Wreck and Salvage Act, 1996 (Act No. 94 of 1996)

12. Powers to pass over adjoining lands
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(1) Whenever a ship is wrecked, stranded or in distress all persons may, for the purpose of rendering assistance to the ship or of saving the lives of any shipwrecked persons or of saving any wreck, unless there is some public road or camping site equally convenient, pass and repass either with or without vehicles or animals over any lands and camp on such lands, without being subject to interruption by the owner or occupier, if they do so with as little damage as possible, and may also, on the same condition, deposit on such lands any goods required for the construction of a camp and their stay thereat, and any wreck recovered from the ship.

 

(2) Any damage sustained by an owner or occupier in consequence of the exercise of the rights granted by this section shall be a charge on the ship or wreck in respect of or by which the damage is caused.

 

(3) The amount payable in respect of the damage referred to in subsection (2) shall, in the event of a dispute, be determined in the same manner as salvage is determined in terms of this Act, and shall, in default of payment, be recoverable in the same manner as salvage is recoverable under this Act.