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3 MLAANZ Journal 5 (1985-1986)

handle is hein.journals/ausnewma3 and id is 1 raw text is: Shipping registrations Ray Bergsma* I. INTRODUCTION Thank you for your welcome and for inviting me to talk to you tonight about ship registration. Since the introduction of the Australian Ship Registration system the Department of Transport has endeavoured to cultivate a co-operative approach with its clients, rather than an inflexible bureaucratic one of beating the public around the head with the new legislation. We therefore try to spread our message wherever possible, especially with interested professionals like yourselves and also through pamphlets, articles in boating magazines, and briefing sessions throughout Australia. On a more personal note, however, people far wiser than I have said that any Federal public servant who strays from his airconditioned ivory tower in Canberra into state territory to participate in face to face encounters with the people whose taxes pay his salary is either approaching normal retirement, seeking early retirement, or is in need of psychological help. In my case the situation is further aggravated by the fact that I am not a lawyer but only a simple administrator responsible for trying to make the legislation work. Having said that I now feel able to talk about - A. the objectives of ship registration; B. a brief history of ship registration; C. a comparison between the previous law and the current law; D. the administration and its problems. I will however concentrate on those aspects which have a practical bias. II. OBJECTIVES OF SHIP REGISTRATION Registration of ships has four main objectives - to provide the ship with nationality; to give title to the ship; to enable encumbrances to be registered; and to give effect to article 5 of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas 1958. Registrar of Ships. An address given to a meeting of the N.S.W. branch of MLAANZ on 7 August 1985.