Act Number: 44

Act Name: The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-10-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 339: Method of calculating costs of detention and survey.
    For the purposes of this Act, the costs of and incidental to any proceeding before a Court of survey, and a reasonable amount in respect of the remuneration of the surveyor or any person appointed to represent the Central Government before the Court, shall be deemed to be part of the costs of the detention and survey of the ship.
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