S.L. 499.56 Art. 75Daily and weekly rest periods.

(1) A mobile worker or a self-employed driver shall have daily and weekly rest periods.

(2) A daily rest period of eleven hours shall be taken within each period of twenty-four hours after the end of the previous daily rest period or weekly rest period:

Provided that the daily rest period may be reduced to at least nine hours no more than three times between any two weekly rest periods.

(3) A daily rest period may be extended to make a regular weekly rest period or a reduced weekly rest period.

(4) Notwithstanding sub-regulation (2), a driver engaged in multi-manning shall, within thirty hours of the end of a daily or weekly rest period, take a new daily rest period of at least nine hours.

(5) (a) In any two consecutive weeks a mobile worker or a self-employed driver shall take at least -

(i) two regular weekly rest periods, or

(ii) one regular weekly rest period and one reduced weekly rest period of at least twenty-four hours: Provided that the reduction shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken before the end en bloc of the third week following the week in question.

(b) A weekly rest period shall start no later than at the end of six twenty-four-hour periods from the end of the previous weekly rest period.

(6) (a) Any rest taken as compensation for a reduced weekly rest period shall be attached to another rest period of at least nine hours.

(b) Where a mobile worker or a self employed driver chooses to do this, daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base may be taken in a passenger transport vehicle, as long as the passenger transport vehicle has suitable sleeping facilities for each mobile worker or self-employed driver and the passenger transport vehicle is stationary.

(7) A weekly rest period that falls in two weeks may be counted in either week, but not in both.