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

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

115. Entries and certificates of desertion outside the Republic
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(1)In every case of desertion from a South African ship at a port outside the Republic, the master shall as soon as possible after the event produce the entry of the desertion in the official logbook to a proper officer, and shall request that officer to make and certify a copy of such entry, and the proper officer shall, in the absence of reasonable cause to the contrary, comply with that request.

 

(2)The certified copy made in terms of subsection (1) shall be transmitted by the master to the proper officer at the port where the agreement was entered into and shall be admissible in evidence.

[Section 115(2) substituted by section 11 of  Act No. 3 of 1982]