Section 58: Ship’s managing owner or manger to be registered

58. Ship’s managing owner or manger to be registered.—(1) The name and address of the managing owner, for the time being of every ship registered at a port in Pakistan, shall be registered at the custom house of that port. (2) Where there is no managing owner there shall be so registered the name of the ship’s husband or other person to whom the management of the ship is entrusted by or on behalf of the owner; and any person whose name is so registered shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be under the same obligations and subject to the same liabilities as if he were the managing owner. (3) If default is made in complying with this section the owner shall be liable, or if there are more owners than one each owner shall be liable in proportion to his interest in the ship, to a fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees each time the ship leaves any port in Pakistan.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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