Merchant Shipping Act 1894

Fees of Receivers of Wreck U.K.

567 Receivers fees . U.K.

(1) There shall be paid to every receiver the expenses properly incurred by him in the performance of his duties, and also, in respect of [F1 such matters as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument such fees as may be so prescribed] by the Board of Trade, but a receiver shall not be entitled to any remuneration other than those payments.

(2) The receiver shall, in addition to all other rights and remedies for the recovery of those expenses or fees, have the same rights and remedies in respect thereof as a salvor has in respect of salvage due to him.

(3) Whenever any dispute arises in any part of the United Kingdom as to the amount payable to any receiver in respect of expenses or fees, that dispute shall be determined by the Board of Trade, and the decision of that Board shall be final.

(4) All fees received by a receiver in respect of any services performed by him as receiver shall be carried to and form part of the Mercantile Marine Fund, but a separate account shall be kept of those fees, and the moneys arising from them shall be applied in defraying any expenses duly incurred in carrying into effect this Act in such manner as the Board of Trade direct.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 567(1) substituted (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 8(3), Sch. 4 para.32; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 567, 568 restricted (13.6.1992) by S.I. 1992/1293, art. 12, Sch

568 Remuneration for services by coastguard . U.K.

(1) Where services are rendered by any officers or men of the coastguard service in watching or protecting shipwrecked property, then, unless it can be shown that those services have been declined by the owner of the property or his agent at the time they were tendered, or that salvage has been claimed and awarded for those services, the owner of the property shall pay in respect of those services remuneration according to a scale to be fixed by the Board of Trade; and that remuneration shall be recoverable by the same means, and shall be paid to the same persons, and accounted for and applied in the same manner as fees received by receivers under the provisions of this Part of this Act.

(2) The scale fixed by the Board of Trade shall not exceed the scale by which remuneration to officers and men of the coastguard for extra duties in the ordinary service of the [F2 Commissioners of Customs and Excise] is for the time being regulated.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words substituted by virtue of Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2), Sch. 4 para. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Ss. 567, 568 restricted (13.6.1992) by S.I. 1992/1293, art. 12,Sch.