Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094:section:68
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 68
Character Range: 90892–91835

68  Owner liable for medical attendance etc.
 (1) This section applies if a seafarer who is not at his or her home port:
 (a) is hurt or injured or contracts a disease; or
 (b) suffers from any illness that is not due to an intentional act or default, or to misbehaviour, on the part of the seafarer; or
 (c) requires essential dental care.
 (2) Expenses for the following are to be paid by the owner of the seafarer's vessel:
 (a) providing the necessary surgical and medical advice and attendance, and medicine, until the seafarer is cured, dies or arrives at that port;
 (b) the maintenance of the seafarer until he or she is cured, dies or arrives at that port;
 (c) the conveyance of the seafarer to that port;
 (d) 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.