Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Attention is invited to section 280 of the Act, which empowers a Court of Surveyor an expert or experts to whom an appeal to a Court of Survey has been referred under section 282 to determine the procedure to be followed at the hearing of the appeal, subject to the provisions of the Act and the regulations made thereunder.

In so far, therefore, as any matter of procedure is not covered by the Act itself or the regulations following, the Court or the expert or experts are free to determine its or their own procedure.