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

Chapter IX : Offences, Penal Provisions and Legal Procedure

326. Appropriation of wages to satisfy award of compensation in offences against discipline

 

When a seafarer has been convicted of desertion as defined by section 175 or of absence without leave as defined by section 176 or of contravening any of the provisions of section 174(1), (2) or (3), and the court trying the case has made an award of compensation under section 300 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 any wages that have accrued or that may thereafter accrue to him may be applied to the satisfaction of the award.

 

[Section 326 substituted by section 29(d) of Act No. 12 of 2015]