Facilities for making complaint.

If a seafarer states to the master that he desires to make a complaint to a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or other proper officer against the master or any of the seafarers, the master shall,--

1. (a) if the vessel is then at a place where there is a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or other proper officer, as soon after such statement as the service of the vessel shall permit; and
2. (b) if the vessel is not then at such place, as soon after her first arrival at such place as the service of the vessel shall permit, allow the complainant to go ashore or send him ashore under proper protection to enable him to make the complaint.