Section 395
Procedure to be observed by persons finding wreck.
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.
Any person finding and taking
possession of any wreck within any local limits for which there is a receiver of wreck, or bringing
within such limits any wreck which has been found and taken possession of elsewhere, shall, as soon
as practicable--
(a) if he be the owner thereof, give the receiver of wreck notice in writing of the finding thereof and of the marks by which such wreck is distinguished;
(b) if he be not the owner of such wreck, deliver the same to the receiver of wreck.
(a) if he be the owner thereof, give the receiver of wreck notice in writing of the finding thereof and of the marks by which such wreck is distinguished;
(b) if he be not the owner of such wreck, deliver the same to the receiver of wreck.