The Merchant Shipping (Maintenance of Seamen’s Dependants) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 479

MERCHANT SHIPPING

MASTERS AND SEAMEN

The Merchant Shipping (Maintenance of Seamen’s Dependants) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made

11th March 1988

Laid before Parliament

21st March 1988

Coming into force

11th April 1988

The Secretary of State, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970(1), in exercise of powers conferred by section 17 of that Act and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Maintenance of Seamen’s Dependants) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.

2.  The Merchant Shipping (Maintenance of Seamen’s Dependants) Regulations 1972(3) shall be amended by replacing in regulation 4(a) the reference to “the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966”(4) by a reference to “the Social Security Act 1986”(5).

Paul Channon

Secretary of State for Transport

11th March 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Maintenance of Seamen’s Dependants) Regulations 1972 by substituting for the reference to the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 a reference to the Social Security Act 1986. The 1972 Regulations enable certain “responsible authorities” to serve notice on employers to retain out of seamen’s wages expenses those authorities have incurred in respect of his dependants. Those expenses include payment of certain Social Security benefits.

(1)

1970 c. 36.

(2)

See S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1972/1635, amended by S.I. 1972/1875.

(4)

1966 c. 20.

(5)

1986 c. 50.