Section 219: Procedure where officer, seaman or apprentice not shipped in Pakistan is

219. Procedure where officer, seaman or apprentice not shipped in Pakistan is imprisoned on complaint of master.—(1) If any officer, seaman or apprentice who is not shipped in Pakistan is imprisoned on complaint made by, or on behalf of the master or owner of the ship for any offence for which he has been sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month, then— (a) while such imprisonment lasts, no person shall, without the previous sanction in writing of the Federal Government or of such officer as it may appoint in this behalf, engage any citizen of Pakistan to serve as an officer, a seaman or an apprentice on board such ship; and (b) the Federal Government or such officer as it may appoint in this behalf may tender such officer, seaman or apprentice to the master or owner of the ship in which he is engaged to serve, and may, if such master or owner, without assigning reasons satisfactory to the Federal Government or to such officer as aforesaid, refuses to receive on board any officer: seaman or apprentice so tendered, require the master or owner to deposit in the local Shipping Office— (i) the wages due to such officer, seaman or apprentice and his money and effects; and (ii) such sum as may, in the opinion of the Federal Government or such officer as aforesaid, be sufficient to defray the cost of the passage of such officer or seaman or apprentice to the port at which he was shipped according to the scale of costs usual in the case of distressed seaman. (2) If any person wilfully disobeys the prohibition contained in clause (a) of sub- section (1), he shall be liable to a fine which may extend to five thousand rupees. (3) If any master or owner refuses or neglects to deposit any wages, money, effects or sum when so required under clause (b) of sub-section (1), he shall be liable to a fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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