(1) The master of a Ghanaian ship shall upon arrival at a port or at such other time and place as the Director-General may with respect to any ship or class of ships direct, deliver to the Director-General or proper officer, in the prescribed form, a return of the facts relating to births and deaths which the master is required by sections 207 and 212 to record.

(2) In respect of any death recorded the master shall notify the death to any person the deceased may have named as next-of-kin.

(3) When the return is made elsewhere other than in Ghana the proper officer shall send a certified copy of the return to the Director-General.