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Shipping Registration Regulations 1981
24Transmission of ship etc by operation of law
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24 Transmission of ship etc by operation of law
(1) For the purposes of subsection 37 (1) of the Act the following evidence of lawful transmission is prescribed evidence:
(a) in the case of transmission upon the death of a joint owner:
(i) a certificate of death or of burial of the deceased person, or probate or letters of administration of the estate of that person, or an office copy of any such document; and
(ii) a statutory declaration by a person well acquainted with the facts of the case to the effect that the person referred to in subparagraph (i) is the same person as the joint owner named in the Register;
(b) in the case of transmission upon the death of a sole owner or an owner in common:
(i) an instrument constituting a person the legal personal representative, or constituting persons the legal personal representatives, of the deceased person or an office copy of such an instrument; and
(ii) an instrument identifying the person who is to become, by reason of the transmission, the owner, or one of the owners, of the ship or share; and
(c) in the case of transmission upon the making of an order by a court — an office copy of the order.
(2) A declaration of transmission under subsection 37 (2) of the Act must:
(ii) the name and address of the person who has ceased, by reason of the transmission, to be the owner, or one of the owners, of the ship or share; and
(iii) the name, address and nationality of the person to whom the ship or share is transmitted; and
(c) be duly signed by the person to whom the ship or share is transmitted.