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Navigation Act 1912
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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.