Goods-vehicle Records : Draft
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Regulations Issued
IN our issue dated May 18 we were able to publish early information concerning the draft of the provisional regulations regarding the keeping cf goods-vehicle records under the Roa and Rail Traffic Act, 1933. The draft regulations have now peen issued by the Ministry of -Transport, and may be obtained from His Majesty's Stationery Office, price 2d.
On or after August 14, the Minister proposes to make regulations relating to records and to bring them into
operation on October 1. They are known as the Goods Vehicles (I-(eeping of Records) Regulations, 1934.
Every driver must keep and every holder of a licence must cause to he kept a current record divided into periods of 24 consecutive hours, giving the information prescribed in. Form 1 in the schedule to the regulations, in the case of a full-time driver employed on journey work or on collection and delivery outside, or partly outside, a radius of 25 miles from his loading base ; in Form 2, in the case of a part-time driver thus employed ; in Form 3, in the case of a full-time driver employed on collection and/or delivery wholly within a radius of 25 miles from his. loading base, and in Form 4, in the case of a part-time driver thus employed. The information may be kept in any other form, so long as each prescribed entry is readily identifiable.
If the load carried at any time does not exceed 2.k tons, it is necesRary to state only this fact, in lieu of the information required to be given in the column headed " maximum weight at any one time."
Every record must be carried by the driver until he has completed his day's work; he must sign it and deliver it to the licence holder, or his authorised representative, within seven days of the expiration of tWat period. A person shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence if he shows that it was not reasonably practicable for the record to be delivered.
Application may be made to the licensing authority for a dispensation from the observance of any requirement of the regulations and, exceot in the case of vehicles used for agriculture or by a travelling showman, the reasons why it is not practicable to observe it must be given. In the case of a refusal of dispensation to a persoll engaged in agriculture or as a travelling showman, the Licensing Authority must state in writing his reasons for
refusal.
Three of the four forms are reproduced on this page.