(1) An official log book in the prescribed form shall be kept in a Ghanaian ship of one hundred gross tons or above, and also on a Ghanaian ship trading from and beyond the waters of Ghana.

(2) The Minister may make Regulations prescribing

(a) the form of the official log book;

(b) the particulars to be entered in the official log book;

(c) the persons by whom the entries are to be made, signed or witnessed; and

(d) the procedure to be followed in the making of the entries and their amendment or cancellation

(3) The official log book may at the discretion of the master be kept distinct from or combined with the ordinary ship's log, but in all cases the spaces in the official log book shall be duly filled with entries.

(4) An entry required to be made in an official log book

(a) shall be made as soon as possible after the occurrence to which it relates;

(b) if it is not made on the same day as the occurrence, it shall be made and

dated to show the dates of the occurrence and the entry in respect of it; and

(c) if it is made in respect of an occurrence which happened before the arrival of the ship at its final port of discharge, the entry shall be made within twenty-four hours after that arrival.

(5) An entry in the official log book shall be signed by the master and by an officer or any other member of the crew, and if it is an entry of illness, injury or death, it shall also be signed by the medical practitioner on board.

(6) An entry made in an official log book in the manner provided by this Act is admissible in evidence to prove the facts stated in it.