Merchant Shipping Act · s 157

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s 157

(1)

Where a receiver suspects or receives informa-tion that any wreck is secreted or 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 any Court of a Magistrate for a search warrant.

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Interfering with wrecked vessel or wreck

Concealment of wreck

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Salvage pay-able for sav-ing life

Salvage of cargo or wreck

Merchant Shipping

(2)

Such court may grant such a warrant, and the receiver 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.

(3)

If any such seizure of wreck is made in consequ-ence of information given by any person to the receiver, the informer shall be entitled, by way of salvage, to such sum not exceeding in any case $100 as the receiver allows.