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Merchant Shipping Act 1970

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Trade disputes

42Trade disputes involving seamen

(1)The [1875 c. 86.] Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875, except section 5, shall apply to seamen as it applies to other persons.

(2)Notwithstanding anything in any agreement, a seaman employed in a ship registered in the United Kingdom may terminate his employment in that ship by leaving the ship in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute after giving to the master not less than forty-eight hours' notice of his intention to do so, and shall not be compelled (unless the notice is withdrawn) to go to sea in the forty-eight hours following the giving of such a notice ; but such a notice shall be of no effect unless at the time it is given the ship is in the United Kingdom and securely moored in a safe berth.

(3)In this section " trade dispute " has the same meaning as in section 5(3) of the [1906 c. 47.] Trade Disputes Act 1906.

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