{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-passenger-vehicles-exemptions-regulations-1970/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-passenger-vehicles-exemptions-regulations-1970/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/145",
  "legislation_title": "The Drivers' Hours (Passenger Vehicles) (Exemptions) Regulations 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-passenger-vehicles-exemptions-regulations-1970",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any driver of a passenger vehicle who spends time on duty to deal with an emergency is, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Regulation, hereby exempted from the requirements of subsections (1) to (6) of section 96 of the Act in respect of the time so spent.\n(2) Any time so spent by such a driver shall for the purposes of—\n(a) subsection (1) of the said section 96 be deemed not to have been spent in driving vehicles to which Part VI of the Act applies, and\n(b) subsections (1) to (6) of the said section 96 (including the expression “working day” used therein)—\n(i) be deemed to have been spent by him off duty, and\n(ii) if it would apart from the emergency have been spent in taking an interval for rest or an interval for rest and refreshment be deemed to have been so spent by him.\n(3) The requirements of subsection (6) of the said section 96 shall, in relation to such a driver, be deemed to be satisfied in respect of a working week in which he spends time on such duty if he is off duty for a period of twenty-four hours in accordance with that subsection less a period equal to the total time which he spends on such duty in that week.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/145/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:03:26.093575+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."
}