Act Number: 44

Act Name: The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-10-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 97: Receipt of remuneration, donation, fees, etc., from seamen for shipping them prohibited.
    1[97. Receipt of remuneration, donation, fees, etc., from seamen for shipping them prohibited.--(1) A person or company or organisation including a union purporting to represent the interests of seamen shall not demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any seaman or person seeking employment as seaman or any person on his behalf, any remuneration or donation or fees or compulsory subscription of any kind attributable from such seaman or person's employment as seaman, other than the fees authorised by this Act.
     (2) It shall be the duty of the company employing or proposing to employ person as seaman to ensure that no money has been demanded or received by any person or company or organisation including the union purporting to represent the interests of seamen by way of any remuneration or donation or fees or compulsory subscription of any kind attributable to employment of such person as seaman.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 63 of 2002, s. 5, for section 97 (w.e.f. 1-2-2003).
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