Section 95(1)(a) in The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
(a)[ to issue licence, to regulate and control the recruitment and placement service, and to-(i)ensure that no fees or other charges for recruitment or placement of seafarers are borne directly or indirectly or in whole or in part, by the seafarers;(ii)ensure that adequate machinery and procedures exist for the investigation, if necessary, of complaints concerning the activities of recruitment and placement services; and(iii)to maintain registers of seamen in respect of the categories of seamen;]