Section 168
Section 168
Where any dispute arises as to the apportionment of any amount of salvage among the owners, master, pilot, crew and other persons in the service of any foreign vessel, the amount shall be apportioned by the court or person making the apportionment in accordance with the law of the country to which the vessel belongs.
Jurisdiction in Salvage 169.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the High Court or the Court of a Magistrate, as the case may be, shall have jurisdiction to decide upon all claims whatsoever relating to salvage, whether the services in respect of which salvage is claimed were performed out of or within Brunei, or partly out of and partly within Brunei, and whether the wreck in respect of which salvage is claimed is found on the sea or on the land or partly on the sea and partly on the land.
Fees of Receivers of Wreck 170.
( 1) There shall be paid to every receiver the expenses properly incurred by hin1 in the performance of his duties, and also, in respect of such other matters as may be pre-scribed, such fees, not exceeding such amounts, as may be prescribed, but a receiver shall not be entitled to any remun-eration other than those payments.
(2)
The receiver shall, in addition to all other rights and remedies for the recovery of those expenses or fees, have the same rights and remedies in respect thereof as a salvor has in respect of salvage due to him.
(3)
Whenever any dispute arises as to the amount payable to any receiver in respect of expenses or fees, that 119
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Merchant Shipping dispute shall be determined by His Majesty, or such person as he may appoint in that behalf, whose decision shall be final and shall not be subject to appeal to or review in any court.
( 4) All fees received by a receiver in respect of any services perforn1ed by him as receiver shall be accounted for the Government, and shall be applied in defraying any ex-penses duly incurred in carrying this Act into effect, and, subject to such application, shall form part of the Consoli-dated Fund.