Section 84

if during a voyage of a North Borneo ship where such ship is within North Borneo, the allowance of any of the provisions for which a seaman has by his agreement stipulated is reduced (except in accordance with any regulations for reduction by way of punishment contained in the agreement with the crew, and also except for any time during which the seaman wilfully and without sufficient cause refuses or neglects to perform his duty, or is lawfully under confinement for misconduct either on board or on shore); or

if it is shown that any of those provisions are or have been, during a voyage of any such ship as aforesaid, bad in quality and unfit for use, the seaman shall receive, by way of compensation for that reduction or bad quality, such sums as may be prescribed; but if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court before the case is tried that any provisions, the allowance of which has been reduced, could not be procured or supplied in proper quantities, and that proper and equivalent substitutes were supplied in lieu thereof, the Court shall take those circumstances into consideration, and shall modify or refuse compensation as the justice of the case requires.

48

Weights and measures on board.