Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Subsistence in case of detention.

329.—(1) If any ship, whether an emigrant ship or otherwise, does not actually put to sea and proceed on her intended voyage before three o’clock in the afternoon of the day next after the day of embarkation appointed in the contract, the owner, charterer, or master of the ship, or his agent, or any of them shall, until the ship finally proceeds on her voyage, pay to every steerage passenger entitled to a passage in the ship, or (if the steerage passenger is lodged and maintained in any hulk or establishment under the superintendence of the Board of Trade) to the emigration officer at the port of embarkation, subsistence money at the following rate; (that is to say,)

(a) For each of the first ten days of detention, one shilling and sixpence; and

(b) For every subsequent day, three shillings for each statute adult.

(2) Where the steerage passengers are maintained on board in the same manner as if the voyage had commenced—

(a) Subsistence money shall not be payable for the first two days next after the said day of embarkation, and

(b) If the ship is unavoidably detained by wind or weather, or by any cause not attributable in the opinion of the emigration officer to the act or default of the owner, charterer, or master, subsistence money shall not be payable during any part of that period of detention.