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415 PDFTitle:MERCHANT SHIPPING (REGISTRATION) ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:81Heading:Alterations to shipsVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) Where a registered ship is so altered as not to correspond with the particulars relating to the ship's tonnage or description contained in the register, the owner, demise charterer or representative person shall give notice of the alteration to the Registrar in the specified form within 14 days after the completion of the alteration.
(2) The Registrar shall, upon receipt of a notice under subsection (1), at his discretion either-

        (a) enter the new particulars relating to the ship in the register; or
        (b) require that the ship be registered anew.
(3) Where notice under subsection (1) is not given in respect of a ship within the prescribed period, the obligation to give notice as required by that subsection continues, notwithstanding that the prescribed period has passed, until notice is so given.
(4) Where there is a failure to comply with subsection (1) in relation to a ship, the owner or demise charterer commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5000, and to a daily penalty of $1000.
(Enacted 1990)