Merchant Shipping Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Crew Matters
75. Expenses of medical treatment, etc., during voyage
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If a seaman, while employed on a ship, receives any surgical or medical treatment or such dental or optical treatment (including the repair or replacement of any appliance) as cannot be postponed without impairing efficiency, the reasonable expenses thereof must be borne by the person employing the seaman, and if the seaman dies while so employed and is buried or cremated outside his or her port of return, the expenses of his or her burial or cremation or the return of the body to his or her home must also be borne by that person.
seaman
“seaman” includes every person employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of the ship, other than —(a)the master of the ship;(b)a pilot; or(c)a person temporarily employed on the ship in port;
A compensation is payable by the person employing a seaman for the death of or injury to the seaman employed on a Singapore ship who is not covered under the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 or the Work Injury Compensation Act (Cap. 354, 2009 Revised Edition) repealed by that Act and such compensation must not be less than that provided under that Act.
Singapore ship
“Singapore ship” means a ship registered, provisionally or otherwise, under Part 2 and its registry is not closed or deemed to be closed or suspended under that Part;