{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1978/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1978/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/55",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1978",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Drivers’ hours.",
  "text": "In section 96 of the 1968 Act (restrictions on drivers’ hours), after subsection (11A) (added by the ) European Communities Act 1972, with a view to penalising contraventions of the applicable Community rules), there shall be inserted—\n“(11B) But a person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (11A) if—\n(a) he proves the matters specified in paragraph (i) of subsection (11); or\n(b) being charged as the offender’s employer or a person to whose orders the offender was subject, he proves the matters specified in paragraph (ii) of that subsection.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 9, 15(5), 16, 22, 24(4) and Schs. 3 and 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/55/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:25.807961+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."
}