SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 86 Ships registered in Australia under previous law deemed registered under this Act

SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 86

  (1)   Every ship entitled to be registered that was, immediately before the commencing date, registered in accordance with the previous law at a port in Australia shall be deemed, on and from that date, to be registered under this Act.

  (2)   Any entry or record that, immediately before the commencing date, appeared in a register book kept at a port in Australia under the previous law in relation to a ship referred to in subsection   ( 1) shall be deemed to be an entry or record in the Register in relation to that ship and to have been made on the date on which, and at the time when, it was made under the previous law.