Version Superseded: 10/09/2003
Point in time view as at 31/01/1997. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Merchant Shipping Act 1995, Section 140 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a company or other body is not one to whom section 695 or section 725 of the M1Companies Act 1985 (service of notices) applies so as to authorise the service of a direction on that body under either of those sections, he may give a direction under section 137 of this Act—
(a)to that body, as the owner of, or the person in possession of, a ship, by serving the direction on the master of the ship; or
(b)to that body, as a salvor, by serving the direction on the person in charge of the salvage operations.
(2)For the purpose of giving or serving a direction under section 137 to or on any person on a ship, a person acting on behalf of the Secretary of State shall have the right to go on board the ship.
(3)In the application of subsection (1) above to Northern Ireland, for references to sections 695 and 725 of the M2Companies Act 1985 there shall be substituted references to Articles 645 and 673 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
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