If I want to reduce my weekley rest and work Sunday to Friday the previous week, then take a 36hr reduced weekley rest, the way I read it, the reduced weekley rest counts as one of my reducers, because it’s lumped in the first week IE 00.00 Hours Monday to 00.00 hours Sunday. Can anyone confirm this or blow the theory right out of the water 
.
Sorry Lib, it could just be me but I can’t make sense of your question. I don’t get the bit when you say ‘the reduced weekley rest counts as one of my reducers.’ There isn’t a specified number of reduced weekly rests you can take in the same way as there is with 9 hour daily rest reductions. In theroy you can take a reduced weekly rest every week, as long as the reduction is compenstaed for by being added to a daily rest period each week.
Working Sunday until Friday and then taking 36 is fine as long as the reduction of 9 hours is paid back by the end of the third week following the reduction, i.e. if the reduction is in week 1 it needs to have been compenstaed for by the end of week 4 and the 9 hours must be taken in one block by being added to another daily or weekly rest period of at least 8 hours.
Coffeeholic:
Sorry Lib, it could just be me but I can’t make sense of your question.
it’s not only you Coffee 
That’s good Denis, I was worried the medication was wearing off. 
Er, sorry, maybe I didn’t explain myself correctly. It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last . . I was fumbling around with the drivers hours and wondered if the reduced weekley rest - would count as one of the reduced daily rest periods? IE if you’ve taken 2, then the reduced weekley rest will count as the third. I may be barking up the wrong tree, you never know .
Correct Lib…you are barking up the wrong tree, a reduced weekly rest will not count as a reduced daily rest.