Versions of s. 273(7)
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A shipping master or consular officer may on the ground of urgency authorize a person under eighteen years of age to be employed on board a vessel notwithstanding that a certificate granted under subsection (6) has not been delivered to the master of the vessel, but the person in whose case an authorization is given under this subsection shall not be employed beyond the first port at which the vessel calls after that person has embarked thereon, unless subsection (6) has been complied with.