UK Statutory Instrument SI 2010 United Kingdom

The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Medical Certification) Regulations 2010

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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.

Employer2 Any Person1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

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
TULRCA 1992 72 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

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.

s.008 Application for and issue of medical fitness certificate Regulated
  • Pay for seafarer medical fitness certificate applicationsEmployer
s.014 Review of medical practitioner's decision Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Secretary of State must review medical certificate decisions on applicationCrown / Minister / Government department
s.015 Health assessment and transfer of seafarers on night watchkeeping duties Regulated
  • Transfer seafarer from night watchkeeping if medically certified due to health problemsEmployer
s.016 Medical examinations and reviews: records and returns Regulated
  • Keep records of seafarer medical examinations for 10 years and provide returns on requestAny Person
17 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation, commencement and revocations
s.002 Interpretation
s.003 Meaning of “seafarer”
s.004 Meaning of “pleasure vessel”
s.005 Application
s.006 Seafarer to have valid medical fitness certificate
s.007 Employment of seafarers
s.009 Period of validity of medical fitness certificate
s.010 Fitness certificates: Code vessels and domestic passenger vessels
s.011 Fitness certificates: non-United Kingdom certificates
s.012 Reporting of medical conditions
s.013 Suspension and cancellation of medical fitness certificate
s.017 Replacement certificates
s.018 Offences and penalties
s.019 Inspection of Government ships
s.020 Inspection of ships other than United Kingdom ships
s.021 Review

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