Cap. 234 Art. 312Shipping casualties. 

A shipping casualty shall be deemed to occur where -

(a) any ship is or is supposed to have been lost, abandoned, stranded or materially damaged;

(b) any ship or any ship’s boat or any cargo from that ship has caused or is supposed to have caused, any loss, abandonment, stranding or material damage, including loss of life of any person or injury sustained by any person;

(c) loss of life of any person has occurred on board any ship or any ship’s boat;

(d) any person has sustained injury on board any ship or any ship’s boat;

(e) the Minister by regulations has so prescribed.