Malaysia legislation
Section 26
Section 26
(1)
The owner or master of a North Borneo ship other than a foreign-going ship shall, within twenty-one days after the expiration of any agreement with the crew or within forty-eight hours of her arrival in North Borneo whichever first happens, deliver or transmit to the
Superintendent in North Borneo such agreement.
(2)
The Superintendent, on receiving such agreement, shall give the owner or master of the ship a certificate to that effect, and the ship may be detained until the conditions precedent to the grant of such certificate exist.
(3)
Any such owner or master who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.
Copy of agreement to be made accessible to the crew.