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

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

173. Soliciting seafarers
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[Section 173 heading substituted by section 29(k) of Act No. 12 of 2015]

 

No person shall within twenty-four hours after the arrival of any ship (wherever registered) at a port in the Republic, or within twenty-four hours before the projected departure therefrom—

(a)solicit a seafarer belonging to the ship to become a lodger at any house; or
(b)take out of the ship any property of a seafarer except under the direction of the seafarer and with the permission of the master.

 

[Section 173 substituted by section 29(d) of Act No. 12 of 2015]