163Interpretation

#### 163 Interpretation (1) In this Division: > distressed seaman means a person who, being or having been a seaman, is in distress at a place outside Australia by reason of having been discharged or left behind from, or having been shipwrecked in, a ship. > seaman includes master. (2) A reference in this Division to the relief and maintenance of distressed seamen shall be read as including a reference to: (a) the conveyance of distressed seamen to their proper return ports; (b) the conveyance of distressed seamen to port after shipwreck and their maintenance while being so conveyed; and (c) the burial of distressed seamen who die outside Australia.