The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993

Duplicate certificates

108.—(1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar that the certificate of registry has been lost, stolen or destroyed or has become defaced or illegible (“the event”), he may issue to the owner a duplicate of that certificate, which shall be marked as such, and shall be of the same effect as the original.

(2) Where a duplicate certificate of registry is issued the original if then available or if subsequently found or recovered shall be forthwith surrendered to the Registrar.

(3) If

(a) the port where the ship is at the time of the event, or as the case may be, where it first arrives after the event, is not in the United Kingdom, and

(b) the master of the ship or some other person having knowledge of the facts of the case makes a declaration before the appropriate person as to the loss, theft, destruction, defacement or illegibility of the certificate,

the appropriate person shall notify the Registrar.

(4) On being notified of the event and being satisfied that the ship is entitled to be issued with a duplicate certificate the Registrar shall:—

(a) FAX to the appropriate person a copy of the duplicate certificate which the appropriate person shall endorse with a statement of the circumstances, under which it is granted, or

(b) where there are no FAX facilities, the appropriate person shall issue a provisional certificate so endorsed.

(5) The faxed duplicate or the provisional certificate shall within 10 days of the ship arriving in a port in the United Kingdom be surrendered to the Registrar, and a duplicate certificate shall be issued.