Cap. 234 Art. 34Registry of transfer. 

(1) Every bill of sale for the transfer of a registered ship or of a share therein to a person qualified to own a Maltese ship shall, when duly executed, be produced to the registrar with the declaration of transfer, and the registrar shall, saving any other provision of this Act, thereupon enter in the register the name of the transferee as owner of the ship or share and shall endorse on the bill of sale the fact of that entry having been made, with the day and hour thereof.

(2) All such bills of sale shall be entered in the register in the order of their production to the registrar.