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Land Transport Act 1998

Work time and logbooks - Logbooks

30ZH: Duties regarding logbooks

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“Rules for keeping and sharing driving logbooks”

You need to keep a logbook if you drive certain vehicles. Here’s what you need to know about logbooks:

You must keep your logbook for 12 months after the last entry. If you work for someone else, drive for a transport service, or use a small passenger service to find passengers, you need to give a copy of your completed logbook to your employer or the transport service within 14 days. They must keep this copy for 12 months.

If your logbook is only for a light RUC vehicle, you only need to keep it for 12 months.

When you’re driving, you must always have your logbook with you. If a police officer asks to see it, you need to show them your logbook right away. This includes entries from your last rest day (at least 24 hours long) up to the current day.

If your logbook has a copy page, the police officer can take that copy. If there’s no copy or it can’t be read, they can make a copy of your logbook.

If someone needs to check your logbook, you must let them see it and any other records about your work times and pay whenever they ask, as long as it’s at a reasonable time.

Anyone who is allowed to check your logbook can also make a copy of it and your records.

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Part 4B Work time and logbooks
Logbooks

30ZHDuties regarding logbooks

  1. A driver must—

  2. retain a logbook required to be maintained by that driver under section 30ZF for a period of 12 months after the date of the last entry in that logbook; and
    1. in the case of a driver who is an employee, or who is driving on behalf of a transport service operator, or who is facilitated to connect with passengers by a small passenger service operator, deliver a copy of each completed logbook record to the driver's employer or transport service operator within 14 days after completing that record, and the employer or transport service operator must retain the copy of each logbook record for a period of 12 months from the date of the record.

      1. Despite anything in subsection (1), if the logbook only contains entries for a light RUC vehicle (as defined in section 5(1) of the Road User Charges Act 2012), the driver must retain the logbook only for a period of 12 months.

      2. A driver must—

      3. carry a logbook with him or her at all times when driving a vehicle to which section 30ZE applies; and
        1. produce, on demand by any enforcement officer and without delay, any logbook that—
          1. the driver is required to maintain; and
            1. relates to—
              1. the day of the driver's last rest time of at least 24 hours; and
                1. all the days since that rest time.

              2. If the form of the logbook required to be maintained under section 30ZF includes an identical copy made simultaneously with the original of that logbook, and the logbook has been produced to an enforcement officer, that enforcement officer is entitled, on demand,—

              3. to remove that identical copy; or
                1. if that identical copy has previously been removed or is illegible, to make a copy of that logbook.

                  1. A person who is required to retain a logbook or a copy of a logbook under subsection (1) must make it and all relevant time records, records of payments to the driver, and employment or contractual records relating to the driver available for immediate inspection on demand by an enforcement officer at any reasonable time during the period for which it is required to be retained.

                  2. A person to whom a logbook or a copy of a logbook or records are required to be made available for inspection under subsection (4) is entitled to make a copy of that logbook or that copy or those records.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 30ZH: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).
                  • Section 30ZH(1)(a): amended, on , by section 59 of the Statutes Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 104).
                  • Section 30ZH(1)(b): amended, on , by section 78(1)(a) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                  • Section 30ZH(1)(b): amended, on , by section 78(1)(b) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                  • Section 30ZH(1)(b): amended, on , by section 78(1)(c) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                  • Section 30ZH(1)(b): amended, on , by section 59 of the Statutes Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 104).
                  • Section 30ZH(1A): inserted, on , by section 94 of the Road User Charges Act 2012 (2012 No 1).
                  • Section 30ZH(2)(a): amended, on , by section 6 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 66).
                  • Section 30ZH(4): amended, on , by section 78(2) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).