Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Chapter IV : Engagement, Discharge, Repatriation, Payment, Discipline and General Treatment of Seafarers and Cadets

110. Employment of children on ships prohibited
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The owner or master of a South African ship, or of a ship which is not registered in the Republic and is wholly engaged in plying between ports in the Republic, shall not knowingly take into employment or keep in employment or permit the employment of any person under the age of sixteen years in any 45 capacity on board the ship.

 

[Section 110 substituted by section 8 of Act No. 12 of 2015]