Section 105
Changes in crew to be reported.
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.
1[(1)] The master of every foreign-going Indian ship and
of every home-trade Indian ship of two hundred tons gross or more, the crew of which has been
engaged before a shipping master, shall, before finally leaving the port where the engagement took
place, sign and send to the nearest shipping master a full and accurate statement in the prescribed
form, of every change which has taken place in his crew, and that statement shall be admissible in
evidence.
2[(2) A copy of the statement referred to in sub-section (1) shall also be sent to the seaman's employment office concerned.]
2[(2) A copy of the statement referred to in sub-section (1) shall also be sent to the seaman's employment office concerned.]
Notes
1. Section 105 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 41 of 1984, s. 6 (w.e.f. 15-7-1985).
2. Ins. Act 41 of 1984, by s. 6 (w.e.f. 15-7-1985).
2. Ins. Act 41 of 1984, by s. 6 (w.e.f. 15-7-1985).