Part IX

Salvage and Wreck
Chapter III

Supplemental

Administration

Functions of Secretary of State as to wreck
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1
The Secretary of State shall have the general superintendence throughout the United Kingdom of all matters relating to wreck.
2
The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, appoint one or more persons to be receiver of wreck for the purposes of this Part and a receiver so appointed shall discharge such functions as are assigned to him by the Secretary of State.
3
Such public notice of appointments to the office of receiver shall be given as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate.