Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsChange of master
| 53. Where the master of a registered Ceylon ship is changed a Registrar or, if there is none, the Ceylon Consular officer at or for the port or the nearest Ceylon Consular officer to the port where the change occurs shall endorse and sign on the certificate of registry a memorandum of the change, and, in the case of a Consular officer, shall forthwith report the change to the Chief Registrar; and any officer of customs at any port in Ceylon may refukse to admit any person to do any act there as master of a Ceylon ship unless his name is inserted in or endorsed on the certificate of registry of the ship as the last appointed master of such ship. |