Singapore legislation
Section 202
Section 202
Costs of detention of unsafe ships
(1)
If it appears that there was no reasonable or probable cause for the provisional detention of a ship under section 113, the Authority shall be liable to pay to the owner of the ship the owner’s costs of and incidental to the detention and survey of the ship, and also compensation for any loss or damage sustained by the owner by reason of the detention or survey.
(2)
An action for any costs or compensation payable by the Authority under subsection (1) may be brought against the Director by his or her official title.
(3)
If —
a ship is finally detained under section 113;
a ship is provisionally detained under section 113 and the ship was, at the time of detention, an unsafe ship; or
a ship is detained under this Act which provides for the detention of a ship,the owner of the ship shall be liable to pay to the Authority its costs of and incidental to the detention and survey of the ship.
(4)
Any costs payable to the Authority under this Act may be recovered by the Director and those costs are, without affecting any other remedy, recoverable as salvage is recoverable.