Section 44: Certificate of Registry.

(1) The master or owner of a Sierra Leonean ship, who uses or attempts to use, for the purposes of navigation of such ship, a Certificate of Registry not legally granted in respect of the ship is, commits an offence and shall be on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five million leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both. (2) A ship to which an offence under subsection (1) relates is liable to forfeiture.