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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 21

Delivery up of certificate of ship lost or ceasing to be British owned.

21.(1) In the event of a registered ship being either actually or
constructively lost, taken by the enemy, burnt, or broken up, or ceasing by
reason of a transfer to persons not qualified to be owners of British ships,
or otherwise, to be a British ship, every owner of the ship or any share in
the ship shall, immediately on obtaining knowledge of the event, if no notice
thereof has already been given to the registrar, give notice thereof to the
registrar at her port of registry, and that registrar shall make an entry
thereof in the register book [ and the registry of the ship in that book shall
be considered as closed except so far as relates to any unsatisfied mortgages
or existing certificates of mortgages entered therein].

(2) In any such case, except where the ship's certificate of registry is lost
or destroyed, the master of the ship shall, if the event occurs in port
immediately, but if it occurs elsewhere then within ten days after his arrival
in port, deliver the certificate to the registrar, or, if there is none, to
the British consular officer there, and the registrar, if he is not himself
the registrar of her port of registry, or the British consular officer, shall
forthwith forward the certificate delivered to him to the registrar of her
port of registry.

(3) If any such owner or master fails, without reasonable cause, to comply
with this section, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding
[#200].


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