Part IV

Safety

Unsafe ships

Power to detain dangerously unsafe ship
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1
Where a ship in a port in the United Kingdom appears to a relevant inspector to be a dangerously unsafe ship the ship may be detained.
2
The power of detention conferred by subsection (1) above is exercisable in relation to foreign ships as well as United Kingdom ships.
3
The officer detaining the ship shall serve on the master of the ship a detention notice which shall—
a
state that the relevant inspector is of the opinion that the ship is a dangerously unsafe ship;
b
specify the matters which, in the relevant inspector’s opinion, make the ship a dangerously unsafe ship; and
c
prohibit the ship from going to sea until it is released by a competent authority.
4
In the case of a ship which is not a British ship the officer detaining the ship shall cause a copy of the detention notice to be sent as soon as practicable to the nearest consular officer for the country to which the ship belongs.
5
In this section—
- “competent authority” means any officer mentioned in section 284(1); and
- “relevant inspector” means any person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section 258(1).