Section 82

If three or more of the crew of a North Borneo ship where such ship is within North

Borneo, consider that the provisions or water for the use of the crew are at any time of bad quality, unfit for use, or deficient in quantity, they may complain thereof to the Superintendent or a Port Health Officer, and such officer may either examine the provisions or water complained of or cause them to be examined.

If such officer or the person making the examination finds that the provisions or water are of bad quality and unfit for use, or deficient in quantity, he shall signify it in writing to the master of the ship, and if the master of the ship does not thereupon provide other proper provisions or water in lieu of any so signified to be of bad quality and unfit for use, or does not procure the requisite quantity of any provisions or water so signified to be deficient in quantity or uses any provisions or water so signified to be of bad quality and unfit for use, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

Such officer or the person making the examination shall enter a statement of the result of the examination in the official log book of the ship, and shall send a report thereof to the Superintendent, and that report shall be admissible in evidence in the manner provided by this Ordinance.

If such officer or the person making the examination certifies in the statement entered in the official log book that there were no reasonable grounds for the complaint, he may order that each of the complainants shall forfeit to the owner out of his wages a sum not exceeding one week’s wages.

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Inspection of provisions and water.