Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 87, 1980 - SECT 29

29. Section 60 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting "engages or discharges a seaman" and substituting "enters into
articles of agreement with a seaman, or discharges a seaman (being a seaman
serving under articles of agreement),"; and

   (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:



"(2) A person who enters into a contract of sea service with a seaman at a
port in Australia, and the employer of a seaman whose contract of sea service
is terminated or otherwise ceases to be in force at a time when the seaman is
in Australia, shall pay to a superintendent at a port such fee as is
prescribed and may deduct from the wages of the seaman such proportion of the
fee as is prescribed.".