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British Isles, or on the continent of Europe between the River Elbe and
Brest, shall be provided with a certificated cook who is able to prove one
month's service at sea in some capacity.
Section 34.—(2) If the master or a seaman is, on account of any
illness, temporarily removed from his ship for the purpose of preventing
infection, or otherwise for the convenience of the ship, and subsequently
returns to his duty, the expense of the removal and of providing the
necessary advice and attendance and medicine, and of his maintenance
while away from the ship, shall be defrayed by the owner of the ship,
without any deduction on that account from his wages.
This, at first sight, would seem to enable the Port Sanitary Authority to
claim from the owner the expenses in connection with seamen landed from
vessels on account of infectious disease, but the section contains " only in the
event of his subsequently returning to his duty."
The master usually takes the first opportunity of "paying off'" at the
nearest shipping office any man so landed; thus he is unable subsequently to
return to duty, and, in my opinion, the expenses cannot be recovered under
this Act.
Section 64—Amends Section 210, so that Section 210 will now read
as follows :—(1)—Sub-section (1) of Section 210 of the principal Act
(which provides for the space required for each seaman or apprentice in
any place in a British ship occupied by seamen or apprentices and appropriated
to their use) shall be construed as if a space of not less than
one hundred and twenty cubic feet, and of not less than fifteen superficial
feet measured on the deck or floor of that place, were substituted
for a space of not less than seventy-two cubic feet, and of not less
than twelve superficial feet measured on the deck or floor of that place.
(2) In estimating the space available for the proper accommodation of
seamen and apprentices, there may be taken into account the space
occupied by any mess-rooms, bath-rooms, or washing places appropriated
exclusively to the use of those seamen and apprentices, so, however, that
the space in any place appropriated to the use of seamen or apprentices
in which they sleep is not less than seventy-two cubic feet and twelve
superficial feet for each seaman or apprentice.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect —
(a) any ship registered before the passing of this Act, or which
was in course of construction on the first day of January, nineteen
hundred and seven; or
(b) any ship of not more than three hundred tons burden; or
(c) any fishing boat within the meaning of Part IV. of the
principal Act,
or require any additional space to be given in the cases of places occupied
solely by Lascars and appropriated to their use.
This Act shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, come into operation
on the 1st June, 1907; but some of the clauses become operative
from the date of the passing of the Act, viz.:—