Singapore legislation
Clause 85
Clause 85
Relief and repatriation of seaman left behind
(1)
Where a person employed as a seaman on a ship is left behind in any country or is taken to any country on being shipwrecked, the person who last employed him as a seaman shall make such provision for his return and for his relief and maintenance as may be required by regulations.
(2)
The regulations to be so made may include the repayment of expenses incurred in bringing a shipwrecked seaman ashore and maintaining him until he is brought ashore and the payment of the expenses of the burial or cremation of a seaman who dies before he can be returned.
(3)
The Minister may make regulations providing for the manner in which any wages due to any person left behind or taken to any country as mentioned in subsection (1) and any property of his left on board the ship are to be dealt with.
(4)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsections (1), (2) and (3), regulations made under this section may make provision —
for requiring the master of any ship to convey a person to a place determined in accordance with the regulations and for enabling the Director to give the master directions for that purpose;
for the making of payments in respect of the conveyance of a person in accordance with the regulations; and
for the keeping of records and the rendering of accounts.
(5)
This section shall also apply to a person left behind on being discharged in pursuance of section 55, whether or not at the time he is left behind the ship is still registered in Singapore.