Section 128
Payment of wages before shipping master.
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 a seaman is discharged in India
before a shipping master, the shall receive his wages through, or in the presence of, the shipping
master unless a competent Court otherwise directs.
(2) If the master or owner of a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross so desires the seamen of that ship may receive their wages in the same manner as seamen discharged from a foreigngoing ship, or from a home-trade ship of two hundred tons gross or more.
(2) If the master or owner of a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross so desires the seamen of that ship may receive their wages in the same manner as seamen discharged from a foreigngoing ship, or from a home-trade ship of two hundred tons gross or more.