1985 No. 340
MERCHANT SHIPPING
MASTERS AND SEAMEN

The Merchant Shipping (Seamen'S Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1985

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into Operation
The Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by section 9 of that Act and now vested in him1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 8th April 1985.

2.

The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) Regulations 19722 shall be further amended as follows:

(a)

in both regulations 6(a) and (b) there shall be substituted for the figure of “£50” the figure of “£200”;

(b)

in regulation 8(4)(iii) the words after “each such breach, or, if”, shall be deleted and the following substituted—

“the total amount of such expense or loss in respect of which a deduction is made under regulation 5(c), (d) or (e) (or all or any of them as the case may be) exceeds the maximum which may be deducted under the appropriate paragraph or paragraphs, with sufficient particulars to show that such maximum is exceeded. ”.

Nicholas Ridley
Secretary of State for Transport
EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations further amend the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972 by increasing from £50 to £200 the maximum deduction an employer may make from wages in respect of certain breaches of the crew agreement. There is a further consequential and drafting amendment.