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Maritime Conventions
[1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 57] 1015
A.D. IQTI] vessel and any other vessel or vessels, and a proportion of the damages is recovered against the owners of one of the vessels which exceeds the proportion in which she was in fault, they may recover by way of contribution the amount of the excess from the owners of the other vessel or vessels to the extent to which those vessels were respectively in fault:
Provided that no amount shall be so recovered which could not, by reason of any statutory or contractual limitation of, or exemption from, liability, or which could not for any other reason, have been recovered in the first instance ás damages by the persons entitled to sue therefor.
(2) In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the persons entitled to any such contribution as aforesaid shall, for the purpose of recovering the same, haye, subject to the pro- visions of this Act, the same rights and powers as the persons entitled to sue for damages in the first instance.
4. [Subs. (1) rep. 17 & 18 Geo5. c. 42 (S.L.R.)]
Abolition of
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(2) The failure of the master or person in charge of a vessel presump- to comply with the provisions of section four hundred and tions of twenty-two of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, (which im- fault. poses a duty upon masters and persons in charge of vessels 57 & 58 Vict. after a collision to stand by and assist the other vessel) shall c. 60. not raise any presumption of law that the collision was caused by his wrongful act, neglect, or default, and accordingly sub- section (2) of that section shall be repealed.
5.[] Any enactment which confers on any court Admiralty Jurisdiction jurisdiction in respect of damage shall have effect as though in cases of referentes to such damage included references to damages for loss of life
or personal loss of life or personal injury, and accordingly proceedings injury. in respect of such damages may be brought in rem or in
Provisions as to Salvage
der assist--
6.[*] (1) The master or person in charge of a vessel shall, Ceneral so far as he can do so without serious danger to his own vessel, duty to ren- her crew and passengers (if any), render assistance to every person, even if such person be a subject of a foreign State at war with His Majesty', who is found at sea in danger of being danger at lost, and, if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of a mis- sea. demeanour.
(2) Compliance by the master or person in charge of a vessel with the provisions of this section shall not affect his right or the right of any other person to salvage.
[ Rep. (High Court) (E.). 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 19. 3. 226, sch. 6, but see ss. 22 (2). 33 (2): (County Courts) (E.), 24 & 25 Geo. 5. c. 17. s. 34, sch. 5.) Excluded, S.R. 20. 1921 (No. 1236) p. 34.
Saved, 22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 9. s. 25 (7).]
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