{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1015",
  "legislation_title": "The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023;\n“basic hours” has the meaning given in regulation 35(8);\n“basic payments” has the meaning given in regulation 20;\n“basic rate” means the hourly rate determined in accordance with regulation 18;\n“basic reductions” has the meaning given in regulation 20;\n“basic remuneration” has the meaning given in regulation 18;\n“calculation year” has the meaning given in regulation 36;\n“employer”, in relation to a seafarer, means the person by whom the seafarer is (or, where the employment has ceased, was) employed;\n“employment”, in relation to a seafarer, means employment under the seafarer’s contract and “employed” is to be construed accordingly;\n“excess hours” has the meaning given in regulation 40(3);\n“hours” includes a fraction of an hour;\n“hours of UK work” has the meaning given in regulation 19;\n“national minimum wage equivalent” means the applicable hourly rate specified in regulation 14;\n“pay reference period” has the meaning given in regulation 13;\n“performance bonus” has the meaning given in regulation 35(9);\n“refusal of access notification” means a communication from a harbour authority to an operator containing the information required by regulation 12(6);\n“relevant service” means a service to which the Act applies;\n“salaried hours work” has the meaning given in regulation 35;\n“salary premium” has the meaning given in regulation 35(10);\n“seafarer” means a non-qualifying seafarer within the meaning of the Act;\n“surcharge notification” means a communication from a harbour authority to an operator containing the information required by regulation 6(5);\n“time work” has the meaning given in regulation 44;\n“total hours of work” has the meaning given in regulation 18;\n“total reductions” has the meaning given in regulation 26(1);\n“UK additional payments” has the meaning given in regulation 21;\n“UK additional rate” means any hourly rate which is specific to a seafarer’s hours of UK work determined in accordance with regulation 19;\n“UK additional reductions” has the meaning given in regulation 21;\n“UK additional remuneration” has the meaning given in regulation 19;\n“unmeasured work” has the meaning given in regulation 50.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.12.2024, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 18(1) of the Act for the meanings of “harbour” and “harbour authority”. In relation to England, Wales and Scotland, these terms have the same meanings as in the Harbours Act 1964 (c. 40). In relation to Northern Ireland, these terms have the same meanings as in the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (c. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 19 of the Act for the meaning of “operator”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1015/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:54.729234+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."
}