Section 39: Procedure for registration of alteration

(1)
Where a Registrar or appropriate officer, on an application as to an alteration in a ship registered in Nigeria, causes the alteration to be registered, the certificate of registration of the ship shall be produced to him and the Registrar or proper officer shall, in his discretion, either retain the certificate of registration and grant a new certificate of registration containing a description of the ship as altered or endorse and sign on the existing certificate a memorandum of the alteration.
(2)
Where any Registrar, not being the Registrar at the ship's port of registry or any appropriate officer grants a new certificate or endorses an existing certificate under this section, he shall immediately send a report of the particulars of the case to the Registrar at the ship's port of registry, containing a statement similar to that contained in the certificate or endorsement, and accompanied, where a new certificate of registration has been granted, by the former certificate of registration.
(3)
The particulars of the alteration made in a ship and the fact that a new certificate has been granted or an endorsement has been made, shall be entered in the register by the Registrar at the ship's port of registry.