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

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

167. Medicines to be provided and kept on board certain ships
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The owner and master of a South African ship of any prescribed class shall ensure that there is on board that ship an adequate supply, according to the prescribed scales, of antiscorbutics and medicines and appliances for the treatment and prevention of diseases and accidents likely to occur at sea and of the prescribed first-aid equipment.

 

[Section 167 substituted by section 2 of Act No. 24 of 1974]