Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act 1925

1925 CHAPTER 42

An Act to give effect to certain Draft Conventions adopted by the International Labour Conference relating respectively to an unemployment indemnity for seamen in the case of loss or foundering of their ship, the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers and stokers, and the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed at sea.

[31st July 1925]

WHEREAS at Genoa the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations on the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, adopted a draft convention concerning unemployment indemnity for seamen in case of loss or foundering of their ship, and at Geneva on the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, adopted two other draft conventions, namely, a draft convention fixing the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers and stokers, and a draft convention concerning the compulsory medical/ examination of children and young persons employed at sea:

And whereas the said draft conventions contain (together with other provisions) the provisions set out in Parts I., II. and III. respectively of the First Schedule to this Act:

And whereas it is expedient that for the purpose of giving effect to the said draft conventions such provision should be made as is contained in this Act;

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—