
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Drivers'
Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Modifications) Order 1986 and shall come into operation
on 29th September 1986.
(2) In this Order 
“the 1968 Act” means the 
Transport Act 1968.
(3) 
Article 3 of the Drivers' Hours (Goods
Vehicles) (Modifications) Order 1970 and article 5(a) of
the Drivers' Hours (Passenger and Goods Vehicles) (Modifications)
Order 1971 are hereby revoked.
2 
Where during any working day a driver spends all or the greater
part of the time when he is driving vehicles to which 
Part VI of the 1968 Act applies in driving
goods vehicles, that Part of that Act shall have effect, as respects that
driver and that working day, as if—
(a) subsections
(2), (3)(b), (4) to (6) and (8)(b)
of section 96 were omitted;
(b) for the words “
subsections (1), (2)
and (3)” in 
subsection (7) of that section there were substituted
the words “subsections (1)
and 3(a)”;

(c) for the words “
subsections (2) and (3)”
 in subsection (8)(a)
of that section there were substituted the words “
subsection (3)(a)”; and
(d) for the definition of “working
day” in section 103(1)
there were substituted the following definition—“

 “working day”
, in relation to any driver, means— 
(a) any working period (that is to say, any period
during which he is on duty) which does not fall to be aggregated with the
whole or part of any other such period or periods by virtue of 
paragraph (b) of this definition; and
(b) where a working period is followed
by one or more other such periods beginning within the 24 hours next after
the beginning of that working period, the aggregate of that working period
and so much of the other such period or periods as fall within those 24 hours
;
”.
3 

(1) Where during any working week a driver
spends all of the time when he is driving vehicles to which 
Part VI of the 1968 Act applies in driving
light goods vehicles and, in so far as he drives such a vehicle during that
week otherwise than for social, domestic or pleasure purposes, he does so—

(a) solely in connection with the carrying
on by him or by his employer of the profession of medical practitioner, nurse,
midwife, dentist or veterinary surgeon;
(b) wholly or mainly in connection with the
carrying out of any service of inspection, cleaning, maintenance, repair,
installation or fitting;
(c) solely while he is acting as a commercial
traveller and is carrying in the vehicle (apart from the effects of any person
carried in it) no goods other than goods carried for the purpose of soliciting
orders;
(d) solely while he is acting in the course
of his employment by the Automobile Association, the Royal Automobile Club
or Royal Scottish Automobile Club; or
(e) solely in connection with the carrying
on by him or by his employer of the business of cinematography or of radio
or television broadcasting,that Part of that Act shall have effect, as respects that driver
and any working day falling wholly within that working week, not only with
the modifications made by article 2
above but also as if subsections (3)(a)
and (8)(a) of section 96
were omitted.
(2) In this article 
“light goods vehicle” means 
a vehicle which— 
(a) is a goods vehicle
which has a permissible maximum weight within the meaning of 
section 110 of the Road Traffic Act
1972 not exceeding
3.5 tonnes; or

(b) is a dual purpose vehicle within
the meaning of Regulation
3(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction
and Use) Regulations 1978 
  and (in either case) is a vehicle to which 
Part VI of the 1968 Act applies.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Transport
22nd August 1986