105. Changes in crew to be reported.-
1[(1)] The master of every foreign-going Indian ship and of every home-trade Indian ship of two hundred tons gross or more, the crew of which has been engaged before a shipping master, shall, before finally leaving the port where the engagement took place, sign and send to the nearest shipping master a full and accurate statement in the prescribed form, of every change which has taken place in his crew, and that statement shall be admissible in evidence.
1[(2) A copy of the statement referred to in sub-section (1) shall also be sent to the seaman's employment office concerned.]