Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (ALLOTMENTS) REGULATION - SECT 6

Times and intervals of payments under allotment notes

Unless the seafarer's employer or the master otherwise agrees-

   (a)  the first sum payable under an allotment note shall be payable not
        less than 1 month from the date on which the allotment note is issued
        and subsequent sums shall become payable at regular intervals of not
        less than 1 month reckoned from the date when the first sum is
        payable; and

   (b)  no sum shall be payable under an allotment note before the seafarer
        has earned any of the wages allot by it. (Enacted 1995)