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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Salvage

220: Actions for indemnity

You could also call this:

"Get someone to pay you back for salvage costs within 2 years if they agreed to cover it"

If you have to pay for a salvage operation and someone has agreed to cover that cost for you, you must take action to get them to pay within 2 years. You need to do this because you are relying on them to cover the cost. If you do not take action within 2 years, you will no longer be able to ask them to pay.

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Part 17Salvage

220Actions for indemnity

  1. Any person who—

  2. is liable to pay a payment in respect of a salvage operation; and
    1. is indemnified against that liability—
        1. shall take action to enforce that indemnity within 2 years of the liability arising and, in the event of failure to do so, that right of enforcement shall no longer be available to that person.