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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

156. Provisions of seafarer

[Section 156 heading substituted by section 29(i) of Act No. 12 of 2015]

 

(1) The master of a South African ship of more than one hundred gross register tons shall furnish provisions to every seafarer (who does not furnish his own provisions) in accordance with the prescribed scale.

[Section 156(1) substituted by section 29(e) of Act No. 12 of 2015]

 

(2) [Section 156(2) deleted by section 1(2) of Act No. 114 of 1991]