Regulation 6 Duty on employment agencies and businesses to provide financial system of protection

(1)

This regulation applies to an employment agency or employment business where—

(a)

the employment agency or employment business has introduced or supplied a work-seeker to a hirer for the purposes of employment as a seafarer on a sea-going ship; and

(b)

the work-seeker is or has been employed as a seafarer as a result of that introduction or supply.

(2)

The employment agency or employment business must establish a system of protection, by way of insurance or an equivalent appropriate measure, to compensate the seafarer for monetary loss which the seafarer may incur as a result of—

(a)

a failure of the employment agency or employment business to meet its obligations to the seafarer; and

(b)

a failure of the shipowner which is party to the seafarer employment agreement to meet its obligations to the seafarer.

(3)

References in paragraph (2) to “obligations to the seafarer” include contractual obligations and statutory obligations.