Section 45Part 2 — REGISTRATION OF SHIPS
Transfer of registration from the United Kingdom, a Crown Dependency or a British Overseas Territory to the Cayman Islands
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45. (1) Where a ship is registered in the United Kingdom, a Crown Dependency or a British Overseas Territory, as applicable, (referred to in this section as “the existing country of registration”), the registration of that ship may, subject to subsections (5) and (7), be transferred to the Cayman Islands, if —
an application to the registrar of the existing country of registration has been made for the purpose by a declaration in writing by all the persons appearing on the register to be interested in the ship as owners or mortgagees; and
the documents mentioned in subsection (2) have been transmitted to the Registrar of Shipping.
The documents referred to in subsection (1) are — Section 46 Merchant Shipping Act, 2024 Page 48 Act 1 of 2024 c
a notice of the application for transfer made to the registrar of the existing country of registration;
a copy transmitted by the registrar of the existing country of registration of all the registered particulars of the ship and the names of all the persons appearing on the register to be interested in the ship as owners or mortgagees; and
the ship’s certificate of registry.
On receipt of the documents mentioned in subsection (2), the Registrar of Shipping shall, subject to subsection (5) —
enter in the appropriate part of the register all the particulars and names so transmitted; and
issue a new certificate of registry, and accordingly the ship in question shall be considered as registered in the Cayman Islands and the name of the port of registry to which the ship belongs in accordance with section 20 shall be substituted for the name of the former port of registry on the ship’s stern.
The Registrar of Shipping shall notify the registrar of the existing country of registration of the issue of a new certificate of registry.
Where the entitlement of a ship to be registered is, under section 5, subject to any condition specified in that section being satisfied, the registration of the ship shall not be transferred to the Cayman Islands under this section unless it appears to the Registrar of Shipping that the condition is satisfied.
A transfer of registration under this section shall not in any way affect the rights of any of the persons mentioned in subsection (1)(a), and those rights shall in all respects continue in the same manner as if no such transfer had been effected.
Section 7 shall apply, with any necessary changes, to this section. Tonnage Measurement