SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 61AN Liability for medical attendance etc.

SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 61AN

  (1)   This section applies if the owner of a ship that is registered in the International Register would, apart from subsection   ( 2), be liable under section   68 of the Navigation Act to pay expenses relating to a hurt or injury received, disease contracted or illness suffered by a seafarer while on board the ship when it was used to engage in international trading.

  (2)   Any liability of the owner under that section ceases on the earlier of the following days:

  (a)   the day after the seafarer has recovered;

  (b)   the day that is 16 weeks after the first day the seafarer received the hurt or injury, contracted the disease or suffered the illness.