The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/3281
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st January 2000.

Section 2 Amendment of Regulations

(1) The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 18(2), for sub-paragraph (b), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs:

(b) is, or has been employed—

(i) in a ship registered in the United Kingdom; or

(ii) if the person is a British citizen, in a ship registered outside the United Kingdom;

(bb) in respect of employment in a ship registered outside the United Kingdom, is otherwise unable, for whatever reason, to obtain a document containing substantially the same information as a discharge book from or acceptable to the ship’s flag State; and

(3) In regulation 20(1):

(a) paragraph (f) shall be omitted; and

(b) in paragraph (g), the words “an official of the Merchant Navy Establishment Administration,” shall be omitted.

(4) In regulation 22(1)(a):

(a) the word “or” shall be inserted before the words “the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen”; and

(b) the words “or an official of the Merchant Navy Establishment Administration” shall be omitted.

(5) For Schedule 4 there shall be substituted the following Schedule:

Countries referred to in regulation 16(1) (which relates to persons holding documents, containing substantially the same information as discharge books, issued by or under the authority of the Governments of certain countries).

Bangladesh

Barbados

Canada

Falkland Islands

Fiji

Ghana

Guyana

Hong Kong

India

Isle of Man

Jamaica

Kenya

Kiribati

Malaysia

Malta

Mauritius

Nigeria

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Republic of Ireland

Saint Lucia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Tanzania

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tuvalu

Western Samoa

Zambia