Judicial annulment or modification of maritime salvage contract

Due to section 179 of Iranian maritime Act,1343, if salvage contract is concluded under the influence of danger or undue influence and its terms are inequitable or if the consent of one of the parties is vitiated by fraud and or when the remuneration under the contract is, in proportion to the services actually rendered, too large or too small, the contract may be annulled or modified by the court at the request of the party affected. These regulations that have been adopted from section 7 of convention for the unification of certain rules of law relating to assistance and salvage at sea,1910, and because of the accession of Iranian Government to international convention on salvage,1989,those have been repeated in section 13 of the Act for granting permission to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for accession to international convention on salvage,1373, are not so compatible with the principle of being obligatory of contracts, general regulation pertaining to duress and fraud in contracts and the prohibition of courts from modification of them.