Clause 1
Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Seamen’s Registry Board (Amendment) Act, 1968, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
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Seamen’s Registry Board (Amendment) Bill is Singapore Bill, cited as Bill 42 1968, currently marked not in force and first recorded in 1968.
Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Seamen’s Registry Board (Amendment) Act, 1968, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
Amendment of section 2
Section 2 of the Seamen’s Registry Board Ordinance, 1957, is hereby amended by deleting the definition of “seaman” appearing therein and substituting therefor the following: —“ “seaman” means any person normally engaged on ship’s articles on any ship going beyond the limits of any port, or place declared to be a port, from time to time by order of the President under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Cap. 207), except —
masters, mates, engineers, radio officers, pursers, cadets, chinchews, compradores, or any member of the chinchew or compradore staff, laundrymen and stevedores; and
probationer deckhands, probationer engine-room hands, probationer catering hands under any training scheme approved by the Minister;”.
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