Singapore legislation
Schedule 4
Schedule 4
Modifications applicable to seafarers
FOURTH SCHEDULERegulation 26Modifications applicable to seafarers
1. Where an accident happens on board a ship and the incapacity of a seafarer injured in the accident (who is not the master of the ship) commences while the seafarer is on board the ship, the seafarer does not need to give any notice of the accident.
2. The seafarer’s employer is deemed to have notice of an accident in respect of a seafarer (who is not the master of the ship) for the purposes of the Act when the master of the ship is informed of the accident or has knowledge of the accident by any other means.
3. Where the master of the ship or a seafarer injured in an accident has died, section 35(5) of the Act is modified by substituting the following provision:“(5) Where the master of the ship or a seafarer injured in an accident has died, the claim under the Act in respect of the master or seafarer (as the case may be) is deemed to be withdrawn if the seafarer’s employer does not have notice of the accident —
within 6 months after the news of the death is received by the person making the claim in respect of the master or seafarer; or
where the ship has been or is deemed to have been lost with all hands, within 18 months after the date on which the ship was or is deemed to have been so lost.”.