{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1015",
  "legislation_title": "The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Travelling treated as hours of UK work",
  "text": "(1) The hours when a seafarer is travelling for the purposes of UK work, where the seafarer would otherwise be doing UK work, are treated as hours of UK work unless the travelling is between—\n(a) the seafarer’s home, or a place where the seafarer is temporarily residing other than for the purposes of working, and\n(b) a place of work or a place where an assignment is carried out.\n(2) In paragraph (1), hours treated as hours when the seafarer would “otherwise be doing UK work” include—\n(a) hours when the seafarer is travelling for the purpose of carrying out assignments in respect of the relevant service to be carried out at different places between which the seafarer is obliged to travel, and which are not places occupied by the employer or operator;\n(b) hours when the seafarer is travelling where it is uncertain whether the seafarer would otherwise be doing UK work because the seafarer’s hours of work vary either as to their length or in respect of the time at which they are performed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 59 in force at 1.12.2024, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1015/regulation/59",
    "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."
}