Part IV Safety

Control of, and returns as to, persons on ships

106 Unauthorised persons: offences relating to safety.

(1)

Where a person goes to sea in a ship without the consent of the master or of any other person authorised to give it or is conveyed in a ship in pursuance of section 73(5)(b), sections 58 and 59 shall apply as if he were a seaman employed in the ship.

(2)

Subsection (1) above shall, in its application to section 58 so far as that section applies to ships which are not sea-going ships have effect—

(a)

with the omission of the words “goes to sea in a ship”; and

(b)

with the insertion, after the words “to give it”, of the words “ is on board a ship while it is on a voyage or excursion ”.

(3)

This section does not apply to fishing vessels.