Regulations > Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Documents) Regulations, 2000

(1)	Every master who contravenes regulation 5 or 6 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months.

(2)	Every owner or master who contravenes regulation 8 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.

(3)	It shall be a defence for a person charged in terms of these regulations to show that he or she took all reasonable steps and used all due diligence to avoid commission of the offence.

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