Section 350
Report to Central Government of accidents to ship.
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.
When a ship has sustained or
caused any accident occasioning loss of life or any serious injury to any person or has received any
material damage affecting her seaworthiness or her efficiency either in her hull or is so altered in any
part of her machinery as not to correspond with the particulars contained in any of the certificates
issued under this Act in respect of the ship, the owner or master shall, within twenty-four hours after
the happening of the accident or damage or as soon thereafter as possible, transmit to the Central
Government or the nearest principal officer a report of the accident or damage and of the probable
cause thereof stating the name of the ship, her official number, if any, her port of registry and the
place where she is.