Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 147) - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Ratification: 1980)

The Committee notes the detailed information and statistics supplied by the Government concerning inspection and training. In particular, it notes with interest the adoption of the Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Regulations, 2002.

The Committee notes with satisfaction that Regulation 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Hours of Work) Regulations, 2002, as amended in 2004, entitled “General duty of company, person employing a seafarer, master”, which sets forth the standards of hours of rest applicable in non-emergency situations, no longer contains the flexible notion “so far as is reasonably practicable”. In this context, the Committee recalls the ratification by the United Kingdom of the Seafarers’ Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, 1996 (No. 180), in 2001. For further comments concerning hours of work and manning, the Committee, therefore, refers to its comments under Convention No. 180.