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(1) A person shall not be registered as the owner of a Ghanaian ship or of a share in it unless that person or in the case of a body corporate the person authorised by the body corporate under section 4(1) to make the application on its behalf has made a declaration of ownership in the prescribed form.

(2) The declaration shall be accompanied with a certificate of survey for the ship and shall include the following particulars of the applicant and the ship:

(a) the full name and address of the applicant;

(b) national status or in the case of a body corporate a statement of the constitution and business interests as proof of its qualification to own a Ghanaian ship;

(c) a statement of the time when and the place where the ship was built or if the ship was built outside Ghana and the time and place of building is not known, a statement to that effect; and in addition in the case of a ship previously registered outside Ghana a statement of the name by which it was registered;

(d) the number of shares in the ship in respect of which the person or the body corporate is entitled to be registered as owner; and

(e) a statement that to the best of the knowledge and belief of the applicant no unqualified person has any legal or beneficial interest in the ship or any share in it.

(2) For the purposes of this section, "beneficial interest" has the meaning assigned to it by section 79 of this Act.