Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993

22 In section 518 of the 1894 Act (duties of finder of wreck, etc)—

(a) in paragraph (a), omit the words “of the district”;

(b) in paragraph (b), for the words following “thereof” substitute “give notice to the receiver that he has found or taken possession of it and, as directed by the receiver, either hold it to the receiver’s order or deliver it to the receiver;”;

(c) after “recovered” insert “, except in Scotland,”;

(d) the existing words so amended shall be subsection (1) of the section; and

(e) after that subsection add—

“(2) In Scotland, any sum payable under subsection (1) above to the owner of the wreck or to the persons entitled to the wreck shall, for the purposes of the sum’s recovery, be regarded as a debt due to the owner or as the case may be to those persons.”.