Section 1
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping
!Registration of Government Ships) Regulations, 1988 and shall come into operation on 1st day of October, 1988.
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Merchant Shipping (Registration of Government Ships) Regulations, 1988 is Brunei Subsidiary Legislation, cited as Subsidiary Legislation S6 1989, currently marked in force and first recorded in 1989.
No. S 6
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT iCHAPTER 145)
THE MERCHANT SHIPPING jREGISTRATION OF GOVERNMENT SHIPS)
REGULATIONS, 1988
Opening note
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping
!Registration of Government Ships) Regulations, 1988 and shall come into operation on 1st day of October, 1988.
In these Regulations -
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"Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act.
"Government Ship" means and includes a ship, or classes of ships, belonging to the Government but not including ships belonging to the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and the Royal
Brunei Police Force.
Citation and commence·
ment.
Definition.
Chapter
( 1) Application for registry of a Government ships shall be
Application in writing made under the hand of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Registry.
of Communications charged with such responsibility.
Such application shall contain the following particulars
a statement of the time when, and place where, the ship was built ; or, if the ship was foreign built, and the time and place of building are unknown, a statement to that effect, and of her foreign name ;
a statement of the nature of the title to the said ship, whether by original construction by or for the Govern-ment or by purchase, caph.:re, condemnation or other-wise and a list of the docur.1ents of title, if any, in case she was not originally constructed by or for the Govern·
ment of statutory body ; and ;
a statement of the name of the master.
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Entry into 4.
11) The Registrar, on receiving an application for registry under
Register Book.
Regulation 3 of these Regulations, shall enter the ship in the register book as belonging to "the Government of Brunei Darussalam".
Sureyor's Cer-tificate.
Transfer of registered
Government ship.
Ships managing
Owner or
Manager.
The Registrar shall also enter in such register book the following :-
the particulars stated in the application for registry ; and
[c)
the details comprised in the surveyor's certificate.
On the registry of a ship under these Regulations the
Registrar shall retain in his possession the surveyor's certificate and the application for registry, and any documents of title mentioned in such application.
Upon the transfer of a registered Government ship by bill of sale, the Government shall be the transferor and the bill of sale shall be in the prescribed form, omitting the covenant therein contained.
Any such bill of sale shall be signed by the Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications on behalf of the Government.
The person to whom the management of a ship registered under these Regulations is entrusted shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of Section 49 of the Act.
Made this 1st day of October, 1988.
BY COMMAND
PEHIN ORANG KAYA LAlLA WIJAYA
DATO SERI SETIA AWANG HAJI ABDUL AZIZ UMAR
Minister of Communications
Brunei Darussalam.
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