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GENERAL "AVERAGE" RULES.

SOME PROPOSED CHANGES.

A STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES,

EXPENSES OF LIGHTENING." Rule VIII in the draft (Expenses of Tightening a Ship when Asboro and Con- sequent Damage) is also now, and reads thu

When a ship ashore and in a position of peril, and enrgo and ship's fuel and... stores or any of them are discharged in Tho repart has been issued of the com order to refloat her for the common safe- mitter which was appointed by the Inter-, the extra cost of lightening, lighter national Law. Association to prepare for hire, and reshipping (if incurred), and Consideration of the Conference of the the loss or damage sustained thereby shall Association at Stockholm this month be admitted as general average.

draft embodying a revision of the York.

From the existing Rule IX. (Cargo, Antwerp Rules and therein a declaration of the general principles applicable to Ships Materials, and Stores Burnt for shall be charged to the General Average. The Drafting Com Fuel) the words mittee was instructed to take, for its abipowner and " are, it is proposed. to guidance, the revision of the existing be omitted. Rule X (A) (Expenses of rules made by the Average Adjusters Fort of Refuge, etc.) is unamended; and Association of the United Kingdom, with Rule X. (B) is only altered by the addi- the modifications suggested by the tion of the words "fuel or stores." Rule French, Dutch, German, Swedish, Nor-X. (C) is, it is proposed, to read as fol- wegian and Belgiaa committees and any lows:-

further reports which the National Com- Whenever the cost of handing or discharg mitters might send in, and, in preparing ing cargo, fuel or stores is admissible as the declaration of the general principles, general average, the cost of reloading to take into consideration the Draft Code and stowing such cargo, fual or stores prepared by Judge Dowdall, K.C., and on board the ship, together with all stor the Avant-Projet of M. Dor.

age charges (including fire insurance, if such cargo, or stores. In their present report the committee incurred) on place on record their bigh appreciation hall likewise be so admitted. But when of the value and importante of the work the ship is condemned or does not pre- done by the various authorities and com.seed on her original voyage, no storage mitters by whom the documente were pre-expenses incurred after the date of the pared. These documents are printed in ship's condemnation or of the abandon- an appendix to the report. The Draft-eat of the voyage shall be admitted as. ng Committee consisted of Sir Norman general average. In the event of the ship Hill, M. Peopold Dor, Mr. G. R. Rudalf, being condamned before completion of and Judge Dowdall, with Mr. A. Fdischarge of cargo, storage expenses, 53 fabove, shall be admitted as general aver- Greenwood as secretary.

age up to the date of completion of dis- charge..

NEW EXPLANATORY RULES. The six, new explanatory rules are as follows:-

Rule A.-There is a general average net where any extraordinary sacrifice or ex- penditure is voluntarily and reasonably

ו .

Rule X. (D) remains, unaltered with the exception of the following additional sentence:-

Where the cargo or a portion of it is forwarded to destination as above, such ade or incurred in time of peril for cargo shall remain liable to contribute the purpose of preserving the property to the general average as if it had not imperilled in a common maritime adven- been forwarded-

ture...

Similarly, Rulo X. (Wages and Maintenance of Crew in Fors of Relage, General average sacrifices and expenses etc.) is unchanged, except for the addi- shall be borne by the different contribution of the following sentence: ing interests on the basit hereinafter pro- Where cargo baa been forwarded as vided.

provided for in Büle X. (D), the ship- owner's right of recovery from it in general average for wages and mainten lance above shall not be prejudiced:

thereby.

Rule B.-Only such damages, losses, or cxpenses which are the direct and néces sary consequence of the general "average act shall be allowed as general average.

Damage or loss sustained by the ship or cargo through delay on the voya" (such as demurrage) and indirect loss (such as loss of market) from the same cause shall not be admitted as general

Hule XII in the Draft (Damage to the same as the old rule, with the addi Cargo in. Discharging, etc.) is practically tion of the words in italics:

Damage to or loss of cargo, fuel, or stores caused in the act of handling, dis- charging, storing, reloading, and "stow- Ruf -Rights to contribution ining, shall be made good as general aver general average shall not be affected though the danger which gave rise to the sacrifice or expenditure may have been due to the fault of one of the parties to

average.

8, when and only when the cost of those measures respectively is admitted as general average.

Bule XIII provides, in detail, for

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Rule D.-The onus of proof is upon the party claiming in general average to Where temporary repairs are effected Show that the loss or expense claimed is to a ship at a port of loading, call, or properly allowable as general average refuge, for the common safety or of dam- Rule E-Any extra exprase or lossage caused by general average sacrifice, incurred in place of another expense or the cost of such repairs shall be admitted loss which would bave been allowable na as general average; but where temporary general average, shall be deemed to be repairs of accidental damage are effected general average and to allowed, but only merely to enable the adventure to be com up to the amount of the general average pleted, the cost of such repairs shall be expense or loss avoided.

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Rule F-General average shall be adjusted as regards both loss and contri- bution upon the basis of values at the place where the adventure enda.

This rule shall not affect the deter-

mination of the place at which the aver nge statement is to be made up.

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AMENDMENT OF "RLISTING RULES.

ed there.

4

∙LOSS OF FREIGHT.

freight, the following clauses have been In Rule XV., dealing with loss of

| added:-- H

Dedaction shall be made from the The existing York-Antwerp Rules, 1800,charges which the owner thereof would amount of gross freight lost of the which were adopted at the Liverpool have incurred to earn such freight, but Conference, in that year, of the Asso-has, in consequence of the sacrifice, not ciation for the Reform and Condifica. incurred.

tion of the Law of Nations, number 15. The proposed now rules, apart from those shall able be given for freight earned When the voyage is continued, credit describing general principles, which are on goods carried in lien of goods sacri- quoted above, number. 24. Some of the fed, less expenses actually incurred in existing rules have been amended; others earning such freight, including an allow have been left unchanged and a number ance for extra detention of the vessel of new rules have been added. The redue solely to the engagement and load- vised and new rules are set out in the ing of the new carga. present report in English and French side by side, and where the existing rules be made good for Cargo Lost or Damage In preparing Bule XVI. (Amount to have been amended the new words are by. Sacrifice) the words in italics baro shown in italics. Thus Rule I., dealing been added to the existing rule:- with the jettison of deck cargo, rends in

The amount to be made "good as

ite proposed amended form as follows: loss of goods sacrificed shall be the lose No jettison of deck cargo shall be made which the owner of the goods has sustain.. good na general average, unless such decked thereby, based on the market values cargo is carried in accordance with the at the date of the arrival of the vessel or recognized custom of the trade.

Every structure not built in with the frame of the vessel shall be considered to be part of the deck of the vessel.

determination of the adventure where this ends "at a place other than the (original destination, irrespective of any

sale “to arrive."

Where goods so damaged are sold after Rule 11. (Damage by Jettison and Sacrifice for the Common Safety), Rule arrival, the loss to be made good in III. (Extinguishing Fire on Shipboard), applying to the sound value on the date general averago shall be calculated by and Rule IV. (Cutting Away Wreck) are of arrival of the vessel the percentage unchanged. From the existing Rule of loss resulting from a comparison of (Voluntary Stranding), the words sink the proceeds with the sound value on date or" have been omitted from the existing of sale. rule, which reads as follows: "

Principal amendments of Bule XVII. When a ship is intentionally run on (Contributory Values) are the additions shore, and the circumstances are such of the words:

that if that course were not adopted the When a ship is in ballast, but under would inevitably sink, or drive on shore charter, the ship and the net freight (com- or on rocks, no loss or damage caused to puted as above) earned under the charter the ship, cargo, or freight, or any of shall contribute to general average. them by such intentional running on shore shall be made good as general aver- Age. But in all other cases where a ship is intentionally run on shore for the common safety, the consequent loss or damage shall be allowed a general aver

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