Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,503, 14 ta’ Novembru, 2003

L.N. 348 of 2003

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT

(CAP. 234)

Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4(1)(c) and 374 of

the Merchant Shipping Act, the Minister for Transport and

Communications has made the following regulations: -

(1) The title of these regulations is the Merchant Shipping Citation and

(Ships Eligible for Registration) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003, which commencement.

shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping (Ships L.N. 71 of 2003.

Eligible for Registration) Regulations, 2003, hereinafter referred to as

“the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the lst May, 2004.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations after the definition Amends regulation

2 of the principal

of “Act” there shall be added the following new definition: -

regulations.

“ “international owner” means:–

(a) either a foreign corporate body or other entity which

enjoys to the satisfaction of the Registrar-General legal

personality in terms of the law under which it has been

established or constituted and which has satisfied the

Registrar-General that it can and will ensure due observance

of the laws of Malta relating to merchant shipping; or

(b) a citizen of a Member State of the European

Union;”.

For regulation 3 of the principal regulations there shall be Substitutes

regulation 3 of the

substituted the following

principal

regulations.

3. (1) An international owner shall be qualified to own

“International

a Maltese ship or a share therein.

(2) A foreign body or entity shall be deemed to

satisfy the Registrar-General that it can and will ensure due

observance of the law of Malta relating to merchant shipping,

unless the Registrar-General has made a declaration to the

contrary; and the Registrar-General may, in order not to make

such a declaration or before withdrawing such declaration,

impose such conditions as he may deem fit in the

circumstances that may include the provision of a guarantee

or bond.”.