Merchant Shipping Act 1970
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Part I Additional Provisions Regulations relating to crew agreements 1 (1) The Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing the procedure to be followed in connection with the making of crew agreements between persons employed in fishing vessels and persons employing them and prescribing the places where such crew agreements are to be made or where an agreement with any person may be added to those contained in such a crew agreement. (2) Regulations under this paragraph may make a contravention of any provision thereof an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scaleor such less amount as may be specified in the regulations. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part II Sections 7 and 8 set out as they apply to Fishing Vessels and Persons Employed in them Payment of seamen’s wages. 7 Except as provided by or under this Act or any other enactment, the wages due to a seaman under a crew agreement relating to a fishing vessel shall be paid to him in full. Accounts of wages and catch. 8 (1) Subject to regulations made under section 9 or 62 of this Act, the persons employing any seaman under a crew agreement relating to a fishing vessel shall deliver to him at a time prescribed by regulations under this section an account of the wages due to him under that crew agreement and of the deductions subject to which the wages are payable. (2) Where the wages of any person employed in a fishing vessel are in any manner related to the catch the persons employing him shall at a time prescribed by regulations under this section deliver to the master an account (or, if the master is the person employing him, make out an account) showing how those wages (or any part thereof related to the catch) are arrived at and shall make the account available to the crew in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations. (3) Where there is a partnership between the master and any members of the crew of a fishing vessel the owner of the vessel shall at a time prescribed by regulations under this section make out an account showing the sums due to each partner in respect of his share and shall make the account available to the partners. (4) The Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing the time at which any account required by this section is to be delivered or made out and the manner in which the account required by subsection (2) or (3) of this section is to be made available. (5) If a person fails without reasonable cause to comply with the preceding provisions of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
SCHEDULE 2
Part I Additional Provisions Regulations relating to crew agreements 1 (1) The Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing the procedure to be followed in connection with the making of crew agreements between persons employed in fishing vessels and persons employing them and prescribing the places where such crew agreements are to be made or where an agreement with any person may be added to those contained in such a crew agreement. (2) Regulations under this paragraph may make a contravention of any provision thereof an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scaleor such less amount as may be specified in the regulations. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part II Sections 7 and 8 set out as they apply to Fishing Vessels and Persons Employed in them Payment of seamen’s wages. 7 Except as provided by or under this Act or any other enactment, the wages due to a seaman under a crew agreement relating to a fishing vessel shall be paid to him in full. Accounts of wages and catch. 8 (1) Subject to regulations made under section 9 or 62 of this Act, the persons employing any seaman under a crew agreement relating to a fishing vessel shall deliver to him at a time prescribed by regulations under this section an account of the wages due to him under that crew agreement and of the deductions subject to which the wages are payable. (2) Where the wages of any person employed in a fishing vessel are in any manner related to the catch the persons employing him shall at a time prescribed by regulations under this section deliver to the master an account (or, if the master is the person employing him, make out an account) showing how those wages (or any part thereof related to the catch) are arrived at and shall make the account available to the crew in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations. (3) Where there is a partnership between the master and any members of the crew of a fishing vessel the owner of the vessel shall at a time prescribed by regulations under this section make out an account showing the sums due to each partner in respect of his share and shall make the account available to the partners. (4) The Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing the time at which any account required by this section is to be delivered or made out and the manner in which the account required by subsection (2) or (3) of this section is to be made available. (5) If a person fails without reasonable cause to comply with the preceding provisions of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
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