Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 84F

84F. (1) The registrar, if satisfi ed that all conditions for registration specified in this Part and in other Parts of this Act, where applicable, have been complied with, and on payment of th e prescribed fee shall - (a) enter in the register of Maltese ships provided for in article 365, all particula rs of the ship and its underlying registration, owners and charterers, stating that it is a bareboat charter registration, the expiry date of such registration, and that the register does not contain an official record o f any mortgages affecting 52 CAP. 234.] MERCHANT SHIPPING the ship; (b) inform the appropriate authorities of the underlying registry of the registration under this Part; and (c) issue a provisional certif icate of bareboat charter registry or a certificate of b areboat charter registry, as the case may be, which shall include the expiry date thereof, the name and official number of the ship, the name of the home port Valletta and such particulars, if any, as the registrar may deem proper: Provided that, unless otherwise exempted, if the ship is not in possession of valid certificates required by international conventions (including protocols, annexes and appendices thereto) which have been ratified or acceded to or accepted by the Government of Malta and such other cert ificates as the Minister may by regulations prescribe, the registrar shall issue a non-operational provisional certificate of bareboat charter registry or a non-o perational certificate of bareboat charter registr y, as the case may be. (2) Upon the issue of a certificat e of bareboat charter registry , whether provisional or otherwise, all documents issued to the s hip by the underlying registry, shall be surrendered to the appropr iate authorities of that registry and, within thirty days of the iss ue of the certificate as aforesaid, the ch arterer shall make and deliver to the registrar a declara tion to that effect. Duration of bareboat charter registration. 84G . Subject to the provisions of article 84H the duration of such registration sh all be for a period not exceeding the durat ion of the bareboat charter or the expiry date of the underlying registration, whichever is the shorter period, but in no case for a period exceeding two years. Extension of bareboat charter registration. Amended by: XXII. 2000. 42; L.N. 210 of 2016.