Section 17: Declaration of ownership.

(1) A person shall not be registered as owner of a Sierra Leonean ship or of having a share therein until suchperson, or in the case of a body corporate, the person authorized under section 93 to make declarations on its behalf, has made and signed a declaration of ownership in the prescribed form referring to the ship as described in the tonnage certificate and containing the following particular— a) his full name and address; b) a statement of the time when and the place where the ship was built or where the ship was built outside Sierra Leone and the time and place of the building are not known, a statement to that effect, and in addition, in the case of a ship previously registered outside Sierra Leone, a statement of the name by which she was so registered; c) a statement of the number of shares and the owners of those shares in the ship in respect of which such person or body corporate, as the case may be, is entitled to be registered.