Cap. 234 Art. 163Regulations as to relief and maintenance of distressed seamen. 

The Minister may make regulations with respect to the relief, maintenance and return to a proper return port of shipwrecked seamen and apprentices and of seamen and apprentices found otherwise in distress in any place and may by those regulations make such conditions as he thinks fit with regard to that relief, maintenance and sending to a proper return port; and where the regulations so provide, any payment made thereunder shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund.