The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987

Application for British Seamen’s Cards

4.  A person applying for a British Seaman’s Card shall—

(a)make an application in accordance with regulation 29; and

(b)unless it has been lost or destroyed, surrender to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen or a superintendent any British Seaman’s Card or British Seaman’s Identity Card previously held by him.