Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 16

16. (1) Saving any provision with regard to ships being built, rebuilt or equipped, all ships provisionally registered under t his Act shall comply, except where e xpressly exempted, with the requirements of this Act within the periods specified in this A ct, and in any case, within a maximum period of twelve months of th e date of provisional registration and thereafter shall observe s uch requirements that are laid down in the Act or in any regulation s made thereunder: Provided that with regard to ships that are being built or equipped and are registered in accordance with article 3(3), at the request of the applicant for regi stry or his authorised represe ntative, the Registrar-General may extend the provisional registration for a further period or periods until the completion of the ship, but in no case may the provisional registration period be extended for periods exceedi ng three years at a time: Provided further that the Regis trar-General may extend for other periods of time upon recei pt of satisfactory evidence tha t the construction has not yet been completed: Provided further that the Reg istrar-General may request documentation related to the stage of construction or equipping of the vessel: Provided further that the annual fee shall be payable on the anniversary of the first registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (2) Any person who fails to observe the requirements of this Act within the time limits speci fied in a notice in writing ser ved by the registrar upon the owner shall be liable to a penalty of fi fty units per month or part thereof for each violation and any ship not complying with the requirements of provisional registry within a maximum period of twelve months shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred units per month or part thereof and in these cases the registrar may take steps to cancel such ship in accordance with this Act. (3) The registrar may not re-register any ship, provisionally or otherwise, prior to the payment of all penalties previously inc urred and unless satisfactory evidence is supplied to the registrar t hat the ship has been registered in a foreign register the penalties fo r the intervening period shall also be collected. (4) It shall be the obligation of the owner throughout the whole period of registry, whether provisional or otherwise, to notify the registrar of any changes which might have occurred in the intervening period since registry, to the information contained in any certificates and evidenc e produced before registry. (5) The registrar may refuse to register provisionally a ship more than three times in succession even in the name of differe nt owners, and shall refuse to consecutively register provisionall y a ship more than two times in the name of the same owner. 14 CAP. 234.] MERCHANT SHIPPING Entry of particulars in register. Amended by: XXXVII.1988.4,10; VIII. 2010.61.