HL Deb 28 July 1981 vol 423 c660

5 Clause 21, page 17, line 27, leave out subsection (5) and insert—

"(5) In the case of any such claim as is mentioned in section 20(2)(e) to (r), where—

  1. (a) the claim arises in connection with a ship; and
  2. (b) the person who would be liable on the claim in an action in personam ("the relevant person") was, when the cause of action arose, the owner or charterer of, or in possession or in control of, the ship,

an action in rem may (whether or not the claim gives rise to a maritime lien on that ship) be brought in the High Court against—

  1. (i) that ship, if at the time when the action is brought the relevant person is either the beneficial owner of that ship as respects all the shares in it or the charterer of it under a charter by demise; or
  2. (ii) any other ship of which, at the time when the action is brought, the relevant person is the beneficial owner as respects all the shares in it.".

3.11 p.m.

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 5.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.