Merchant Shipping Act : Changes in crew to be reported. Indian Bare Acts :

Merchant Shipping Act,1958

Act No : 44

Section : Changes in crew to be reported.

105. Changes in crew to be reported. 1*[(1)] The master of every foreign-going Indian ship and of every home-trade Indian ship of two hundred tons gross or more, the crew of which has been engaged before a shipping master, shall, before --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. S. 105 re-numbered as sub-section (1) by Act 41 of 1984, s. 6 (w.e.f. 15.7.1985). 456 finally leaving the port where the engagement took place, sign and send to the nearest shipping master a full and accurate statement in the prescribed form, of every change which has taken place in his crew, and that statement shall be admissible in evidence. 1*[(2) A copy of the statement referred to in sub-section (1) shall also be sent to the seamen's employment office concerned.]