(1) Where a Saint Lucian ship is outside of Saint Lucia and consequent upon notification as to alterations in the ship the Registrar of Ships directs that the ship is to be registered anew, a proper officer or other appropriate authority designated to act on behalf of the Government shall grant to the master on his or her application, either a provisional certificate, describing the ship as altered, or provisionally endorse the particulars of the alteration on the existing certificate.
(2) Where a proper officer or other appropriate authority grants a provisional certificate or provisionally endorses a certificate under this section, the proper officer or other appropriate authority shall add to the certificate or endorsement a statement that the same is made provisionally.
(3) A provisional certificate or a provisionally endorsed certificate issued under this section shall be valid for a period of 6 months after its date of issue or until the next arrival of the ship at a port in Saint Lucia whichever is sooner.
(4) The master of every ship in respect of which a provisional certificate is granted or a certificate is endorsed under this section shall, within 10 days of the ship's arrival thereafter at a port in Saint Lucia or within 30 days of the expiration of the 6 month period referred to in subsection (3) whichever is the sooner, deliver that certificate to the Registrar of Ships and, if any master fails to comply with this subsection, he or she commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $1,000.
(5) Where a provisional certificate is granted to or a certificate is endorsed with respect to any ship under this section, application for registration of that ship anew shall be made to the Registrar of Ships within 4 months of the issue of the provisional or provisionally endorsed certificate and the other requirements requisite for registration anew shall be complied with. When the owner of the ship fails to comply with this subsection he or she commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and, in addition, to a further fine of $100 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction.