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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2125",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Hours of Work) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-2002",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement—\nthe majority of the provisions of Council Directive 1999/63/EC concerning the Agreement on the organisation of working time of seafarers concluded by the European Community Shipowners’ Association and the Federation of Transport Workers’ Unions in the European Union (OJ L 167, 2.7.99, p.33) and\nEuropean Parliament and Council Directive 1999/95/EC concerning the enforcement of provisions in respect of seafarers’ hours of work on board ships calling at Community ports (OJ L 014, 20.1.2000, p.29).\nThe Regulations:\nrequire employers to ensure seafarers have at least the specified minimum hours of rest (regulations 4 to 6 and 8),\nrequire records to be kept of seafarers’ daily hours of rest,\nprohibit the employment on a ship of a person under 16 years of age,\nestablish seafarers’ entitlement to annual leave, and\nmake provision about the enforcement of the Regulations.\nThe Regulations are made under the powers contained in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 except in respect of amendments in Schedule 2, where the power is provided by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nA Regulatory Impact Assessment has been produced and a copy placed in the library of both Houses of Parliament. Copies may be obtained from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1EG (telephone number 023 8032 9380).\nMerchant Shipping Notices are published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Copies may be obtained from Mail Marketing (Scotland), Bloomsgrove Industrial Estate, Norton Street, Nottingham NG7 3JG (telephone number 0115 9013336; fax 0115 9013334; e-mail mca@promo-solution.com).\nInternational Labour Organization Conventions and Protocols are published by the International Labour Office and copies may be obtained from ILO Publications, International Labour Office, CH-211 Geneva 22, Switzerland.\nA transposition note has been prepared and copies may be obtained from the Seafarer Health and Safety Branch of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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