Cap. 234 Art. 16Compliance with therequirementsof  this Act. 

(1) Saving any provision with regard to ships being built, rebuilt or equipped, all ships provisionally registered under this Act shall comply, except where expressly exempted, with the requirements of this Act within the periods specified in this Act, and in any case, within a maximum period of twelve months of the date of provisional registration and thereafter shall observe such requirements that are laid down in the Act or in any regulations made thereunder:

Provided that with regard to ships that are being built or equipped and are registered in accordance with article 3(3), at the request of the applicant for registry or his authorised representative, the Registrar-General may extend the provisional registration for a further period or periods until the completion of the ship, but in no case may the provisional registration period be extended for periods exceeding three years at a time:

Provided further that the Registrar-General may extend for other periods of time upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that the construction has not yet been completed:

Provided further that the Registrar-General may request documentation related to the stage of construction or equipping of the vessel:

Provided further that the annual fee shall be payable on the anniversary of the first registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(2) Any person who fails to observe the requirements of this Act within the time limits specified in a notice in writing served by the registrar upon the owner shall be liable to a penalty of fifty units per month or part thereof for each violation and any ship not complying with the requirements of provisional registry within a maximum period of twelve months shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred units per month or part thereof and in these cases the registrar may take steps to cancel such ship in accordance with this Act.

(3) The registrar may not re-register any ship, provisionally or otherwise, prior to the payment of all penalties previously incurred and unless satisfactory evidence is supplied to the registrar that the ship has been registered in a foreign register the penalties for the intervening period shall also be collected.

(4) It shall be the obligation of the owner throughout the whole period of registry, whether provisional or otherwise, to notify the registrar of any changes which might have occurred in the intervening period since registry, to the information contained in any certificates and evidence produced before registry.

(5) The registrar may refuse to register provisionally a ship more than three times in succession even in the name of different owners, and shall refuse to consecutively register provisionally a ship more than two times in the name of the same owner.