Section 51A: Registration of sale deed or declaration

51A. Registration of sale deed or declaration (1) The transfer of ownership of a pleasure craft shall be established— (a) by the production of the deed or electronic deed witnessing the transfer of the pleasure craft; or (b) where there is no deed or electronic declaration, by a declaration signed by the owner of the pleasure craft. (2) The deed or declaration shall state— (a) the name, address and postcode of the owner and those of the new owner; (b) the registration mark, make and model of the pleasure craft; (c) the date of transfer of ownership; and (d) the NIC number or particulars of such other identification document as may be acceptable to the Authority, or the registered company number, as the case may be, of the owner and the new owner. (3) The deed, declaration, or electronic deed or declaration registered in the RDDS, shall be registered with the Registrar-General and registration duty shall be paid in accordance with Part IX of the First Schedule to the Registration Duty Act. (3A) The deed or declaration may be— (a) prepared, concluded or saved in the RDDS; or (b) scanned and saved in the RDDS. (3B) Any deed or declaration submitted to the Registrar-General and registered in the RDDS shall be considered to be the original. (3C) Any deed scanned for the purposes of the RDDS shall be scanned in— (a) Portable Document Format (PDF); (b) 300 dots per inch (DPI) Image Resolution; and (c) text-searchable format by applying Optical Character Recognition (OCR). T11 – 29 [Issue 7] Tourism Authority Act (4) Every person to whom the ownership of a pleasure craft is transferred shall, within 14 days of the transfer— (a) present to the Registrar-General for registration under section 34 (2) of the Registration Duty Act, the deed or declaration referred in subsection (2), together with— (i) in the case of a pleasure craft registered in Mauritius, the registration book issued under section 43 (c); and (ii) in any other case, the original of a registration document or a certified copy issued by the relevant authority of the country where the pleasure craft is registered and the paid customs bill of entry; and (b) pay to the Registrar-General the duty referred to in subsection (3). (5) Where a person fails to comply with subsection (3), there shall be levied on the registration of the deed or declaration, in addition to the duty provided under subsection (4), a penalty at the rate specified in the Sixth Schedule to the Registration Duty Act. (6) No deed or declaration regarding the transfer of a pleasure craft shall be registered unless it complies with this section. (7) The electronic version of the deed or declaration shall be saved for a period of not less than 5 years in the MIPD. (8) The Registrar-General shall cause the duly registered electronic deed or declaration to be returned to the applicant electronically through the RDDS. [S. 51A inserted by s. 28 (d) of Act 26 of 2013 w.e.f. 19 May 2014; s. 51 (g) of Act 9 of 2015 w.e.f. 2 July 2015.]