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Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 408

The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Documents) Regulations 1987

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1987 No. 408

MERCHANT SHIPPING
MASTERS AND SEAMEN

The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Documents) Regulations 1987

Made12th March 1987
Laid before Parliament18th March 1987
Coming into force8th April 1987

    The Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970[1] (hereinafter called "the Act"), in exercise of powers conferred by sections 70 and 71 of the Act and now vested in him[2], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

    Citation, commencement, interpretation and revocation
        1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Documents) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 8th April 1987.

        (2)  In these Regulations—
       (a) the expressions "British Citizen", "British Dependent Territories citizen", "British Overseas Citizen", "British protected person", "colony", "protected state" and "protectorate" have respectively the same meanings as they have in and for the purposes of the British Nationality Act 1981[3];
       (b) "British Seaman's Identity Card" means a British Seaman's Identity Card issued under the British Seamen's Identity Cards Order 1942[4];
       (c) "the Order of 1960" means the British Seamen's Cards Order 1960[5];
       (d) a person to whom a British Seaman's Card or a discharge book has been issued is referred to as the holder of it; and
       (e) "Seaman's Record Book" means a Seaman's Record Book and Certificates of Discharge issued to a seaman by the Secretary of State, the Board of Trade, the Minister of Transport, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, the Minister of War Transport or the Minister of Shipping;
       (f) "a shore-based disciplinary committee" means a committee established on shore by the National Maritime Board to review the future sea-going employment of seamen employed under a crew agreement, approved by the Secretary of State, to which the National Maritime Board agreement on disciplinary procedures applies and which requires seamen to comply with the Code of Conduct, in respect of whom the master is satisfied that they have committed any of the breaches of the Code specified in paragraph 9 thereof;
       (g) "the Code of Conduct" means the publication entitled "Code of Conduct for the Merchant Navy" published in 1978 by the National Maritime Board.

        (3)  For the purposes of these Regulations, a person shall be treated as having the right of abode if he has the right of abode in the United Kingdom under section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971[6].

        (4)  In computing any of the periods of 7 days referred to in regulation 15(1) any period during which the person concerned is not present in the United Kingdom shall be disregarded.

        (5)  The Regulations set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations are hereby revoked.

        (6)  Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation of that number in these Regulations.


Notes:

[1] 1970 c. 36.

[2] S.I. 1970/1537.

[3] 1981 c. 61.

[4] S.R. & O. 1942/2681.

[5] S.I. 1960/967 as amended by S.I. 1967/1610.

[6] 1971 c. 77; section 2 was substituted by section 39 of the British Nationality Act 1981.

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