This Section amends s193A of TULRCA. It requires employers that are proposing to make collective redundancies across crew operating on one or more of its vessels including; any UK registered vessel, any foreign flagged vessel providing a domestic service (i.e. GB to GB), and/or any foreign flagged vessel providing a service calling at a port in Great Britain at least 120 times a year.
	Subsection (1) provides that subsections (2-5) amend s193A of TULRCA.
	Subsection (2) replaces the existing heading of s193A of "Duty of employer to notify competent authority of a vessel’s flag State of certain redundancies" with the words "Application of section 193 in certain cases involving redundancies of ships’ crew". This reflects that s193A no longer only requires notification to the flag state.
	Subsection (3) amends s193A(1) so that it provides that s193 of TULRCA applies subject to the modifications set out in s193A where (a) the duties of an employer s193(2) to notify the Secretary of State if they are making over 20 or over 100 redundancies apply, and (b) some of or all the employees concerned are members of the crew of a seagoing ship which is registered at a port outside Great Britain.
	Subsection (3) amends s193A(1) so that it provides that s193 of TULRCA (as amended by this Act), applies subject to the modifications set out in s193A in specified circumstances. These are that (a) the duty of an employer to notify the Secretary of State if they are making over the specified number of redundancies (see section 193(1A)) applies, and (b) some of or all the employees concerned are members of the crew of a seagoing ship which is registered at a port outside Great Britain.
	Subsection (4) amends s193A(2) to provide that where the vessels are registered outside Great Britain, these Sections require the employer to notify the Secretary of State in addition to the existing requirement for notification to be sent to the competent authority of the state in which the vessel is registered. If the company fails to provide the required notification to the Secretary of State, in the absence of special circumstances, it may be subject to an unlimited fine under s194.
	Subsection (5) provides that where s193A applies references to a notice in subsections 4 and 6 of s193 should be read as applying to the notice given to the Secretary of State under section 193A. Subsections 4 and 6 of s193set out how a notice should be provided to the Secretary of State and what information should be included and that the employer should give a copy of the notice to representatives that are to be consulted. Subsection 5 also provides that a ‘ship’ includes any kind of vessel used in navigation and hovercraft.
	Subsection (6) amends section 285 (employment outside Great Britain) of TULRCA. It expressly includes those employees working on GB-linked ships as ordinarily working in Great Britain for the purposes of sections 193-194. A GB-linked ship is defined as ships providing a specified type of service which either (a) operated between a place in Great Britain and a place elsewhere in the UK or (b) entered a harbour in Great Britain on at least 120 occasions in the 12 months before the redundancy proposal is settled by the employer or, if the service has been provided for less than a year, entered a harbour in Great Britain on at least 10 occasions in each month for which the service has been provided. The specified types of service are services for the carriage of persons or goods, with or without vehicles but excluding, in the case of the second part of the definition, services for the purpose of leisure or recreation and fishing vessels. Subsection (6) also provides a definition of ‘harbour’ with reference to the Harbours Act 1964, and provides that ship has the same meaning in s285 as in s193A.
Part 2: Other Matters Relating to Employment Procedure for handling redundancies Section 31: Collective redundancy notifications: ships’ crew