Act Number: 44

Act Name: The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-10-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 31: Entry of particulars in register book.
    As soon as the requirements of this Act preliminary to registry have been complied with the registrar shall enter in the register book the following particulars in respect of the ship:--
         (a) the name of the ship and the name of the port to which she belongs;
         1[(aa) the ship identification number;]
         (b) the details contained in the surveyor's certificate;
         (c) the particulars respecting her origin stated in the declaration of ownership; and
         (d) the name and description of her registered owner or owners, and, if there are more owners than one, the number of shares owned by each of them.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 40 of 2007, s. 4 (w.e.f. 1-3-2008).
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