Section 33: Punishment or discharge of a member of a crew or extra hand.

Where the master of a vessel charges any member of his crew or an extra hand other than a citizen before a Magistrate with an offence committed at some time prior to the vessel's arrival or while the vessel is in a port in Sierra Leone then the Magistrate - (a) if he convicts the person charged, may, in awarding punishment, order that on the expiration of the sentence or on the sooner readiness of the vessel to proceed to sea such person shall be conducted in custody aboard the vessel for conveyance away from Sierra Leone; (b) if he discharges the person charged, shall, in the order of discharge, order such person to be immediately conveyed back to the vessel.