Section 237

if the salvage is due in respect of services rendered in assisting any vessel, or in saving life therefrom, or in saving the cargo or apparel thereof, detain the vessel and cargo or apparel; and

if the salvage is due in respect of the saving of any wreck, and the wreck is not sold as unclaimed under this Part, detain the wreck.

Subject as hereinafter mentioned, the Receiver of Wreck shall detain the vessel and the cargo and the apparel or the wreck (in this Part referred to as “detained property”) until payment is made for salvage or process is issued for the arrest or detention of the detained property by the High Court.

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The Receiver of Wreck may release any detained property if security is given to his satisfaction, or, if the claim for salvage exceeds one thousand dollars and any question is raised as to the sufficiency of the security, to the satisfaction of the High Court.

Any security given for salvage in pursuance of this section to an amount exceeding one thousand dollars may be enforced by the High Court in the same manner as if bail had been given in that Court.

Sale of detained property by Receiver.