Article 1(Purpose) #
The purpose of this Act is to prescribe matters concerning the registration of ships pursuant to Article 8 (4) of the Ship Act.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 15, 2011]
Article 2(Scope of application) #
This Act shall apply to every steamship and every sailing ship with the total tonnage of not less than 20 tons, and every lighter of not less than 100 tons; provided, the same shall not apply to a lighter installed fixedly on the surface of water for use as ship mooring and storage under the main sentence of subparagraph 4 of Article 26 of the Ship Act.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 15, 2011]
Article 3(Matters to be registered) #
Registration of ships shall be made for the establishment, preservation, transfer, change, restriction on disposition or extinction of the rights enumerated under any of the following subparagraphs:
1. Ownership;
2. Mortgage;
3. Lease.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 15, 2011]
Article 4(Registries having jurisdiction) #
As for the registration of ships, the district courts, the branch courts thereof or the registries, which have jurisdiction over the ports of registry for the ships to be registered shall become the pertinent registries.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 15, 2011]
Article 5(Provisions to apply mutatis mutandis) #
The provisions of Articles 4 through 6, 8 through 13, 14 (2) through (4), 16 through 20, 22, 23, 24 (1) 1 and (2), 25 through 33, 48, 50 through 59, 63, 64, 66 (1), 67, 74 through 98, 100, 101 (excluding the part regarding objections filed using the electronic data processing system), 102 through 109, 109-2 (1) and (3) (only applicable to the parts related to paragraph (1)), 110, and 111 of the Registration of Real Estate Act, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the registration of ships. <Amended on 4422, Dec. 14, 1991; Act No. 10580, Apr. 12, 2011; Act No. 10797, Jun. 15, 2011; Feb. 4, 2020; Sep. 20; 2024>
[Title Amended on Jun. 15, 2011]
Article 6(Delegation provision) #
Matters necessary for the enforcement of this Act shall be prescribed by the Supreme Court Regulations.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 15, 2011]