The Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 1999
These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) Regulations 1972 and the Merchant Shipping (Seamen’s Wages and Accounts) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1972. The Regulations reduce (in both instruments) to £100 the amount that can be deducted from a seaman’s wages for the expense or loss caused to an employer by the seaman’s absence without leave. This brings the maximum deduction into line with a similar limit in section 70(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.