Section 100
Agreements with crew.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
The master of every Indian ship, except a home-trade ship of less
than two hundred tons gross, shall enter into an agreement (in this Act called the agreement with the
crew) in accordance with this Act with every seaman whom he engages in, and carries to sea as one of
his crew from any port in India.