Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Act 2025

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Transfer of rights and liabilities

36. (1) All rights and liabilities of the MCIB subsisting immediately before the appointed day and arising by virtue of any contract or commitment (expressed or implied) shall, on that day, stand transferred to the Minister.

(2) Every right and liability transferred by subsection (1) to the Minister may, on and after the appointed day, be sued on, recovered or enforced by or against him or her in his or her own name, and it shall not be necessary for the Minister or the MCIB to give notice to any person of the transfer of any such right or liability.