TNAG-2299-FCO40-3327-Hong-Kong-international-labour-conventions-1991 — Page 57

Main Provisions

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Application in Hong Kong

Article 5

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The expenses of repatriation shall include the transportation charges, the accommodation and the food of the seamen during the journey. They shall also include the maintenance of the seaman up to the time fixed for his departure.

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nen a seaman is repatriated as member of a crew, he shall be entitled to remuneration for work done during the voyage.

Under Section 186(2) of the Merchant Shipping ot 1894, repatriation of a seaman whore service terminates at any port outside the dritish domain includes maintenance of the seaman and transportation charges. Section 207 of the same act provides that the expenses of bringing a seaman who has sustained injury in the service of the slap ock to a port of the United Kingdom to be borne, ship shall include the expenses of maintenance an conveyanc“. Section 193(1) further provides that the expenses of giving relief to a distressed seaman left behind abroe include mainterance, clothing and conveyance home.

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Section 186(2) stipulates that employment should be adequate when a seaman is repatriated as member of a crow, Under section 155, a seaman's right to wages shall begin at the time when he commences work, or at the time specified in the agreement for his commencement of work, or presence on bord whichever comes first.

Article 6

The public authority of the country in which the vessel is registered shall be responsible for cupervising the repatriation of any member of the crey in cases where this Convention applies, whatever may be his nationality, and whce necessary for giving him his exrenses in advance.

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Section 191 of the Merchant Shipping Let 13334 provides for the supervision of repatriation of seamen. The authority shall put a distressed seamen of any nationality, discharged or left behind abroad, on board a British ship bound either to the United Kingdom or to

a place in the British dowain to which the seaman belongs. The authority may also provide for the maintenance of the seaman until a passage home can be procured and the authority will be paid for the expenses incurred.

The authorities are governors of British possessions, British consular officers, other British officers in foreign countries, and in places where there are no such officers, any two resident merchants or if there is only one, that merchant.