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Exclusion of liability of Authority
90. Despite the grant of any public licence, the Authority shall not be liable in any circumstances for any injury, loss, damage or cost sustained by any person as a result of any default, negligence, breach or other wrongful act or omission of any public licensee or any agent or employee of the licensee.
Limitation of Authority’s liability for loss or damage to or on board any vessel
91.—(1) The Authority shall not, where, without its actual fault or privity, any loss, damage or destruction is caused to any vessel or to any goods or other thing on board any vessel, be liable to damages beyond an aggregate amount not exceeding in the currency of Singapore the equivalent of 1,000 gold francs for each ton of the vessel’s tonnage. (2) For the purposes of this section —(a) the amount to be taken in the currency of Singapore as equivalent to 1,000 gold francs is as published in the Gazette under section 136(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 as in force before 1 May 2005; and (b) the tonnage of any vessel is ascertained as provided by section 136(2) of that Act, and the register of any vessel is sufficient evidence that the gross tonnage and the deduction therefrom and the registered tonnage are as stated in the register. (3) This section applies without prejudice to any limitation of liability for loss or damage which may be available to the Authority under section 136 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.
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