Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Interpretation
(1)
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
Definition
“Board” means the National Maritime Board established under section 3 of this Act;
Definition
“employer” includes the shipowner, charterer or operator, the agent of the shipowner, charterer or operator, the master of the ship and the consular officer of a country represented in Singapore who has received permission in writing from the Board to engage seamen, individually or severally, as the case may be;
Definition
“seafarer” means any person normally engaged on articles or agreement on any vessel plying beyond the limits of any port or place declared by the Minister to be a port under the Port of Singapore Authority Act (Cap. 173), and includes masters and apprentices;
Definition
“seamen” means any person normally engaged on ship’s articles on any vessel going beyond the limits of any port, or place declared to be a port, from time to time by the Minister under section 3 of the Port of Singapore Authority Act, except —
masters, mates, engineers, radio officers, pursers, cadets, chinchews, compradores, or any member of the chinchew or compradore staff, laundrymen and stevedores;
probationer deckhands, probationer engineroom hands, and probationer catering hands under any training scheme approved by the Minister; and
any other person employed on board the vessel who is engaged in duties which are not normally the duties of seamen;
Definition
“Singapore Mercantile Marine Fund” means the account kept in the Treasury under that name until the date of the coming into operation of this Act in accordance with the provisions of subsection (8) of section 347 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 172).
(2)
In any written law or any document whatsoever all references to the Singapore Sailors’ Institute, the Seamen’s Registry Board, the Singapore Mariners’ Club, the Seafarers’ Welfare Board and the Seamen’s Lodging-Houses Licensing Authority shall be construed as references to the National Maritime Board constituted under this Act.