Versions of s. 221(3)

Any duplicate agreement or list of the crew made, or statement of a change of the crew delivered, under this Act at the time of the last departure of the ship from Canada, or a certificate purporting to be a certificate from a consular or other public officer at any port outside Canada, stating that certain seamen and apprentices were shipped in the ship from that port, is, if produced out of the proper custody, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient proof that the seamen and apprentices therein named as belonging to the ship were on board at the time of the loss.