SCHEDULE 2 MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS
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The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1998 shall be amended as follows—
a
for the definition of “young person” in regulation 2(2) there shall be substituted—
“young person” means—
a
in relation to employment on a sea-going United Kingdom ship, any person who is of the age of 16 or 17; or
b
in relation to employment on any other United Kingdom ship, any person who is under the age of 18 and, in Great Britain is over school-leaving age for the purposes of section 55 of the Act or, in Northern Ireland, is over compulsory school age within the meaning in Article 46 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986M1
b
in regulation 6—
i
paragraph (6), and
ii
in paragraph (7) the words “Where paragraph (6) does not apply,”,
shall be omitted.