3 Amendments to Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
For regulation 2 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“2 Disapplication of these Regulations
1 These Regulations shall not apply to or in relation to the master or crew of a ship, or to the employer of such persons, in respect of the normal ship-board activities of a ship’s crew which are carried out solely by the crew under the direction of the master.
2 Regulations 3(4), (5), 10(2) and 19 shall not apply to occasional work or short-term work involving work regarded as not being harmful, damaging or dangerous to young people in a family undertaking.
3 In this regulation—
“normal ship-board activities” include—
(a) the construction, reconstruction or conversion of a ship outside, but not inside, Great Britain; and
(b) the repair of a ship save repair when carried out in dry dock;
“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation, other than a ship belonging to Her Majesty which forms part of Her Majesty’s Navy.”

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