Section 89: Recovery of expenses from seafarer
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
89. Recovery of expenses from seafarer
Where, in the case of any seafarer, expenses are incurred by the Government or by a foreign government and repaid to it on behalf of the Government—
(a) in respect of any matter for which, but for section 87, the seafarer’s last employer would have been required to make provision under section 86; or
(b) in respect of any matter falling under section 86 (2) (b),
the Government may recover them from the seafarer or, if he has died, from
his heirs.