Section 167
Power to make rules with respect to distressed 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.
The Central Government may
make rules with respect to the relief, maintenance and return to a proper return port of seamen found
in distress in any place out of India and with respect to the circumstances in which and the conditions
subject to which, seamen may be relieved and provided with passages under this Part, and generally to
carry out the provisions of this Part relating to distressed seamen.