Singapore legislation
Section 179
Section 179
Obligations on owners of pilgrim ships
(1)
Every owner of one or more pilgrim ships, or his agent resident in Singapore, shall be responsible to the Government for the due performance of and compliance with the following obligations in connection with every voyage of a pilgrim ship:
that the master and medical officer or officers shall comply with this Act and the rules thereunder;
that in case the pilgrimage is declared infected, the master will, on the instructions of the British consul at Jeddah, call on his return journey at the Kamaran quarantine station for the purpose of being medically inspected;
that in case any pilgrim provided with a return ticket issued in Singapore within the previous 12 months is detained at Jeddah or Mecca owing to no accommodation being offered by a ship for which his ticket is available for a longer period than 35 days from the Haj day, or in case any such pilgrim who has visited Medina is detained at Jeddah, owing to no accommodation being offered by a ship for which his ticket is available, for a longer period than 20 days from the day on which such pilgrim presents his ticket to the British consul at Jeddah notifying his desire to embark for the return passage, then in any such case the master, owner or agent of the ship which conveyed such pilgrim to Jeddah shall forfeit and pay to the Accountant-General in respect of every such pilgrim any sum which the Accountant-General claims as the cost of repatriating such pilgrim, but not exceeding double the whole sum received by such master, owner or agent in respect of such return ticket;
that in case any such pilgrim is detained for a longer period than that which is permitted by paragraph (c), then in such case the master, owner or agent of the ship which conveyed the pilgrim to Jeddah shall pay to the British consul at Jeddah a sum equivalent to $1 a day as subsistence allowance for each such pilgrim until the pilgrim has had an opportunity of being conveyed back to Singapore:Provided always that such 35 or 20 days shall not begin to run so long as the port of Jeddah is declared infected, nor so long as the ship is prevented from carrying pilgrims on the homeward voyage by war disturbance, or vis major of any kind.
(2)
In case the ship is prevented for a period of more than 20 or 35 days, as the case may be, by any of the above causes from carrying such pilgrims on the homeward voyage, the master, owner or agent of that ship may pay to every such pilgrim, or to the Accountant-General on his behalf, a sum equal to one-half of the full passage money paid in respect of such pilgrim, and thereupon all liability of the master, owner or agent in respect of the return journey of such pilgrim shall cease.
(3)
A certificate of such detention purporting to be signed and sealed with the consular seal by the British consul at Jeddah shall be admissible in evidence of all the facts stated therein, and shall be received in evidence without proof of signature in any court of Singapore or in any arbitration.[196