Merchant Shipping Act : Payment of wages before shipping master. Indian Bare Acts :

Merchant Shipping Act,1958

Act No : 44

Section : Payment of wages before shipping master.

128. Payment of wages before shipping master. (1) Where a seaman is discharged in India before a shipping master, he shall receive his wages through, or in the presence of, the shipping master unless a competent court otherwise directs. (2) If the master or owner of a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross so desires, the seamen of that ship may receive their wages in the same manner as seamen discharged from a foreign- going ship, or from a home-trade ship of two hundred tons gross or more.