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Wreck and Salvage Act, 1996
Act
1. Definitions
2. Application and interpretation of Convention
3. Court trying salvage claim may be assisted by assessors
4. Application to aircraft
5. Obligation to assist ships in distress
6. Duty to render assistance to persons in danger at sea
7. Duty of masters of ships in collision to render assistance
8. Salvage officers
9. Payment of allowances to salvage officers
10. Exercise of powers in absence of salvage officer
11. Investigation concerning ships wrecked, stranded or in distress
12. Powers to pass over adjoining lands
13. Power of salvage officer to suppress plunder and disorder
14. Interfering with wrecked ship or aircraft
15. Salvage payable for saving life
16. Salvage payable by Commissioner for Customs and Excise
17. Detention of wreck until salvage is paid
18. Powers of Authority in respect of certain wrecks and ships
19. Agreement to forfeit right to salvage is void
20. Restrictions on assignment of salvage
21. Regulations
22. Offences and penalties
23. Declaration of wreck to be a monument
24. Act to bind State
25. Amendment of section 1 of Act 105 of 1983, as amended by section 1 of Act 87 of 1992
26. Amendment of section 134 of Act 57 of 1951
27. Amendment of section 135 of Act 57 of
28. Repeal of sections 234, 258, 293 to 306, 330 and 331 of Act No. 57 of 1951
29. Amendment of section 344 of Act No. 57 of 1951
31. Short title and commencement
30. Substitution of section 345 of Act No. 57 of 1951, as amended by section 57 of Act No. 40 of 1963
Schedule : International Convention on Salvage, 1989
Chapter I : General Provisions
Chapter II : Performance of Salvage Operations
Chapter III : Rights of Salvors
Chapter IV : Claims and Actions
Attachment 1
“salvage officer”
means a salvage officer appointed in terms of
section 8
;
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