Section 46, The Merchant Shipping Act, 2003

(1) Where it appears to the Minister that by reason of special circumstances it is desirable that permission begranted to a ship to pass, without being previously registered, from any port in Sierra Leone to any port within or outside Sierra Leone, the Minister may, in any case in which the ship belongs to a country whose laws provide for the issue of a temporary pass, direct the Registrar to grant a pass and that pass for the time and within the geographical limits mentioned in the pass shall have the same effect as a Certificate of Registry. (2) When so directed under subsection (1) the Registrar shall grant the pass. Registration of alterations and registration anew.