24. Transfer of employees to Board
Feedback & supportUpon the commencement of this Act, such persons who were employed by the Seamen’s Registry Board, the Seafarers’ Welfare Board, the Singapore Mariners’ Club Committee, the Singapore Sailors’ Institute Committee and the Seamen’s Lodging-Houses Licensing Authority immediately prior to the commencement of this Act and were exercising any of the powers or were discharging any of the functions vested in the Board by this Act, shall be deemed to be transferred to the service of the Board on terms not less favourable than those they enjoyed immediately prior to their transfer and such terms (which shall be determined by the Board) shall take into account the salaries and conditions of service including accrued rights to leave enjoyed by them while in the employment of those bodies.
seamen
“seamen” means any person normally engaged on ship’s articles on any vessel going beyond the limits of any port, or place declared to be a port, from time to time by the Minister under section 3 of the Port of Singapore Authority Act, except —(a)masters, mates, engineers, radio officers, pursers, cadets, chinchews, compradores, or any member of the chinchew or compradore staff, laundrymen and stevedores;(b)probationer deckhands, probationer engineroom hands, and probationer catering hands under any training scheme approved by the Minister; and(c)any other person employed on board the vessel who is engaged in duties which are not normally the duties of seamen.