The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014 No. 1613

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 1613

Merchant Shipping

The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014

Made

9th July 2014

Laid before Parliament

15th July 2014

Coming into force

7th August 2014

M1 M2 M3 The Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the safety of ships and the health and safety of persons on them and in relation to measures relating to maritime transport .

M4 The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) and (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

In accordance with section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 the Secretary of State has consulted the persons referred to in that section.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Regulations excluded by SI 1998/2771 Sch. 1 Table (as substituted (6.4.2016) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/353), regs. 1(1), 3(1), Sch. 1)

C2 Regulations excluded by SI 1998/2771 Sch. 2 Table (as substituted (6.4.2016) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/353), regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch. 2)

Marginal Citations

M1 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by section 3 of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7). The Maritime Labour Convention is regarded as one of the EU treaties within the meaning of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by virtue of the European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Maritime Labour Convention) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1757, as amended by S.I. 2011/1043).

M2 S.I. 1993/595.

M3 S.I. 1994/757.

M4 1995 c. 21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by section 8 of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c.28), and are applied to hovercraft by article 4 of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350) (sections 85 and 86 re-enact sections 21 and 22 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c.39), to which that article refers). There are other amendments which are not relevant to these Regulations.