Cap. 234 ст. 84FBareboat charter registration. 

(1) The registrar, if satisfied that all conditions for registration specified in this Part and in other Parts of this Act, where applicable, have been complied with, and on payment of the prescribed fee shall -

(a) enter in the register of Maltese ships provided for in article 365, all particulars of the ship and its underlying registration, owners and charterers, stating that it is a bareboat charter registration, the expiry date of such registration, and that the register does not contain an official record of any mortgages affecting the ship;

(b) inform the appropriate authorities of the underlying registry of the registration under this Part; and

(c) issue a provisional certificate of bareboat charter registry or a certificate of bareboat charter registry, as the case may be, which shall include the expiry date thereof, the name and official number of the ship, the name of the home port Valletta and such particulars, if any, as the registrar may deem proper: Provided that, unless otherwise exempted, if the ship is not in possession of valid certificates required by international conventions (including protocols, annexes and appendices thereto) which have been ratified or acceded to or accepted by the Government of Malta and such other certificates as the Minister may by regulations prescribe, the registrar shall issue a non-operational provisional certificate of bareboat charter registry or a non-operational certificate of bareboat charter registry, as the case may be.

(2) Upon the issue of a certificate of bareboat charter registry, whether provisional or otherwise, all documents issued to the ship by the underlying registry, shall be surrendered to the appropriate authorities of that registry and, within thirty days of the issue of the certificate as aforesaid, the charterer shall make and deliver to the registrar a declaration to that effect.