Section 142Part 6 — PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS AND SAFETY OF NAVIGATION
Right to requisition ships when in distress
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142. (1) The master of a ship in distress, after consultation, so far as may be possible, with the masters of the ships which answer the master’s call for assistance, has the right to requisition one or more of those ships as the master considers best able to render assistance, and it shall be the duty of the masters of the ships requisitioned to comply with the requisition by proceeding with all speed to the assistance of persons in distress.
The master of a ship shall be released from the duty imposed by section 141(1) and, if the master’s ship has been requisitioned, from the duty imposed by subsection (1), if the master is informed by the persons in distress or by the master of another ship which has reached such persons that assistance is no longer required.