Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act, 1996

Restriction on right to limit liability.

11.—(1) Notwithstanding paragraph 1 (d) or 1 (e) of Article 2 of the 1976 Convention, the right to limit liability under that Convention shall not apply to claims (including claims under Part IV of the Act of 1993) in respect of the raising, removal, destruction or the rendering harmless of a ship which is sunk, wrecked, stranded or abandoned, including anything that is or has been on board such a ship and Article 3 (claims excepted from limitation) of that Convention shall be construed accordingly.

(2) Subsection (1) shall have effect in lieu of section 53 of the Act of 1993.

(3) In this section “the Act of 1993” means the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Act, 1993 .