Section 131
Master to give facilities to seaman for remitting wages.
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.
Where a seaman expresses to
the master of the ship his desire to have facilities afforded to him for remitting any part of the balance
of the wages due to him to a savings bank or to a near relative, the master shall give to the seaman all
reasonable facilities for so doing so far as regards so much of the balance as is within the limits, if
any, specified in this behalf by the Central Government, but shall be under no obligation to give those
facilities while the ship is in port if the sum will become payable before the ship leaves port or
otherwise than conditionally on the seaman going to sea in the ship.