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Article summary

SI 2024/1015: These Regulations are made to give effect to the provisions of the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 (SWA 2023), which provides that operators of frequent international services which call at UK ports must either provide a declaration that seafarers on these services are remunerated at a rate equivalent to the minimum wage under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (NMWA 1998) or pay a surcharge. They set out the administrative detail of the regime, including how the required rate of pay, the national minimum wage equivalent rate (NMWe) is calculated and how and when harbour authorities and operators must fulfil their functions under the SWA 2023. They come into force on 1 December 2024.