s 118 Inquiries and investigations into shipping casualties
118.—(1) Where any of the following casualties has occurred:(a) the loss or presumed loss, stranding, grounding, abandonment of or damage to a ship; (b) a loss of life or serious personal injury caused by fire on board or by an accident to a ship or ship’s boat, or by an accident occurring on board a ship or ship’s boat; (c) any damage caused by a ship, and, at the time it occurred, the ship was registered in Singapore or the ship or boat was in Singapore — (d) the Director may cause a preliminary inquiry into the casualty to be held by a person appointed by him or her; and (e) the Minister may (whether or not a preliminary inquiry into the casualty has been held) cause a formal investigation into the casualty to be held by a Commissioner appointed by him or her. (2) A person appointed under this section to hold a preliminary inquiry is to for the purpose of the inquiry have the powers conferred on an inspector by section 206.