
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the 
Community Drivers' Hours and Recording Equipment Regulations 1986
and shall come into operation on 29th September 1986.
(2) In these Regulations 
“the 1968 Act” means the Transport Act 1968
(3) 
Regulation 5 of the Passenger and Goods
Vehicles (Recording Equipment) Regulations 1979
is hereby revoked.
2 
In section 96(11A)
of the 1968 Act the words “or member of the crew”
shall be omitted.
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(1) For the definition of “the Community
Recording Equipment Regulation” in each of the provisions specified
in paragraph (2)
below there shall be substituted the following definition—“

 `the Community Recording Equipment
Regulation' means 
Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3821/85 of 20th
December 1985 on recording equipment in road transport as read with the 
Community Drivers' Hours and Recording Equipment (Exemptions and Supplementary
Provisions) Regulations 1986
”.

(2) The provisions referred to in 
paragraph (1) above are—
(a) section
97(7) of the 1968 Act;
(b) 
section 82 of the Road Traffic Act
1972 ;
(c) Regulation
1(3) of the Passenger and Goods Vehicles
(Recording Equipment) Regulations 1979; and

(d) 
Regulation 3(3) of the Passenger and
Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 1984.

(3) Part VI
 of the 1968 Act shall be further amended as
follows, that is to say—
(a) in subsections
(1)(c), (4)(c)
and (5) of section 97 for
the words “Articles
15 to 17” there shall be substituted
the words “Articles
13 to 15”;
(b) in subsection
(3)(b) of that section for the words 
“Articles 18(2)”
 there shall be substituted the words “
Article 16(2)”;
(c) in subsections
(1) and (3) of section 97A
for the words “crew member”, in each place where
they occur, there shall be substituted the word “driver”
;
(d) in subsection
(2) of that section for the words “crew
members” there shall be substituted the word “drivers”
;
(e) in section
97B(2) for the words “crew member”
 there shall be substituted the word “driver”
and for the words “Article 17(2)
 or (3) or 
18(2)” there shall be substituted
the words “Article 15(2)
or (5) or 16(2)
”;
(f) in section
99(1)(bb) for the words “
Article 16(2)” there shall be
substituted the words “Article 14(2)
” and for the words “
Article 17(5)” there shall be
substituted the words “Article 15(7)
”; and
(g) in section
103, in the definition of “record
sheet” for the words “Article
18(2)” there shall be substituted
the words “Article 16(2)”
.
(4) In Regulation
4(1)(a) of the said Regulations of 1979 for
the words “Article 14”
 there shall be substituted the words “
Article 12”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Transport
22nd August 1986