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(1) If during the voyage of a Ghanaian ship the allowance of provisions provided for a seafarer is less than that prescribed or any of those provisions are of poor quality, the seafarer shall receive by way of compensation for the deficiency or poor quality, for so long as it lasts, the amounts that may be prescribed to be paid to the seafarer in addition to the seafarer's wages, and is recoverable as wages.

(2) Where the deficiency occurred because the provisions are supplied in improper quantities and proper equivalent substitutes were supplied in lieu of those circumstances it shall be taken into consideration for the purposes of subsection (1) and the compensation shall be reduced or denied accordingly.