398.—If any person—

(a) receives any money or valuable consideration from the person to whom an apprentice in the sea-fishing service is bound, or to whom a sea-fishing boy is bound by any agreement, or from anyone on that person’s behalf, or from the apprentice or boy or anyone on the apprentice or boy’s behalf, in consideration of the apprentice or boy being so bound; or

(b) makes or causes any such payment to be made;

that person shall in respect of each offence be guilty of a misdemeanor, whether the apprentice or boy was or was not validly bound.