92Expenses of returning foreign seafarers left behind

92 Expenses of returning foreign seafarers left behind

If: (a) a seafarer of a foreign vessel is left behind at an Australian port or dies in Australia; and (b) the Commonwealth incurs expense in sending the seafarer, the seafarer’s body or any property of the seafarer outside Australia; the Commonwealth may recover the amount of those expenses from the owner, agent or master of the vessel in an eligible court as a debt due and payable by the owner, agent or master to the Commonwealth.