Section 48

Where any person is beneficially interested, Liability of otherwise than by way of mortgage, in any ship or share in a owners ship registered in the name of some other person as owner, the person so interested shall, as well as the registered own-er, be subject to all pecuniary penalties imposed by this Act or any other written law on the owners of ships or shares therein, so nevertheless that proceedings may be taken for the enforcement of any such penalties against both or either of the aforesaid parties, with or without joining the other of them.

In this Part "beneficial interest" includes, in rela-tion to Brunei ships, interests arising under contract and other equitable interests.

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Ship's man-aging owner or manager to be reg-istered

Power of

Registrar to dispense with declarations and other evi-dence

Mode of making dec-larations

Merchant Shipping

Managing Owner 49.

The Registrar shall record in the register book the name and address of the managing owner for the time being of every registered Brunei ship.

Where there is not a managing owner there shall be so registered the name of the ship's husband or other person to whom the management of the ship is entrusted by or on behalf of the owner; and any person whose name is so registered shall, for the purposes of this Act, be under the same obligations, and subject to the same liabilities as if he was the managing owner.

If default is made in complying with the provi-sions of this section the owner, or if there are more owners than one each owner, shall be guilty of an offence each time the ship leaves any port or place in Brunei: Penalty, a fine of

$1,000 or, if there are more owners than one, a proportion of such fine corresponding to the proportion of each owner's interest in the ship.