Section 40 - Use of force for preserving order on board a vessel

(1) The master of a vessel, or a person acting by the order of the master, may justify the use of force against any other person on board the vessel

(a) that is necessary for suppressing a mutiny or disorder on board the vessel, whether among officers, seamen, or passengers, by which the safety of the vessel, or of a person in the vessel or about to enter or quitting it, is likely to be endangered, or

(b) where the master is threatened to be subject to the commands of any other person.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the master or the person acting under the order of the master may kill a person who commits or abets a mutiny or disorder, if the safety of the vessel, or the preservation of a person, cannot by any means be otherwise secured.