Versions of s. 616(1)
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Where a case of death happens on board any foreign-going Canadian ship, the shipping master at the port where the crew of the ship is discharged or any person appointed by the Minister for that purpose shall, on the arrival of the ship at that port, inquire into the cause of the death, and shall make in the official log-book of the ship an endorsement to the effect that the statement of the cause of death in the log-book is in his opinion true, or the contrary, according to the result of the inquiry.