Section 89

If any of the expenses attendant on the illness, hurt or injury of a seaman or apprentice which are to be paid under this Chapter by the master or owner of the ship to which such seaman or apprentice belongs are paid by any authority on behalf of the Government or if any other expenses in respect of the illness, hurt or injury, of any seaman or apprentice belonging to any North Borneo ship whose wages are not accounted for under this Part to that authority, are so paid, those expenses shall be repaid to that authority by the master or owner of the ship.

If any expenses are not repaid as required by subsection (1), the amount thereof, with costs, shall be a charge upon the ship and shall be recoverable from the master or from the owner of the ship for the time being, or where the ship has been lost from the person who was the owner of the ship at the time of the loss, or, where the ship has been transferred to some person not being a British subject, either from the owner for the time being or from the person who was the owner of the ship at the time of the transfer, as a debt due to the

Government, either by ordinary process of law or in the Court and in the manner in which wages may under this Part be recovered by seamen and apprentices.

In any proceeding for such recovery, a certificate of the facts, signed by the aforesaid authority, together with such vouchers, if any, as the case requires, shall be sufficient proof that the expenses in respect of which the proceeding has been instituted were duly paid by that authority.

Accommodation for seamen etc.