Regulation 4 Application of Part 5 of the Act to seafarers working wholly outside Great Britain and adjacent waters

(1)

Part 5 of the Act applies to a seafarer who works wholly outside Great Britain and United Kingdom waters adjacent to Great Britain if the seafarer is on—

(a)

a United Kingdom ship and the ship’s entry in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 specifies a port in Great Britain as the ship’s port of choice, or

(b)

a hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom and operated by a person whose principal place of business, or ordinary residence, is in Great Britain,

and paragraph (2) applies.

(2)

This paragraph applies if—

(a)

the seafarer is a British citizen, or a national of an EEA State other than the United Kingdom or of a designated state, and

(b)

the legal relationship of the seafarer’s employment is located within Great Britain or retains a sufficiently close link with Great Britain.