Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 3508
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Community Drivers' Hours (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Temporary Exception) (No. 2)(Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2001
Made
29th October 2001
Laid before Parliament
30th October 2001
Coming into force
31st October 2001
The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, being a Minister designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to the regulation and supervision of working conditions of persons engaged in road transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Community Drivers' Hours (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Temporary Exception) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 31st October 2001.
Amendment of the Community Drivers' Hours (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Temporary Exception) (No. 2) Regulations 2001
2. —(1)The Community Drivers' Hours (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Temporary Exception) (No. 2) Regulations 2001( 3 ) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3(1), for the words “until 31st October 2001” there shall be substituted the words “until 30th December 2001”.
(3) For regulation 3(2) there shall be substituted the following:
“ (2) In relation to the driving of a vehicle in the exceptional circumstances and for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1) above, the said Council Regulation shall have effect as if in Article 6, paragraph 1 first sentence, for the reference to “nine hours” there were substituted “ten hours” and the second sentence of that paragraph were deleted.
(3) In relation to the driving of a vehicle in the exceptional circumstances mentioned in paragraph (1) above and for the purpose only of the movement of livestock, the said Council Regulation shall have effect as if in Article 8, for paragraph 3 there were substituted the following:
“ 3. In the course of each week, one of the rest periods referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be extended, by way of weekly rest, to a total of 24 consecutive hours. Every third week this rest period shall be extended to a total of 45 consecutive hours. ” ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of Statefor Transport, Local Government and the Regions
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
29th October 2001