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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 516

1971 c.38

516.(1) Where a receiver is not present, the following officers or persons in
succession (each in the absence of the other, in the order in which they are
named), namely, any chief officer of customs, principal officer of the
coastguard, officer of inland revenue, sheriff, justice of the peace,
commissioned officer on full pay in the naval service of Her Majesty, or
commissioned officer on full pay in the military service of Her Majesty, may
do anything by this Part of this Act authorised to be done by the receiver.

(2) An officer acting under this section for a receiver shall, with respect to
any goods or articles belonging to a vessel the delivery of which to the
receiver is required by this Act, be considered as the agent of the receiver,
and shall place the same in the custody of the receiver; but he shall not be
entitled to any fees payable to receivers, or be deprived by reason of his so
acting of any right to salvage to which he would otherwise be entitled.


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