exemption) (Revocation) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles-milk-collection-temporary-exemption-revocation-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations revoke the Drivers' Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Milk Collection) (Temporary Exemption) Regulations 2001 (“the principal Regulations”) (S.I. 2001/629).\nThe principal Regulations extended the permissible maximum working day of a driver engaged in the collection and transportation of milk to meet the special needs occasioned by the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain, or the effects or consequences of such outbreak.\nThe working day of a driver, as set out in section 96(3)(a) of the Transport Act 1968 (“the 1968 Act”), was extended by the principal Regulations from a maximum of eleven to thirteen hours.\nThe effect of these Regulations is to restore the maximum working day as prescribed by the 1968 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3908/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:20:06.776393+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."
}