Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 1912 - SECT 75A

             (1)  Where the wages of a seaman are payable at a rate per month, a month shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be:

                     (a)  the period from and including a day in one calendar month to and including the day before the numerically corresponding day in the next succeeding month; or

                     (b)  where there is not in the next succeeding month a day numerically corresponding to the day in the first‑mentioned month, the period from and including the first‑mentioned day to and including the last day of that next succeeding month.

             (2)  In the calculation of the wages of a seaman for a period of less than a month, being wages payable at a rate per month, each day in that period shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be one‑thirtieth part of a month.