Versions of s. 431(1)

Whenever any vessel is wrecked, stranded or in distress within Canadian waters or on or near the coasts thereof, all persons may, for the purpose of rendering assistance to the vessel, or of saving any wreck or the lives of any shipwrecked persons, unless there is some public road equally convenient, pass and repass, either with or without conveyances or horses, over any adjoining lands, without being subject to interruption by the owner or occupier of those lands, if they do so with as little damage as possible, and may, on the like condition, deposit on those lands any wreck saved.