(1)If the surveyor making a survey of a [mechanically propelled vessels] [Substituted by Act 35 of 1977, Section 5, for " steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1.5.1978).] refuses to give a declaration under section 7 with regard to the [mechanically propelled vessels] [Substituted by Act 35 of 1977, Section 5, for " steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1.5.1978).] or gives a declaration with which the owner or master of the [mechanically propelled vessels] [The words " with the previous sanction of the G.G. in C." omitted by Act 38 of 1920, Section 2 and Sch. I, Pt. I.] is dissatisfied, the State Government may, on the application of the owner or master, and the payment by him of such fee, not exceeding twice the amount of the fee payable for the previous survey, as the State Government may require, direct two other surveyors to survey the [mechanically propelled vessels] [Substituted by Act 35 of 1977, Section 5, for " steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1.5.1978).].
