The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages) (Contributions) Regulations 1972
Section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 restricts assignment of and charges upon the wages of seamen employed in ships registered in the United Kingdom but provides that nothing in the section is to apply to any disposition relating to the application of wages in the payment of contributions to a fund, or in respect of membership of a body, which has been declared by regulations to be a fund or body to which the section applies. These Regulations declare the funds and bodies to which it applies.