Singapore legislation
Clause 118
Clause 118
Inquiries and investigations into shipping casualties
(1)
Where any of the following casualties has occurred:
the loss or presumed loss, stranding, grounding, abandonment of or damage to a ship;
a loss of life or serious personal injury caused by fire on board or by an accident to a ship or ship’s boat, or by an accident occurring on board a ship or ship’s boat; or
any damage caused by a ship,and, at the time it occurred, the ship was registered in Singapore or the ship or boat was in Singapore —
the Director may cause a preliminary inquiry into the casualty to be held by a person appointed by him; and
the Minister may (whether or not a preliminary inquiry into the casualty has been held) cause a formal investigation into the casualty to be held by a Commissioner appointed by him.
(2)
A person appointed under this section to hold a preliminary inquiry shall for the purpose of the inquiry have the powers conferred on an inspector by section 206.