CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1(Purpose) #
The purpose of this Act is to protect fishers, etc. by compensating for accidents involving fishers, etc. promptly and fairly through performance of accident compensation insurance business for fishers, etc. engaging in fishery and fishing vessels and thereby supporting their rehabilitation and return to society, and by promoting the restoration of damaged fishing vessels, and to contribute to stabilization of fishery management. <Amended on Jun. 15, 2021>
[This Article Wholly Amended on May 27, 2009]
Article 2(Definitions) #
(1) The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
1. The term "fishing vessel" mean any vessel under subparagraph 1 (d) of Article 2 of the Fishing Vessels Act;
2. The term "fisher" means any person employed to provide his/her labor in a fishing vessel in exchange for a wage;
3. The term "family fisher" means a spouse (including any person having a de facto marital relation) and a lineal ascendant or descendant of the owner of a fishing vessel who provides his/her labor in the fishing vessel;
4. The term "owner of a fishing vessel" means any person who employs and pays wages to fishers irrespective of names, such as ship owner, borrower of fishing vessel, manager of fishing vessel, and charterer, or who engages in fishing activities for himself/herself or with a family fisher;
5. The term "wage", "ordinary wage", and "average boarding wage" means each wage, ordinary wage, and average boarding wage under the Seafarers' Act;
6. The term "accident of a fisher, etc." means any injury, disease, physical disability, or decease of a fisher, a family fisher, and the owner of a fishing vessel (hereinafter referred to as "fishers, etc.") related to fishing activities;
7. The term "accident involving fishing vessels" means any accident involving fishing vessels, such as submergence, stranding, collision, fire, and damage (including an accident that occurs while fishing vessels are repaired or anchored);
8. The term "cure" means a status where an injury or disease is completely cured or an effect of treatment cannot be expected anymore and its symptom becomes fixed;