Recherche dans la collection - COMPENSATION DEFENCE ACT - STANDARD CHARTER PARTY INTERPRETATION OF PARAGRAPH 6 OF THE CHARTER PARTY AGREEMENT AS TO WHETHER THE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE CAN, AT ITS ABSOLUTE DIRECTION & WITHOUT REGARD FOR THE CONDITION OF A SHIP AT THE TIME OF RE-DELIVERY, DECLARE IT A "NON- CONSTRUCTIVE TOTAL LOSS" WITHIN THE MEANING OF PARAGRAPH 6. AT ISSUE ARE SHIPS CHARTERED FOR THE WAR BY DND & BY PARA. 7 WERE AGREED TO BE RE-DELIVERED (UNLESS LOST) IN THE SAME GOOD ORDER - SOME SHIPS WOULD COST MORE TO RETURN TO THEIR ORIGINAL CONDITION THAN IF THEY HAD BEEN LOST - REQUEST FOR POSSIBLE LEGAL OBJECTION TO THE DEPARTMENT SETTLING ITS OBLIGATIONS BY PAYMENT OF A SUM AS PRESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH 6. STATUTES: COMPENSATION DEFENCE ACT 1940, C28, S4(1)(d), S4(6), S10