Versions of s. 292(1)

Where any seamen, whether subjects of Her Majesty or not, who have been resident in Canada for at least twelve months before the commencement of the voyage or engagement on which they are at the time employed, are found in any place outside Canada, and have been shipwrecked from any ship or by reason of having been discharged or left behind from any ship in any place outside Canada, are in distress in that place, the proper authority may, in accordance with and on the conditions prescribed by the distressed seamen regulations,