(1) Where any accident occurs in any port, then if that accident—
(a) is attended, or is of a kind usually attended, with loss of human life or with serious injury to person or property;
(b) involves any collision between ships or aircraft;
(c) is of such other kind as the Minister may specify,
the Authority shall, as soon as practicable, give notice of the occurrence of the accident to the Minister.
(2) The Authority may order such enquiry into any accident which occurs in any port as it may think fit and shall order an enquiry into any such accident when so required by the Minister.
(3) The Authority shall present a report on any accident inquired into, setting out, inter alia, the probable cause of such accident and the steps if any, which have been taken or it has directed shall be taken with a view to avoiding a repetition thereof.
(4) The Authority shall make to the Minister a return, in such form and at such intervals as the Minister may direct, of all accidents, occurring in any port, whether or not such accident is attended with injury to any person.