SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 21 New certificates and provisional certificates

SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 21

  (1)   Where:

  (a)   a registration certificate is mislaid, lost or destroyed; or

  (b)   a registration certificate is lodged with the Registrar;

the Registrar shall, upon application made in the manner prescribed, grant a new certificate in substitution for that certificate.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an event referred to in paragraph   ( 1)(a) occurs while the ship concerned is at a foreign port at which there is a proper officer; or

  (b)   such an event occurs while the ship concerned is at sea or at a foreign port at which there is no proper officer and, subsequently, but before arriving at an Australian port, the ship arrives at a foreign port at which there is a proper officer;

the Registrar or the proper officer at that port shall, upon application made to him or her, subject to the regulations, grant a provisional registration certificate in respect of the ship in accordance with the approved form .

  (3)   Subject to subsection   ( 5), a provisional registration certificate granted in respect of a ship under subsection   ( 2) has the same effect as a registration certificate until:

  (a)   the ship arrives at an Australian port; or

  (b)   the expiration of a period of 6 months commencing on the date on which the certificate was granted;

whichever first happens.

  (4)   Where a proper officer grants a provisional registration certificate under this section, he or she shall forward a copy of the certificate to the Registrar.

  (5)   If, while a provisional registration certificate granted in respect of a ship under subsection   ( 2) is in effect, application is made in the manner prescribed, the Registrar may, by notice in writing served on the applicant, extend, in relation to the certificate, the period referred to in paragraph   ( 3)(b) and, in that event, the reference in that paragraph to a period of 6 months shall be read as a reference to that period as so extended.

  (6)   The person who has possession of a provisional registration certificate granted under subsection   ( 2) shall, within 10 days after the ship first arrives at an Australian port after the grant, lodge the certificate with the Registrar.

  (7)   Upon lodgment of a provisional registration certificate under subsection   ( 6), the Registrar shall, in his or her discretion:

  (a)   grant a further provisional registration certificate in respect of the ship in accordance with the approved form ; or

  (b)   grant a new registration certificate in respect of the ship.

  (8)   A provisional registration certificate granted under paragraph   ( 7)(a) has the same effect as a registration certificate for such period after the date on which the certificate was granted as the Registrar specifies in the certificate.