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 105: Changes in crew to be reported.
    1[(1)] The master of every foreign-going Indian ship and of every home-trade Indian ship of two hundred tons gross or more, the crew of which has been engaged before a shipping master, shall, before finally leaving the port where the engagement took place, sign and send to the nearest shipping master a full and accurate statement in the prescribed form, of every change which has taken place in his crew, and that statement shall be admissible in evidence.
     2[(2) A copy of the statement referred to in sub-section (1) shall also be sent to the seaman's employment office concerned.]
Notes:
1. Section 105 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 41 of 1984, s. 6 (w.e.f. 15-7-1985).
2. Ins. Act 41 of 1984, by s. 6 (w.e.f. 15-7-1985).
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