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Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949
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21Signals of distress
(1)His Majesty in Council may prescribe what signals shall be used by ships as signals of distress.
(2)Rules may be made by the Minister prescribing the circumstances in which, and the purposes for which, any signal prescribed by Order in Council under the last preceding subsection is to be used and the circumstances in which it is to be revoked.
(3)If the master of a ship uses or displays or causes or permits any person under his authority to use or display—
(a)any signal prescribed by Order in Council under this section except in the circumstances and for the purposes prescribed by the rules made under this section ; or
(b)any private signal, whether registered or not, that is liable to be mistaken for any signal so prescribed by Order in Council,
he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and shall further be liable to pay compensation for any labour undertaken, risk incurred or loss sustained in consequence of the signal's having been supposed to be a signal of distress; and that compensation may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered in the same manner as salvage.
(4)Nothing in subsection (4) of section twenty-four of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (which requires persons in charge of wireless stations to give facilities for the reception of reports relating to dangers to navigation), shall interfere with the transmission of signals prescribed under this section.
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