Section 32: Seamen not to be discharged without the consent of an Immigration

Officer. (1) No seaman who is not a citizen shall be discharged from any vessel in Sierra Leone for any reason whatsoever except with the consent of an Immigration Officer, which consent shall not be given unless the master, owner or agent of the vessel shall have made arrangements to the satisfaction of the Immigration Officer, to ensure that the seaman shall not become a pauper or a public charge in Sierra Leone. (2) Any seaman who is not a citizen who shall be discharged for any reason whatsoever without such consent or who shall in Sierra Leone desert from his vessel or shall for any reason whatsoever be left being may be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant and thereupon shall be dealt with in the same manner as though he had entered Sierra Leone as a prohibited immigrant; and the master, owner or agent of such vessel shall be jointly and severally liable to pay to the Government all expenses incurred in the maintenance and deportation of such seaman. (3) The amount of any such expenses as aforesaid shall be recoverable in an action brought by or in the name of the Attorney-General. (4) In this section the expression "s....??.... includes every person employed or engaged in any capacity on board any vessel.