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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1st May 2023.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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(1) The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Documents) Regulations 1987 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3(2)—
(a) omit paragraph (a);
(b) in paragraph (c), after the words “who is a cadet”, insert the words “or who is employed in a fishing vessel”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Vere
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
At 9.50 a.m. on 27th March 2023