The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Amendments to regulation 25A of the Working Time Regulations 1998

2.  In regulation 25A (doctors in training) of the Working Time Regulations 1998(1)—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) Paragraph (1) of regulation 4 is modified in its application to workers to whom this paragraph applies by substituting for the reference to 48 hours a reference to 52 hours with effect from 1st August 2009 until 31st July 2011.

(1A) Paragraph (1) applies to workers who are doctors in training who are employed—

(a) by an employer who is listed in column 1 of the table contained in Schedule 2A,

(b) at a place listed in column 2 of that table in respect of that employer,

(c) to provide at that place one of the specialist services listed in column 3 of that table in respect of that place, and

(d) in one of the grades listed in column 4 of that table in respect of that specialist service and, where applicable, working as part of a rota referred to in that column in respect of that grade, or those grades.”

(1)

S.I. 1998/1833, amended by S.I. 1999/3372, S.I. 2003/1684 and other instruments not relevant to these Regulations.