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

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

187. Documents to be handed over to successor on change of master
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If, at any time before or during the progress of a voyage, the master of a South African ship is removed or superseded, or, for any other reason, quits the ship and is succeeded in the command by some other person, he shall deliver to his successor the various documents in his custody relating to the navigation of the ship and to the crew, and his successor shall immediately on assuming the command of the ship enter in the official log-book a list of the documents so delivered to him.