Versions of s. 291(1)

The Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to the relief, maintenance and return to a proper return port of shipwrecked or otherwise distressed Canadian seamen found at any place outside Canada, and may, by those regulations, in this Act referred to as the “distressed seamen regulations”, make such conditions as he thinks fit with regard to that relief, maintenance and return to a proper return port, and a seaman has no right to be relieved, maintained or returned to a proper return port, except in the cases and to the extent and on the conditions provided by those regulations.