Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Article 3 of the Convention. In its previous comments, the Committee pointed out the discrepancy between the above provision of the Convention under which the seafarer's identity document must remain in his possession at all times and the instructions entered on page 63 of the seaman's book, according to which the book is kept on board by the master and must be deposited in the harbour master's office at the port of disembarkation, the holder being prohibited, on pain of punishment, from keeping it himself after disembarking. Since the Government's report merely reproduces information already supplied on this matter, the Committee trusts that the above instructions will be amended in order to ensure that effect is given to the present Article of the Convention, and that the Government will provide a specimen of the amended seaman's book.