Versions of s. 284(1)

Where the master of, or a seaman belonging to, a Canadian ship receives any hurt or injury in the service of the ship, or suffers from any illness, not being an illness due to his own wilful act or default or to his own misbehaviour, the expense of providing the necessary surgical and medical advice and attendance and medicine, the expenses of the maintenance of the master or seaman until he is cured, dies or is returned to a proper return port, and of his conveyance to the port, and in the case of death the expense, if any, of his burial, shall be defrayed by the owner of the ship, without any deduction on that account from his wages.