Cap. 234 чл. 33Declaration of transfer.

Where a registered ship or share therein is transferred to a person qualified to own a Maltese ship, the transferee shall not be entitled to be registered as owner thereof until he, or in the case of a body corporate, the person authorised by this Act to make declarations on behalf of a body corporate, has made a declaration (in this Act called a "declaration of transfer") referring to the ship and containing -

(a) a statement of the qualification of the transferee to own a Maltese ship or, if the transferee is a body corporate, of such circumstances as prove it to be qualified to own a Maltese ship; and

(b) a declaration that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, no unqualified person or body of persons is entitled as owner to any interest in the ship or share therein.