(2) Continuing from Section A: Admiralty jurisdiction of the High Court,
(a) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be read and construed as conferring upon the High Court jurisdiction to hear and determine any question or claim arising from any act or thing done or in any proceedings under the provisions of the Customs Ordinance or any other written law read with the provisions of the Customs Ordinance.
(b) Nothing in section 13 of the Judicature Act, No. 2 of 1978, or subsection (1) shall be read and construed as affecting any jurisdiction conferred by any other law, on any other court or tribunal to hear and determine any such question or claim as is referred to in subsection (1).
(3) The jurisdiction of the Court under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) includes power to settle any account out standing and unsettled between the parties in relation to the ship, and to direct that the ship, or any share thereof, shall be sold, and to make such other order as the Court thinks fit.
(4) The jurisdiction of the Court under paragraph (e) of subsection (1) includes the jurisdiction to hear and deter mine any claim in respect of a liability incurred under the Marine Pollution Prevention Act, No. 59 of 1981, by reason of the discharge, escape or dumping, of any oil or pollutant in Sri Lanka waters, from or by, any ship.
(a) in relation to all ships whether registered in any port in Sri Lanka or outside and wherever the residence or domicile of their owners may be ;
(c) so far as they relate to mortgages and charges, to all mortgages or charges, whether registered or not and whether legal or equitable, including mortgages and charges created under foreign law
(5) The reference in paragraph (i) of subsection (1) to claims in the nature of salvage includes a reference to such claims for services rendered in saving life from a ship or in preserving cargo, apparel or wreck as by any law in force for the time being are authorized to be made in connection with a ship.
(6) The provisions of subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) apply –
(a) in relation to all ships whether registered in any port in Sri Lanka or outside and wherever the residence or domicile of their owners may be ;
(b) in relation to all claims, where so ever arising (including in the case of cargo or wreck salvage claims in respect of cargo or wreck found on land) ; and
(c) so far as they relate to mortgages and charges, to all mortgages or charges, whether registered or not and whether legal or equitable, including mortgages and charges created under foreign law
