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Merchant Shipping Act 1995 s 126

s 126 Powers of shipowner to land goods

126.—(1) In the absence of any arrangement whereby the owner of any goods imported in any ship into any port or place in Singapore is entitled to land or take delivery of the goods, or in case the owner of the goods is not ready or does not offer to land or take delivery under such arrangement as soon as the ship is ready to unload, a shipowner may land or unship the goods imported in any ship into Singapore at any time after the arrival of the ship. (2) Where a shipowner lands goods under subsection (1), the shipowner must place them, or cause them to be placed —(a) if any wharf or warehouse is named in the charter-party, bill of lading or agreement, as the wharf or warehouse where the goods are to be placed and if they can be conveniently there received, on that wharf or in that warehouse; and (b) in any other case, on some wharf or in some warehouse on or in which goods of a like nature are usually placed.

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