Measurement and survey of ships

(1) Every ship, after being provisionally registered, shall be surveyed by a surveyor appointed in accordance with the Act, and its tonnage ascertained, and the surveyor shall grant a certificate specifying the ship’s tonnage, and such other particulars descriptive of the identity and marking of the ship as may for the time being be required by the Registrar or Senior Deputy Registrar, and such certificate shall be delivered to the Head Office. ships. (2) Where a ship which is not registered as a Belizean ship has been measured and registered as a foreign ship, the requirements of subsection (1) of this section may be fulfilled by delivery of a photocopy of the ship’s existing tonnage certificate to the appointed surveyor. (3) Where a ship which is not registered as a Belizean ship has been measured without having been so registered, the appointed surveyor may, for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, accept and use any suitable figures of measurement contained in the latest register relating to that ship, or, in the case of an unregistered ship, in the latest certificate of measurement relating to that ship.