s.426Investigations of shipping casualties
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Section 426Part 17 — INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES INTO MARINE CASUALTIES

Investigations of shipping casualties

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Where any of the following casualties occur, that is to say —
the loss or presumed loss, stranding, grounding, abandonment of, or damage to, a ship;
a loss of life or serious injury to any person, caused by fire on board, or by any accident to a ship or ship's boat, or by any accident occurring on board a ship or ship's boat; or
any damage caused by a ship,
and, at the time it occurs, the ship was a Cayman Islands ship or the ship or ship's boat was in Cayman Islands waters, the Minister may cause a marine safety investigation into the casualty to be held by a person appointed for the purpose by the Minister as an inspector of marine casualties who shall have the powers conferred by section 417.
Whether or not a marine safety investigation into the casualty has been held under subsection (1), the Minister may cause a formal inquiry to be held by a Board appointed for that purpose.

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