If a canal boat conforms to the conditions of registration prescribed by the regulations, any registration authority for the canal on which the boat is accustomed or intended to ply shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, register the boat.
Upon registering a canal boat, the registration authority shall give to the owner of the boat a certificate of registration in duplicate, identifying the owner and the boat and stating the place to which the boat is registered as belonging, the number, age and sex of the persons permitted to dwell in the boat, and such other particulars as may be required by the regulations, or as the authority think desirable.
The master of a canal boat shall have the custody of one of the duplicate certificates of registration, but, on his ceasing to be the master of the boat, or on the boat ceasing to be registered, he shall deliver that certificate to the owner of the. boat, or to such person as the owner may direct, and, if he unlawfully detains it, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, and the court may order him to deliver up the certificate.
A certificate of registration of a canal boat shall cease to be in force, if any structural alterations which affect the conditions upon which the certificate was obtained are made in the boat.
A person aggrieved by the refusal of a registration authority to register a canal boat may appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction.