s.430Inquiries into and reports on deaths and injuries
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Section 430Part 17 — INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES INTO MARINE CASUALTIES

Inquiries into and reports on deaths and injuries

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Subject to subsection (6), where —
a person dies in a Cayman Islands ship or in a boat or life-raft from such a ship; or
a seafarer employed in, such a ship dies in a country outside the Islands,
an inquiry into the cause of the death shall be held by the Shipping Master.
Subject to subsection (6), where it appears to the Chief Executive Officer that —
in consequence of an injury sustained or a disease contracted by a person when the person was a seafarer employed in a Cayman Islands ship, the person ceased to be employed in the ship and subsequently died; and
the death occurred in a country outside the Islands during the period of one year beginning with the day on which the person so ceased to be employed,
the Chief Executive Officer may arrange for an inquiry into the cause of the death to be held by the Shipping Master.
Subject to subsection (6), where it appears to the Chief Executive Officer that a person may have —
died in a Cayman Islands ship or in a boat or life-raft from such a ship; or
been lost from such a ship, boat or life-raft and have died in consequence of being so lost,
the Chief Executive Officer may arrange for an inquiry to be held by the Shipping Master into whether the person died as mentioned above and, if the Shipping Master finds that the person did, into the cause of death.
The Shipping Master holding the inquiry shall, for the purpose of the inquiry, have the powers conferred on an inspector by section 416.
The Shipping Master shall make a report of findings of the Shipping Master to the Chief Executive Officer who shall make the report available —
on request to the next of kin of the person to whom the report relates; and
in any case, to any person requesting it who appears to the Chief Executive Officer to be interested.
No inquiry shall be held under this section where a coroner's inquest is to be held.

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