Section 174(1) in The Merchant Shipping (Shipping Office Forms) Rules, 1963
(1)If the master of an Indian ship, or a seaman or apprentice, receives any hurt or injury or injury or suffers from any illness (not being a hurt, injury or illness due to his own willful act or default or to his own misbehaviour), resulting in his being discharged or left behind at a place other than his proper return port, the expenses of providing the necessary surgical and medical advice, attendance and treatment and medicine, and also the expenses of the maintenance of the master, seaman or apprentice until he is cured, or dies, or dies or is brought back to the port from which he was shipped or other port agreed upon after receiving the necessary medical treatment and of his conveyance to that port, and in case of deapth, the expenses, if any, of his burial or cremation shall be defrayed by the owner of the ship without deduction on that account from his wages.
