Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Act, 1993

Limitation of certain actions.

36.—(1) No action shall be maintainable to enforce a claim relating to payment under this Part if arbitral or judicial proceedings have not been duly instituted within the appropriate period.

(2) This section shall not apply in cases to which section 46 of the Civil Liability Act, 1961 , applies.

(3) In this section “the appropriate period” means—

(a) the period ending two years after the date that the salvage operations were terminated by the person concerned, or

(b) where there is in writing and signed by the person against whom the claim is made—

(i) an acknowledgement within the said period so ending, the period ending two years after the date that the acknowledgement was made, or

(ii) commencing within the period so ending, a series of succeeding acknowledgements each made within the period of two years of the date of the immediately preceding acknowledgement in the series, the period ending two years after the date the last acknowledgement of such successive acknowledgements was made.