S.L. 65.33 Art. 37AMinimum rest obligations for the drivers. 

(1) The continuous paid driving period shall be understood as the time span between the moment the driver accesses the intermediary booking service platform’s mobile application and indicates the commencement of his first journey on that day, until the moment the driver disconnects from the intermediary booking service platform’s mobile application after completing his final journey, with due deduction of any rest periods that have been validly indicated through the designated function of the intermediary booking service platform’s mobile application:

Provided that for the purpose of this regulation, it shall be sufficient for the Authority to prove that the driver has accessed, and or disconnected from the mobile application of an intermediary booking service platform in Malta from the real-time data captured on its online monitoring and enforcement system.

(2) Every driver shall be obliged to observe a minimum rest period of eight (8) consecutive hours between the end of one (1) continuous paid driving period and the commencement of another continuous paid driving period:

Provided that one continuous paid driving period shall not exceed twelve (12) consecutive hours.

(3) Every driver has the obligation to take a rest period when the period of driving with continuous pay is longer than six (6) hours. The rest period of the driver shall be for a period of not less than thirty

(30) minutes for every six (6) consecutive hours of driving for hire or reward and the driver shall spend that period outside of the vehicle, provided that the vehicle can be parked legally and safely.

(4) Without prejudice to the provisions under sub-regulations (2) and (3), every driver must observe, in addition to the daily rest period mentioned in sub-regulation (2), a minimum, VEHICLE HIRE SERVICES

uninterrupted period every week of twenty-four (24) hours every seven

(7) days.

(5) The Authority shall have the right to request the holder of an authorisation to act as an intermediary booking platform to suspend or interrupt a driver’s access to the relevant mobile application, if the Authority finds that such a driver is not complying with any of the minimum rest obligations imposed in accordance with these regulations.

(6) Without prejudice to the provisions of the previous sub-regulation (5), any natural person or business holding an operator licence issued under these regulations shall be found guilty of an offense under regulation 67 and shall incur the punishments indicated in the said regulation 67 if it is found that they, or the drivers associated with their licence, have despite a written warning issued to the operator, or the driver, repeatedly and, or systematically failed to observe these minimum rest periods, to the detriment of the health, safety, and well-being of the drivers and third parties.