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

Chapter IV : Engagement, Discharge, Repatriation, Payment, Discipline and General Treatment of Seafarers and Cadets

127. Disrating of seafarer

 

(1) Whenever the master of a South African ship disrates a seafarer he shall forthwith enter or cause to be entered in the official log-book a statement of the disrating and furnish the seafarer with a copy of the entry, and any reduction of wages consequent on the disrating shall not take effect until the entry has been so made and the copy so furnished.

[Section 127(1) substituted by section 29(i) of Act No. 12 of 2015]

 

(2) Any reduction of wages consequent on the disrating of a seafarer shall be deemed to be a deduction from wages within the meaning of section one hundred and twenty-one.

[Section 127(1) substituted by section 29(i) of Act No. 12 of 2015]