Section 24

In the event of a registered Brunei 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 Brunei ships, or other-wise, to be a Brunei 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, who 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 an unsatisfied mortgages or existing certi-ficates of mortgage entered therein.

Delivery up of certificate of ship lost, etc.

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Temporary passes in lieu of certificates of registry

Provisional certificate for ship which in a foreign country be-comes Brunei owned

Merchant Shipping

In any such case, except where the ship's certi-ficate of registry is lost or destroyed, the master of the ship shall, if the event occurs in a port or place in Brunei im-mediately, but if it occurs elsewhere then within 10 days after his arrival in a port or place in Brunei, forward the certificate to the Registrar.

If any such owner or master fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with this section, he shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $2,000.