HL Deb 28 July 1981 vol 423 c668

20Schedule 3, page 96, leave out lines 11 to 23.

21Schedule 3, lint 24, leave out "not covered by subsection (3) of this section."

22Schedule 3, leave out lines 29 to 37 and insert— (5) In the case of any such claim as is mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (c) to (m) of section 56(1) of this Act,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 of 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 a county 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.".

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, Amendments Nos. 20, 21 and 22 are consequential on Amendment No. 3, and I have already spoken to them. I beg to move.

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

On Question, Motion agreed to.