Versions of s. 507(1)

Whenever a naval court is summoned pursuant to section 506 to sit at a place in a Commonwealth country other than in Canada or on board a ship belonging to Her Majesty in right other than in right of Canada, the court is hereby authorized to proceed, with relation to Canadian ships and with relation to their owners, masters, mates, engineers and crews, in all respects according to the law of the place in which or the ship on board which the court is sitting, and that law shall, when so applied to Canadian ships and their owners, masters, mates, engineers and crews, bind them as if it were the law of Canada.