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MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE, 1953.
(Ordinance 14 of 1953).
TABLE 7.
Merchant Shipping (Court of Survey) REGULATIONS, 1953.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 28 and 57 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, and of every other power him enabling, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
mencemant.
1. These regulations constitute Table 7 under the Ordinance Citation and may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Court of Survey) and com- Regulations, 1953, and shall come into operation on the coming into operation of the Ordinance.
#. Where the owner or master of a ship, hereinafter called Filing of the appellant, desires to appeal to the court of survey, he shall notice of
appeal. file at the office of the Director of Marine a notice in the prescribed Form 1, form.
3.
Immediately on the filing of the notice of appeal the Proceed- Director shall inform the Governor, and if the ship is a foreign ings for constitu- ship the Director shall give notice to the consular officer for the ting court. state to which the ship belongs and Such consular officer may nominate one person to act as a member of the court of survey whose name shall be submitted to the Governor at the same time.
4. When the Governor has issued his warrant constituting Summoning
of court. the court, the person appointed to be the president of the court,
Form 2. hereinafter referred to as the president, shall summon the court in the prescribed form.
6. If the survey has been made on the complaint of any Notice to person, hereinafter called the complainant, the president shall com-
plainant send to him notice of the time and place appointed for the bearing. of hearing.
8.
Previous to the bearing the Governor shall forward to Forward- the president, to be produced as evidence at the hearing, an ing copy
of report. official copy of the report of the surveyor,
1. The court shall if practicable be summoned to hear the Time of hearing. appeal on a day not later than fourteen days from the filing of the notice of appeal.