1969 Ed.]
Merchant Shipping (Marine Courts) Regulations.
[CAP. 281
L3
[Subsidiary]
Provided that neither a party to the investigation nor any person who is required to give evidence before the court shall be bound to answer any question tending to incriminate him.
(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a marine court may receive and consider any affidavit or statutory declaration.
12. A marine court may proceed with the investigation hearing, whether or not the parties to the investigation, or any of them, are present.
13. The proceedings before a marine court shall commence with the production and examination of witnesses by the Director.
14. The marine court shall determine in which order the parties to the investigation may question a witness produced and examined by any other party.
15. No objection shall be allowed to any evidence adduced in the course of the examination of witnesses produced by the Director on the ground that such evidence is not relevant to any question in the statement of questions accompanying the notice of investigation served pursuant to paragraph (2) of regulation 3.
16. (1) At the conclusion of the examination of the witnesses produced by the Director, he shall state to the marine court, having regard to the evidence given by those witnesses, the questions which the court is to determine.
(2) In framing such questions, the Director shall not be bound by any question in the statement of questions accompanying the notice of investigation served pursuant to paragraph (2) of regulation 3.
(3) Any party may request the marine court to add further questions as questions which the court is to determine and if any other party objects to the addition of those questions the court, after considering the objections, shall determine whether or not those questions shall be questions which it is to determine.
17. (1) After the questions which the marine court is to determine have been settled, each party to the investigation may address the court and produce witnesses, including any witness produced by the Director.
(2) A marine court shall determine the order in which the parties to the investigation (other than the Director) may so address the court and produce witnesses.
Commencement of proceedings.
Cross-examination of witnesses.
Certain questions, etc. not to be objected to.
Framing of questions for court.
Calling of witnesses, etc. by other parties.