Paragraph 1 provides that the Schedule amends the Seafarers’ Wages Act in accordance with paragraphs 2-23.
	Paragraphs 2-3 amend Section 1 of the Seafarers’ Wages Act to introduce the concept of "Relevant services", which replaces the previous references to "Services to which this Act applies". This is to allow the different types of declarations to apply to different services if defined in the Regulations.
	Paragraph 4 – 8 make consequential changes to the existing provisions of the Seafarers’ Wages Act to reflect the fact that the scope of the Act is being expanded by Schedule 5.
	Paragraph 9 inserts Chapter 3 to the Act, "Remuneration Regulations and Declarations".
	Paragraph 10 inserts Part 3: Seafarers’ Working Conditions" containing new Sections 4E-4G.
	Paragraphs 11-19 amends the Act to put the existing enforcement provisions in a new Part 4. These paragraphs also amend the existing enforcement provisions of the Act as necessary, so that they also relate to remuneration declarations and safe working declarations. The amendments include an amendment to the offences in the Act of operating a service inconsistently with a declaration or providing a false and misleading declaration so that it applies to operating inconsistently with the new remuneration and safe working regulations, as well as equivalence declarations. They also amend the requirement in the Act on harbour authorities to impose surcharges on operators who fail to provide equivalence declarations, so that they also apply to failure to provide remuneration and safe working declarations.
	Paragraph 20 inserts the heading "Part 5: General and Final Provisions".
	Paragraph 21 inserts new section 16A.
	Paragraph 22 amends section 17 (regulations) to insert the word "general" at the end of the heading, and to substitute subparagraph (i) for "(i) relevant service".
	Paragraph 23 inserts a definition of "declaration" which refers to all three categories of declaration.
	Paragraph 24 amends the title of the Act to the Seafarers (Wages and Working Conditions) Act 2023.
Part 3: Pay and Conditions in Particular Sectors Chapter 3: Seafarers Schedule 5 – Seafarers’ wages and working conditions