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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Duties in relation to maritime activity - Duties in relation to crewing

27: Prohibition on receiving remuneration for placing seafarers in employment

You could also call this:

"No charging seafarers for finding them ship jobs"

If you help seafarers find jobs on ships, you cannot charge them for this service. You also cannot get paid by someone else for finding seafarers jobs on ships, except for people working on fishing boats as defined in the Fisheries Act 1996. If you break this rule, you can be fined up to $200. You will be considered to have broken the rule if you charge seafarers for finding them jobs on ships, or if you get paid by someone else for doing so.

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Part 3Duties in relation to maritime activity
Duties in relation to crewing

27Prohibition on receiving remuneration for placing seafarers in employment

  1. No person shall carry on for pecuniary gain, directly or indirectly, any undertaking in relation to the finding of employment for seafarers (other than persons to be employed or engaged in fishing within the meaning of the Fisheries Act 1996 and masters) on any ship nor shall any person charge, directly or indirectly, any fees for finding employment for such seafarers on any ship.

  2. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200 who acts in contravention of subsection (1).

Compare
  • 1952 No 49 s 48
Notes
  • Section 27(1): amended, on , by section 316(1) of the Fisheries Act 1996 (1996 No 88).
  • Section 27(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).