Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 (NO. 128, 2012) - SECT 68

             (1)  This section applies if a seafarer who is not at his or her home port:

                     (a)  is hurt or injured or contracts a disease; or

                     (b)  suffers from any illness that is not due to an intentional act or default, or to misbehaviour, on the part of the seafarer; or

                     (c)  requires essential dental care.

             (2)  Expenses for the following are to be paid by the owner of the seafarer's vessel:

                     (a)  providing the necessary surgical and medical advice and attendance, and medicine, until the seafarer is cured, dies or arrives at that port;

                     (b)  the maintenance of the seafarer until he or she is cured, dies or arrives at that port;

                     (c)  the conveyance of the seafarer to that port;

                     (d)  if the seafarer dies before arriving at that port--his or her burial or, if the seafarer's body is conveyed to that port at the request of a member of his or her family, the conveyance of the seafarer's body to that port.