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# The Seafarers' Wages (Amendment) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2025 No. 289
MERCHANT SHIPPING
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES
The Seafarers' Wages (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made
5th March 2025
Laid before Parliament
10th March 2025
Coming into force
1st April 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(2) and 4(6) of the Seafarers (Wages and Working Conditions) Act 2023 .

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Seafarers’ Wages (Amendment) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2025.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

## 2 Amendments to the Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024 {#regulation-2}

(1) The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 5(2)(b) (declarations), for “1st of January before” substitute “first day of”.
(3) In paragraph (1) of regulation 14 (the national minimum wage equivalent)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “£11.44” substitute “£12.21”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for “£8.60” substitute “£10.00”;
(c) in sub-paragraph (c), for “£6.40” substitute “£7.55”;
(d) in sub-paragraph (d), for “£6.40” substitute “£7.55”.