Singapore legislation
Section 112
Section 112
Obligation of shipowner to crew with respect to use of reasonable efforts to secure seaworthiness
(1)
In every contract of service, express or implied, between the owner of a ship or the person employing the crew members and any crew member thereof, there is implied, despite any agreement to the contrary, an obligation on the owner of the ship that the owner of the ship and the master and every agent charged with the loading of the ship or the preparing of the ship for sea or the sending of the ship to sea must use all reasonable means to ensure the seaworthiness of the ship for the voyage at the time when the voyage commences, and to keep her in a seaworthy condition for the voyage during the voyage.
(2)
Nothing in this section —
is to subject the owner of a ship to any liability by reason of the ship being sent to sea in an unseaworthy state where, owing to special circumstances, the sending of the ship to sea in such a state was reasonable and justifiable; or
applies to any ship employed exclusively in trading or going from place to place in any river or inland water of which the whole or part thereof is in Singapore.