Section 13Part 2 — Procedure in general
Registers of ships
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Every register of a vessel kept under any of the Acts relating to the registry of British vessels may be proved in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence, either by the production of the original or by any examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the person having the charge of the original, and which person is hereby required to furnish such certified copy to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same, upon payment of the sum of five dollars; and every such register, or such copy of a register, and also every certificate of registry granted under any of the Acts relating to the registry of British vessels, and purporting to be signed as required by law, shall be received in evidence in any court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive and examine evidence as prima facie proof of all the matters contained or recited in such register when the register or such copy thereof as aforesaid is produced, and of all the matters contained or recited in or endorsed on such certificate of registry, when the said certificate is produced.