Duty on employment agencies as regards seafarer employment U.K.

4.  An employment agency must not introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer for the purposes of employment as a seafarer on a sea-going ship unless it has verified—

(a) the identity of the work-seeker; and

(b) that the work-seeker has the experience, training, qualifications and any authorisation which the hirer considers are necessary, or which are required by law or by any professional body, to work in the position which the hirer seeks to fill.