{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-working-time-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-working-time-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005",
  "text": "In regulation 7 (breaks)—\n(a) In paragraph 7(1), after “mobile worker” insert “or self-employed driver”.\n(b) For paragraph (2) substitute—\n“Where the working time of a mobile worker or self-employed driver exceeds six hours but does not exceed nine hours, the mobile worker or self-employed driver must take a break lasting at least 30 minutes and interrupting that period.”.\n(c) For paragraph (3) substitute—\n“Where the working time of a mobile worker or self-employed driver exceeds nine hours, the mobile worker or self-employed driver must take a break lasting at least 45 minutes and interrupting that period”.\n(d) After paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) A self-employed driver must take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect his health and safety, to comply with the limits specified above.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/991/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:54.389592+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."
}