Regulation 11 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003

For regulation 9 (records), substitute—

“9.

(1)

In the case of each worker, the employer shall keep records which are adequate to verify compliance with regulations 6, 6A, 6B, 6C(1), 6D, 7C, 10(1) and (3), 10B, 11(1) to (3), 11A, 14A(3) and 15A(2) to (4).

(2)

Those records shall be available on board a ship until at least the end of the reference period.

(3)

Those records shall contain the following minimum information—

(a)

the name of the ship;

(b)

the name of the worker;

(c)

the name of the master;

(d)

the date to which the record relates;

(e)

whether a day was a working day or a rest day; and

(f)

the beginning and end of the daily working or rest periods.

(4)

The records shall be examined and endorsed jointly by the employer and the worker at an appropriate interval no later than by the end of the following month to which the records relate.

(5)

Once endorsed, a copy of the endorsed records shall be given by the employer to the worker to whom they relate and that worker shall keep those records with them for one year.”.