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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 554

Detention of property liable for salvage by a receiver.

554.(1) Where services for which salvage is claimed are rendered either by the
commander or crew or part of the crew of any of Her Majesty's ships or of any
other ship, and the salvor voluntarily agrees to abandon his lien upon the
ship, cargo, and property alleged to be salved, then, upon the master entering
into a written agreement attested by two witnesses to abide the decision of
the High Court in England, or of a Vice-Admiralty Court or
Colonial Court of Admiralty, and thereby giving security in that behalf to an
amount agreed on by the parties to the agreement, that agreement shall bind
the ship, and the cargo, and freight respectively, and the respective owners
of the ship, cargo, and freight, and their respective heirs, executors, and
administrators, for the salvage which may be adjudged to be payable in respect
of the ship, cargo, and freight respectively to the extent of the security
given.

(2) Any agreement made under this section may be adjudicated on and enforced
in the same manner as a bond executed under the provisions of this Part of
this Act relating to salvage by Her Majesty's ships, and on any such agreement
being made the salvor and the master shall respectively make the statements
required by this Part of this Act to be made in the case of the bond, but
their statements need not be made on oath.

(3) The salvor shall transmit the statements made, as soon as practicable, to
the court in which the agreement is to be adjudicated upon.

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