Section 216: Penalty for harboring deserters.––If a person wilfully harbours or secrets any officer, — Pakistan Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 2001

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216. Penalty for harboring deserters.––If a person wilfully harbours or secrets any officer, seaman or apprentice who has wilfully neglected or refused to join or has deserted from his ship, knowing or having reason to believe the officer, seaman or apprentice to have so done, he shall, for each offence, be liable to a fine which may extend to ten thousand.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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Section 215: Penalty for enticing to desert.––If a person by any means whatever persuades or Section 217: Penalties on stowaways and discipline of stowaways and seamen carried under Section 214: Payment of fines imposed under agreement to Shipping Master Section 218: Unauthorised presence on board ship.––Where a ship registered in Pakistan or any Section 213: Decisions of questions for forfeiture and deductions in suits for wages.––Any Section 219: Procedure where officer, seaman or apprentice not shipped in Pakistan is

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