LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
CHAPTER 131
MARITIME
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Commencement: 13 April 1981 |
| To provide for the establishment of a shipping register for vessels
of Vanuatu engaged in foreign trade and for matters connected therewith. |
Act 8 of 1981
Act 36 of 1982
Act 15 of 1987
Act 8 of 1989
Act 3 of 1990
Act 13 of 1996
Act 31 of 1998 |
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 SECTION
1. Interpretation
2. Commissioner of Maritime Affairs
3. Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs
3A. Special Agents
4. Maritime Administrator
5. Records relating to vessels
6. Authority to administer oaths and take acknowledgments
7. Authority to issue radio station licences
8. Authority to issue licences, certificates
9. Suspension and revocation proceedings
10. Fees
11. Adoption of general maritime law
12. Separability
13. General penalty for violation
14. Jurisdiction
15. Appeal from Commissioner's decision
16. General provisions
17. Vessels eligible to be documented or redocumented
18. Registry fee, tonnage taxes
19. Annual tonnage tax
20. Conditions precedent to issuance of permanent Certificate of Registry
21. Oaths
22. Measurement
23. Certificate of measurement
24. Measurement of vessels
25. Treatment of shelterdeck and certain other spaces
26. Tonnage statements in Certificate of Registry
27. Forms of documents
28. Numbering Certificates of Registry and licences
29. Provisional Certificate of Registry to vessels abroad
30. Conditions precedent to issuance of provisional certificate
31. Conditions precedent to issuance of bareboat charter Certificate of Registry
32. Denial of document
33. Waiver of certain requirements of chapter 4
34. Sale of document forbidden
35. Sale or transfer abroad
36. Transfer to foreign registry
37. Application for surrender of documents
38. Surrender of Certificate of Registry
39. Surrender of documents of vessel subject to preferred mortgages
40. New document
41. Builder's certificate
42. Names, numbers and marks on vessel
43. Numbering of vessels
44. Change in name of vessel
45. Inspection of document
46. Display of ship's papers to consul
47. Forgery of Documents and False Declarations
48. Rules and regulations
49. Standards of seaworthiness
50. Contents of record
51. Documentary endorsement of preferred mortgage
52. Termination of mortgagee's interests
53. Conditions precedent to recording
54. Recording of bills of sale
55. Recording of mortgages
56. Preferred mortgage
57. Lien of preferred mortgage
58. Interest on preferred mortgage
58A. Advances and Repayments
58B. Units of Account
59. Disclosure of liens and priority
60. Exhibiting certified copies
61. Record of notice of claim of lien
62. Discharge of mortgage
63. Foreclosure and default jurisdiction and procedure
64. Preferred status
65. Foreclosures
66. Necessaries
67. Waiver of lien in necessaries
67A. Abolition of Endorsement
68. Interpretation
69. Risks
70. Responsibilities and liabilities
71. Rights and immunities
71A. Defences
72. Surrender of rights and immunities and increase of responsibilities and liabilities
73. Special conditions
74. Contract permitted as to damages to goods while not on ship
75. Effect of chapter
76. Discrimination forbidden as to competing shippers
77. Bulk cargoweights ascertained by third parties
78. Scope of chapter
79. Owners right to limitation
80. Claims
81. Limitation fund
82. Bail and release
83. Applicability
84. Fire damage
85. Regulations
86. Regulations for preventing collisions
87. Small rowing boats
88. Penalty for violation of rules by pilot, engineer, mate or master
89. Penalty for violation by vessel
90. Assistance in case of collision
91. Penalty for failure to render assistance
92. Vessels stranded on foreign coasts
93. Right to salvage not affected by ownership of vessel
94. Salvage remuneration
95. Time limit for salvage suits
96. Recovery for salvage services rendered by Government vessels
97. Marine casualties
98. Marine casualty investigations
99. Application
100. Interpretation
101. Full complement required
102. Of Officers licences
103. Penalty
104. Termination of employment of master
105. Duties of the master
106. Special powers of masters
107. Certain seamen's rights provided for master
108. Wrongful death of master
109. Shipping articles required for seamen
110. Exemptions with respect to shipping articles
111. Penalty for alteration of shipping articles
112. Penalty for shipping without shipping articles
113. Duration and extension of shipping articles
114. Termination of shipping articles
115. Certificate of service
116. Exemptions with respect to certificates of service
117. Minimum age at sea
118. Payment of wages
119. Wages for unjustifiable discharge
120. Stowaway entitled to wages, if there is an agreement
121. Grounds for discharge
122. Advances and allotment of wages
123. Wages and clothing exempt from attachment
124. Vacation allowance and holidays
125. Agreements as to loss of lien or right to wages
126. Wages not dependent on freight earned
127. Wages, maintenance and cure for sick and injured seaman
127A. Benefits of Compensation for Loss of Life
128. Wrongful death
129. Death on board
130. Issuance of death certificate
131. Burial expenses
132. Working hours overtime
133. Repatriation
134. Loss of right of repatriation
135. Offences against the internal order of the vessel
136. Prohibition of corporal punishment
137. Drunkenness, neglect of duty
138. Desertion
139. Incitement of seamen to revolt or mutiny
140. Revolt or mutiny of seamen
141. Entry of the offences in logbook
142. Abandonment of seamen
143. Freedom of association
144. Protection of freedom of association
145. Bargaining and execution of labour contract
146. Provisions authorized in labour contracts
147. Provisions prohibited in labour contracts
148. Protection of labour contract
149. Strikes, picketing and like interference
150. Conciliation and mediation of labour disputes, differences or grievances
151. Time limit
152. Minister to make rules and regulations
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