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

Power of court to stay proceedings where fund is constituted.

15.—Where a fund is constituted with a court in accordance with Article 11 of the 1976 Convention for the payment of claims arising out of any occurrence, the court may stay any proceedings relating to any claim arising out of that occurrence which are pending in that court, or any court of lower jurisdiction to that court, against the person by whom the fund has been constituted.