Power of Director of Marine to refuse to issue part clearance. and detention of ship, in certuin cases. (14 of 1953).
Supply of
Scatmon by Seamen's Recruiting
Seamen by volunteer Services I Superinten- dent permits.
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(10) Any permission granted by the Superintendent for the purposes of subsection (1) shall be subject to such conditions as the Superin- tendent may specify on the grant thereof.
35. (1) Without prejudice to any provision of the Merchan Shipping Ordinance 1953, the Director of Marine may, for the purposes of this Ordinance, refuse to issue a port clearance in respect of any foreign-going ship if the Superintendent notifies the Director of Marine that he has reason to believe that a seaman who is about to be carried bo sea in that ship may have been recruited, engaged or supplied for service in that ship in contravention of section 34.
(2) If any seaman in any foreign-going strip which is about to leave any port of the Colony has been recruited, engaged or supplied for service in that ship in contravention of section 34, the Director of Marine may detain such ship until he is satisfied that such seaman will not be carried to sea in that ship.
36. (1) A seaman shall not be supplied by the Seamen's Recruit- ing Office for selection for service in a foreign-going ship—
(2) unless his name appears in Part I of the register and he has given notice to the Superintendent under subsection (1) of section 38 that he seeks to be engaged for such service; or (b) If his registration is for the time being suspended under para- graph (1) or (1) of subsection (1) of section 18 or suspended for a further period under subsection (1) of section 29.
(2) The method used in the Seamen's Recruiting Office for mustering seamen whose names appear in Part I of the register to be supplied for selection for service in foreign-going ships shall be such as the Authority may determine after consultation with the Advisory Board.
37. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to require that seamen shall be supplied for selection for service in a foreign-going ship following a muster in accordance with the method determined by the Authority under subsection (2) of section 36 as the method to be used for mustering seamen to be supplied for selection for service in foreign-going ships, and, where the Superintendent thinks fit, he may permit seamen whose names appear in Part I of the register and whose registration is not for the time being suspended under paragraph (1) or (ii) of subsection (1) of section 18 or suspended for a further period under subsection (1) of section 29 to offer themselves for service or for selection for service in any particular post or posts in a foreign-going ship.
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38. (1) When a seaman whose name appears in Part I of the Procedure on register seeks to be engaged through the Seamen's Recruiting Office supply of for service in a foreign-going ship, he shall give notice thereof to the through Superintendent.
Seamen's Recruiting Office. etc..
thun bo umtent cases.
(2) When, according to the method used in the Seamen's Recruit- otherwise ing Office for mustering seamen who have given notice to the Superin- tendent pursuant to subsection (1), a seaman is requested to attend at the Seamen's Recruiting Office to be supplied for selection for service in a foreign-going ship, a notice specifying the date on and time ut which he is required to attend shall be served on bim.
(3) Every seaman supplied by the Seamen's Recruiting Office for selection for service in a foreign-going ship, and every seaman offering himself for selection for service in a foreign-going ship when permitted to do so by the Superintendent under section 37, who is selected for service in that ship shall be issued by the Superintendent with an engagement card in the prescribed form and shall thereupon pay to the Superintendent a fee of four dollars.
(4) If such a seaman who has been selected for service in a foreign-going ship is not for any reason engaged for service in that ship, be shall forthwith return to the Superintendent the engagement card issued to him under subsection (3) and thereupon the fee paid by the seaman pursuant to that subsection shall be refunded to him.
(5) If, notwithstanding that he has given notice to the Superin- tendent under subsection (1) that he seeks to be engaged for service in a foreign-going ship, a seaman intends to take a holiday, he shall give notice thereof to the Superintendent, specifying the days on which he intends to take a holiday.
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Seamen's
39. (1) When a seaman who has been selected for service in a Procedure on foreign-going ship, other than a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship, after he ageman has been supplied for selection for service in that ship by the Seamen's recruited Recruiting Office or after he has offered himself for selection for such through service when permitted to do so by the Superintendent under section 37 Recruiting signs the articles of agreement for service in that ship or enters into any other agreement (including an agreement known as a transit agree ment) for service therein, there shall be produced to the Superintendent han a of the Mercantile Marine Office or the consular officer, as the case may Auxiliary be, at the time the seaman signs the articles of agreement or other agree. ship.
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(a) the engagement card issued to the seaman under subsection (3)
of section 38; and
Office for service in o
ship other
Royal Fleet