Section 111
Medical examination of young persons.
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) Save as otherwise provided in
sub-section (2), no young person shall be engaged or carried to sea to work in any capacity in any
ship, unless there has been delivered to the master a certificate granted by a prescribed authority that
the young person is physically fit to be employed in that capacity.
(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply,--
(a) to the employment of a young person in a ship in which all persons employed are members of one family; or
(b) where the shipping master, on the ground of urgency, has authorised a young person to be engaged and carried to sea, without the certificate required by sub-section (1) being delivered to the master, and the young person is not employed beyond the first port at which the ship in which he is so engaged calls except in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1).
(3) A certificate of physical fitness required under this section shall remain in force for one year only from the date on which it is granted.
(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply,--
(a) to the employment of a young person in a ship in which all persons employed are members of one family; or
(b) where the shipping master, on the ground of urgency, has authorised a young person to be engaged and carried to sea, without the certificate required by sub-section (1) being delivered to the master, and the young person is not employed beyond the first port at which the ship in which he is so engaged calls except in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1).
(3) A certificate of physical fitness required under this section shall remain in force for one year only from the date on which it is granted.