# The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1999, Regulation 2: Amendment of Regulations


(1) The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 18(2), for sub-paragraph (b), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs:
“(b) is, or has been employed—
(i) in a ship registered in the United Kingdom; or
(ii) if the person is a British citizen, in a ship registered outside the United Kingdom;
(bb) in respect of employment in a ship registered outside the United Kingdom, is otherwise unable, for whatever reason, to obtain a document containing substantially the same information as a discharge book from or acceptable to the ship’s flag State; and”.
(3) In regulation 20(1):
(a) paragraph (f) shall be omitted; and
(b) in paragraph (g), the words “an official of the Merchant Navy Establishment Administration,” shall be omitted.
(4) In regulation 22(1)(a):
(a) the word “or” shall be inserted before the words “the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen”; and
(b) the words “or an official of the Merchant Navy Establishment Administration” shall be omitted.
(5) For Schedule 4 there shall be substituted the following Schedule:
“SCHEDULE 4
Countries referred to in regulation 16(1) (which relates to persons holding documents, containing substantially the same information as discharge books, issued by or under the authority of the Governments of certain countries).
Regulation 16(1)(a)
Bangladesh
Barbados
Canada
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Ghana
Guyana
Hong Kong
India
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Republic of Ireland
Saint Lucia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Western Samoa
Zambia”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3281/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-seamens-documents-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-2
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