528
No. 10 of 1893.
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12
No. 10 of 1899.
[«. 5 Contd.]
No seaman to be discharged without sanIC-
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
whole of the fees hereby made payable in respect of auch engage. ment or discharge, and may, for the purpose of in part reimbursing himself, deduct in respect of each such engagement or discharge from the wages of all persons (except apprentices) so engaged or dis- charged and retain any sums not exceeding the sums specified in that behalf in Table J in the schedule: Provided that if in any case the sum which the master is so entitled to deduct exceeds the amount of the fee payable by him, such excese shall be paid by him to the Superintendent in addition to such fee.
(7)-(a) No master shall discharge in this Colony any seaman from any ship, British or foreign, without the sanction of the Lion and due Harbour Master or of the consular officer, if any, representing the provision for Quintenauce. nation to which such ship belongs, and unless due provision is made for the subsistence and maintenance of such seeman, to the satis- faction of the Harbour Master in the case of a British ship or of a foreign ship whose flag is not represented in the Colony by a consular officer, or to the satisfaction of such consular officer in the case of a foreign ship whose flag is so represented; and any master dis- charging a seaman in contravention of this sub-section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
Penalty on
seaman for wrongfully
remaining behind.
Place of discharge.
Master to give to
Sesm Lo
(b) Any seaman, being one of the crew of any ship, who wilfully or negligently remains in the Colony after the departure of such ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.
(8) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, be discharged from a British or colonial 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 every seaman discharged from a foreign ship so represented shall, within 24 hours of being discharged at the office of his consular officer, produce to the Harbour Master, or some person deputed by him, a certificate of his discharge, signed by such consular officer, and shall in default be liable to a fine not exceeding.25 dollars and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment without hard labour for any term not exceeding 21 days.
(9) Whenever any seaman is discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office from any ship within the Colony, the master of such ship discharged in shall give, at the time of such discharge, to such seaman a written certificate of discharge, specifying the time and nature of service and the time of discharge of such seaman, signed by himself, and,
the Colony
certificate of
discharge,
and account
of wages.
MERCHANT SHIPPING,
if such seaman requires it, shall further give him, within 24 hours after demand, a true account in writing of the wages of such seaman and of all deductions therefrom.
(10) Any seaman or other person who gives a false description of Penalty his services, or shows, or makes or procures to be made, any false for falso
description character, or makes false statements as to the name of the last ship or statement. in which he served or as to any other information which may be required of him by any person having lawful authority to demand such information, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.
furcing or leaving
Palau On shore.
(11) If the master or any other person belonging to any British Penalty for ship wrongfully forces on shore and leaves behind, or otherwise wil- fully and wrongfully leaves behind, in this Colony any seaman or apprentice belonging to such ship before the completion of the voyage for which such seaman or apprentice was engaged, he shall be liable to fine act exceeding 250 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.
axemption
to arrest on
(12) No seaman who has been actually shipped on board any limited vessel in compliance with this Ordinance shall, during the time for of seman
shipped which he is then shipped, be liable to be arrested on civil process, it unless the debt or demand exceeds the sum of 500 dollars: Pro- Ordinance vided always that by the term "seaman" in this sub-section shall from liability be meant only a person who has, within the space of 6 months sivil proces previously, served on board a ship for wages as a seaman, and that the protection from arrest hereby granted shall not be held to extend to any person not coming within such definition, or in any case to masters, mates, or engineers.
Boarding-houses for Seamen.
regulation of
houses.
6-(1) The Harbour Master shall, with the consent of a Establish- Stipendiary Magistrate, have power to license a sufficient number of went and fit and proper persons to keep boarding-houses for seamen, not being boarding Chinese; and every such licence shall be countersigned by the Colonial Secretary, and shall be granted for such period, not exceeding one year, and on such terms and security, and shall be renewable on such conditions, as the Colonial Secretary may appoint; and it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to demand for every such licence an annual fee of 25 dollars or at the rate thereof, according to the term of such licence; and every such house
Asonended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 10 of 1912,
No. 17 of 1912 and No. 31 of 1012.
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