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Enforced by: MCA
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer8 Trader5 Any Person1

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 53 duties

Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 416 duties

Companies Act 2006 243 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 133 duties

Companies Act 1985 85 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 62 duties

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

0 of 3 sections shown

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation, commencement and revocations

s.002 Interpretation

s.003 Application

Part 2

General duties

6 of 11 sections shown

s.004 Persons on whom duties are imposed Regulated

Comply with all health and safety provisions for merchant shipping and fishing vesselsEmployer

s.005 General duties Regulated

Ensure health and safety of workers and other persons on boardEmployer

s.008 New or expectant mothers Regulated

Assess and manage risks to new and expectant mothersEmployer

s.011 Reporting of occupational diseases Regulated

Report occupational diseases in seafarers to the MCAEmployer

s.012 Capabilities and training Regulated

Ensure workers are competent and adequately trained for shipboard dutiesEmployer

s.012 Code of Safe Working Practices Regulated

Keep sufficient copies of the Code of Safe Working Practices onboard and accessibleTrader

5 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.006 Health and safety policy

s.007 Risk assessment

s.009 Night work

s.010 Notification of pregnancy

s.011 Health surveillance

Part 3

Duties of the Company

2 of 2 sections shown

s.013 Co-ordination Regulated

Co-ordinate health and safety with other employers on your shipTrader

s.013 Extension of duties in other Regulations as regards seafarers who are not workers Regulated

Extend health and safety protections to non-worker seafarers on your shipAny Person

Part 4

Special responsibility for health and safety and consultation with workers

5 of 7 sections shown

s.014 Protective and preventive services Regulated

Appoint competent persons for health and safety adviceEmployer

s.015 Appointment of safety officers Regulated

Appoint a competent safety officer on sea-going ships with 5+ seafarersTrader

s.017 Election of safety representatives and safety committees Regulated

Elect safety representatives and appoint a safety committeeTrader

s.019 Duties of the Company and master Regulated

Support safety officers and representatives and record serious accidentsTrader

s.020 Consultation with workers Regulated

Consult workers on health and safety matters in advanceEmployer

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.016 Duties of safety officers

s.018 Powers of safety representatives and safety committees

Part 5

General duties of workers

0 of 1 section shown

1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.021 General duties of workers

Part 6

Prohibitions, penalties, inspections and detentions

0 of 13 sections shown

13 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.022 Prohibition on levy

s.023 Duty not to interfere with or misuse certain things

s.024 Penalties

s.025 Offences by body corporate

s.026 Onus of proving what is reasonably practicable

s.027 Inspection and detention of a United Kingdom fishing vessel

s.027 Inspection of United Kingdom ships and non-United Kingdom ships without MLC documentation

s.027 Detention of United Kingdom ships and non-United Kingdom ships without MLC documentation

s.028 Inspection and detention and other measures in respect of fishing vessels registered outside the United Kingdom

s.028 Inspection of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.028 Detention of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.029 Enforcement of detention

s.030 Compensation

Part 7

Review