PART 6Repatriation
Place for return.20.
(1)
Where there is a duty on a shipowner to provide for the repatriation of a seafarer under regulation 19, a seafarer is entitled to repatriation to the destination provided for in the seafarer employment agreement, or such other place as may subsequently be agreed with the shipowner.
(2)
If the seafarer employment agreement does not identify a destination, and there has been no agreement between the seafarer and the shipowner as to the destination, the seafarer is entitled to repatriation to the seafarer's choice of the following destinations—
(a)
the place at which the seafarer entered into the seafarer's employment agreement; or
(b)
the seafarer's country of residence.