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SHIPPING REGISTRATION ACT 1981 - SECT 29

Certain ships to have Australian nationality

  (1)   The following ships shall, for all purposes, be taken to be Australian ships and to have Australian nationality:

  (a)   registered ships;

  (b)   unregistered ships (other than ships required to be registered), being:

  (i)   Australian - owned ships referred to in section   13;

  (ii)   ships wholly owned by residents of Australia or by residents of Australia and Australian nationals; or

  (iii)   ships operated solely by residents of Australia or Australian nationals or both.

  (2)   Nothing in subsection   (1) shall be taken to alter the character of a ship as an article of personal property.

  (3)   In this section, unregistered ship means a ship that is not registered under this Act or under the law of a foreign country.



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