Regulations, 2012

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,856, 17 ta’ Jannar, 2012

L.N. 7 of 2012

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT

(CAP. 234)

Merchant Shipping (Minimum Wage) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 122C and

374 of the Merchant Shipping Act, the Minister for Infrastructure,

Transport and Communications, has made the following

regulations-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Merchant

Shipping (Minimum Wage) (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and

they shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping

(Minimum Wage) Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the

principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come

into force on the 1 January, 2012.

For regulation 5 there shall be substituted the following

“5. The minimum basic wage for a calendar month of

service for an able seaman shall be not less than 555 US

Dollars as of 1 January 2012, not less than 568 US Dollars

as of 1 January 2013 and not less than 585 US Dollars as of

31 December 2013, or the equivalent thereof in the specific

currency stated in the agreement with the crew

Provided that the Registrar-General may authorise

collective agreements permitting exceptions to the minimum

basic wage provided for in this regulation.”.

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