The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018

Payment for travel, subsistence and other expensesU.K.

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4.—(1) Where a fee is determined by reference to the amount of work involved, the fee includes an amount for the time spent travelling, except that travelling time in excess of —

(a)4 hours for each visit to a ship [F1or a person] in the United Kingdom, and

(b)10 hours in any period of 24 hours for travel from the United Kingdom to a ship [F2or a person] located abroad and back to the United Kingdom,

is to be disregarded.

(2) The reasonable cost of travel and subsistence incurred in visiting a ship [F3or a person] outside the United Kingdom is to be reimbursed to the Agency in addition to the fee payable under these Regulations.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies to expenses reasonably incurred in respect of any assistance provided to the Agency by a person not employed by it.

(4) To the extent that the expenses referred to in paragraph (3) relate to a service or function of the Agency for which a fee is payable under these Regulations, they are to be reimbursed to the Agency in addition to that fee.

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