Singapore legislation
Regulation 6
of Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Repatriation) Regulations 2014
Regulation 6
Shipowner to bear supplementary costs
The provisions to be made by a shipowner in accordance with regulations 3 and 4 shall include —
(a)
the payment of expenses incurred in bringing a seafarer ashore and maintaining him until he is brought ashore; and
(b)
the payment of expenses of the burial or cremation of a seafarer who dies before he can be repatriated to a 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 or the expenses of returning the seafarer’s body to his home.