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Versions of s. 190(4)

S-9 — Canada Shipping Act · 1 version

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2003-01-01 to present available View Source

    Where it is shown to the satisfaction of a shipping master that a seaman lawfully engaged has wilfully or through misconduct failed to join his ship, the shipping master shall report the matter to the Minister, and the Minister may direct that any of the seaman’s certificates of discharge shall be withheld for such period as he may think fit, and, while a seaman’s certificate of discharge is so withheld, the Minister, and any other person having the custody of the necessary documents, may, notwithstanding anything in this Act, refuse to furnish copies of any of his certificates of discharge or certified extracts of any particulars of service or character.