Section 282: Liability for costs of detention and damages

(1)
If it appears that there was no reasonable cause for the provisional detention of a ship under this part of this Act as an unsafe ship, the Federal Government shall be liable to pay to the owner of the ship his costs of, and incidental to, the detention and survey of the ship, and also compensation for any loss or damage sustained by him by reason of the detention or survey.
(2)
If a ship is finally detained under this part of this Act, or if it appears that a ship provisionally detained was at the time of that detention an unsafe ship within the emeaning of this part, the owner of the ship shall be liable to pay to the Federal Government the costs of, and incidental to, the detention and survey of the ship, and those costs shall, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recoverable as salvage is recoverable.
(3)
For the purposes of this section, the costs of, and incidental to, any proceeding before a board of survey and a reasonable amount in respect of the remuneration of the surveyor or detaining officer shall be part of the costs of the detention and survey of the ship; and where there is a dispute as to the amount of the costs the dispute may
be referred to any registrar of a court of competent jurisdiction who shall on request by the Minister, ascertain and certify the proper amount of those costs.