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1992 Ann. Surv. S. African L. 554 (1992)
Civil Procedure

handle is hein.journals/assafl1992 and id is 602 raw text is: CIVIL PROCEDURE

MERVYN DENDY*
CHERYL LOOTSt
LEGISLATION
ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION REGULATION
The Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act 105 of 1983 was
amended by the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Amendment Act
87 of 1992 and s 21 of the General Law Amendment Act 139 of 1992.
The changes include the substitution of the definitions of 'admiralty
action' and 'maritime claim' in s 1(1), and the substitution of
s 1 (2)(a) of the 1983 Act to provide that an admiralty action shall
commence by the service of any process by which that action is
instituted, by the making of an application for the attachment of
property to found jurisdiction, by the issue of any process for the
institution of an action in rem, or by the giving of security or an
undertaking to prevent the arrest or attachment of property or to
obtain its release from arrest or attachment (overruling the decision
in MV.Jute Express v Owners of the Cargo Lately Laden On Board the MV
Jute Express 1992 (3) SA 9 (A), as explained in the section on
Carriage in the chapter on Miscellaneous Contracts). Further
amendments relate to the lapsing of an admiralty action and the
release or discharge of property from arrest or attachment in terms
of ss 1 (2) (b) and 3(10) (a) (ii) respectively; the persons against whom
and the courts in which an action in personam may be instituted in
terms of s 3(2) and (3); the categories of property that may be
arrested in terms of s 3(5); the arrest of an associated ship (s 3(6)
read with s 3(7)) or of a ship which would have been an associated
ship had the action been one in rem (s 4(4)(d)); the arrest or
attachment to found jurisdiction of property not within the area of
jurisdiction of the court in terms of s 4(4)(c); thejoinder of parties to
admiralty actions (s 5(1)); the arrest or attachment of property to
provide security for a claim (s 5(2)(d) and (3)); the examination,
testing or inspection of any ship, cargo, documents or any other
thing and the taking of evidence of any person (s 5(5)(a)); the refusal
by an admiralty court to exercise its jurisdiction if a matter can more
*BCom LLB (Witwatersrand), Attorney and Notary of the Supreme Court of
South Africa, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannes-
burg.
tBA LLB (Witwatersrand), Attorney and Notary of the Supreme Court of South
Africa, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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