Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1933
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Employment of young persons as trimmers or stokers. |
2.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no young person shall be employed on work as a trimmer or stoker in any ship: | |
Provided that— | ||
(a) the foregoing provision shall not apply— | ||
(i) to the employment of a young person on such work as aforesaid in a school-ship or training-ship if the work is of a kind approved by the Minister for Industry and Commerce and is carried on subject to supervision by officers of the said Minister; or | ||
(ii) to the employment of a young person on such work as aforesaid in a ship which is mainly propelled otherwise than by means of steam; or | ||
(iii) to the employment of a young person subject to and in accordance with the provisions contained in paragraph (c) of Article 3 of the draft convention relating to the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers or stokers adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations and containing as well as other articles the articles set out in the Schedule to this Act; and | ||
(b) where in any port a trimmer or stoker is required for any ship and no person over the age of eighteen years is available to fill the place, a young person over the age of sixteen years may be employed as trimmer or stoker, but in any such case two young persons over the age of sixteen years shall be employed to do the work which would otherwise have been performed by one person over the age of eighteen years. | ||
(2) There shall be included in every agreement with the crew a list of the young persons who are members of the crew, together with particulars of the dates of their birth, and, in the case of a ship in which there is no such agreement, the master of the ship shall, if young persons are employed thereon, keep a register of those persons with particulars of the dates of their birth and of the dates on which they become or cease to be members of the crew. | ||
(3) There shall be included in every agreement with the crew a short summary of the provisions of this section. |