
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 8th April 1985.
2 
The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972 shall be further amended as follows:
(a) in both regulations 6(a) and (b) there shall be substituted for the figure of “£50” the figure of “£200”;
(b) in regulation 8(4)(iii) the words after “each such breach, or, if”, shall be deleted and the following substituted—“

the total amount of such expense or loss in respect of which a deduction is made under regulation 5(c), (d) or (e) (or all or any of them as the case may be) exceeds the maximum which may be deducted under the appropriate paragraph or paragraphs, with sufficient particulars to show that such maximum is exceeded.

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Nicholas Ridley
Secretary of State for Transport
5th March 1985