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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 481

Rules as to investigations and inquiries.

481.(1) A naval court shall consist of not more than five and not less than
three members, of whom, if possible, one shall be an officer in the naval
service of Her Majesty not below the rank of lieutenant, one a consular
officer, and one a master of a British merchant ship, and the rest shall be
either officers in the naval service of Her Majesty, masters of British
merchant ships, or British merchants, and the court may include the officer
summoning the same, but shall not include the master or consignee of the ship
to which the parties complaining or complained against belong.

(2) The naval or consular officer in the court, if there is only one such
officer, or, if there is more than one, the naval or consular officer who,
according to any regulations for settling their respective ranks for the time
being in force, is of the highest rank, shall be the president of the court.][


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