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4.—(1) Part 5 of the Act applies to a seafarer who works wholly outside Great Britain and United Kingdom waters adjacent to Great Britain if the seafarer is on—
(a)a United Kingdom ship and the ship’s entry in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 specifies a port in Great Britain as the ship’s port of choice, or
(b)a hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom and operated by a person whose principal place of business, or ordinary residence, is in Great Britain,
and paragraph (2) applies.
(2) This paragraph applies if—
(a)the seafarer is a British citizen, or a national of an EEA State other than the United Kingdom or of a designated state, and
(b)the legal relationship of the seafarer’s employment is located within Great Britain or retains a sufficiently close link with Great Britain.
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