Merchant Shipping Act : Deserters not to be harboured. Indian Bare Acts :

Merchant Shipping Act,1958

Act No : 44

Section : Deserters not to be harboured.

204. Deserters not to be harboured. No person shall harbour or secrete a seaman or apprentice who has wilfully neglected or refused to join or has deserted from his ship, knowing or having reason to believe the seaman or apprentice to have so done; 1*[Provided that the provisions of this section shall not extend to the case in which the harbour or secreting is by the spouse of the seaman or apprentice.]