Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) - Malta (Ratification: 1965)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Article 4 of the Convention. Form and content of seafarer’s identity document. Practical application. The Committee notes that sections 195–203 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234) continue to give effect to the main provisions of the Convention. The Committee notes, however, that apart from the “seaman’s card”, the Merchant Shipping Act also provides in section 126 for a “discharge certificate” and that in an earlier report a sample “seaman’s record book” was attached. The Committee requests the Government to provide further clarifications as to the document attesting the seafarer’s identity as required by the Convention and to forward a specimen (and not a copy) of the seafarer’s’ identity document.