Section 168(5) in The Merchant Shipping (Shipping Office Forms) Rules, 1963
(5)If the inspection was made in pursuance of a request by the members of the crew and the person making the inspection certifies in the Statement of the result of the result of the inspection that the complaint was false and either frivolous or vexatious, every member of the crew who made the request shall be liable to forfeit to the owner out of his wages a sum not exceeding one week's wages.
