(1) A person shall not be registered as the owner of a Sri Lanka ship or of a share therein until he, or in the case of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation, or a Government-Sponsored Shipping Company or Corporation or any other body corporate, the person authorized by this Act to make declarations on its behalf, has made and signed a declaration of ownership in the prescribed form referring to the ship as described in the certificate of a Surveyor and containing the following particulars:
(a) a statement whether he is or is not a citizen of Sri Lanka, or in the case of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation, a statement specifying that it was incorporated under the Ceylon Shipping Corporation Act, or in the case of a Government-Sponsored Shipping Company or Corporation a statement setting out the interest of the Government and also that it has been incorporated in Sri Lanka, or in the case of any other body corporate a statement incorporating the Order made by the Minister;
(b) a statement of the time when and the place where the ship was built, or if the ship is built outside Sri Lanka and the time and place of building is not known, a statement to that effect; and in addition in the case of a ship previously registered outside Sri Lanka a statement of the name by which she was so registered, or in the case of a ship condemned a statement of the time, place and court at and by which she was condemned ;
(c) a statement of the name of the master and his citizenship;
(d) a statement of the number of shares in the ship in respect of which he or the Ceylon Shipping Corporation, or a Government-Sponsored Shipping Company or Corporation, or any other body corporate, as the case may be, is entitled to be registered as owner ; and
(e) a declaration that to the best of his knowledge and belief no unqualified person or body of persons is entitled as owner to any legal or beneficial interest in the ship or any share therein.
(2) For the purpose of this section, the expression " beneficial interest" has the meaning assigned to it by section 106.
Ship's names
(1) A Sri Lanka ship shall not be described by any name, other than that by which she is for the time being registered.
(2) A change shall not be made in the name of a Sri Lanka ship except in the prescribed manner.
(3) A Registrar may, in accordance with the provisions of any regulations made under this Act, refuse the registry of any ship by the name by which it is proposed to register that ship if it is already the name of a registered Sri Lanka ship or a name so similar as is calculated or likely to deceive.
(4) If the registry of a ship by the name by which it is proposed to register that ship is refused by a Registrar, or if any requirements of the regulations are not complied with in the case of any ship which it is proposed to register, that ship shall not be registered under the name proposed, or until the regulations are complied with, as the case may be.
(5) If any person acts or suffers any other person under his control to act in contravention of this section or omits to do or suffers any other person under his control to omit to do, anything required by this section, the ship may be detained until the provisions of this section are complied with.
