{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-recruitment-and-placement-regulations-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-recruitment-and-placement-regulations-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1615",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Recruitment and Placement) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-recruitment-and-placement-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty on employment agencies and businesses as regards seafarer employment agreements",
  "text": "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—\n(a) ensure that the work-seeker is informed of the rights and duties under the seafarer employment agreement prior to or in the process of engagement;\n(b) ensure that arrangements are made for the work-seeker to have an opportunity to examine the seafarer employment agreement before and after it is signed by the work-seeker; and\n(c) ensure that arrangements are made for the work-seeker to receive a copy of the seafarer employment agreement after it is signed by the work-seeker.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1615/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:27.074820+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}