Marine Insurance Act, 1963
79. Rights of subrogation
(1) Where the insurer
pays for a total loss, either of the whole, or in the case of goods of any
apportionable part, of the subject-matter insured, he thereupon becomes
entitled to take over the interest of the assured in whatever may remain of the
subject-matter so paid for, and he is thereby subrogated to all the rights and
remedies of the assured in and in respect of that subject-matter as from the
time of the casualty causing the loss.
(2) Subject to the
foregoing provisions, where the insurer pays for a partial loss, he acquires no
title to the subject-matter insured, or such part of it as may remain, but he
is thereupon subrogated to all rights and remedies of the assured in and in
respect of the subject-matter insured as from the time of the casualty causing
the loss, in so far as the assured has been indemnified, according to this Act,
by such payment for the loss.