{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-passenger-vehicles-exemptions-regulations-1970/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drivers-hours-passenger-vehicles-exemptions-regulations-1970/regulation-4.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/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any driver of a passenger vehicle who spends time on duty during a working day to meet a special need, that is to say work done solely in connection with the collection and delivery of blood for the purposes of transfusion, is hereby exempted from the requirements of section 96(3) in relation to that day, subject to the conditions that—\n(a) he is able to obtain rest and refreshment during that day for a period which is, or for periods which taken together are, not less than the time by which the working day exceeds 10 hours,\n(b) that day does not exceed 14 hours, and\n(c) he has not taken advantage of this exemption from the requirements of section 96(3) on more than one previous working day which forms part of the working week of which that day forms part.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}