Conveyance orders and directions
9.—(1)  Where a seaman is in distress and is willing to enter into an undertaking to work on board any ship for his conveyance in lieu of pay, the Director may —
(a)by means of a conveyance order in writing require the master or owner of a ship to convey the seaman from any place specified in the order to such other place so specified as lies on a reasonable route between the place specified in the order and the place ascertained under regulation 8 to which he is to be returned; and
(b)give to the master or owner of that ship such directions as may be necessary for the purpose of that requirement,
and more than one such order may be made in the course of the seaman’s return.
(2)  A master shall not be required under paragraph (1) to convey a person in his ship or obey any direction given for the purpose of the requirement —
(a)if any provision of a written law or an instrument would be infringed by reason of that person being conveyed in his ship in addition to the other persons carried in his ship;
(b)if his ship would be required to go to any place to which it would not otherwise go in the course of the voyage then being undertaken or about to be undertaken;
(c)if, by reason of compliance with such requirement or direction, his ship would be unreasonably delayed; or
(d)if the master has other reasonable cause for objecting to the requirement or direction, as the case may be.
(3)  A master or owner who fails to comply with a requirement made of him by a conveyance order under paragraph (1)(a) or with a direction given to him under paragraph (1)(b) for the purpose of that requirement shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.