Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Cases in which naval courts may be summoned.

480. A court (in this Act called a naval court) may be summoned by any officer in command of any of Her Majesty’s ships on any foreign station, or, in the absence of such an officer, by any consular officer, in the following cases; (that is to say,)

(i) Whenever a complaint which appears to that officer to require immediate investigation is made to him by the master of any British ship, or by a certificated mate, or by any one or more of the seamen belonging to any such ship;

(ii) Whenever the interest, of the owner of any British ship or of the cargo thereof appears to that officer to require it; and

(iii) Whenever any British ship is wrecked, abandoned, or otherwise lost at or near the place where that officer may be, or whenever the crew or part of the crew of any British ship which has been wrecked, abandoned or lost abroad arrive at that place.