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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 568

Appointment of receivers of wreck.

568.(1) Where services are rendered by any officers or men of the coastguard
service in watching or protecting shipwrecked property, then, unless it can be
shown that those services have been declined by the owner of the property or
his agent at the time they were tendered, or that salvage has been claimed and
awarded for those services, the owner of the property shall pay in respect of
those services remuneration according to a scale to be fixed by the Board of
Trade; and that remuneration shall be recoverable by the same means, and shall
be paid to the same persons, and accounted for and applied in the same manner
as fees received by receivers under the provisions of this Part of this Act.

(2) The scale fixed by the Board of Trade shall not exceed the scale by which
remuneration to officers and men of the coastguard for extra duties in the
ordinary service of the Commissioners of Customs is for the time being
regulated.

Receivers' fees.

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