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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Road Traffic (Drivers’ Ages And Hours Of Work) Act 1976, Section 3.
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For section 103(7) of the Transport Act 1968 (which confers jurisdiction over an offence about drivers’ hours on any court having jurisdiction in the place where the person charged with the offence is for the time being) there shall be substituted the following—
“(7)A offence under this Part of this Act may be treated for the purpose of conferring jurisdiction on a court (but without pejudice to any jurisdiction it may have apart from this subsection) as having been committed in any of the following places, that is to say—
(a)the place where the person charged with the offence was driving when evidence of the offence first came to the attention of a constable or vehicle examiner;
(b)the place where that person resides or is or is believed to reside or be at the time when the proceedings are commenced; or
(c)the place where at that time that person or, in the case of an employee-driver, that person’s employer or, in the case of an owner-driver, the person for whom he was driving, has his place or principal place of business or his operating centre for the vehicle in question.
In this subsection “vehicle examiner” means an officer within the meaning of section 99 of this Act.”
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C1The text of ss. 2(1)(a)–(i)(4), 3, Sch. 3 Pts. I, II is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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