UK Statutory Instrument 2014 United Kingdom

The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014

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Schedules

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s.sch001

The maximum period of service on board following which the...

s.sch001

The seafarer's entitlement to repatriation (including the mode of transport...

s.sch001

The circumstances in which the seafarer is required to meet...

s.sch001

The maximum sum which the shipowner will pay to the...

s.sch001

Details of any collective bargaining agreement which is incorporated (in...

s.sch001

If the agreement has been made for an indefinite period,...

s.sch001

If the agreement has been made for a particular voyage,...

s.sch001

The health and social security protection benefits to be provided...

s.sch002

Name, port of registry, gross or register tonnage and official...

s.sch002

Description of voyage.

s.sch002

Capacity in which seafarer worked on the ship.

s.sch002

Date on which seafarer started work on the ship.

s.sch002

Date and location of seafarer's discharge from the ship.

s.sch003

The information to be included in a shipowner’s security document...

s.sch004

The information to be included in an abandonment security document...

Browse 88 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
s.001

Citation and commencement

s.002

Interpretation

s.003

Application

s.004

Seafarer to be of minimum age

s.005

Young persons on night duty

s.006

Part 2 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.007

Meaning of “employer” etc.

s.008

Duty on shipowner in respect of recruitment and placement services

s.009

Duty to enter into seafarer employment agreement

s.010

Content of seafarer employment agreement

s.011

Minimum notice period

s.011

Seafarer employment agreements: captive seafarers

s.012

Documents

s.013

Foreign language seafarer employment agreement

s.014

Duty of master to produce seafarer employment agreement

s.015

Part 4 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.016

Late payment of wages etc.

s.017

Account of seafarer's wages etc.

s.018

Part 5 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.019

Duty to repatriate seafarers

s.020

Place for return.

s.021

Scope of duty to repatriate

s.022

Duty pending repatriation

s.023

Prohibition on recovering costs from seafarer

s.024

Seafarer property

s.025

Duty to carry documents

s.026

Financial security requirement applicable to all ships

s.027

Secretary of State functions in the event of shipowner default

s.028

Part 6 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.029

Crew accommodation requirements

s.030

Provision for certain older ships

s.031

Exemptions

s.032

Approvals to allow substantial equivalences

s.033

Part 7 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.034

Provision of food and drinking water

s.035

Organisation and equipment of the catering department

s.036

Inspection of food and catering facilities

s.037

Requirement to carry a qualified ship's cook

s.038

Certificate of competency as a ship's cook

s.039

Recognition of existing certificates of competency

s.040

Training requirements for catering staff and other persons processing food in the galley

s.041

Part 8 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.042

Interpretation of Part 8

s.043

Shipowner duty to make provision for seafarer medical and other expenses

s.044

Duty to carry a medical practitioner on ship

s.045

Right to medical attention

s.046

Part 9 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.047

Interpretation of Part 9

s.048

Shipowners' liability for seafarer unemployment and losses following loss or foundering of ship

s.049

Financial security requirement applicable to all ships

s.050

Shipowners' liability for wages following sickness or injury sustained by seafarer

s.051

Property left behind by sick or injured seafarer

s.052

Shipowners' liability in respect of burial or cremation of seafarer

s.053

Interpretation of Part 10

s.053

Interpretation of Part 10A

s.053

Shipowner’s security requirement applicable to all ships

s.053

Shipowner’s security

s.053

Payment of contractual compensation

s.053

Interim payments

s.053

Offence of undue pressure

s.053

Duty to carry and display shipowner’s security document

s.053

Termination of shipowner’s security on notice to the Secretary of State

s.053

Duty on shipowner’s security provider to notify the Secretary of State where a shipowner’s security has been terminated

s.053

Duty on shipowner to notify seafarers if shipowner’s security is to be terminated

s.053

Interpretation of Part 10B

s.053

Abandonment

s.053

Abandonment security requirement applicable to all ships

s.053

Abandonment security

s.053

Consideration and payment of abandonment claims

s.053

Subrogation

s.053

Duty to carry and display an abandonment security document

s.053

Termination of abandonment security effective only where notice given

s.053

Duty on shipowner to notify seafarers if abandonment security is to be terminated

s.054

Inspection of United Kingdom ships and non-United Kingdom ships without MLC documentation

s.055

Inspection of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation

s.056

Detention of ships

s.057

Failure to repatriate - detention of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation at request of foreign State

s.058

Supplementary provisions as respects detention of ships

s.059

Penalties

s.059

Further provision on penalties

s.060

Defence

s.061

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