• Wreck and Salvage Act, 1996
  • Act
  • 1. Definitions
  • 2. Application and interpretation of Convention
  • 3. Court trying salvage claim may be assisted by assessors
  • 4. Application to aircraft
  • 5. Obligation to assist ships in distress
  • 6. Duty to render assistance to persons in danger at sea
  • 7. Duty of masters of ships in collision to render assistance
  • 8. Salvage officers
  • 9. Payment of allowances to salvage officers
  • 10. Exercise of powers in absence of salvage officer
  • 11. Investigation concerning ships wrecked, stranded or in distress
  • 12. Powers to pass over adjoining  lands
  • 13. Power of salvage officer to suppress plunder and disorder
  • 14. Interfering with wrecked ship or aircraft
  • 15. Salvage payable for saving life
  • 16. Salvage payable by Commissioner for Customs and Excise
  • 17. Detention of wreck until salvage is paid
  • 18. Powers of Authority in respect of certain wrecks and ships
  • 19. Agreement to forfeit right to salvage is void
  • 20. Restrictions on assignment of salvage
  • 21. Regulations
  • 22. Offences and penalties
  • 23. Declaration of wreck to be a monument
  • 24. Act to bind State
  • 25. Amendment of section 1 of Act 105 of 1983, as amended by section 1 of Act 87 of 1992
  • 26. Amendment of section 134 of Act 57 of 1951
  • 27. Amendment of section 135 of Act 57 of
  • 28. Repeal of sections 234, 258, 293 to 306, 330 and 331 of Act No. 57 of 1951
  • 29. Amendment of section 344 of Act No. 57 of 1951
  • 31. Short title and commencement
    • 30. Substitution of section 345 of Act No. 57 of 1951, as amended by section 57 of Act No. 40 of 1963
  • Schedule : International Convention on Salvage, 1989
    • Chapter I : General Provisions
    • Chapter II : Performance of Salvage Operations
    • Chapter III : Rights of Salvors
    • Chapter IV : Claims and Actions
    • Attachment 1