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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 462

Liability for costs and damages.

462. Where a foreign ship ... at a port in the United Kingdom ... is ...
unsafe [by reason of the defective condition of her hull, equipments, or
machinery, or] by reason of overloading or improper loading [or by reason of
undermanning] the provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the
detention of ships shall apply to that foreign ship as if she were a British
ship, with the following modifications:

(i)A copy of the order for the provisional detention of the ship shall be
forthwith served on the consular officer for the country to which the ship
belongs at or nearest to the said port;

(ii)Where a ship has been provisionally detained, the consular officer, on the
request of the owner or master of the ship, may require that the person
appointed by the Board of Trade to survey the ship shall be accompanied by
such person as the consular officer may select, and in that case, if the
surveyor and that person agree, the Board of Trade shall cause the ship to be
detained or released accordingly, but if they differ, the Board of Trade may
act as if the requisition had not been made, and the owner and master shall
have the like appeal to a court of survey touching the report of the surveyor
as is hereinbefore provided in the case of a British ship; and

(iii)Where the owner or master of the ship appeals to the court of survey, the
consular officer, on his request, may appoint a competent person to be
assessor in the case in lieu of the assessor who, if the ship were a British
ship, would be appointed otherwise than by the Board of Trade.


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