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(b) a legal liability is created in some person other than the
owner to pay damages in respect of the said loss or damage;
the owner shall be entitled to be indemnified by that other person against any claim in respect of the said loss or damage.
Section 51. (1) Any services rendered in assisting, or in saving life from, or in saving the cargo or apparel of, an aircraft
in, on or over the sea or any tidal water, or on or over the shores of the sea or any tidal water, shall be deemed to be salvage
Similar provisions are required but-
(a)
it will be for the Governor in Council
to make regulation;
services in all cases in which they would have been salvage services if they had been rendered in relation to a vessel; and where salvage services are rendered by an aircraft to any property or person, the owner of the aircraft shall be entitled to the same reward for those
services as he would have been entitled to if the aircraft had been
a vessel.
(b)
the reference to foreign aircraft shall
be deleted and replaced by a reference
to the aircraft not for the time being
registered in Hong Kong;
The foregoing provisions of this subsection shall have effect notwithstanding that the aircraft concerned is a foreign aircraft, not notwithstanding that the services in question are rendered elsewhere than within the limits of the territorial waters adjacent
to any part of Her Majesty's dominions.
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(c)
Her Majesty's Dominions will be replaced
by Hong Kong.
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