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

If the balance of wages earned by but not yet payable to a seafarer of a South African ship is more than 50 rand and the seafarer expresses to the master of the ship his desire to have facilities afforded to him for remitting all or any part of the balance to a savings bank, or to a near relative in whose favour an allotment note may be made, the master shall give to the seafarer all reasonable facilities for so doing so far as regards so much of the balance as is in excess of 50 rand, but shall be under no obligation to give those facilities while the ship is in port if the sum will become payable before the ship leaves the port, or otherwise than conditionally upon the seafarer going to sea in the ship.

[Section 128 substituted by section 29(i) of Act No. 12 of 2015]