That this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 1 to 64.
1: Page 1, line 8, at end insert—
“(2A) Regulations may specify matters that must or must not be taken into account in determining whether provision for the carriage of persons or goods between two places by ship on two or more journeys constitutes a single service.”
2: Page 2, line 3, leave out subsections (1) to (3) and insert—
“(1) Subsection (2) applies where a harbour authority has reasonable grounds to believe that ships providing a service to which this Act applies will enter, or have entered, its harbour on at least 120 occasions during a relevant year.
(2) The harbour authority must, within such period as is determined by regulations, request that the operator of the service provide the authority with a national minimum wage equivalence declaration (in the rest of this Act, an “equivalence declaration”) in respect of the service for the relevant year.
(3) The duty under subsection (2) is subject to any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 11(2)(a).
(3A) A harbour authority which fails to comply with subsection (2) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction—
3: Page 2, line 16, at end insert—
“(za) as to the period within which equivalence declarations are to be provided;”
4: Page 2, line 17, leave out “national minimum wage”
5: Page 2, line 18, leave out “national minimum wage”
6: Page 2, line 19, at end insert—
“(4A) In this Act, “relevant year” means—
(a) the period of 12 months beginning with a date specified in regulations, and