S.L. 499.56 Art. 76Interruption of daily rest period and departing from regulations.

(1) Notwithstanding regulation 75, a mobile worker or a self-employed driver engaged in carriage of passenger who accompanies a passenger transport vehicle which is transported by ferry or train, that mobile worker or self-employed driver may interrupt the regular daily rest period not more than twice by other activities not exceeding one hour in total and during that regular daily rest period, the mobile worker or self-employed driver shall have access to a bunk or couchette.

(2) Any time spent travelling to a location to take charge of a passenger transport vehicle, or to return from that location, when the vehicle is neither at the mobile worker’s home or at the home of the self-employed driver nor at the employer’s operational centre where the mobile worker is normally based, shall not be counted as a rest or break unless the mobile worker or self-employed driver is on a ferry or train and has access to a bunk or couchette.

(3) Any time spent by a driver driving any other motor vehicle which is not a passenger transport vehicle, which is not at the driver’s home or at the employer’s operational centre where the driver is normally based, shall count as other work.

(4) Provided that road safety is not thereby jeopardised and to enable the passenger transport vehicle to reach a suitable stopping place, the driver may depart from the provisions of regulations 73(2), 73(3), 73(4), 74(2), and 75, to the extent necessary to ensure the safety of persons, of the passenger transport vehicle or its load. The driver shall indicate the reason for such departure manually on the record sheet of the recording equipment or on a printout from the recording equipment or in the og book issued by the Authority in terms of regulation 78, at the latest on arrival at the suitable stopping place.