Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)Chapter IX : Offences, Penal Provisions and Legal Procedure343bis. Indemnification of State and Authority and certain persons in the employ of State and Authority |
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law contained, the State and the Authority and their officers and employees acting in the performance of their duties shall not be liable for—
| (a) | any loss or damage caused by the death of, or injury to, any person while conveyed in any vessel owned, operated or chartered by the State through its Department of Transport or by the Authority, or while entering or embarking upon or being in such vessel for the purpose of being conveyed in it, or while being in or alighting from such vessel after having been conveyed in it, if that person was so conveyed or to be so conveyed otherwise than in the performance of his duties as an officer or employee of the State or the Authority and otherwise than for reward; or |
| (b) | any loss of or damage to any goods conveyed in such a vessel otherwise than in the interests of the State or the Authority and otherwise than for reward. |
[Section 343bis substituted by section 2(2) of Act No. 5 of 1998]