Singapore legislation

Section 111

of Merchant Shipping Act

Section 111

Summary remedies not to affect other remedies

(1)

Nothing in section 110 or in the sections relating to the offences of desertion or absence without leave shall take away or limit any remedy by action or otherwise which an owner or master would but for those provisions have for any breach of contract in respect of the matters constituting an offence under those sections.

(2)

An owner or master shall not be compensated more than once in respect of the same damage.[126