Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

Protection of registered mortgages

58. Where a ship or share is subject to a registered mortgage then—

(a) except as may be necessary to make the ship or share available as a security for the mortgage debt, a mortgagee shall not by reason only of the mortgage be treated as owner of the ship or share, and

(b) the mortgagor shall be treated as not having ceased to be owner of the ship or share.