(1) A person shall not be registered as the owner of a Saint Lucian ship or of a share therein until such person, or in the case of a body corporate the person authorised by section 93(2) to make declarations on its behalf, has made and signed a declaration of ownership in the prescribed form referring to the ship as described in the certificate of a Surveyor of Ships and containing the following particulars —
(a) his or her full name and address;
(b) a statement of his or her citizenship or national status, or in the case of a body corporate a statement of the constitution and business thereof as proof of its qualification to own a Saint Lucian ship;
(c) a statement of the time when and the place where the ship was built, or if the ship was built outside Saint Lucia and the time and place of building is not known, a statement to that effect; and in addition, in the case of a ship previously registered outside Saint Lucia a statement of the name by which the ship was so registered;
(d) a statement of the name of the master and his or her citizenship;
(e) a statement of the number of shares in the ship in respect of which such person or the body corporate, as the case may be is entitled to be registered as owner; and
(f) a declaration that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief no unqualified person or body of persons is entitled as owner to any legal or beneficial interest in the ship or any share therein.
(1A) A foreign ship shall not be registered as a Saint Lucian ship under section 12A until the person authorised by section 93(2) to make declarations on its behalf has made and signed a declaration in the prescribed form referring to the ship as described in the certificate of a Surveyor of Ships and containing the following particulars —
(a) in the case of section 12A(1)(a) and (b), the particulars specified in subsection (1)(a), (b), (d), (e) and (f);
(b) in the case of section 12A(1)(b), a statement that the ship is subject to a demise charter and that the person on whose behalf the declaration is made is the charterer of the ship under that charter.
(Inserted by Act 14 of 2016)
(2) For the purposes of this section, “beneficial interest” has the meaning assigned to it by section 89.