Penalties on persons harboring deserters
11 Penalties on persons harboring deserters
Every person who knowingly harbors conceals employs or retains or assists in harboring concealing employing or retaining any seaman belonging to any foreign vessel who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, or knowingly causes induces or persuades any such seaman by words or by any other means whatsoever to violate any agreement which he has entered into to serve on board any such vessel as aforesaid, or knowingly assists in the desertion absconding or absence from duty of any such seaman shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $40 for the first offence and of not less than $20 nor more than $100 for a second or subsequent offence and in default of payment forthwith or within the time appointed to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months.
No. 3766 s. 12.
S. 12 amended by No. 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 174.2).
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