MERCHANT SHIPPING Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st May 1995. Interpretation and application 2 1 In these Regulations— “child” means a person who is under school-leaving age for the purposes of section 51 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970; “education authority” has the meaning given by section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 ; “local education authority” has the meaning given by section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944 ; “training ship” means a ship operated for the purpose of educating or training children; “United Kingdom ship” means a ship which— is registered in the United Kingdom; or is not registered under the law of any country but is wholly owned by persons each of whom is— a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British Overseas citizen, or a body corporate which is established under the law of a part of the United Kingdom and has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom; “young person” means a person under the age of eighteen. Children 3 Without prejudice to any restrictions in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , and subject to regulations 4 and 6 below, a child who has attained the age of 14 may be employed in a training ship on a course recognised by a local education authority (or in Scotland, by an education authority, or in Northern Ireland by the Department of Education). Young persons' medical certificates 4 1 Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, a young person shall not be employed in any capacity in a ship unless there has been delivered to the master of the ship a certificate granted by a duly qualified medical practitioner certifying that the young person is fit to be employed in that capacity. In paragraph, “duly qualified medical practitioner” means a person who is a fully registered person within the meaning of section 55 of the Medical Act 1983 . 2 Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of employment in a 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 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 the 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 a voyage in which the young person is employed in the ship, the certificate shall remain effective until the end of the voyage. 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 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. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Goschen Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport 29th March 1995