Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Calculation of wages.

383.—(1) The wages of a skipper seaman or apprentice of a fishing boat shall accrue from day to day.

(2) When wages are contracted for by the voyage or trip or the season or by the share, and not by a stated period of time, the amount accruing from day to day shall be an amount equal to the wages for the whole voyage or trip or season, or the whole share (as the case may be), divided by the number of days occupied in the voyage or trip or season, but a skipper seaman or apprentice shall not be entitled to more than what his share of the profits or catch made during the period he has actually served may or would have amounted to.

(3) Where the whole time spent in the voyage or trip does not exceed the period for which the wages are to be forfeited, the forfeiture shall extend to the whole wages or share.