Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) ORDINANCE - SECT 15

Power of Authority to direct that name of seafarer be restored to register

(1) At any time after the expiration of 5 years after the day on which-

   (a)  the name of a seafarer is removed under this Ordinance from the
        register; or

   (b)  the Appeals Board confirms under section 36(1) the removal of that
        name from the register, whichever is the later, the seafarer may make
        an application to the Authority for a direction that his name be
        restored to the register.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), where the Authority receives an application
under subsection (1) from a seafarer for his name to be restored to the
register, the Authority may, after consultation with the Advisory Board-

   (a)  direct the Superintendent to restore the name of the seafarer to the
        register; or

   (b)  refuse the application.

(3) Where-

   (a)  a seafarer has had his name removed from the register on a ground
        referred to in section 28(1)(b), (c) or (h);

   (b)  the seafarer has made an application under subsection (1) for his name
        to be restored to the register; and

   (c)  pursuant to that application, the Authority has under subsection
        (2)(a) directed the Superintendent to restore the name of the seafarer
        to the register, the Superintendent shall not restore the name of the
        seafarer to the register unless and until the Superintendent has
        received from the seafarer a signed letter of undertaking that the
        seafarer will be of good behaviour in the future. (Enacted 1995)