Section 4: Director of Shipping
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Director of Shipping
There shall be a Director of Shipping who shall have the general
superintendence of this Act and the general supervision of all matters
relating to shipping and seamen and may—
(a) carry out such inspections or investigations as he may determine
to determine whether this Act, or any International Convention
or Code relating to shipping to which Mauritius is a party, is
being complied with;
(b) require a ship to be taken into dry docks for the purpose of
surveying or inspecting its hull; and
(c) detain a ship in respect of a contravention of this Act.