Section 207
Power to send on board seaman not shipped in India who is undergoing imprisonment.
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 any seaman engaged outside India is imprisoned for any offence for which he has
been sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, and if, during such
imprisonment and before his engagement is at an end, his services are required on board his ship, any
magistrate may, at the request of the master or owner or his agent, cause the seaman to be conveyed
on board the ship for the purpose of proceeding on the voyage or to be delivered to the master or any
mate of the ship or to the owner or his agent to be by them so conveyed, notwithstanding that the
period for which he was sentenced to imprisonment has not terminated.