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(Foreign ships, overloading. Application to foreign 
ships of provisions as to detention). 25. Where a foreign 
ship has taken on hoard, all or any part of her cargo 
at a port in the United Kingdom, and is ichilst at that 
port unsafe by reason of overloading or improper loading, 
the provisions of this Act voith respect to the detention 
of ships shall apply to that foreign ship as if she 
were a British ship, with the following modifications: 
Í) A copy of order for the provisional detention of 
the ship shall he forthwith served on the Consular Offi,cer 
for the State to tohich the ship belongs at or nearest to 
the place ivhere the ship is detained; 
2) Where a ship has been provisionally detained, 
the Consular Officer, on the request of the Owner or 
Master of the ship, may require that the person appointed 
by the Board of Trade to survey the ship shall he 
accompanied by such person as the Consular Officer may 
select, and in such case, if the Surveyor and such person 
agree, the Board of Trade shall cause the ship to be 
detained or released accordingly ; but if they differ, the 
Board of Trade may act as if the requisition had not 
been made, and the Owner and Master shall have the 
appeal to the Court of Survey touching the report of the 
Surveyor which is before provided by this Act; and 
3) Where the Owner or Master of the ship appeals 
to the Court of Survey the Consular Officer, on the request 
of such Owner or Master, may appoint any competent 
person loho shall be Assessor in such case in lieu of the 
Assessor icho, if the ship were a British ship, toould be 
appointed otherwise than by the Board of Trade. 
In this section the expression „Consular OfficeC^ 
means any Consul General, Vice Consul, Consular agent, 
or other Officer recognised by a Secretary of State as a 
Consular Officer of a foreign State.“