Section 149
Power of Court to rescind contract between master, owner or agent and seaman or apprentice.
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 proceeding is instituted in any court in relation to any dispute between master,
owner or agent of a ship and a seaman or apprentice, arising out of or incidental to their relation as
such, or instituted for the purpose of this section, the court, if having regard to all the circumstances of
the case, it thinks it, just to do so, may rescind any contract between the master, owner or agent and
the seaman or apprentice, upon such terms as the court may think just, and this power shall be in
addition to any other jurisdiction which the court can exercise independently of this section.