Versions of s. 434(1)

When a receiver of wrecks is not present, any chief officer of customs, fishery officer or provincial court judge on board any vessel belonging to or in the service of the Government of Canada and employed in the service of protecting the fisheries, and any officer of customs, sheriff, justice of the peace, officer of the regular force of the Canadian Forces or lighthouse keeper employed by the Government of Canada may do all matters and things by this Part authorized to be done by the receiver, for the preservation of shipwrecked persons, vessels and wrecks.