Section 46Part 2 — REGISTRATION OF SHIPS
Tonnage of ships of foreign countries adopting tonnage regulations
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46. (1) Where it appears to the Chief Executive Officer that the Tonnage Convention is in force in a foreign country, the Chief Executive Officer may apply that convention to the ships of such country as provided in this section.
The Chief Executive Officer may order that ships of the foreign country shall, without being re-measured in the Islands, be treated as being of the tonnage denoted by their certificates of registry or other national documents, to the same extent and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a Cayman Islands ship is treated as being the tonnage of that ship. Merchant Shipping Act, 2024 Section 47 c Act 1 of 2024 Page 49
Where the Chief Executive Officer orders a ship to be treated as provided in subsection (2), any space shown in the ship’s certificate of registry or other national documents as deducted from the tonnage shall, if a similar deduction in the case of a Cayman Islands ship depends on compliance with any conditions or on the compliance being evidenced in any manner, be treated as complying with those conditions,
Subsection (3) does not apply unless a surveyor of ships certifies to the Chief Executive Officer that the construction and equipment of the ship as respects that space do not comply with the standard which would be required if the ship were a Cayman Islands ship.
An order under subsection (2) may —
operate for a limited time; and
be subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as the Chief Executive Officer may consider necessary.
If it appears to the Chief Executive Officer that the tonnage of a foreign ship, as measured by the rules of the country to which the ship belongs, materially differs from what it would be under the tonnage regulations, the Chief Executive Officer may order further that any of the ships of that country may, for all or any of the purposes of this Act, be re-measured in accordance with the tonnage regulations.