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Merchant Shipping Act 1970
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13 Allotment notes.U.K.
(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, a seaman may, be means of an allotment note issued in accordance with regulations made by the Board of Trade, allot to any person or persons part of the wages to which he will become entitled in the course of his employment in a ship or ships registered in the United Kingdom.
(2)A seaman’s right to make an allotment under this section shall be subject to such limitations as may, by virtue of the following provisions of this section, be imposed by regulations made by the Board of Trade.
(3)Regulations made by the Board of Trade for the purposes of this section may prescribe the form of allotment notes and—
(a)may limit the circumstances in which allotments may be made;
(b)may limit (whether by reference to an amount or by reference to a proportion) the part of the wages that may be allotted and the number of persons to whom it may be allotted and may prescribe the method by which that part is to be calculated;
(c)may limit the persons to whom allotments may be made by a seaman to persons of such descriptions or persons standing to him in such relationships as may be prescribed by the regulations;
(d)may prescribe the times and the intervals at which payments under allotment notes are to be made.
(4)Regulations under this section may make different provision in relation to different descriptions of seamen and different circumstances.
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