20
Amendment
of section 40.
25. Section 40 of the principal Ordinance is amended
in subsection (1) -
(a) by inserting after "Office", the following
", and without payment of any fee,"; and
(b) by inserting after "under", where it first
occurs, the following
"subsection (1) of section 17A, subsection
(2) of section 17B or".
Addition of new section
40A.
26. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding,
after section 40, the following new section
W
"Notice of intention not to re-engage
seaman.
40A. Whenever a seaman's engagement
on a foreign-going ship is for any reason
terminated and it is not intended to
re-engage him for service in that ship,
the master, owner or charterer of the ship,
or the agent of the master, owner or
charterer, shall, within one month of
the date of the seaman's discharge from
the ship, cause to be delivered to the
Superintendent a notice in the prescribed
form of the intention not to re-engage
the seaman."
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