Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Transfer of ships or shares.

24.—(1) A registered ship or share therein (when disposed of to a person qualified to own a British ship) shall be transferred by a bill of sale.

(2) The bill of sale shall contain such description of the ship as is contained in the surveyor’s certificate, or some other description sufficient to identify the ship to the satisfaction of the registrar, and shall be in the form marked A in the first part of the First Schedule to this Act, or as near thereto as circumstances permit, and shall be executed by the transferor in the presence of, and be attested by, a witness or witnesses.