The Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

23.  After regulation 19 (restriction on contracting out), insert—

Review

19A.(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in these Regulations; and

(b)publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2) The first report must be published within three years of the coming into force of the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.

(4) Section 30(3) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(1) requires that a review carried out under this regulation must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Directive 2014/112/EU(2) is implemented in other member States.

(5) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular–

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a),

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved,

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate, and

(d)if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

(6) In this regulation, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act)..

(1)

2015 c.26. Section 30(3) was amended by the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12), section 19.

(2)

OJ L 367, 23.12.2014, p 86.