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Marine Orders - Part 53: Employment of Crews, Issue 1 (Order No. 2 of 1993)
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Article 5
If a shipowner fails to make arrangements for or to meet the cost of repatriation of a seafarer who is entitled to be repatriated:
(a) the competent authority of the Member in whose territory the ship is registered shall arrange for and meet the cost of the repatriation of the seafarer concerned; if it fails to do so, the State from which the seafarer is to be repatriated or the State of which he or she is a national may arrange for his or her repatriation and recover the cost from the Member in whose territory the ship is registered;
(b) costs incurred in repatriating the seafarer shall be recoverable from the shipowner by the Member in whose territory the ship is registered;
(c) the expenses of repatriation shall in no case be a charge upon the seafarer, except as provided for in paragraph 3 of Article 4 above.