New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 25

25 Body and effects of deceased seafarer

1 Subject to subsection (2), every employer of seafarers on a New Zealand ship shall make suitable arrangements for the body and effects of any seafarer who dies in the course of a voyage, which may include the return of the body to the deceased’s next of kin or the burial or cremation of that body.

2 The employer shall endeavour to ascertain the reasonable wishes of the deceased’s next of kin and shall, where practicable, comply with those wishes.

3 For the purpose of this section, a person’s
"next of kin" may include that person’s civil union partner or de facto partner.

Note: 1952 No 49 s 106(2)

History: Section 25(3): added, on 26 April 2005, by section 7 of the Relationships (Statutory References) Act 2005 (2005 No 3).