Versions of s. 611(1)

Where any district within which any court, justice of the peace or provincial court judge has jurisdiction either under this Act or under any other Act or at common law, for any purpose whatever, is situated on the coast of any sea, or abutting on or projecting into any bay, channel, lake, river or other navigable water, the court, justice or provincial court judge has jurisdiction over any vessel being on, or lying or passing off, that coast, or being in or near that bay, channel, lake, river or navigable water, and over all persons on board that vessel or for the time being belonging thereto, in the same manner as if the vessel or persons were within the limits of the original jurisdiction of the court, justice or provincial court judge.