Jurisdiction of Supreme Court

(1) If the owner of any ship surveyed under this Part is dissatisfied with any order of the Harbour Master made upon such survey, he may apply to the Supreme Court. (2) The court may, upon such application, if it thinks fit, appoint one or more competent persons to survey the ship anew, and any surveyor so appointed shall have all the powers of the person by whom the original survey was made. (3) Where pursuant to sub-section (2), the court appoints one or more competent persons to survey the ship anew, the survey shall, if so required by the Harbour Master or the ship-owner, be made in the presence of any person or persons appointed by them respectively to attend at the survey. (4) The court may make such order as to– (a) the detention or release of the ship; (b) the payment of any costs and damages which may have been occasioned by her detention; 28 (c) the payment of the expenses of the original survey, and of the survey made upon the court’s order; and (d) the payment of any costs of, and incident to, the application, as to the court may seem just.