Section 338
Liability of shipowner for costs when ship rightly detained.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
If a ship is finally detained
under this Part, or if it appears that a ship provisionally detained was at the time of such detention
unsafe, or if a ship is detained in pursuance of any provision of this Part which provides for the
detention of a ship until a certain event occurs, the owner of the ship shall be liable to pay to the
Central Government its costs of and incidental to the detention and survey of the ship; and the ship
shall not be released until such costs are paid.