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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.“
