Singapore legislation
Section 18
Section 18
Special provisions as to apprenticeship to sea service
(1)
Every indenture of apprenticeship to the sea service shall be executed in duplicate and shall be exempt from stamp duty.
(2)
Every indenture of apprenticeship to the sea service made in Singapore, and every assignment or cancellation thereof, and, where the apprentice bound dies or deserts, the fact of the death or desertion shall be recorded.
(3)
For the purpose of the record —
a person to whom an apprentice to the sea service is bound shall, within 7 days of the execution of the indenture, take or transmit to the Superintendent the indenture executed in duplicate, and the Superintendent shall keep and record the one indenture and endorse on the other the fact that it has been recorded and redeliver it to the master of the apprentice; and
the master shall notify any assignment or cancellation of the indenture or the death or desertion of the apprentice to the Superintendent, within 7 days of the occurrence, if it occurs within Singapore; or, as soon as circumstances permit, if it occurs elsewhere.
(4)
Any person who fails to comply with any requirement of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for each offence to a fine not exceeding $200.[31** Sections 17 to 30 in the 1970 Edition were repealed by Act 38/84.