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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 480

480. A court (in this Act called a naval court) may be summoned by any officer
in command of any of Her Majesty's ships on any foreign station, or, in the
absence of such an officer, by any consular officer, in the following cases;
(that is to say),

(i)Whenever a complaint which appears to that officer to require immediate
investigation is made to him by the master of any British ship, or by a
certificated mate, or by any one or more of the seamen belonging to any such
ship;

(ii)Whenever the interest of the owner of any British ship or of the cargo
thereof appears to that officer to require it; and

(iii)Whenever any British ship is wrecked, abandoned, or otherwise lost at or
near the place where that officer may be, or whenever the crew or part of the
crew of any British ship which has been wrecked, abandoned or lost abroad
arrive at that place.][

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