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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/598",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement certain amendments made to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 by making amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1613) (“the Minimum Requirements Regulations”) and the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Recruitment and Placement) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1615) (“the Recruitment and Placement Regulations”). The relevant amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 were approved at the 110th session of the International Labour Conference on 6th June 2022. The Regulations also make consequential amendment to the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1104) (“the Fees Regulations”).\nRegulation 53G(1) of the Minimum Requirements Regulations requires a shipowner to ensure that, for each shipowner’s security in force in relation to a ship, a shipowner’s security document containing the information specified in Schedule 3 to those Regulations is carried on board. Similarly, regulation 53Q(1) of the Minimum Requirements Regulations requires a shipowner to ensure that, for each abandonment security in force in relation to a ship, an abandonment security document containing the information specified in Schedule 4 to those Regulations is carried on board.\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations amends the list of information required by Schedules 3 and 4 to the Minimum Requirements Regulations to be included in a shipowner’s security document and abandonment security document to ensure that the identity of the registered owner of the ship is included where different from the identity of the shipowner.\nRegulation 3 of these Regulations amends the Recruitment and Placement regulations by inserting a new regulation 6A, which requires employment agencies and businesses to ensure that work-seekers are informed, prior to or in the process of their engagement, of the rights available to them as seafarers under the financial system of protection established under regulation 6.\nRegulation 4 of these Regulations makes consequential amendments to the Fees Regulations.\nCopies of the amendments of 2022 to the Maritime Labour Convention may be downloaded from the website of the International Labour Organisation at https://www.ilo.org/resource/conference-paper/ilc/110/amendments-2022-code-maritime-labour-convention-2006-amended-mlc-2006. Copies of the Maritime Labour Convention may be downloaded from the website of the International Labour Organization at https://www.ilo.org/international-labour-standards/maritime-labour-convention-2006 or obtained as a priced publication from www.tsoshop.co.uk, or by post from TSO Customer Services, 18 Central Avenue, St. Andrew’s Business Park, Norwich NR7 0HR, telephone number: +44 (0) 333 202 5070.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.\nAn Explanatory Memorandum and a de minimis assessment have been prepared and are published alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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