Before any such money as aforesaid is distributed among the officers and crew of any of Her Majesty’s ships of war, there shall be paid, under the direction of the Admiralty, to the ship’s agent a per-centage of two and a half per centum on the net amount actually distributable, as the sole and full remuneration of the ship’s agent for his services in the case.
In the following cases,—
Where more than one of Her Majesty’s ships of war are entitled to participate in any such money,—
Where the ship’s agent is changed pending proceedings,—
the ship’s agent’s per-centage shall, in case of difference, be apportioned between or among the respective agents of the several ships, or the several persons having been and being the ship’s agent (as the case may be), in such manner as the registrar of the High Court of Admiralty thinks just, having regard to the duration and character of the services of the several agents in the case, subject to objection to the registrar’s award to be taken before the judge of the court.