New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 95

95 Damages for personal injury

1 Subject to subsection (2), where, by the fault of 2 or more ships, any person on board one of the ships is killed or injured, the liability of the owners of the ships shall be joint and several.

2 Nothing in subsection (1) shall—

a) deprive any person of any right of defence on which, had this section not been enacted, that person might have relied in an action brought against that person by the injured person or by any person entitled to sue in respect of the death of any person on board; or

b) affect the right of any person to limit that person’s liability in the manner provided by law.

Note: 1952 No 49 s 470 ; 1987 No 184 s 23