The Merchant Shipping (Registration and Licensing of Vessels) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

This section gives the short title of the Regulations and says they are to be read together with the principal Regulations.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Regulation
Citation: The Merchant Shipping (Registration and Licensing of Vessels) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
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Language: en
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This section gives the short title of the Regulations and says they are to be read together with the principal Regulations. This provision amends the principal Regulations by replacing specified words and titles with new ones. This provision adds new definitions for “Corporation,” “ship,” “Registrar,” and “vessel” to regulation 3. This provision amends the principal Regulations by deleting Part II and replacing it with a new Part II about the register of Tanzanian ships. The Corporation must keep a Register of Ships in hard copy and electronically, and any person may inspect the register or get a certified transcript on request.

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These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant
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AI-assisted research summary: This section gives the short title of the Regulations and says they are to be read together with the principal Regulations.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping and Licensing of Vessels) (Amendment), Regulations, 2021 and shall be read as one with the Merchant Shipping (Registration and Licensing of the Vessels) Regulations, hereinafter “principal Regulations”. referred to as General amendment by-
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The principal Regulations are amended generally
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the principal Regulations by replacing specified words and titles with new ones.

2. The principal Regulations are amended generally (a) deleting the word “Authority” wherever it appears in the Regulations and substituting for it the word “Corporation”; (b) deleting the words “certificate of registry” wherever they appear in the Regulations and substituting for them the words “certificate of registration”; (c) deleting the words “Registrar of Ships” and “Registrar of Seafarers” wherever they appear in the Regulations and substituting for them the word “Registrar”. Amendment of regulation 2
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The principal Regulations are amended
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision adds new definitions for “Corporation,” “ship,” “Registrar,” and “vessel” to regulation 3.

3. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 3 by adding in the appropriate alphabetical order the following new definitions: ““Corporation” means the Tanzania Shipping Agencies Corporation established under the Cap.415 1 Merchant Shipping (Registration and Licensing of Vessels) (Amendment) GN. NO.814 (Contd.) Tanzania Shipping Agencies Act; “ship” means a floating vessel which is self- propelled carrying passengers or cargo and includes every description of vessel used in navigation; capable and of Cap.415 “Registrar” means the Registrar appointed under the Tanzania Shipping section 31 of Agencies Act;” “vessel” includes any ship, boat, sailing vessel, ferry or other vessel of any description used in navigation;”. Amendment of PART II
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The principal Regulations are amended by deleting
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the principal Regulations by deleting Part II and replacing it with a new Part II about the register of Tanzanian ships.

4. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting PART II and substituting for it the following: “PART II REGISTER OF TANZANIAN SHIPS Register ships of

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PART II and substituting for it the following:

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(1) The Corporation shall keep
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AI-assisted research summary: The Corporation must keep a Register of Ships in hard copy and electronically, and any person may inspect the register or get a certified transcript on request.

3.-(1) The Corporation shall keep and maintain a Register of Ships for records in a hard copy and electronically. (2) Any person shall be entitled- (a) on request, to inspect the entries in the register during official opening hours; or the application a to Registrar, transcript of the entries in the Register which is certified by an authorised officer. to obtain (b) upon (3) The entries in the Register shall be as prescribed in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations. Power to amend register
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The Registrar may amend the
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AI-assisted research summary: The Registrar may amend the Register if there is a clerical error or if enough evidence shows the entry is incorrect.

4. The Registrar may amend the Register where- (a) a clerical error has occurred; or (b) sufficient evidence is produced to certify that the entry is incorrect.” 2 Merchant Shipping (Registration and Licensing of Vessels) (Amendment) GN. NO.814 (Contd.) Addition of regulation 6A
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The principal Regulations are amended by adding
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AI-assisted research summary: This section amends the principal Regulations by inserting new text after regulation 6.

5. The principal Regulations are amended by adding immediately after regulation 6 the following: “Ownership
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(1) Ownership of the property
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AI-assisted research summary: Ship ownership is divided into 64 shares, and limits apply to who may be registered as owner or joint owner.

6A.-(1) Ownership of the property in a ship shall be divided into sixty four shares. (2) The ownership in respect to joint owners or owners by transmission not more than sixty four persons shall be entitled to be registered at the same time as owners of any one ship but this rule shall not affect the beneficial title of any persons represented by or claiming under or through any registered owner or joint owner. (3) A person shall not be entitled to be registered as owner of a fractional part of a share in a ship but any number of persons not exceeding five may be registered as joint owners of a ship or of any share or shares therein. (4) shall Joint owners be considered as constituting one person only as regards the persons entitled to be registered, and shall not be entitled to dispose in severally of any interest in a ship or in any share therein in respect of which they are registered. (5) A body corporate shall be its corporate registered as owner by name.” Dodoma, 12th November, 2021 MAKAME M. MBARAWA Minister for Works and Transport 3

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