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These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972 and the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1972. The Regulations reduce (in both instruments) to £100 the amount that can be deducted from a seaman’s wages for the expense or loss caused to an employer by the seaman’s absence without leave. This brings the maximum deduction into line with a similar limit in section 70(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.

A regulatory impact assessment has been produced and a copy placed in the library of both Houses of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1EG (telephone number 01703 329 216).