131. Penalty on Superintendent, etc., taking other remuneration
Feedback & supportIf the Superintendent or any Deputy Superintendent, Port Health Officer, Deputy Port Health Officer, or any clerk or employee in the Mercantile Marine Office or any Mercantile Marine Sub-Office demands or receives, except as provided by this Act, any remuneration whatever, either directly or indirectly, for hiring or supplying any seamen for a ship or transacting any business which it is his duty to transact, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for every such offence to a fine not exceeding $400, and also to dismissal from his office.[148** Sections 146 and 147 in the 1970 Edition were repealed by Act 38/84.
Superintendent
“Superintendent” means the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office referred to in section 26 and includes any deputy superintendent appointed under that section, or, if the context so requires, any superintendent appointed under the Merchant Shipping Acts;