2 Application of Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1900. E+W+S

Where—

(a) a harbour authority is liable for any loss or damage occurring outside the harbour of that authority in consequence of directions given by a harbour master in purported exercise of his powers under section 1 above; and

(b) the provisions of the [F1 section 191 of the M1 Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (which limits the liability of harbour, conservancy, dock and canal authorities)] would apply so as to limit that liability if the loss or damage in question had occurred in that harbour;

then, for the purposes of that Act, that loss or damage shall be deemed to have occurred in that harbour.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s.2(b) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c.21, ss.314(2), 316(2), SCh.13 para.74 (with s.312(1))

Marginal Citations

M1 1995 c.21