Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 147

147. Where proceedings are instituted before any court in relation to any dispute between an owner, or bareboat charterer, or master of a ship and a seaman or apprentice arising out of or incidental to their relation as such, or is instituted for the purpose of this article, the court, if having regard to all the circumstances of the case thinks just to do so, may rescind any contract between the owner, or bareboat charterer, or master and the seaman or apprentice upon such terms as the court may think just, and this power shall be in addition to any other jurisdiction which the court can exercise independently of this article. Accommodation, Provisions and Health Accommodation for seamen. Amended by:  XIII. 1983.5; XXII. 2000.2, 70; I.2025.54.