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(1)Sections 1 to 7, Part II and sections 86 to 91 do not apply to a person employed as a seaman in a ship registered in the United Kingdom under a crew agreement the provisions and form of which are of a kind approved by the Secretary of State.
(2)Sections 8 to 10, Part III, sections 44, 45, 47, 50 to 57 and 61 to 63, Parts VII and VIII, sections 92 and 93 and (subject to subsection (3)) Parts X to XII do not apply to employment as master, or as a member of the crew, of a fishing vessel where the employee is remunerated only by a share in the profits or gross earnings of the vessel.
(3)Part X applies to employment such as is mentioned in subsection (2) if—
(a)section 84 applies to the employee’s dismissal, or
(b)she is treated as dismissed by section 96,
and Part XI applies to employment such as is so mentioned if the employee is treated as dismissed by section 137.
(4)Sections 8 to 10 and 50 to 54 and Part XII do not apply to employment as a merchant seaman.
(5)In subsection (4) “employment as a merchant seaman”—
(a)does not include employment in the fishing industry or employment on board a ship otherwise than by the owner, manager or charterer of that ship except employment as a radio officer, but
(b)subject to that, includes—
(i)employment as a master or a member of the crew of any ship,
(ii)employment as a trainee undergoing training for the sea service, and
(iii)employment in or about a ship in port by the owner, manager or charterer of the ship to do work of the kind ordinarily done by a merchant seaman on a ship while it is in port.
(6)Section 196(6) does not apply to an employee, and section 197(3) does not apply to a contract of employment, if the employee is—
(a)employed as a master or seaman in a British ship, and
(b)ordinarily resident in Great Britain.
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