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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Duties in relation to maritime activity - Duties in relation to crewing

26: Provisions relating to crewing of New Zealand ships and young persons

You could also call this:

"Rules for hiring young people to work on New Zealand ships"

If you employ seafarers on a New Zealand ship, you must keep a register of all workers under 18 years old, including their date of birth. You cannot employ someone on a New Zealand ship if they are young enough to still be at school. You also cannot employ someone under 18 years old to do certain jobs like a trimmer or stoker.

If you really need to hire someone under 18 for these jobs, you can do so if you cannot find someone older, but you must hire two 16-year-olds to do the work that one adult would normally do. There is an exception to these rules if the work is being done on a training ship and the Director has approved it.

You must follow these rules when employing young people on New Zealand ships to ensure their safety and well-being.

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Part 3Duties in relation to maritime activity
Duties in relation to crewing

26Provisions relating to crewing of New Zealand ships and young persons

  1. Every employer of seafarers on a New Zealand ship shall keep a register of all persons under the age of 18 years who are employed on that ship and the register shall include the date of birth of each such person.

  2. No person shall employ on any New Zealand ship—

  3. any person of an age that requires that person to be enrolled at a school; or
    1. any person under the age of 18 years as a trimmer or stoker.

      1. Notwithstanding subsection (2), where an employer has not been able, after taking all reasonable steps, to obtain a person over 18 years of age as a trimmer or stoker in a port, the employer may employ on a New Zealand ship a person over the age of 16 years as a trimmer or stoker in that port, but in any such case 2 persons over the age of 16 years shall be employed to do the work which would otherwise have been performed by 1 person over the age of 18 years.

      2. Nothing in subsection (2) applies to the employment of a person to carry out work on a training ship if the carrying out of such work by a person of that age is approved by the Director.

      Compare
      • 1952 No 49 s 49(1), (2), (4)