1986 Ed.
Merchant Shipping
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(3) The Governor may order the repayment out of the general revenue of all sums expended under the provisions of the said Acts by the United Kingdom Government or by the Shipwrecked Mariners Society or by the Government of any country of the Commonwealth, or by any British consular officer in any foreign country, in and about the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, and such sums shall be refunded in such manner as the Governor may think fit or as a Secretary of State may direct.
14A. (1) Except with the permission of the master of the ship, no seaman who has been lawfully discharged from his ship shall be or remain on board the ship.
(2) Any seaman who, having been lawfully discharged from his ship, does not leave the ship on being requested so to do by the master may be removed from the ship by an authorized officer.
(3) In this section "authorized officer" means any police officer of the rank of inspector or above and any officer of the Marine Department of the rank of Assistant Marine Officer or above.
(Added, 9 of 1973, s. 2)
PART IV
DESERTION AND OTHER OFFENCES
15. (1) If any seaman or apprentice belonging to the crew of any British ship deserts therefrom or absents himself from his duty while the ship is within the waters of the Colony, it shall be lawful for any police officer, or for the master or person in charge of the ship, or for any one specially deputed by such master or person in charge, to arrest such seaman or apprentice without warrant and convey him before a magistrate, and in case such seaman or apprentice refuses to return to his duty on board the ship or does not give a sufficient reason for such refusal, the magistrate may order such seaman or apprentice to be put forcibly on board the ship or to be confined in any prison or other place of security within the Colony for any period until he can be put on board the ship when the ship leaves the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship:
Provided that the said period of confinement shall not in the absence of such departure or demand exceed 3 months.
If any seaman or apprentice deserts when within the waters of the Colony from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the principal Act shall apply, any court, justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may on information given upon oath issue a warrant for his apprehension, and on proof of the
Removal of discharged seamen.
Apprehension and detention of seamen who desert, etc.
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