reg 11A Reporting of occupational diseases
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation applies where an employer receives a written report from a medical practitioner which indicates that a seafarer who works or who has worked on a ship has (or has had) a disease listed in the table in Merchant Shipping Notice 1850(M). (2) This regulation does not apply where the entry in the table in Merchant Shipping Notice 1850(M) for the disease which the seafarer has (or has had) refers to an activity or a particular form or description of an activity, and that seafarer is not (and was not) involved in that activity (or that particular form or description of the activity) when working on that ship. (3) The employer must— (a) have regard to the International Labour Organization guidance concerning the protection of workers’ personal data referred to in Merchant Shipping Notice 1850(M); (b) complete a form in the form specified in that Notice in respect of the seafarer; and (c) send the completed form to the address specified in that Notice. (4) In this regulation— “fully registered person” and “licence to practice” have the meanings given in section 55(1) of the Medical Act 1983; “medical practitioner” means— in the case of a practitioner ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, a fully registered person who holds a licence to practise; and in the case of a practitioner not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, a person entitled to practise as such in the country or territory in which that practitioner is ordinarily resident.