Cap. 234 ст. 167Mode of providing for return. 

(1) A seaman or apprentice may be sent to a proper return port by any reasonable route.

(2) Provision may be made for the return of a seaman or apprentice, if he is fit to work, by providing him with suitable employment on board a ship, proceeding to a proper return port, which is in want of men to make up its complement, or, if that is not practicable, by providing him with a passage in any ship or aircraft, or with the money for his passage, and, as to any part of the route which is by land, by paying the expenses of his journey and of his maintenance during the journey, or providing him with the means to pay those expenses.

(3) Where the master of a ship is required by this Act to provide for the return of a discharged seaman or apprentice to a proper return port, the master may, instead of providing the passage or the expenses of his journey, or of providing him with the means to pay his passage or those expenses, deposit with the officer whose sanction or certificate is required under this Act such sum as that officer considers sufficient to defray the expenses of the return of the seaman or apprentice to a proper return port.

(4) Where a seaman or apprentice is repatriated as a member of a crew, he shall be entitled to the appropriate remuneration for work done during the voyage.

(5) If any question arises as to what return port a seaman or apprentice is to be sent in any case, or as to the route by which he should be sent, that question shall be decided by the officer aforesaid, and in deciding any question under this provision, that officer shall have regard both to the convenience of the seaman or apprentice and to the expenses involved and also, where that is the case, to the fact that a ship which is in want of men to make up its complement is about to proceed to a proper return port or to a port in the vicinity thereof; but nothing in this article shall relive the owner from the obligation and expense of returning the seaman or apprentice to his proper return port.