Merchant Shipping Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Wreck and Salvage
166. Recourse for life salvage payment
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This section applies where —
services are rendered wholly or in part within Singapore in saving life from any ship or elsewhere in saving life from any Singapore ship; and
the ship and other property are destroyed, or the sum to which the salvor is entitled under paragraph 2 of Article 16 of the Salvage Convention is less than a reasonable sum for the services rendered in saving life.
Where this section applies, the Minister may pay to the salvor out of the Consolidated Fund such sum or additional sum as the Minister thinks fit for the services rendered in saving life.
salvor
“salvor”, in relation to salvage services rendered by the officers or crew or part of the crew of any naval ship, means the person in command of that ship;