Section 402(4)(a) in The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
(a)to a [Judicial Magistrate of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,] [ Substituted by Act 12 of 1983, Section 17 and Schedule, for " Magistrate" (w.e.f. 18.5.1983).] where the amount claimed does not exceed ten thousand rupees; or