Part V

Fishing Vessels
Chapter I

Skipper and Seamen

Safety, health and welfare

Hours of work.
115
1
The Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing maximum periods of duty and minimum periods of rest for seamen employed in United Kingdom fishing vessels, and such regulations may make different provision for different descriptions of fishing vessels or seamen employed in them or for fishing vessels and seamen of the same description in different circumstances.
2
If any provision of regulations made under this section is contravened in the case of any seaman employed in a fishing vessel the persons employing him and the master shall each be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
S. 115 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 134, Sch. 14 para. 5