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Part I QUALIFYING INJURIES SUSTAINED, OR DETENTION SUFFERED, BY REASON OF SERVICE AS A MARINER IN A BRITISH SHIP

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The cases in which a person who has sustained a qualifying injury, or suffered detention, is to be treated as having sustained the injury, or suffered the detention, by reason of his service as a mariner in a British ship are where the injury, or the capture on which his detention was consequent, as the case may be, occured—

  1. (a)

    while he was in the service of a British ship as a mariner;

  2. (b)

    in the case of a person normally employed as a mariner, while he was in the service of a seagoing British ship in the British Islands in which he was employed as master or a member of the crew thereof, notwithstanding that he was not employed in seagoing service in the ship;

  3. (c)

    while he was at a place outside the British Islands on leave from a British ship in which he was employed as a mariner and which was at a port outside the British Islands;

  4. (d)

    while he was at a place outside the British Islands in accordance with arrangements made or approved by or on behalf of the Minister of Transport for having persons available for employment as mariners;

  5. (e)

    while he was at any place, except on land in the British Islands, in the course of proceeding to employment in a British ship as a mariner, or to a place to which he was going in accordance with such arrangements as aforesaid;

  6. (f)

    without prejudice to the last preceding paragraph, while he was at any place, except as aforesaid, in the course of returning to any part of the British Islands, to the country to which he belonged, or to any other country approved by or on behalf of the Minister of Transport, from employment in a British ship as a mariner, or from a place at which he had been in accordance with such arrangements as aforesaid, and before he first arrived on land in that part of the British Islands or, as the case may be, in that country; or

  7. (g)

    while he was waiting at any place outside the British Islands to proceed or return as aforesaid, whether the delay was due to sickness or to any other cause outside his control.