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

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

Purchase

(1)	No person shall twenty-four hours after the arrival of a South African ship at its final port of destination of a voyage make any entry in the official log-book of that ship respecting an occurrence prior to the arrival of the ship at that port.

(2)	No person shall wilfully destroy or mutilate or render illegible an entry in an official log book, or wilfully make a false entry in such book, or wilfully fail to make any entry which it is his duty to make in such book.