(1) Where the master of a Saint Lucian ship leaves a seaman behind at any foreign port or place on the ground of his or her unfitness or inability to proceed to sea, the master shall deliver to the person signing the certificate required by section 211 a full and true account of the wages due to the seaman; and, if that person is a proper officer, the master shall deliver the account in duplicate.
(2) A master who fails without reasonable cause to deliver the account required under subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.