Navigation Act 2012

This section applies if a seafarer who is not at his or her home port:

is hurt or injured or contracts a disease; or

suffers from any illness that is not due to an intentional act or default, or to misbehaviour, on the part of the seafarer; or

requires essential dental care.

Expenses for the following are to be paid by the owner of the seafarer’s vessel:

providing the necessary surgical and medical advice and attendance, and medicine, until the seafarer is cured, dies or arrives at that port;

the maintenance of the seafarer until he or she is cured, dies or arrives at that port;

the conveyance of the seafarer to that port;

if the seafarer dies before arriving at that port—his or her burial or, if the seafarer’s body is conveyed to that port at the request of a member of his or her family, the conveyance of the seafarer’s body to that port.