Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 1912 - SECT 163

             (1)  In this Division:

"distressed seaman" means a person who, being or having been a seaman, is in distress at a place outside Australia by reason of having been discharged or left behind from, or having been shipwrecked in, a ship.

"seaman" includes master.

             (2)  A reference in this Division to the relief and maintenance of distressed seamen shall be read as including a reference to:

                     (a)  the conveyance of distressed seamen to their proper return ports;

                     (b)  the conveyance of distressed seamen to port after shipwreck and their maintenance while being so conveyed; and

                     (c)  the burial of distressed seamen who die outside Australia.