Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 87

             (1)  Subject to subsection (3), where a ship entitled to be registered was, immediately before the commencing date, registered in a foreign country, or at a port in a foreign country, under provisions of a law of that country corresponding with provisions of the previous law, or under provisions determined by the Registrar to be provisions that so correspond to an extent sufficient for the purposes of this section, the ship:

                     (a)  in the case of a ship permitted to be registered--may; or

                     (b)  in the case of a ship required to be registered--shall;

within 6 months after the commencing date, be registered under this Act by way of a transfer of the registration to the Register.

             (2)  An application for the registration of a ship under this section shall be made in accordance with the regulations.

             (3)  A ship shall not be registered under this section unless the person responsible for the maintenance of the foreign register concerned:

                     (a)  transmits to the Registrar:

                              (i)  all the particulars entered in the foreign register in relation to the ship;

                             (ii)  the names of all the persons appearing in the foreign register to be interested in the ship, either as owners or mortgagees; and

                            (iii)  any instrument or other document relating to the ship, or a certified copy of such an instrument or document, made in accordance with a provision of the law of that foreign country corresponding with a provision of the previous law, being an instrument or document kept by the first-mentioned person; and

                     (b)  consents to the closing of the registration of the ship in that register.

             (4)  Until the expiration of 6 months after the commencing date, subsections 12(3) and (4) do not apply in relation to a ship to which subsection (1) applies, being a ship required to be registered, or in relation to the owner of such a ship.

             (5)  In this section, foreign register means the register book or books, or other similar documents or collections of documents, kept in accordance with provisions of a law of a foreign country relating to the registration of ships corresponding with the provisions of the previous law relating to the keeping of register books under the previous law.