Daily rest period (hours)

The consecutive hours off a worker gets between working days, in every 24-hour period they work.

11hours

Primary source only Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 1998-10-01

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21

Scope: Eleven consecutive hours in every 24, and CONSECUTIVE is the word that matters: two separate blocks do not satisfy it. A young worker gets twelve under regulation 10(2), a separate figure (Young workers: daily rest period (hours)), and regulation 10(3) lets a young worker's period be interrupted where an adult's may not. Where the Part 3 exceptions (regs 18 to 27A) switch regulation 10 off for particular work, regulation 24 gives an equivalent period of compensatory rest instead, which is a different entitlement.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/made (SI 1998/1833 reg 10(1) as made: "An adult worker is entitled to a rest period of not less than eleven consecutive hours in each 24-hour period during which he works for his employer"; in force 1 October 1998, reg 1(1))

retrieved 2026-09-11

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
11	1998-10-01	—	Primary source only	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/made (SI 1998/1833 reg 10(1) as made: "An adult worker is entitled to a rest period of not less than eleven consecutive hours in each 24-hour period during which he works for his employer"; in force 1 October 1998, reg 1(1)) retrieved 2026-09-11

Receipt

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Name in the API: Daily rest period: consecutive hours
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Compiler's notes

An SI carry (ADR-0014), and a HOST-STATES one under D18 §2: SI 2002/3128 reg 11 substituted "An adult worker" with "A worker", and its located span prints no part of the eleven hours, so the amendment touched other words of the provision and not the value. Read the pair with Young workers: daily rest period (hours) in paragraph (2) of the same regulation: that one needed no relief, because nothing has amended (2) at all.