Section 341: Right of contribution

(1)
Subject to the provisions of this section, where loss of life or personal injury is suffered by any person on board a ship owing to the fault of the ship and any other ship or ships, and a proportion of the damages is recovered against the owners of one of the ships which exceeds the proportion in which the ship was in fault, the owners of that ship may recover, by way of contribution, the amount of the excess from the owners of the other ship or ships to the extent to which those ships were respectively in fault.
(2)
No amount shall be recovered as provided in subsection (1) of this section which could not, by reason of any statutory or contractual limitation of, or exemption from, liability, or which could not, for any other reason, have been recovered in the first instance as damages by the person entitled to sue therefor.
(3)
The persons entitled to contribution under this section shall, subject to the provisions or this Act, have in addition to any other remedy for the purposes of recovering the contribution, the same rights and powers as the persons entitled to sue for damages in the first instance.