13Oil record book to be retained

13 Oil record book to be retained

S. 13(1) substituted by No. 46/1991
s. 9.

(1) An oil record book of a ship to which section 11 applies must be retained—

(a) in the ship; or

(b) at the registered office in the State of the owner—

until the expiration of a period 3 years after the day on which the last entry was made in the book and must be readily available for inspection at all reasonable times.

S. 13(2) substituted by No. 46/1991
s. 9.

(2) Where an oil record book is not retained in accordance with subsection (1), the master and the owner of the ship are each guilty of an offence punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding—

(3) The owner of a ship to which section 11 applies who resides in the State, or has an office or agent in the State, may from time to time furnish to a prescribed officer notice, in writing, of an address, being the address of—

(a) the place in the State at which the person so resides;

(b) the office of the person in the State, or if the person has more than one office in the State, the principal office in the State; or

(c) the office or place of residence in the State of an agent or, if the agent has more than one office in the State, the principal office in the State of the agent—

and the place or office of which an address is furnished for the time being under this subsection is the registered office in the State of the owner of the ship for the purposes of subsection (1).

(4) If the owner of a ship to which section 11 applies does not reside in the State and does not have an office or agent in the State, the owner may deposit an oil record book of the ship with a prescribed officer and, while the book is so deposited, the book is, for the purposes of subsection (1), deemed to be retained at the registered office in the State of the owner.