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The Merchant Shipping (Seamen~s Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

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Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 791

MERCHANT SHIPPING

MASTERS AND SEAMEN

The Merchant Shipping (Seamen~s Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made

16th March 1994

Laid before Parliament

23rd March 1994

Coming into force

13th April 1994

The Secretary of State, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) ofthe Merchant Shipping Act 1970(1), in exercise of powers conferred by section 9 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 (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 13th April 1994.

2.  The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972(3) shall be further amended by the substitution for regulation 6 of the following:

6.  The maximum amount which may be deducted from a seaman’s wages in respect of any number of breaches of his obligations under the crew agreement—

(a)by virtue of regulation 5(c), shall be £300; and

(b)by virtue of regulation 5(d), shall be £300..

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Mackay of Ardbrecknish

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

16th March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations further amend the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972 by increasing from £200 to £300 the maximum deduction an employer may make from wages in respect of certain breaches of the crew agreement.

(2)

See S.I. 1979/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1972/1700; relevant amendment is S.I. 1985/340.

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