118. Inquiries and investigations into shipping casualties

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;

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 or her; 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 or her.