Section 62
Restrictions on re-registry of abandoned ships.
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.
Where a ship has ceased to be registered
as an Indian ship by reason of having been wrecked or abandoned, or for any reason other than capture by the enemy, the ship shall not be re-registered until she has at the expense of the applicant
for the registry been surveyed by a surveyor and certified by him to be seaworthy.