Section 134 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1951, is hereby amended—

“(1) A seaman of a South African ship shall not by agreement forfeit his or her lien on the ship for his or her wages, or be deprived of any remedy for the recovery of wages to which in the absence of the agreement he or she would be entitled, or abandon his or her right to wages in the case of the loss of the ship [or abandon any right that he may have or obtain in the nature of salvage] and every stipulation in any agreement with the crew inconsistent with the provisions of this section shall be void.”;

and