(1) Where the Director-General or a person authorised by the Director-General is satisfied on receipt of the surveyor's report in respect of a Ghanaian cargo ship to which section 279 applies, that the ship complies with the Cargo Ship Safety Construction and Survey Regulations applicable to the ship and the voyage it is to be engaged in, the Director-General or the authorised person shall on the application of the owner issue in respect of the ship

(a) a certificate in the form prescribed by the Convention where it is not less than five hundred gross tons and is to be engaged on an international voyage and

(b) in any other case a certificate showing that the ship complies with the Regulations.

(2) A certificate issued under subsection (1) is referred to as a "Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate".