Section 9:
Ship and aircraft papers to be brought in Registry.
(1) The captors shall with all convenient
speed after the ship or aircraft is brought into port or to a place within the jurisdiction of a Prize Court
bring the ship papers or the aircraft papers, as the case may be, into the Registry of the Prize Court.
(2) The commanding officer or the captain of the capturing ship or aircraft or the commanding officer
of the capturing force, or any other officer or person seizing the ship or aircraft at any port or aerodrome
or any officer designated by the commanding officer or his superior authority as a Prize Officer or such
other officer or person who was present at the capture and saw the ship papers or aircraft papers delivered
up or found on board shall make oath that they are brought in as they were taken without fraud, addition,
or subduction or alteration or else shall account on oath to the satisfaction of the Prize Court for the
absence or altered condition of the ship papers or aircraft papers or any of them.
(3) Where no ship papers or aircraft papers are delivered up or found on board the captured ship or
captured aircraft, the commanding officer or the captain of the capturing ship or aircraft or the
commanding officer of the capturing force or any other officer or person seizing the ship or aircraft or the
Prize Officer or such other officer or person who was present at the capture shall make an oath to that
effect.