Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SHIPPING REGISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 16, 1984 - SECT 12

12. Section 36 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2) and
substituting the following sub-sections:

''(2) Where a ship or a share in a ship is so transferred, the bill of sale
and a declaration of transfer made by the transferee under sub-section (3)
shall be lodged by the transferee with the Registrar within 14 days after
execution of the bill of sale or within such longer period as the Registrar,
in special circumstances, allows.

''(2A) The Registrar shall, as soon as practicable after the lodgment by the
transferee of a bill of sale relating to the transfer of a ship or a share in
a ship together with a declaration of transfer, register the bill of sale by
entering in the Register the name of the transferee as owner of the ship or
share and shall endorse on the bill of sale the fact of the entry having been
made, together with the date and time of the making of the entry.''.