Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) ORDINANCE - SECT 88

Power of court to award interest on wages due otherwise than under crew agreement

In any proceedings by the master of a Hong Kong ship or a person employed in a
ship otherwise than under a crew agreement for the recovery of any sum due to
him as wages the court, unless it appears to it that the delay in paying the
sum was due to a mistake, to a reasonable dispute as to liability or to the
act or default of the person claiming the amount or to any other cause, not
being the wrongful act or default of the persons liable to make the payment or
their servants or agents, may order them to pay, in addition to the sum due,
interest on it at the rate of 20% per annum or such lower rate as the court
specifies, for the period beginning 7 days after the sum became due and ending
when the sum is paid. (Enacted 1995)