Singapore legislation

Section 349

Power of seeing that this Act is complied with

(1)

Where any inspector under this Act or commissioned officer on full pay in the Singapore Armed Forces or the Director has reason to suspect that the provisions of this Act or of any law for the time being in force relating to merchant seamen or navigation are not complied with, that officer may —

(a)

require the owner, master or any of the crew of any British ship to produce any official log-books or other documents relating to the crew or any member thereof in their respective possession or control;

(b)

require any such master to produce a list of all persons on board his ship, and take copies of the official log-books or documents or of any part thereof;

(c)

muster the crew of any such ship; and

(d)

summon the master to appear and give any explanation concerning the ship or her crew or the official log-books or documents produced or required to be produced.

(2)

Any person who, on being duly required by an officer authorised under this section, fails without reasonable cause to produce to that officer any such official log-book or document as he is required to produce under this section, or who refuses to allow the same to be inspected or copied, or impedes any muster of the crew required under this section, or refuses or neglects to give any explanation which he is required under this section to give, or knowingly misleads or deceives any officer authorised under this section to demand any such explanation, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for each offence to a fine not exceeding $400.[386

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