Regulation 9 Application of the Act and regulations

The provisions of Part I of the Act and of the regulations made thereunder relating to benefitsF1, or of the Jobseekers Act 1995 and regulations made thereunder shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of these regulations, apply to mariners and share fishermen with this modification, that where a mariner or share fisherman is, on account of his being at sea or outside the United Kingdom by reason of his employment as a mariner or a share fisherman, unable to perform an act required to be done either forthwith or on the happening of a certain event or within a specified time, he shall be deemed to have complied therewith if he performs the act as soon as is reasonably practicable, although after the happening of the event or the expiration of the specified time.