Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 1912 - SECT 75A

             (1)  Where the wages of a seaman are payable at a rate per month, a month shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be:

                     (a)  the period from and including a day in one calendar month to and including the day before the numerically corresponding day in the next succeeding month; or

                     (b)  where there is not in the next succeeding month a day numerically corresponding to the day in the first-mentioned month, the period from and including the first-mentioned day to and including the last day of that next succeeding month.

             (2)  In the calculation of the wages of a seaman for a period of less than a month, being wages payable at a rate per month, each day in that period shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be one-thirtieth part of a month.