98Incapacity

98 Incapacity

If sickness or injury results in a seafarer being incapacitated for work, the owner of a vessel must:

(a) pay the seafarer’s wages in full:

(i) as long as the sick or injured seafarer is on board; or

(ii) until the seafarer is repatriated; and

(b) pay wages in whole or part, in accordance with the collective agreement or legislation that provides for workers’ compensation for the seafarer, when the seafarer is repatriated, until the earliest of:

(i) the seafarer recovers; or

(ii) the seafarer is entitled to cash benefits under the collective agreement or legislation that provides for workers’ compensation for the seafarer; or

(iii) 16 weeks after the incapacitation starts.