Section 44

The registry of any registered Brunei ship may be transferred from one port in Brunei to another on the ap-plication to the Registrar made by declaration in writing of all persons appearing on the register book to be interested 43

Alteration of ship

Transfer of registry

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Restrictions on re-registration of abandoned ships

Provisions for cases of in-fancy or other in-capacity

Merchant Shipping therein as owners or mortgagees, but that transfer shall not in any way affect the right of those persons (hereinafter referred to as "the interested persons") or any of them, and those rights shall in all respects continue in the same manner as if no such transfer had been effected.

On the receipt of the aforesaid declaration by the

Registrar and the delivery up to him of the ship's certificate of registry the Registrar shall enter in the register book of the ship's intended port of registry in Brunei all particulars relating to the ship and the names of all the interested per-sons, and grant a fresh certificate of registry in Brunei, and thenceforth such ship shall be considered as registered at the new port of registry, and the nan1e of the ship's new port of registry shall be substituted for the name of her former port of registry on the ship's stern.