The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1978

• Citation: S.I. 1978/1757
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1979.

Section 2

The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972 shall be amended as follows:—

(1) In Regulation 1(2) there shall be inserted, in the appropriate alphabetical order:

“ Code of Conduct ” means the National Maritime Board publication entitled “Code of Conduct for the Merchant Navy” published in 1978 by the Board.

(2) At the end of Regulation 5 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:

(e) subject to regulation 8, in cases where a seaman employed under a crew agreement, approved by the Secretary of State, to which the National Maritime Board agreement on disciplinary procedures applies and which, requires him to comply with the Code of Conduct, has been dismissed from the ship because he has committed one of the breaches of the Code specified in paragraph 9 thereof, a contribution by the seaman to his repatriation expenses, incurred by the employer, of an amount provided for in the crew agreement.

(3) In Regulation 8(1) for “regulation 5(c) or (d)” there shall be substituted “regulation 5(c), (d) or (e)” ;”.