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No. 10 of 1899.
Mercantile
MERCHANT SHIPPING,
Engagement and discharge of seamen,
5.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint Marine Office within the Colony a place to be called the Mercantile Marine Office, at which place shall be conducted all the business connected with the engagement and discharge of seamen on board British ships, and foreign ships whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, such ships being in the waters of the Colony. The Harbour Master shall be the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office. The present Mercantile Marine Office shall be deemed to be the place appointed until the Governor shall appoint some other place.
Shipping of seamen, Agreement to be made for seamen.. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 113.
Penalty for shipping without agreement.
(2) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, be shipped to do duty on board a British ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office; and the Superintendent shall require such seaman to produce to him his certificate of discharge from the last ship, and, failing the production of such certificate, such seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory explanation to the Harbour Master of the cause of the non-production thereof.
(3) The master of every British ship, and of every foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, shall enter into an agreement with every seaman whom he engages in the Colony, and carries to sea as one of his crew, in the form and manner provided by the Merchant Shipping Acts.
(4) Every master of any such ship who carries any seaman to sea without entering into an agreement with him in accordance with sub-section (3), shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 113.
Fees payable on engagement and discharge. Schedule. Table 1.
(5) Such fees, not exceeding the sums specified in Table I in the Schedule as may be fixed by the Governor in Council, shall be payable upon all engagements and discharges; and the Superintendent shall cause a scale of such fees to be conspicuously placed in the Mercantile Marine Office, and
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924. The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, with reference to the engagement of seamen and to agreements made therewith by masters of ships are not affected by the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902. See No. 45 of 1902, s. 26.