Merchant Shipping Act : Search warrants where wreck is concealed. Indian Bare Acts :

Merchant Shipping Act,1958

Act No : 44

Section : Search warrants where wreck is concealed.

401. Search warrants where wreck is concealed. Where a receiver of wreck suspects or receives information that any wreck is secreted or is in the possession of some person who is not the owner thereof or that any wreck is otherwise improperly 584 dealt with, he may apply to the nearest 1*[Judicial Magistrate of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,] for a search warrant, and that magistrate shall have power to grant such warrant and the receiver of wreck by virtue thereof may enter any house or other place wherever situate and also any vessel and search for, seize and detain any such wreck there found. Salvage