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Section 88: Remedies of master for wages, disbursements, etc.

The Merchant Shipping Act, 2025Central Act · Act 24 of 2025

(1) The master of a vessel shall, so far as the case permits, have the same rights, liens and remedies for the recovery of his wages as a seafarer has under this Act or by any law or custom.

(2) Every master shall have the same rights, liens and remedies for the recovery of disbursements or liabilities properly made or incurred by him on account of the vessel as such master has for the recovery of his wages.

(3) Every person lawfully acting as master of a vessel by reason of the disease or incapacity from illness, of the master of such vessel shall, so far as the case permits, have the same rights, liens and remedies for the recovery of disbursements or liabilities properly made or incurred by him on account of the vessel as a master has for the recovery of his wages.

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ActThe Merchant Shipping Act, 2025
Section88
Marginal noteRemedies of master for wages, disbursements, etc.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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