Section 112
Maintenance of list or register of young persons in a ship.
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.
There shall be included in
every agreement with the crew of every Indian ship and every other ship which engages young
persons in India, a list of young persons who are members of the crew, together with particulars of the
dates of their birth, and, in the case of any such ship where there is no agreement, the master shall
keep a register of young persons with particulars of the dates of their birth and of the dates on which
they became or ceased to be members of the crew.