# Transport Act 1978, Section 10: Drivers’ hours.


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—
“(11B) But a person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (11A) if—
(a) he proves the matters specified in paragraph (i) of subsection (11); or
(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.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/55/section/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1978/section-10
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