4.—(1) The person liable to pay charges under these Regulations is, unless paragraph (2), (3) or (4) applies, the overseas visitor in respect of whom the relevant services are provided.
(2) Where—
(a)an overseas visitor is employed or engaged or works in any capacity on board a ship and whose normal place of work is on board a ship; and
(b)that overseas visitor is present in the United Kingdom in the course of that employment, engagement or work,
the person liable to pay charges under these Regulations is the shipowner of the ship on which the overseas visitor is employed, engaged or works.
(3) Where an overseas visitor is an air crew member and is present in the United Kingdom in the course of that employment, the person liable to pay charges under these Regulations is the employer of that overseas visitor.
(4) Where an overseas visitor is a child, the person liable to pay charges under these Regulations is the person with parental responsibility for that child.
[F1(4A) Where, due to a change in circumstances occurring during the period in which a relevant service is provided, more than one person is liable under paragraphs (1) to (4) to pay charges under these Regulations in respect of that relevant service, each such person is liable to pay charges only in respect of relevant services provided during the period during which those paragraphs apply to that person.]
(5) In this regulation—
“air crew member” means any person employed or engaged in an aircraft in flight on the business of the aircraft;
“shipowner” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc) Regulations 2014 M1.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 4(4A) inserted (21.8.2017) by The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/756), regs. 1(2)(b), 6
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