Versions of s. 253(1)

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

2003-01-01 to present available View Source

Whenever a question arises as to whether the wages of any seaman or apprentice are forfeited for desertion from a ship, it is sufficient for the person insisting on the forfeiture to show that the seaman or apprentice was duly engaged in or belonged to the ship, and either that he left the ship before the completion of the voyage or engagement, or, if the voyage was to terminate in Canada and the ship has not returned, that he is absent from the ship, and that an entry of his desertion has been duly made in the official log-book of the ship.