{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/241",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement the provisions of Council Directive 2002/15/EC concerning the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities.\nThe Regulations prescribe the maximum weekly working time and maximum average weekly working time of mobile workers who, in the course of their work, drive or travel in goods or passenger vehicles which are covered by the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation (Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3820/85) and they prescribe the reference periods over which such time is to be calculated.\nThey also regulate periods of availability, breaks, rest periods and night work.\nThey require employers to keep records of the time worked and to provide copies.\nThey make it an offence to fail to comply with their requirements and provide for enforcement.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/241/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:21.855821+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."
}