Section 396: Liability of ship owner for costs when ship rightly detained.––If a ship is — Pakistan Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 2001

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396. Liability of ship owner for costs when ship rightly detained.––If a ship is finally detained under this Chapter, or if it appears that a ship provisionally detained was at the time of such detention unsafe, or if a ship is detained in pursuance of any provisions of this Chapter which provide for the detention of a ship until a certain event occurs, the owner of the ship shall be liable to pay to the Federal Government the costs of, and incidental to, the detention and survey of the ship; and the ship shall not be released until such costs are paid.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

Related sections

Section 395: Liability of Federal Government for costs and damages when ship wrongly Section 397: Method of calculating costs of detention and survey.––For the purposes of this Section 394: Power to detain unsafe ship and procedure for detention Section 398: Power to require from complainant security for costs.––When a complaint is made Section 393: Obligation of ship owner to crew with respect to seaworthiness Section 399: Costs, etc., payable by Federal Government to be recovered from complainant.––

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