Section 199: Mariners., Employment Rights Act 1996

Sections 1 to 7, Parts 2 and 2B and sections 86 to 91 do not apply to a person employed as a seaman in a ship registered in the United Kingdom under a crew agreement the provisions and form of which are of a kind approved by the Secretary of State or an agreement specified in regulations under section 32(a) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.

Sections 8 to 10, Part III, sections 44, 45, 47, 47C, 47E, 47F, Part 5B, sections 50 to 57B and 61 to 63, Parts 6A to 8B, sections 92 and 93 and . . . Part X do not apply to employment as master, or as a member of the crew, of a fishing vessel where the employee is remunerated only by a share in the profits or gross earnings of the vessel.

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Sections 8 to 10 and 50 to 54 ... do not apply to employment as a merchant seaman.

In subsection (4) "employment as a merchant seaman"—

does not include employment in the fishing industry or employment on board a ship otherwise than by the owner, manager or charterer of that ship except employment as a radio officer, but

subject to that, includes—

employment as a master or a member of the crew of any ship,

employment as a trainee undergoing training for the sea service, and

employment in or about a ship in port by the owner, manager or charterer of the ship to do work of the kind ordinarily done by a merchant seaman on a ship while it is in port.

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The provisions mentioned in subsection (8) apply to employment on board a ship registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 if and only if—

the ship's entry in the register specifies a port in Great Britain as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging,

under his contract of employment the person employed does not work wholly outside Great Britain, and

the person employed is ordinarily resident in Great Britain.

The provisions are—

sections 8 to 10,

Parts II, 2B, III and V,

Part 5B,

Part VI, apart from sections 58 to 60,

Parts 6A to 8B,

sections 92 and 93, and

Part X.

Section 199: Mariners.

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