Section 4
of Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Wages and Accounts) Regulations, 2007
Section 4
(1)
The deductions specified in sub-regulation (2) are authorised to be made from the wages due to a seaman under a crew agreement.
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{2)
The deductions referred to in sub-regulation (1) are
(a)
deductions of any amount payable by the seaman to his employer in respect of -
(i)
bar bills;
(ii)
goods supplied;
(iii)
radio or telephone calls;
(iv)
postage expenses;
(v)
cash advances; and
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allotments;
(b)
contributions by the seaman to a fund or in respect of membership of a body declared by regulations under section 64(3) to be a fund or body to which section 64 applies;
{c)
subject to regulations 5 and 6, a deduction of an amount being the actual expense or pecuniary loss incurred or sustained by the employer in consequence of the seaman's absence without leave, where the employer is satisfied on reasonable grounds that such absence is a breach of the seaman's obligations under the crew agreement;
(d)
subject to regulation 5 and regulations 6{2), (3), (4) and (5) and to any additional limitations imposed by the crew agreement, a deduction of an amount being the actual expense or pecuniary loss incurred or sustained by the employer, where the employer is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the expense or loss was caused by a breach or breaches of the seaman's obligations under the crew agreement not falling within paragraph (c).
(3)
Such deductions shall be-
{a) without prejudice to any dispute relating to the amount payable to a seaman under the crew agreement and, subject to the provisions of the
Order, to the rights and obligations, whether of the employer or of the seaman, under the agreement or otherwise; and
{b)
in addition to any deduction authorised by any provision of the
Order, except section 62, or of any other written law.
Amount which may be deducted.