The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024
Statutory Instruments
2024 No. 1015
MERCHANT SHIPPING
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES
The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024
Made 7th October 2024
Laid before Parliament 10th October 2024
Coming into force 1st December 2024

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(2), (5) and (6)(a), 4(6) to (8)(a), 9(1), (4) and (5), 10(4), 11(7), 17(2) and 18(3) of the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 (“the Act”).
2023 c. 8.
In accordance with section 4(9) of the Act, the Secretary of State in making these Regulations has sought to secure that a non-qualifying seafarer is for the purposes of section 4 remunerated at a rate equal to the national minimum wage equivalent only if their remuneration is in all the circumstances broadly equivalent to the remuneration they would receive if they qualified for the national minimum wage.
See section 2 of the Act for the meaning of “non-qualifying seafarer”.
See section 4(6) of the Act for the meaning of “national minimum wage equivalent”.
See section 1(3) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) for the meaning of “national minimum wage”.