Section 85

any seamen or apprentices, whether British subjects or not, are found in any place in Singapore, and have been shipwrecked from any British ship or any of Her Majesty’s ships, or by reason of having been discharged or left behind from any such ship in any place in Singapore are in distress in that place; or

any seamen or apprentices being British subjects, who have been engaged by any person acting either as principal or agent to serve in a ship belonging to the Government or to a subject or citizen of a foreign country, are in distress in any place in Singapore,the Minister or any person acting under his authority may, in accordance with and on the conditions prescribed by the Distressed Seamen Regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Act 1906 [U.K. 1906 c. 48], provide in accordance with that Act for the return of those seamen or apprentices, who are in this Act included in the term “distressed seamen”, to a proper return port within the meaning of Part IV of the Merchant Shipping Act 1906 and also provide for their necessary clothing and their maintenance until their departure for such a port, and, in addition, in the case of shipwrecked seamen or apprentices for the repayment of any expenses incurred in their conveyance to port after their shipwreck, and their maintenance while being so conveyed.