Section 91
Assistance for apprenticeship to sea service.
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.
All shipping masters shall give to persons
desirous of apprenticing 1[young persons not under the age of sixteen years] to sea service or requiring
apprentices not under that age for the sea service such assistance as may be in their power, and may
receive from those persons such fees as the Central Government may fix.
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 32 of 2014, s. 4, for "boys not under fifteen years of age" (w.e.f. 1-4-2015).