### Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance 《商船(海員)條例》

50. Notification of intention not to re-employ
(1) Where a registered person’s employment in a ship is for any reason terminated and it is not intended to re-employ him in that ship, the employer concerned shall, not later than 7 working days after the date of the person’s discharge from the ship, cause to be delivered to the Superintendent a notice of the discharge in the prescribed form.
(2) Where a permitted company does not intend to re-employ a registered person referred to in subsection (1) in the ship referred to in that subsection or in any ship for which it is permitted to employ or supply registered persons for employment, the company shall, not later than 14 working days after the discharge of the person from that ship, notify the Superintendent in the prescribed form of such intention and the grounds therefor.
(3) Except where he is re-employed under section 48, a registered person shall, not later than 30 days after discharge from the last ship in which he was employed, report in person to the Office except that, where such discharge is in a place outside Hong Kong, such period shall not begin to run until his first return to Hong Kong after such discharge.
(4) A registered person who is not listed with a permitted company may, notwithstanding that he has given notice to the Superintendent pursuant to section 41(1) that he seeks such listing, notify the Superintendent of his intention to take leave of absence by submitting to the Superintendent the prescribed form specifying the period for which he intends to take such leave.
(5) A permitted company shall, not later than 7 working days after a registered person’s last discharge from a ship for which it is permitted to employ or supply registered persons for employment, submit any applications that are received by such company requesting leave of absence from that company’s listed persons to the Superintendent in the prescribed form, specifying the periods for which such persons have been granted such leave.
(6) A registered person who takes leave of absence pursuant to subsection (4) or (5) shall be available for employment with effect on and from the day following the last day of such leave pursuant to subsection (4) and his name shall be entered in the roster, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (5), on such day.
(7) Where there is a contravention of subsection (1), the employer concerned commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.
(8) Any permitted company which contravenes subsection (2) or (5) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.
(9) Any registered person who, without reasonable excuse, fails or refuses to comply with subsection (3) or (6) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 1.
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 32)

### Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance 《商船(海員)條例》

51. Authority may detain ship where registered person is in the ship in contravention of section 40
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 2)Where any registered person is in any ship that is about to leave the waters of Hong Kong in contravention of section 40, the Authority may detain that ship until he is satisfied that the person will not leave such waters in that ship.
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 2)

52. Permits to maintain rosters
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 33)(1) Subject to section 54, the Superintendent shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, grant a permit to maintain a roster to any company or seafarers’ organization— (Amended 16 of 2013 s. 33)
(a) the objects of which, as set out in its articles or memorandum of association or constitution— 
(i) for a company, include the carrying on of the business of shipowner or the business of managing or chartering ships; or
(ii) for a seafarers’ organization, include the recruitment and supply of seafarers for employment; and (Replaced 16 of 2013 s. 33)
(b) which in the opinion of the Superintendent is capable of maintaining a roster.
(2) Subject to section 54, every permit shall be valid on and from the day on which it is granted.
(3) The Superintendent may at any time impose upon a permitted body such conditions as he thinks fit by endorsing such conditions on the body’s permit or by specifying such conditions in a notice in writing served on the body.
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 33)

### Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance 《商船(海員)條例》

53. Information to be supplied to Superintendent
(1) An application for the grant of a permit shall be—
(a) in the prescribed form and contain the particulars required by the form;
(b) accompanied by such particulars, in the prescribed form, in relation to each person employed or to be employed in the crew department of the applicant as are required by such form; and
(c) accompanied by such other particulars, in the prescribed form, as are required by such form.
(2) In addition to the particulars supplied in accordance with subsection (1), the Superintendent may require an applicant to supply him with such information as he specifies, being information that is required for the purposes of, or in connection with, the exercise by the Superintendent of his powers under section 54.
(3) If there is any change to the particulars of the owner of a ship for which a permitted body supplies registered persons for employment, the body must notify the Superintendent of the change by written notice and pay the prescribed fee without delay. (Replaced 16 of 2013 s. 34)
(3A) On receiving a written notice and the prescribed fee under subsection (3) from a permitted body, the Superintendent must amend the body’s permit accordingly. (Added 16 of 2013 s. 34)
(4) The Superintendent may, at any time, by notice in writing served on a permitted body, require the body to supply him with such information in relation to its permitted crew department as he specifies in the notice and the body shall, as soon as practicable after being served with the notice, so supply such information.
(5) Any permitted body which contravenes subsection (3) or (4) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 34)

### Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance 《商船(海員)條例》

55. Notice of refusal to grant permit
Where the Superintendent refuses to grant a permit, he shall give notice in writing to the applicant for the permit together with the reasons for such refusal.
(Amended 16 of 2013 s. 36)