Singapore legislation

Clause 6

of Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Amendment) Bill

Clause 6

Amendment of section 34

Section 34 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(3A) Where an approved financial security provider has made any payment to a seafarer under a contract of insurance or other financial security mentioned in subsection (2) for a liability arising from a shipowner’s obligation to repatriate a seafarer, any right which the seafarer has (or but for that payment would have had) against the shipowner as a result of the liability is, with respect to the amount of payment made, transferred to and vested in the approved financial security provider.”.

Clause 6 — Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Amendment) Bill