Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 362

362. Where loss of life or personal injuries are suffered by any person on board a vessel owing to the fault of that vessel and of any other vessel or vessels, and a proportion of the damage is reco vered against the owners of one of the vessels which exceeds the proportion in which she was in fa ult, they may recover by way o f contribution the amount of the ex cess from the owners of the ot her vessel or vessels to the extent to which those vessels were respectively in fault: 166 CAP. 234.] MERCHANT SHIPPING Provided that no amount shall be so recovered which could not, by reason of any statutory or contractual limitation of, o r exemption from, liability, or which could not for any other rea son, have been recovered in the first instance as damages by the per son entitled to sue therefor. PART X GENERAL PROVISIONS Registrar-General and Registrars Registrar-General. Amended by: XXXVII.1988.42:  XVII.1991.82; XV . 2009.49, 52. Cap. 499.