SHIPWRECKED COLONIAL SEAMEN

SHIPWRECKED COLONIAL SEAMEN<br />

SHIPWRECKED COLONIAL SEAMEN

AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE RELIEF OF COLONIAL SEAMEN IN DISTRESS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Ordinance Nos,
3 of 1880

[13^th October
, 1880 ]

Short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited, as the Colonial Seamen Repatriation Ordinance.

Deputy Secretary to the Treasury to pay such reasonable sums expended by Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society on relief of colonial seamen as the Minister of Finance may authorize.

2. If any colonial seaman becomes distressed in the United Kingdom by reason of shipwreck, and shall be relieved and sent home by ” The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society”, the Minister of Finance may authorize” the repayment of any fair and reasonable sum of money which may have been advanced for that purpose, and the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury may thereupon pay out of the Consolidated Fund8 such sum to the person or persons authorized to receive the same.

Interpretation.

3. The term ” colonial seaman ” means a seaman who last served in a ship registered in Ceylon.

Chapter 373, Volume No. 11 Page No.650.