Section 470: Shipping casualties and report thereof

470. Shipping casualties and report thereof.—(1) For the purpose of inquiries and investigations under this Part, a shipping casualty shall be deemed to occur when- (a) on or near the coasts of Pakistan including the territorial waters or in the Pakistan exclusive zone thereof, any ship is lost, abandoned, stranded or materially damaged; (b) any ship causes loss or material damage to any other ship on or near such coasts, or within such waters; (c) any loss of life ensues by reason of any casualty happening to or on board any ship on or near those coasts or within such waters; (d) in any place, any such loss, abandonment, stranding, material damage or casualty occurs to, or on board of, any Pakistani ship, and any competent wit- ness thereof is found in Pakistan; or (e) any Pakistani ship is lost or is supposed to have been lost, and any evidence is obtainable in Pakistan as to the circumstances under which she proceeded to sea or was last heard of. (2) In the cases mentioned in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), the master, pilot, harbour master or other person in charge of the ship, or (where two or more ships are concerned) in charge of each ship, at the time of shipping casualty, shall give immediate notice of the shipping casualty to the officer appointed in this behalf by the Federal Government and if such offcer is not the Principal Officer himself, he shall inform the nearest Principal Officer of the shipping casualty. (3) In the case mentioned in clause (d) of sub-section (1) where the master of the ship concerned, or (except in the case of a loss) where the ship concerned proceeds to any place in Pakistan from the place where the shipping casualty has occurred, the master of the ship shall, on arriving in Pakistan, give immediate notice of the shipping casualty to the nearest Principal Officer. (4) Any person bound to give notice under this section and wilfully failing to give the same shall be liable to a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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