Merchant Shipping Act · s 169

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s 169Jurisdiction in Salvage

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the High Court or the Court of a Magistrate, as the case may be, shall have jurisdiction to decide upon all claims whatsoever relating to salvage, whether the services in respect of which salvage is claimed were performed out of or within Brunei, or partly out of and partly within Brunei, and whether the wreck in respect of which salvage is claimed is found on the sea or on the land or partly on the sea and partly on the land.