Merchant Shipping Act 1894

Remittance of seamen’s wages, &c. by seamen’s money orders.

145

145.(1) Facilities shall be given for remitting the wages and other money of seamen and apprentices to the sea service to their relatives or other persons by means of seamen’s money orders, issued by superintendents in accordance with this Act.

(2) The Board of Trade may make regulations concerning seamen’s money orders, and in particular may specify in those regulations the time and mode of payment, and the persons by or to whom the same are to be paid; and all such regulations, while in force, shall be binding upon all persons interested or claiming to be interested in the orders as well as upon the officers employed in issuing or paying the same.