(1) The several instruments and documents specified in this Act shall be in the prescribed form or as near thereto as circumstances permit.
(2) The Minister may make such alterations in the forms so prescribed as he or she may deem requisite.
(3) The Registrar of Ships shall not be required, without the special direction of the Minister, to receive and enter in the register book any bill of sale, mortgage or other instrument for the disposal or transfer of any ship or share therein, or any interest therein which is made in any form other than the prescribed form or which contains any particulars other than those required in such form.