Versions of s. 286(2)

Where the expenses described in subsection (1) are not repaid, the amount thereof is, with costs, a charge on the ship, and is recoverable as a debt to the Crown, either by ordinary process of law or in the court and in the manner in which wages may be recovered by seaman from the master or owner of the ship for the time being or, where the ship has been lost, from the person who was the owner of the ship at the time of the loss, or, where the ship has been transferred to a person not being a British subject, either from the owner for the time being or from the person who was the owner of the ship at the time of the transfer.