The Merchant Shipping Act, 2025
Section 259. Savings.
Nothing in this Part shall,---
(a) affect any treaty or arrangement with any foreign State to which India is a party with reference to the disposal of the proceeds of wrecks on their respective coasts; or
(b) entitle any person to salvage under this Act in respect of any property recovered by creeping or sweeping in contravention of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 (15 of 1908).
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