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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 528

Disputed title to unclaimed wreck.

528.(1) The Board of Trade may, with the consent of the Treasury, out of the
revenue arising under this Part of this Act, purchase for and on behalf of Her
Majesty any rights to wreck possessed by any person other than Her Majesty.

(2) For the purpose of a purchase under this section, the provisions of the
Lands Clauses Acts relating to the purchase of lands by agreement shall be
incorporated with this Part of this Act, and in the construction of those Acts
for the purposes of this section this Part of this Act shall be deemed to be
the special Act, and any such right to wreck as aforesaid shall be deemed to
be an interest in land authorised to be taken by the special Act, and Her
Majesty shall be deemed to be the promoter of the undertaking.

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