Section 401
Search warrants where wreck is concealed.
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.
Where a receiver of wreck suspects or
receives information that any wreck is secreted or is in the possession of some person who is not the
owner thereof or that any wreck is otherwise improperly dealt with, he may apply to the nearest
1[Judicial Magistrate of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,] for a search
warrant, and that 1[Judicial Magistrate of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may
be,] shall have power to grant such warrant and the receiver of wreck by virtue thereof may enter any
house or other place wherever situate and also any vessel and search for, seize and detain any such
wreck there found.
Notes
1 Subs. by Act 12 of 1983, s. 17 and the Schedule, for "magistrate" (w.e.f. 18-5-1983).