Section 117
Power to board ships and master seamen.
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.
For the purpose of preventing seamen
from being taken on board any ship at any port in India contrary to the provisions of this Act,
any shipping master or deputy or assistant shipping master or any director, deputy director or
assistant director of the seamen's employment office, may enter at any time on hoard any
such ship upon which he has reason to believe that seamen have been shipped, and may
muster and examine the several seamen employed therein.