Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)Chapter IV : Engagement, Discharge, Repatriation, Payment, Discipline and General Treatment of Seafarers and Cadets165. Compensation if short or bad provisions furnished |
| (1) | If the allowance of any of the provisions which the master of a South African ship is by section one hundred and fifty-six required to furnish is reduced, or any of those provisions are bad in quality, the seafarer may recover by way of compensation for that reduction or bad quality an amount which the court or the proper officer, as the case may be, considers reasonable, having regard to all the circumstances. |
[Section 165(1) substituted by section 29(d) of Act No. 12 of 2015]
| (2) | Any amount recoverable in terms of subsection (1) may be recovered as wages. |