Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if a seafarer who is not at his or her home port:
(a) is hurt or injured or contracts a disease; or
(b) suffers from any illness that is not due to an intentional act or default, or to misbehaviour, on the part of the seafarer; or
(c) requires essential dental care.
(2) Expenses for the following are to be paid by the owner of the seafarer's vessel:
(a) providing the necessary surgical and medical advice and attendance, and medicine, until the seafarer is cured, dies or arrives at that port;
(b) the maintenance of the seafarer until he or she is cured, dies or arrives at that port;
(c) the conveyance of the seafarer to that port;
(d) if the seafarer dies before arriving at that port--his or her burial or, if the seafarer's body is conveyed to that port at the request of a member of his or her family, the conveyance of the seafarer's body to that port.