# The Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, Regulation 6: Periods of availability

Extent: N.I.

(1) A period shall not be treated as a period of availability unless the mobile worker or self-employed driver knows before the start of the relevant period about that period of availability and its reasonably foreseeable duration.
(2) The time spent by a mobile worker, who is working as part of a team, travelling in, but not driving, a moving vehicle as part of that team shall be a period of availability for that mobile worker or self-employed driver .
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a period of availability shall not include a period of rest or a break.
(4) A period of availability may include a break taken by a mobile worker or self-employed driver during waiting time or time which is not devoted to driving by the mobile worker and is spent in a moving vehicle, a ferry or a train.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/241/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-6
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