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MARITIME CONVENTIONS ACT 1911 - SECT 3

Right of contribution.

3.(1) Where loss of life or personal injuries are suffered by any person on
board a vessel owing to the fault of that vessel and any other vessel or
vessels, and a proportion of the damages is recovered against the owners of
one of the vessels which exceeds the proportion in which she was in fault,
they may recover by way of contribution the amount of the excess from the
owners of the other vessel or vessels to the extent to which those vessels
were respectively in fault:

Provided that no amount shall be so recovered which could not, by reason of
any statutory or contractual limitation of, or exemption from, liability, or
which could not for any other reason, have been recovered in the first
instance as damages by the persons entitled to sue therefor.

(2) In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the persons entitled to
any such contribution as aforesaid shall, for the purpose of recovering the
same, have, subject to the provisions of this Act, the same rights and powers
as the persons entitled to sue for damages in the first instance.


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