{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles-modifications-order-1986/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles-modifications-order-1986/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Drivers' Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Modifications) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles-modifications-order-1986",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order modifies, in relation to the drivers of goods vehicles, the provisions of section 96 of the Transport Act 1968 (which relates to permitted driving times and periods of duty).\nDrivers who drive goods vehicles for all or the greater part of their time spent driving vehicles to which Part VI of the 1968 Act applies are exempt from all the provisions of section 96 except the daily driving limit in subsection (1) and the daily duty limit in subsection (3)(a) ( article 2).\nThe provision in article 3 of the Drivers' Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Modifications) Order 1970 as amended by article 5(a) of the Drivers' Hours (Passenger and Goods Vehicles) (Modifications) Order 1971, is replaced by a provision which takes account of the provisions mentioned above (article 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1459/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:42:37.301758+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."
}