No. S 225
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act
(CHAPTER 170A)
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
(Registration and Employment of Seamen)
(Amendment) Regulations 2014
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 40 of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Registration and Employment of Seamen) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2014.
Amendment of regulation 2
2.  Regulation 2 of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Registration and Employment of Seamen) Regulations (Rg 8) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —
(a)by deleting the definition of “prescribed fee”; and
(b)by deleting the words “regulation 5(3)” in the definition of “registration card” and substituting the words “regulation 4(3A)”.
Amendment of regulation 4
3.  Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (3), the following paragraph:
(3A)  The Authority shall issue a registration card to a registered seaman upon the entry of his name in the seaman’s register under paragraph (3).”.
Amendment of regulation 5
4.  Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (3).
Amendment of regulation 10
5.  Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (4).
Amendment of regulation 11
6.  Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by deleting paragraph (2); and
(b)by deleting the words “and upon payment of the prescribed fee” in paragraph (4).
Amendment of regulation 13
7.  Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “and on his paying to the Authority the prescribed fee” in paragraph (2); and
(b)by deleting paragraph (3).
Deletion of regulations 20 and 22
8.  Regulations 20 and 22 of the principal Regulations are deleted.
Made this 26th day of March 2014.
LUCIEN WONG
Chairman,
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
[MPA 46/01.C16.V03/LSK; AG/LLRD/SL/170A/2010/16 Vol. 1]