Singapore legislation

Section 15

of Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) Act 2014

Section 15

Notification of crew list

(1)

A shipowner and the master must notify the Authority, in the prescribed manner, of the details of seafarers who are employed on a ship on the following occasions:

(a)

when the ship is registered, provisionally or otherwise, under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;

(b)

when a seafarer’s employment agreement is entered into with any seafarer;

(c)

when any term of the seafarer’s employment agreement of a seafarer employed on the ship is altered;

(d)

when a seafarer is discharged from the ship.

(2)

Any shipowner or master who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.