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(2) All expenses incidental to the apprehension and confinement of any seaman or apprentice under this section shall be payable by the master of the ship to which such seaman or apprentice belongs and be recoverable from him as a debt due to the Crown. The subsistence money for every such seaman or apprentice confined in prison shall be paid in advance to the Commissioner of Correctional Services, and in default of such payment the Commissioner of Correctional Services may release such seaman or apprentice: (Amended, 13 of 1966, Schedule and L.N. 30/82)
Provided that every seaman or apprentice imprisoned under this section may by direction of the committing magistrate be sent on board his ship or may be placed at the disposal of the consular officer at whose request he dealt with the case on the written application of such officer either on or before the expiration of his term of imprisonment.
PART V
HEALTH AND ACCOMMODATION, AND PROPERTY OF DECEASED SEAMEN
17. (1) The owner, agent or master of every British ship navigating between Colony and any place out of the same shall cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines and medical stores, in accordance with the scale appropriate to such ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores
Ship to carry medicines, medical stores, etc., in accordance with scale.
issued by the Minister, and a copy of the book or books so issued containing instructions for dispensing the same, and also a sufficient quantity of anti-scorbutics to be served out to the crew of proper quality and in accordance with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Acts.
(2) The owner, agent or master of any such ship who wilfully refuses or neglects to provide and keep on board such medicines, medical stores, books of instructions and anti-scorbutics as are by this section required shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended, 17 of 1965, s. 9 and 73 of 1974, s. 12)
Pr. Act, s. 202.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Port Health Officer to inspect the medicines, medical stores and anti-scorbutics of any British ship navigating between Colony and any place out of the same, and if such articles are deficient in quantity or quality or are placed in improper containers he shall give notice to the master of the ship and to the Director who shall before granting a clearance to such ship require a certificate from the Port Health Officer that the default has been remedied, and if such certificate is not produced the ship shall be detained until the certificate is produced.
18. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to the crew accommodation to be provided in ships registered in Hong Kong.
Regulations as to crew accommodation. [cf 1970 c. 36, s. 20.]
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