Singapore legislation
Regulation 2
Regulation 2
Definitions
Subregulation 1
In these Regulations —
Definition
“employer”, in relation to a seaman, means the person who last employed him as a seaman before he was left behind or shipwrecked;
Definition
“master” means the master of the ship in which a seaman was last employed immediately before he was left behind or shipwrecked;
Definition
“time for payment” means the time at which wages due to a seaman under a crew agreement would have become payable to the seaman in accordance with the provisions of the crew agreement —
if the seaman had continued to be employed under the agreement and neither the employer nor the seaman had given notice to terminate the seaman’s employment; and
where the agreement relates to more than one ship, as if it related only to the ship from which the seaman was left behind or shipwrecked.
Subregulation 2
A reference in these Regulations, except in regulations 14 and 15, to a seaman shall include a reference to the master of a ship.