Versions of s. 177(1)

Every erasure, interlineation or alteration in any agreement with the crew, except additions made for the purpose of shipping substitutes or persons engaged after the first departure of the ship, is wholly inoperative, unless proved to have been made with the consent of all the persons interested in the erasure, interlineation or alteration by the written attestation, if in a Commonwealth country, of a shipping master, justice of the peace, officer of customs or other public functionary, or elsewhere outside Canada, of a consular officer, or where there is no consular officer, of two respectable Canadian merchants.