33. Certificate as to agreement with crew of home-trade or local-trade ships
Feedback & supportThe master or owner of a home-trade ship or local-trade ship shall, within 21 days after the expiration of any agreement with the crew or within 48 hours of her next arrival in Singapore, deliver or transmit the agreement to the Superintendent.
master
“master” includes every person, except a pilot, having command or charge of any ship;
The Superintendent, on receiving such agreement, shall give the master or owner of the ship a certificate to that effect, and the ship shall be detained unless the certificate is produced at the office of the Director before the master proceeds to sea.
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;
Any master or owner who fails without reasonable cause to comply with this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for each offence to a fine not exceeding $100.[46
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;