Regulation 7 BreaksI1

No mobile worker F1or self-employed driver shall work for more than six hours without a break.

Where the working time of a mobile worker or self-employed driver exceeds 6 hours but does not exceed 9 hours, the mobile worker or self-employed driver must take a break lasting at least 30 minutes and interrupting that period.

Where the working time of a mobile worker or self-employed driver exceeds 9 hours, the mobile worker or self-employed driver must take a break lasting at least 45 minutes and interrupting that period.

Each break may be made up of separate periods of not less than 15 minutes each.

An employer shall take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect the health and safety of the mobile worker, to ensure that the limits specified above are complied with in the case of each mobile worker employed by him.

A self-employed driver shall take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect his health and safety, to comply with the limits specified in paragraphs (1) to (4).