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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2007 No. 323

TRANSPORT

The Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

  Made 4th July 2007 
  Coming into operation 31st July 2007 

The Department of the Environment being a Department designated[1] for the purpose, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2]:

Citation and Commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 31st July 2007.

Amendment of the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005[
3]
     2. —(1) In regulation 2, for the definition "the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation", substitute—

    (2) For regulation 3(2) substitute—

    (3) For regulation 15 substitute—

    (4) In Schedule 2 paragraph 6 in sub-paragraphs (2) and (4) for the word "employment" substitute "industrial".

    (5) In Schedule 2 paragraph 6 after sub-paragraph (3) insert—



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on


4th July 2007.

L.S.


Stanley Duncan
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


Regulation (EC) No. 561/2006 O.J. No. L102, 11.4.2006, p.1; ("the 2006 EC Regulation"), on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport (in particular the rules on drivers' hours), repealed and replaced Regulation (EEC) No. 3280/85 ("the 1985 EEC Regulation") on 11th April 2007.

The Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005 ("the principal Regulations") implemented Council Directive 2002/15/EC (O.J. No. L80, 23.3.2002, p.35) concerning the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities. That Directive applies to, amongst others, persons participating in the activities covered by the 1985 EEC Regulation. These Regulations amend the principal Regulations by replacing references to the 1985 EEC Regulation with corresponding references to the 2006 EC Regulation. They also correct a previous omission in relation to regulation 15 of the principal Regulations to enable that regulation to apply to a vehicle described in regulation 3(3) of the principal Regulations.

These Regulations also amend Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations so as to authorise industrial tribunals to hear appeals against improvement notices as though they were appeals under Article 26 of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for these Regulations as they have no impact on business or the voluntary or public sectors.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 1997/1174back

[2] 1972 c.68back

[3] S.R. 2005 No. 241back

[4] O.J. No. L102, 11.4.2006, p.1.back

[5] S.R. 1987 No. 218; regulation 4 was substituted by S.R. 1988 No. 297, regulation 2(1)back

[6] S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9) Article 26 was amended by S.I. 1984/1159 (N.I. 9) Schedule 4; other relevant modifications to the Order where made by S.R. 2000 No. 87 regulation 2 and S.R. 2000 No. 120 regulation 19back



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Prepared 10 July 2007


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