Accidents

(1) Where any accident occurs in any port, then if that (a) is attended, or is of a kind usually attended, with loss of human life or with serious injury to person or property; (b) involves any collision between ships; (c) is of such other kind as the Minister may specify, the Ports Commissioner or a port manager shall, as soon as practicable, give notice of the occurrence of the accident to the Minister. 48 (2) The Ports Commissioner or a port manager may order such inquiry into any accident which occurs in any port as he may think fit and shall order such inquiry as the Minister thinks fit into any such accident when so required by the Minister. (3) The Ports Commissioner or a port manager shall submit a report to the Minister on any accident inquired into setting out, inter alia, the probable cause of such accident and the steps, if any, which have been taken or he has directed shall be taken with a view to avoiding a repetition thereof. (4) The Ports Commissioner or a port manager shall make to the Minister a return, in such form and at such intervals as the Minister may direct, of all accidents occurring in any port, whether or not such accident is attended with injury to any