Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)Chapter II : Recording, Registering and Licensing of Ships10. Notification of building of vessels |
| (1) | Every person who at the coming into operation of this section is building, or after such coming into operation intends to build, a vessel which when completed will be registered or licensed in the Republic, shall within sixty days of such coming into operation or before beginning to build the vessel, as the case may be, furnish to the proper officer at the port where the vessel will be registered or licensed or to the Authority such written particulars of the vessel as may be prescribed. |
[Section 10(1) substituted by item 4 (Schedule 2) of Act No. 58 of 1998]
| (2) | The person on whose account any vessel is built shall for the purposes of subsection (1) be deemed to build that vessel. |