(1) A salvor may limit liability under the provisions of Articles 769 through 774 (excluding subparagraph 2 of Article 769 and Article 770 (1) 1) with respect to a claim for the loss incurred due to death or bodily injury of a person, loss of or damage to property, and infringement of another person's right, other than a contractual right, which has arisen in direct connection with salvage activities of him/her or his/her employee and a claim for the measures to prevent or mitigate such loss or a claim for the loss incurred as a result of such measures.
(2) A salvor who has not performed salvage activities on a ship or a salvor who has performed salvage activities only on a ship which has been salvaged, shall be deemed to be a salvor by a ship of 1,500 tons for a limit on the liability under Article 770.
(3) A limit on the liability of a salvor shall extend to all the claims which have arisen from the same accident for each salvage boat or each salvor in cases falling under paragraph (2).
(4) The term "salvor" in paragraph (1) means a person who has provided services in direct connection with salvage activities, and "salvage activities" means not only salvage activities at the time of the salvage but also salvage, removal or scrapping of, or non-invasive measures for a ship sunken, wrecked, stranded, abandoned or involved with other marine accidents and of cargo and other goods which are or were in such ship, and all the measures to prevent or mitigate losses in connection therewith.[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 8581, Aug. 3, 2007]