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Regulation 53P SubrogationF1

(1)

Paragraph (2) applies where an abandonment security provider provides financial assistance (“the sum provided”) to a seafarer under an abandonment security.

(2)

Any rights which a seafarer has (or but for the payment of that sum would have had) against the shipowner as a result of being abandoned are, with respect to the sum provided, transferred to and vested in the abandonment security provider.

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Textual amendments

F1

Pt. 10B inserted (12.7.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Compulsory Financial Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/667), regs. 1, 2(7)