Seaman's identity document ?

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Implements ILO Convention No. 185. Contains and approves the Regulation for the Seafarer's identity document; the Regulations for the seaman's book; model seaman's book; and the description of the format for the seaman's book.

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Convention no. 108 - Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) In Force from 17 Jan 2005 


The Convention was revised in 2003 by Convention No. 185 but not yet ratified by india.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the International Labour Organization took steps to revise its 1958 Convention on seafarers’ identity documents (also known as “seafarers’ IDs” or “SIDs”), under an accelerated procedure. The new Convention, the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185), which was adopted by the
International Labour Conference in June 2003, introduced modern security features into the seafarers’ ID to help to resolve the urgent question of seafarers being refused admission into the territory of countries visited by their ships for the purposes of shore leave and transit and transfer to join or change ships. One of those security features is a fingerprint biometric template, which shall be printed as numbers in a PDF417 bar code “conforming to a standard to be developed.