Cap. 234 Art. 327Powers and procedure of the court of survey. 

(1) The court of survey shall hear every case in open court.

(2) The chairman of the court may appoint any competent person or persons to survey the ship and report thereon to the court.

(3) The chairman of the court, and each assessor, and every person appointed by the chairman to survey a ship shall have for the purposes of this Act all the powers of a person appointed under this Part of this Act to hold a preliminary inquiry into a shipping casualty; and the provisions of article 313(3) and (4) shall, with the requisite modifications, apply for the purposes of this article as they apply for the purposes of that article.

(4) The chairman of the court shall have the same powers as the Minister to order the ship to be released or finally detained but, unless one of the assessors concurs in an order for the detention of the ship, the ship shall be released.

(5) The owner, or the master, or the bareboat charterer of the ship, and any person appointed by the owner, or the master, or the bareboat charterer and also any person appointed by the Minister, may attend at any inspection or survey made in pursuance of this article.