Section 257: Adjudication of disputes between ship owner and salvor.

The Merchant Shipping Act, 2025Central Act · Act 24 of 2025

(1) Either party to the salvage contract shall prefer an arbitration for a dispute that is not resolved by the Director-General under section 256:

Provided that where the salvage contract does not provide for the resolution of disputes by arbitration, the disputes shall be adjudicated in accordance with the salvage contract.

(2) Any person aggrieved by the arbitral award may appeal to the concerned High Court in accordance with the applicable law.

(3) Any dispute involving more than one claimant to the salvage amount shall be decided by the High Court.

(4) The High Court may, by interim order, direct that the salvor shall be paid such amount as may appear to it to be fair and just.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Merchant Shipping Act, 2025
Section	257
Marginal note	Adjudication of disputes between ship owner and salvor.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? The Merchant Shipping Act, 2025 is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.