Section 65 of the Marine Insurance Act, 1963 – Salvage charges

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Section 65: Salvage charges

  • (1) Subject to any express provision in the policy, salvage charges incurred in preventing a loss by perils insured against may be recovered as a loss by those perils.
  • (2) “Salvage charges” means the charges recoverable under maritime law by a salvor independently of contract. They do not include the expenses of services in the nature of salvage rendered by the assured or his agents, or any person employed for hire by them, for the purpose of averting a peril insured against. Such expenses, where properly incurred, may be recovered as particular charges or as a general average loss, according to the circumstances under which they were incurred.

Source: official text of The Marine Insurance Act, 1963 as published on India Code (PDF). All sections of the Marine Insurance Act, 1963.

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