68Owner liable for medical attendance etc.

68 Owner liable for medical attendance etc.

(1) This section applies if a seafarer who is not at his or her home port: (a) is hurt or injured or contracts a disease; or (b) suffers from any illness that is not due to an intentional act or default, or to misbehaviour, on the part of the seafarer; or (c) requires essential dental care. (2) Expenses for the following are to be paid by the owner of the seafarer’s vessel: (a) providing the necessary surgical and medical advice and attendance, and medicine, until the seafarer is cured, dies or arrives at that port; (b) the maintenance of the seafarer until he or she is cured, dies or arrives at that port; (c) the conveyance of the seafarer to that port; (d) if the seafarer dies before arriving at that port—his or her burial or, if the seafarer’s body is conveyed to that port at the request of a member of his or her family, the conveyance of the seafarer’s body to that port.