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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

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"Rules for young people working on New Zealand ships"

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You need to know some rules about working on New Zealand ships. If you are under 18 years old and work on a ship, your employer must keep a record of your birth date. You must be a certain age to work on a ship. You cannot work on a New Zealand ship if you are supposed to be at school. You also cannot work as a trimmer or stoker if you are under 18 years old. But if your employer cannot find someone over 18 to do the job, they might be able to hire someone over 16 years old. There is an exception to this rule if you are working on a training ship and the Director says it is okay. This means you might be able to work on a training ship even if you are under 18 years old.

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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)