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(1) Where loss of life or personal injury is suffered by a person on board a vessel owing to the fault of that vessel and another vessel and a proportion of the damages is recovered against the owners of one of the vessels which exceeds the proportion in which the vessel was at fault, the owners may recover by way of contribution the amount of the excess from the owners of the other vessel to the extent to which that other vessel was at fault, but no amount shall be so recovered which could not, by reason of any statutory or contractual limitation of, or exemption from liability, or which could not, for any other reason, have been recovered in the first instance as damages by a person entitled to sue.

(2) In addition to any other remedy provided by law the persons entitled to a contribution shall for the purpose of recovering the contribution and subject to the provisions of this Act have the same rights and powers as the person entitled to sue for damages in the first instance.