
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st May 1995.
2 

(1) In these Regulations—
 “child” means a person who is under school-leaving age for the purposes of section 51 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970;
 “education authority” has the meaning given by section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;
 “local education authority” has the meaning given by section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944;
 “training ship” means a ship operated for the purpose of educating or training children;
 “United Kingdom ship” means a ship which—
(a) is registered in the United Kingdom; or
(b) is not registered under the law of any country but is wholly owned by persons each of whom is—
(i) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British Overseas citizen, or
(ii) a body corporate which is established under the law of a part of the United Kingdom and has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom;
 “young person” means a person under the age of eighteen.
3 
Without prejudice to any restrictions in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, and subject to regulations 4 and 6 below, a child who has attained the age of 14 may be employed in a training ship on a course recognised by a local education authority (or in Scotland, by an education authority, or in Northern Ireland by the Department of Education).
4 

(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, a young person shall not be employed in any capacity in a ship unless there has been delivered to the master of the ship a certificate granted by a duly qualified medical practitioner certifying that the young person is fit to be employed in that capacity.
 In paragraph, “duly qualified medical practitioner” means a person who is a fully registered person within the meaning of section 55 of the Medical Act 1983.
(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of employment in a ship in which only members of the same family are employed.
(3) A superintendent or consular officer may on the ground of urgency authorise a young person who is not a child to be employed in a ship notwithstanding that no such certificate has been delivered to the master of the ship; but the young person shall not be employed in reliance on any such authorisation beyond the first port at which the ship calls after he has embarked thereon.
(4) A certificate shall be effective for the purposes of this regulation for a period of twelve months from the date on which it is granted and no longer, but if the period of twelve months expires during a voyage in which the young person is employed in the ship, the certificate shall remain effective until the end of the voyage.
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(1) There shall be included in every crew agreement a list of the young persons who are employed in the ship, together with particulars of their dates of birth.
(2) There shall be included in every crew agreement a short summary of the provisions of these Regulations.
(3) In the case of a ship in which there is no crew agreement, the master of the ship shall, if young persons are employed in the ship, keep a register of those persons with particulars of their dates of birth and of the dates on which they became employed in the ship.
6 
No young person shall be employed as a trimmer or stoker in any ship.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Goschen
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
29th March 1995