30. Special provisions as to agreement with crew of home-trade or local-trade ships
Feedback & supportThis section shall have effect with respect to the agreements with the crew of home-trade or local-trade ships for which an agreement with the crew is required under this Act:
agreements may be made either for the service in a particular ship or for service in two or more ships belonging to the same owner, but in the latter case the names of the ships and the nature of the service shall be specified in the agreement;
ship
“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars;
crew or single seamen shall be engaged before the Superintendent in the same manner as they are required to be engaged for foreign-going ships, and section 29(d) with regard to substitutes shall apply;
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;
an agreement for service in two or more ships belonging to the same owner may be made by the owner instead of by the master; and the provisions of this Act with respect to the making of the agreement shall apply accordingly;
owner
“owner”, used in relation to goods, means every person who is for the time being entitled, either as owner or agent for the owner, to the possession of the goods, subject in the case of a lien, if any, to that lien;
agreements shall not be for a longer period than 6 months, or the first arrival of the ship at her final port of destination in Singapore after the expiration of the period, or the discharge of cargo consequent on that arrival:Provided that the owner or his agent may enter into time agreements in forms sanctioned by the Minister with individual seamen to serve in any one or more ships belonging to that owner, and those agreements need not expire at the time of the ship’s agreement with the crew.[43