Section 94

If any of the expenses attendant on the illness, hurt or injury of a seaman or apprentice, which are to be paid under this Act or under the Merchant Shipping Acts by the master or owner, are paid by any British consular officer or other person on behalf of the Government, or if any other expenses in respect of the illness, hurt or injury of any seaman or apprentice, whose wages are not accounted for under this Act or under the Merchant Shipping Acts to that officer, are so paid, those expenses shall be repaid to the officer or other person by the master or owner of the ship.

If the expenses are not so repaid, the amount thereof shall with costs be a charge upon the ship, and be recoverable from the master or from the owner of the ship for the time being, or where the ship has been lost, from the person who was the owner of the ship at the time of the loss, or, where the ship has been transferred to some person not being a British subject, either from the owner for the time being or from the person who was the owner of the ship at the time of the transfer, as a debt to the Government, either under the Government Proceedings Act [Cap. 121] or in the same court and manner in which wages of seamen may be recovered under this Act.

In any proceeding for such recovery, a certificate of the facts, signed by the said officer or other person, together with such vouchers, if any, as the case requires, shall be sufficient proof that the said expenses were duly paid by that officer or other person.[108