Regulation 3 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Recruitment and Placement) Regulations 2014

The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Recruitment and Placement) Regulations 2014^f1 are amended as follows.

After regulation 6 (duty on employment agencies and businesses to provide financial system of protection) insert—

“Duty on employment agencies and businesses to provide information about system of protection

6A

An employment agency or employment business introducing or supplying a work-seeker to a hirer for the purposes of employment as a seafarer on a sea-going ship must ensure that the work-seeker is informed, prior to or in the process of engagement, of the rights which would be available to the work-seeker as a seafarer under any system of protection established under regulation 6.”.

In regulation 8(1) (offences), after “6(2)” insert “, 6A”.