Section 126
Disrating of 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.
(1) Where the master of a ship disrates a seaman, he shall forthwith
enter of cause to be entered in the official log book, a statement of the disrating, and furnish the
seaman with a copy of the entry; and any reduction of wages consequent on the disrating shall not
take effect until the entry has been so made and the copy so furnished.
(2) Any reduction of wage's consequent on the disrating of a seaman shall be deemed to be a deduction from wages within the meaning of sections 125 and 127.
(2) Any reduction of wage's consequent on the disrating of a seaman shall be deemed to be a deduction from wages within the meaning of sections 125 and 127.