MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 487



487.(1) A court of survey for a port or district shall consist of a judge
sitting with two assessors.

(2) The judge shall be such person as may be summoned for the case in
accordance with the rules made under this Act with respect to that court, out
of a list approved for the port or district by a Secretary of State, of wreck
commissioners appointed under this Act, stipendiary or metropolitan police
magistrates, judges of county courts, and other fit persons; but in any
special case in which the Board of Trade think it expedient to appoint a wreck
commissioner, the judge shall be such wreck commissioner.

(3) The assessors shall be persons of nautical, engineering, or other special
skill and experience; subject to the provisions of the Fifth Part of this Act
as regards foreign ships, one of them shall be appointed by the Board of
Trade, either generally or in each case, and the other shall be summoned, in
accordance with the rules made as aforesaid, by the registrar of the court,
out of a list of persons periodically nominated for the purpose ..., by a body
of local ship owners or merchants approved for the purpose by a Secretary of
State, or, if there is no such list, shall be appointed by the judge: If a
Secretary of State thinks fit at any time, on the recommendation of the
government of any British possession or any foreign country, to add any
persons to any such list, those persons shall, until otherwise directed by the
Secretary of State, be added to the list, and if there is no such list shall
form the list.

(4) The county court registrar or such other fit person as a Secretary of
State may from time to time appoint shall be the registrar of the court, and
shall, on receiving notice of an appeal or a reference from the Board of
Trade, immediately summon the court to meet forthwith in manner directed by
the rules.

(5) The name of the registrar and his office, together with the rules made as
aforesaid, relating to the court of survey, shall be published in the manner
directed by the rules.

(7) In the application of this section to Ireland the expression "stipendiary
magistrate" includes ... any resident magistrate.

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 487