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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 460

Power to detain unsafe ships, and procedure for detention.

460.(1) If it appears that there was not reasonable and probable cause, by
reason of the condition of the ship or the act or default of the owner, for
the provisional detention of a ship under this Part of this Act as an unsafe
ship, the Board of Trade shall be liable to pay to the owner of the ship his
costs of and incidental to the detention and survey of the ship, and also
compensation for any loss or damage sustained by him by reason of the
detention or survey.

(2) If a ship is finally detained under this Act, or if it appears that a ship
provisionally detained was, at the time of that detention, an unsafe ship
within the meaning of this Part of this Act, the owner of the ship shall be
liable to pay to the Board of Trade their costs of and incidental to the
detention and survey of the ship, and those costs shall, without prejudice to
any other remedy, be recoverable as salvage is recoverable.

(3) For the purpose of this section the costs of and incidental to any
proceeding before a court of survey, and a reasonable amount in respect of the
remuneration of the surveyor or officer of the Board of Trade, shall be part
of the costs of the detention and survey of the ship, and any dispute as to
the amount of those costs may be referred to one of the officers following,
namely, in ... Ireland to one of the masters or registrars of the High Court,
... and the officer shall, on request by the Board of Trade, ascertain and
certify the proper amount of those costs.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1947 c.44 s.39 sch.2; SI 1949/1836 (I. p.1261)


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