New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 26

26 Provisions 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—

a) any person of an age that requires that person to be enrolled at a school; or

b) any person under the age of 18 years as a trimmer or stoker.

3 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.

4 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.

Note: 1952 No 49 s 49(1), (2), (4)