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Title: The Ship Registration Law CH
Category: Ministry of Transportation and Communications(交通部)
Chapter 6 Registration Fees
Article 60
Registration fees shall be levied and collected from the applications for the following registrations:
1. For the proprietorship of a ship obtained through inheritance or donation, the fee shall be calculated as 0.1%; or 0.02% for the donation to a public interest organization or public utility, of the ship value after deducting inheritance tax or donation tax;
2. For the proprietorship of a ship obtained on account of any cause other than as mentioned in the previous items, the fee shall be 0.2% of the ship value;
3. For preserving of or dividing the co-ownership of the proprietorship of a ship, the fee shall be 0.05% of the ship value; however, if the value exceeds twenty million dollars, the portion exceeding which shall be charged at the rate of 0.025%.
4. The fee shall be 0.05% of the ship value for the tenure of leasehold of a ship less than ten years; or 0.1% for the tenure being ten years and over; or 0.05% for the tenure not defined. For the registration of a subleased leasehold, the fee shell be calculated based on the remaining tenure resulted from the entire tenure minus the past portion.
5. For every obtainment of the right of mortgage, the fee shall be one hundred dollars.
6. For every interim, collateral, altering, correcting, resuming, resumption or deleting registration, the fee shall be twenty dollars.
All governmental non-commercial ships are exempted from the collection of registration fees.
For the matter referred to in Item 1 of the first paragraph hereinbefore, the Shipping Administration Authority may notify the shipowner to furnish an appropriate security deposit, and, after receipt of which, proceed to make the registration of the proprietorship.
Article 61
The following registration fees shall be levied and collected from an application to transfer or delete the port of registry:
1. Transfer: two dollars per ten-tonnage; and
2 .Deletion: one dollar per ten-tonnage.
The tonnage mentioned above shall be the gross tonnage and every part of tonnage less than ten shall be rounded up to ten.
Article 62
A transcription fee shall be levied and collected from an application for a photocopy of the whole or part of the register book, and, in addition, a mailing fee shall be charged if such copy is requested to send by mail.
Article 63
A reading fee shall be levied and collected from an application for reading the register book or documents annexed thereto.