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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 514

514.(1) Whenever a vessel is wrecked, stranded, or in distress as aforesaid,
and any person plunders, creates disorder, or obstructs the preservation of
the vessel or of the shipwrecked persons or of the cargo or apparel of the
vessel, the receiver may cause that person to be apprehended.

(2) The receiver may use force for the suppression of any such plundering,
disorder, or obstruction, and may command all Her Majesty's subjects to assist
him in so using force.

(3) If any person is killed, maimed, or hurt by reason of his resisting the
receiver or any person acting under the orders of the receiver in the
execution of the duties by this Part of this Act committed to the receiver,
neither the receiver nor the person acting under his orders shall be liable to
any punishment, or to pay any damages by reason of the person being so killed,
maimed, or hurt.

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