Section 423
Registry of alterations.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
When a sailing vessel is so altered as not to correspond with the
particulars relating to her entered in the certificate of registry, the owner of such vessel shall make a
report of such alteration to the registrar of the port where the vessel is registered, and the registrar
shall either cause the alteration to be registered, or direct that the vessel be registered anew, in
accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf.