Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 87, 1980 - SECT 15

15. After section 45C of the Principal Act the following section is inserted
in Division 7A of Part II: Application of Division to contracts of sea service

"45D. This Division applies in relation to the entering into, at a port in
Australia, by a seaman of a contract of sea service as if the entering into of
that contract were the engagement, at that port, of the seaman to be entered
on board a ship to which section 45A applies, and, for the purposes of that
application-

   (a)  the reference in sub-section 45A (1) to an engagement to which section
        47 applies shall be read as a reference to an engagement to which sub-
        section 47A (7) applies;

   (b)  the reference in sub-section 45A (4) to an agreement shall be read as
        a reference to a contract of sea service; and

   (c)  the reference in sub-section 45A (11) to the attesting by a
        superintendent of an agreement between a seaman and a master
        under section 46 shall be read as a reference to the attesting by
        the superintendent at the port of a contract of sea service between an
        employer and a seaman under section 47A.".