Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Seaman’s Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972
5.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Seaman’s Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(2)—
(a)after the definition of “the Act”, insert—
““seafarer employment agreement” means an agreement required by regulation 9 of the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014(2), and a reference to a seafarer employment agreement in relation to a seafarer who works on a ship means the agreement of that description to which that seafarer is party in connection with that work;”; and
(b)omit the definition of “code of conduct”.
(3) Omit regulations 2, 3, 5(e) and the Schedule.
(4) In regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), 5(c), 5(d) and 8(4) after “crew agreement” in each place insert “or seafarer employment agreement”.
(5) In paragraphs (1) and (4) of regulation 8, for “regulation 5(c), (d) or (e)” substitute “regulations 5(c) or (d)”.
S.I. 1972/1700, amended by S.I. 1978/1757, S.I. 1999/3360, and S.I. 1985/340.