Section 184
Facilities for making complaints.
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.
If a seaman or apprentice states to the master that he
desires to make a complaint to 1[a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or a Metropolitan Magistrate,
as the case may be] or other proper officer against the master or any of the crew, the master shall,--
(a) if the ship is then at a place where there is 1[a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or a Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,] or other proper officer, as soon after such statement as the service of the ship will permit, and
(b) if the ship is not then at such place, as soon after her first arrival at such place as the service of the ship will permit.
allow the complainant to go ashore or send him ashore under proper protection so that he may be enabled to make the complaint.
(a) if the ship is then at a place where there is 1[a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or a Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,] or other proper officer, as soon after such statement as the service of the ship will permit, and
(b) if the ship is not then at such place, as soon after her first arrival at such place as the service of the ship will permit.
allow the complainant to go ashore or send him ashore under proper protection so that he may be enabled to make the complaint.
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 12 of 1983, s. 17 and the Schedule, for "a magistrate" (w.e.f. 18-5-1983).