27Name of registered ship and change of name

#### 27 Name of registered ship and change of name (1) A person shall not describe a registered ship by any name other than the name by which the ship is for the time being registered. (2) Subject to this Act, application may be made to the Registrar, in the manner prescribed, for a change in the name of a registered ship. (3) If: (a) the name proposed for a ship in an application for the registration of the ship; or (b) the new name proposed for a registered ship in an application under subsection (2), is a prescribed name, or a name included in a prescribed class of names, the Registrar shall disallow the name. (4) Where the Registrar grants an application under subsection (2): (a) he or she shall cause the new name to be entered in the relevant register and endorsed on the ship’s registration certificate; and (b) section 26 applies in relation to the marking of the new name on the ship as if the ship had been registered by that name.