Merchant Shipping (Employment Of Young Persons) Regulations 1997
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Laws of Bermuda Item 16(a)

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BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

BR 31/1997

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG
PERSONS) REGULATIONS 1997

[made under section 48 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 [title 31 item
16] and brought into operation on 30 May 1997]

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Citation
2 Interpretation and

application
3 Children

4 Young persons' medical
certificates

5 Record of young persons
6 Trimmers and stokers

The Minister, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by
section 48(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, makes the following
Regulations:

Citation
1 These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping
(Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1997.

Interpretation and application
2 (1) In these Regulations —

"Bermuda ship" means a ship which—

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(a) is registered in Bermuda; or

(b) is not registered under the law of any country but is
wholly owned by persons each of whom is—

(i) a person who has Bermudian status within the
meaning of that expression in the Bermuda
Immigration and Protection Act 1956, a British
citizen, a British Dependent Territories Citizen or
a British Overseas Citizen; or

(ii) a body corporate which is established under the
law of Bermuda and has its principal place of
business in Bermuda;

"child" means a person who is under the age of sixteen years;

"training ship" means a ship operated for the purpose of
educating or training children;

"young person" means a person under the age of eighteen years.

Children
3 Without prejudice to any restrictions in the Employment of
Children and Young Persons Act 1963, and subject to regulations 4 and
6, a child who has attained the age of fourteen years may be employed in
a training ship, which is a Bermuda ship, on a course recognised by the
Minister for the time being responsible for education.

Young persons' medical certificates
4 (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a young person shall not
be employed in any capacity in a Bermuda ship unless there has been
delivered to the master of the ship a certificate granted by a duly
registered medical practitioner certifying that the young person is fit to
be employed in that capacity.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of employment in a
Bermuda ship in which only members of the same family are employed.

(3) A superintendent or consular officer may on the ground of
urgency authorise a young person who is not a child to be employed in a
Bermuda ship notwithstanding that no such certificate has been
delivered to the master of the ship; but the young person shall not be
employed in reliance on any such authorisation beyond the first port at
which that ship calls after he has embarked thereon.

(4) A certificate shall be effective for the purposes of this
regulation for a period of twelve months from the date on which it is
granted and no longer, but if the period of twelve months expires during

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a voyage in which the young person is employed in the ship, the
certificate shall remain effective until the end of the voyage.

(5) In paragraph (1), a "registered medical practitioner" has the
meaning assigned to that expression by section 1 of the Medical
Practitioners Act 1950.

Record of young persons
5 (1) There shall be included in every crew agreement a list of the
young persons who are employed in the ship, together with particulars of
their dates of birth.

(2) There shall be included in every crew agreement a short
summary of the provisions of these Regulations.

(3) In the case of a Bermuda ship in which there is no crew
agreement, the master of the ship shall, if young persons are employed
in the ship, keep a register of those persons with particulars of their
dates of birth and of the dates on which they became employed in the
ship.

Trimmers and stokers
6 No young person shall be employed as a trimmer or stoker in
any ship.