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| (1) The registry of any Ceylon ship may be transferred from one port to another on the application to the Registrar of the existing port of registry of the ship, made by declaration in writing of all persons appearing on the register to be interested therein as owners or mortgagees, but that transfer shall not in any way affect the rights of those 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. |
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| (2) On any application made under sub-section (1), the Registrar shall transmit notice thereof to the Registrar of the intended port of registry with-
| | (a) a copy of all documents relating to the ship; and | | |
| | (b) the names of all persons appearing on the register to be interested therein as owners or mortgagees. | | |
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| (3) The ship's certificate of registry shall be delivered up to the Registrar either of the existing or intended port of registry and, if delivered up to the former, shall be transmitted to the Registrar of the intended port of registry. |
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| (4) On the receipt of the above documents the Registrar of the intended port of registry shall enter in his register book all the particulars and names so transmitted as aforesaid, and grant a fresh certificate of registry, and thereafter such ship shall be considered as registered at the new port of registry, and the name 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. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts