The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014
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The maximum period of service on board following which the...
The seafarer's entitlement to repatriation (including the mode of transport...
The circumstances in which the seafarer is required to meet...
The maximum sum which the shipowner will pay to the...
Details of any collective bargaining agreement which is incorporated (in...
If the agreement has been made for an indefinite period,...
If the agreement has been made for a particular voyage,...
The health and social security protection benefits to be provided...
Name, port of registry, gross or register tonnage and official...
Description of voyage.
Capacity in which seafarer worked on the ship.
Date on which seafarer started work on the ship.
Date and location of seafarer's discharge from the ship.
The information to be included in a shipowner’s security document...
The information to be included in an abandonment security document...
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Citation and commencement
The full name, birthplace and date of birth (or age...
Interpretation
The name and address of the shipowner.
Application
The place where the agreement is entered into.
Seafarer to be of minimum age
The date on which the agreement is entered into.
Young persons on night duty
The capacity in which the seafarer is to work.
Part 2 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
If the agreement has been made for a definite period,...
Meaning of “employer” etc.
Duty on shipowner in respect of recruitment and placement services
Duty to enter into seafarer employment agreement
Content of seafarer employment agreement
Minimum notice period
Seafarer employment agreements: captive seafarers
Documents
Foreign language seafarer employment agreement
Duty of master to produce seafarer employment agreement
Part 4 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Late payment of wages etc.
Account of seafarer's wages etc.
Part 5 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Duty to repatriate seafarers
Place for return.
Scope of duty to repatriate
Duty pending repatriation
Prohibition on recovering costs from seafarer
Seafarer property
Duty to carry documents
Financial security requirement applicable to all ships
Secretary of State functions in the event of shipowner default
Part 6 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Crew accommodation requirements
Provision for certain older ships
Exemptions
Approvals to allow substantial equivalences
Part 7 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Provision of food and drinking water
Organisation and equipment of the catering department
Inspection of food and catering facilities
Requirement to carry a qualified ship's cook
Certificate of competency as a ship's cook
Recognition of existing certificates of competency
Training requirements for catering staff and other persons processing food in the galley
Part 8 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Interpretation of Part 8
Shipowner duty to make provision for seafarer medical and other expenses
Duty to carry a medical practitioner on ship
Right to medical attention
Part 9 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Interpretation of Part 9
Shipowners' liability for seafarer unemployment and losses following loss or foundering of ship
Financial security requirement applicable to all ships
Shipowners' liability for wages following sickness or injury sustained by seafarer
Property left behind by sick or injured seafarer
Shipowners' liability in respect of burial or cremation of seafarer
Interpretation of Part 10
Interpretation of Part 10A
Shipowner’s security requirement applicable to all ships
Shipowner’s security
Payment of contractual compensation
Interim payments
Offence of undue pressure
Duty to carry and display shipowner’s security document
Termination of shipowner’s security on notice to the Secretary of State
Duty on shipowner’s security provider to notify the Secretary of State where a shipowner’s security has been terminated
Duty on shipowner to notify seafarers if shipowner’s security is to be terminated
Interpretation of Part 10B
Abandonment
Abandonment security requirement applicable to all ships
Abandonment security
Consideration and payment of abandonment claims
Subrogation
Duty to carry and display an abandonment security document
Termination of abandonment security effective only where notice given
Duty on shipowner to notify seafarers if abandonment security is to be terminated
Inspection of United Kingdom ships and non-United Kingdom ships without MLC documentation
Inspection of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation
Detention of ships
Failure to repatriate - detention of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation at request of foreign State
Supplementary provisions as respects detention of ships
Penalties
Further provision on penalties
Defence
Review
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