28. Merchant Shipping

Where a registered Brunei ship or a share therein is transferred the transferee shall not be entitled to be reg-istered as owner thereof until he, or, in the case of a cor-poration, the person authorised by this Part to make dec-larations on behalf of the corporation, has made and signed a declaration (hereinafter in this Part referred to as "a dec-laration of transfer") referring to the ship, and contain-tog-

a statement of the qualification of the trans-feree to own a Brunei ship, or if the transferee is a corporation, of such circumstances of the constitu-tion and business thereof as prove it to be qualified to own a Brunei ship; and

a declaration that, to the best of his know-ledge and belief, no unqualified person or body of persons is entitled as owner to any legal or bene-ficial interest in the ship or any share therein.