{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1149",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-working-time-inland-waterways-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003",
  "text": "For regulation 7 (health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work), substitute—\n“Health assessments\n7. (1) A worker who so requests shall be entitled to an annual free health assessment.\n(2) During the assessment referred to in paragraph (1), particular attention shall be paid to identifying symptoms or conditions which could be as a result of work on board with minimum daily rest periods or rest days.\n(3) No person shall disclose an assessment made for the purposes of this regulation to any person other than the worker to whom it relates, unless—\n(a) the worker has given consent in writing to the disclosure, or\n(b) the disclosure is confined to a statement that the assessment shows the worker to be fit.\nHealth assessments for night workers\n7A. (1) An employer shall—\n(a) not assign a worker to work which is to be undertaken during periods such that the worker will become a night worker unless—\n(i) the employer has ensured that the worker will have the opportunity of a free health assessment before that worker takes up the assignment; or\n(ii) the worker had a free health assessment before being assigned to work to be undertaken during such periods on an earlier occasion, and the employer has no reason to believe that the assessment is no longer valid, and\n(b) ensure that each night worker has the opportunity of a free health assessment at regular intervals of whatever duration may be appropriate in the night worker’s case.\n(2) Regulation 7(3) shall apply to free health assessments undertaken for the purposes of this regulation.\nTransfer of night workers to day work\n7B. (1) Where—\n(a) a registered medical practitioner has advised an employer that a worker is suffering from health problems which the practitioner considers to be connected with the fact that the worker performs night work, and\n(b) it is possible for the employer to transfer the worker to work—\n(i) to which the worker is suited, and\n(ii) which is to be undertaken during periods such that the worker will cease to be a night worker,\nthe employer shall transfer the worker accordingly.\nLength of night work\n7C. An employer shall not require a worker to do more than 42 hours of night work during any seven day period.\nSafety and health protection for night and shift workers\n7D. (1) Night workers and shift workers shall have safety and health protection appropriate to the nature of their work and such protection shall take account of guidance in section 8 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1876(M).\n(2) Protection and prevention services or facilities with regard to the safety and health of night and shift workers shall be equivalent to those applicable to other workers and be available at all times.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1149/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:57.308092+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."
}