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Land Transport Act 1998

Offences relating to work time and logbooks - Work time

79PA: Matters to be taken into account in imposing penalty for offence against section 79O

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“How courts decide penalties for breaking work time and logbook rules”

When deciding on a punishment for breaking the rules about work time and logbooks, the court must consider three important things. First, they look at how much rest time you missed or cut short, and how that adds up over time. Second, they consider how many hours you worked in total. Finally, they think about how much danger your actions might have put other people in. These three factors help the court decide what your penalty should be.

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Part 6B Offences relating to work time and logbooks
Work time

79PAMatters to be taken into account in imposing penalty for offence against section 79O

  1. In determining the penalty to be imposed for an offence against section 79O, the court must take into account each of the following:

  2. the cumulative effect of abbreviated, broken, or omitted periods of rest time:
    1. the accumulated hours of work time:
      1. the degree of risk to the public.

        Notes
        • Section 79PA: inserted, on , by section 43 of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).