Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

PART 6

Private Law Provisions

Private law provisions for registered ships and liability of owner

48. (1) The Minister may make regulations to provide for the registration of any type or description of ships to be such as to exclude the application of the private law provisions for registered ships and, if they do, may regulate the transfer, transmission or mortgaging of ships of the class or description so excluded.

(2) Where any person is beneficially interested, otherwise than by way of mortgage, in any ship or share in a ship registered in the name of some other person as owner, the person so interested shall, as well as the registered owner, be subject to all pecuniary penalties imposed by this or any other Act on the owners of ships or shares therein, so nevertheless that proceedings may be taken for the enforcement of any such penalties against both or either of the aforesaid parties, with or without joining the other of them.

(3) In this Part “the private law provisions for registered ships” means the provisions of sections 48 to 62 or the provisions of regulations made for the purposes of those sections.