Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A certificate issued under section 18 for a ship immediately ceases to be in force if:
(a) when the certificate was issued, the ship was registered in Australia; and
(b) the ship ceases to be registered in Australia.
Ship registered in foreign country that is not a Convention country
(2) A certificate issued under section 18 for a ship immediately ceases to be in force if:
(a) when the certificate was issued, the ship was registered in a foreign country that was not a country to which the Bunker Oil Convention applied; and
(b) the ship ceases to be registered in that country or that country becomes a country to which that Convention applies.