Singapore legislation
Regulation 11
of Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Repatriation) Regulations 2014
Regulation 11
Conveyance orders and directions
Subregulation 1
Where a seafarer to whom these Regulations apply is in distress and is willing to enter into an undertaking to work on board any ship for his conveyance in lieu of pay, the Director may —
by means of a conveyance order in writing require the master or shipowner of a ship to convey the seafarer from any place specified in the order to such other place so specified as lies on a reasonable route between the place specified in the order and the destination referred to in section 23(6) of the Act in accordance with the seafarer’s choice, if any, under section 23(7) of the Act; and
give to the master or shipowner of that ship such directions as may be necessary for the purpose of that requirement,and more than one such order may be made in the course of the seafarer’s return.
Subregulation 2
A master or shipowner shall not be required under paragraph (1) to convey a seafarer in his ship or obey any direction given for the purpose of the requirement —
if any provision of a written law or an instrument would be infringed by reason of that seafarer being conveyed in his ship in addition to the other persons carried in his ship;
if his ship would be required to go to any place to which it would not otherwise go in the course of the voyage then being undertaken or about to be undertaken;
if, by reason of compliance with such requirement or direction, his ship would be unreasonably delayed; or
if the master has other reasonable cause for objecting to the requirement or direction, as the case may be.