Section 23
Section 23
Any services rendered in assisting or in saving life from, or in saving the cargo or apparel of, an aircraft in, on or over the sea or any tidal water, or on or over the shores of the sea or any tidal water, shall be deemed to be salvage services in all cases in which they would have been salvage services if they had been rendered in relation to a vessel; and, where salvage services are rendered by an aircraft to any property or person, the owner of the aircraft shall be entitled to the same reward for those services as he would have been entitled to if the aircraft had been a vessel.
(2)
Subsection (1) shall have effect notwithstanding that the aircraft concerned is a foreign aircraft, and notwithstanding that the services in question are rendered elsewhere than within the limits of the territorial waters adjacent to any part of Malaysia.
(3)
The provisions relating to vessels in distress (except in respect of examination of ships in distress) and provisions relating to dealing with
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wrecks, unclaimed wrecks, removal of wrecks, offences in respect of wrecks, collisions, salvage procedure, jurisdiction of the High Courts in salvage and
Receivers of wrecks contained in the law for the time being in force relating to merchant shipping shall apply in relation to aircrafts as those provisions apply to ships, with such modifications as may be necessary and in particular with the following exceptions, adaptations and modifications:
(a)
the word “vessel” and “ship” shall respectively include aircraft;
(b)
the expression “wreck” shall include any aircraft or any part of it found derelict in or upon the seas surrounding Malaysia or the tidal waters of it or any ports or harbours of it or upon or near the shores of the said seas and waters or found or taken possession of outside Malaysia and the said seas and tidal waters and subsequently brought within those limits;
(c)
the word “master” shall include the commander or other person in charge of an aircraft;
(d)
the word “shipwrecked” shall include aircraft wrecked.