MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 488 Application of provisions as to naval courts.

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 488

Application of provisions as to naval courts.

488.(1) The court of survey shall hear every case in open court.

(2) The judge and each assessor of the court may survey the ship, and shall
have for the purposes of this Act all the powers of a Board of Trade inspector
[under section 27 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979].

(3) The judge of the court may appoint any competent person or persons to
survey the ship and report thereon to the court.

(4) The judge of the court, any assessor of the court, and any person
appointed by the judge of the court to survey a ship, may go on board the ship
and inspect the same and every part thereof, and the machinery, equipments,
and cargo, and may require the unloading or removal of any cargo, ballast, or
tackle, and any person who wilfully impedes such judge, assessor, or person in
the execution of the survey, or fails to comply with any requisition made by
him, shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding [#1,000].

(5) The judge of the court shall have the same power as the Board of Trade
have to order the ship to be released or finally detained, but, unless one of
the assessors concurs in an order for the detention of the ship, the ship
shall be released.

(6) The owner and master of the ship and any person appointed by the owner or
master, and also any person appointed by the Board of Trade, may attend at any
inspection or survey made in pursuance of this section.

(7) The judge of the court shall send to the Board of Trade such report as may
be directed by the rules, and each assessor shall either sign the report or
report to the Board of Trade the reasons for his dissent.

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 488