Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 87, 1980 - SECT 44

44. Section 80 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:



"(a) Where the settlement of a seaman's wages is completed before a proper
authority at a port, the seaman and the master or owner, or, in the case of a
seaman who served under a contract of sea service, the employer, or a person
acting on behalf of the master, owner or employer, shall, in the presence of
the proper authority, sign, in the prescribed form or in a form approved by
the Minister by instrument in writing, a mutual release of all claims in
respect of the past engagement or service, other than any claim by the seaman
against the master or owner, or against the employer, as the case may be,
that, by a note entered upon the release, is excepted from the release."; and

(b) by inserting in paragraph (c) "or service" after "engagement".