Cap. 234 ст. 161Account and payment of wages in case of seaman left behind. 

(1) Where a master of a Maltese ship leaves a seaman or an apprentice behind on shore at any place on the ground of his unfitness or inability to proceed to sea, he shall deliver in duplicate to the officer giving the certificate required by this Act a full and true account of the wages due to the seaman or apprentice.

(2) The master shall pay the amount of wages due as aforesaid either to the seaman or apprentice himself, or to the said officer.

(3) Where payment is made to the shipping master or to a consular officer, that officer shall retain one duplicate of the account delivered to him and, if satisfied with the account, endorse on the other duplicate a receipt for the payment and return it to the master, and the master shall deliver the duplicate within forty-eight hours of his return to his port of destination, if that port is in Malta, to the shipping master, and in any other case to the Maltese consular officer of that port.

(4) If the master fails without reasonable cause to comply with this article or knowingly delivers a false account, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding twenty units.