Section 40: Provisional certificate where ship registered anew

(1)
Where a Registrar who is not the Registrar at the ship's port of registry, or any appropriate officer, on an application as to an alteration in a ship registered in Nigeria, directs the ship to be registered anew the Registrar or officer shall grant a provisional certificate, describing the ship as altered, or provisionally endorse the particulars of the alteration on the existing certificate.
(2)
Where a Registrar or appropriate officer grants a provisional certificate or provisionally endorses a certificate under this section, the Registrar or officer shall add to the certificate or endorsement a statement that the certificate or endorsement is made provisionally and 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.
(3)
The master of every ship in respect of which a provisional certificate is granted or endorsed under this section shall, within ten days of the ship's first arrival after the grant of the provisional certificate or endorsement at a port in Nigeria, deliver that certificate to the Registrar at the port or if there is no Registrar at that port, to the Registrar at the ship's port of registry.
(4)
Any master of a ship who fails to comply with subsection (3) of this section commits an offence and on conviction liable to a fine not less than one hundred thousand Naira.
(5)
If, under this section, a ship's certificate of registration is delivered to a Registrar who is not himself the Registrar at the ship's port of registry he shall immediately forward the certificate to the Registrar at the ship's port of registry.
(6)
When any ship in respect of which a provisional certificate is granted or a certificate is endorsed under this section first arrives after the grant or endorsement at a port in Nigeria, application for registration of that ship anew shall be made to the Registrar at the ship's port of registry, and the other requisites for registration shall be complied with.
(7)
The owner of a ship under this section who fails to comply with this section, commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than two hundred thousand Naira in addition to a further fine not less than ten thousand Naira for every day during which the offence continues after conviction.