Statutory Instruments
2023 No. 365
Merchant Shipping
The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Made
at 9.50 a.m. on 27th March 2023
Laid before Parliament
at 3.00 p.m. on 27th March 2023
Coming into force
1st May 2023
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 79(1)(a) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995( 1 ).
The Secretary of State has consulted with such organisations referred to in section 306(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.
Citation and commencement
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1st May 2023.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987
2. —(1) The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987( 2 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3(2)—
(a) omit paragraph (a);
(b) in paragraph (c), after the words “who is a cadet”, insert the words “or who is employed in a fishing vessel” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Vere
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
At 9.50 a.m. on 27th March 2023
S.I. 1987/408 , amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c.8) , S.I. 1995/1900 , 1997/2971 and 1999/3281 .