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Regulation 8 Rest periodsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

In the application of these Regulations, the provisions of the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation relating to daily and weekly rest shall apply to all mobile workers to whom they do not apply under that Regulation as they apply to other mobile workers F1and self-employed drivers under that Regulation.

(2)

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 those provisions are complied with in the case of each mobile worker employed by him, to whom they are applied by paragraph (1).

F2(3)

A self-employed driver shall take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect his health and safety, to ensure that he complies with the provisions applied by paragraph (1).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 8(1) inserted (11.5.2012) by The Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/169), regs. 1(1), 7(2)

F2

Reg. 8(3) added (11.5.2012) by The Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/169), regs. 1(1), 7(3)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 8 in operation at 16.6.2005, see reg. 1