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 128: Payment of wages before shipping master.
    (1) Where a seaman is discharged in India before a shipping master, the shall receive his wages through, or in the presence of, the shipping master unless a competent Court otherwise directs.
     (2) If the master or owner of a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross so desires the seamen of that ship may receive their wages in the same manner as seamen discharged from a foreigngoing ship, or from a home-trade ship of two hundred tons gross or more.
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