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For the purpose of this Part

"Convention Country" means a country, the Government of which is a party to the Load Line Convention or a territory of such country to which the Convention extends;

"existing ship" means a ship which at the commencement of this Act is not a new ship;

"fishing vessel" means a ship used for catching fish, or other living resources of the sea including whales, walrus and seals;

"international voyage" means a voyage between

(a) a port or place in Ghana and a port or place outside Ghana; or

(b) a port in a Convention Country, other than Ghana and a port in any other country or territory (whether or not a Convention Country) which is outside Ghana; except, that in determining the ports between which a voyage is made, no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage which is due solely to stress of weather or other circumstances that neither the master nor the charterer, if any, of the ship could have prevented or forestalled;

"Load Line Convention" means the International Convention on Load Line of 1966 and any amendments to it which the Minister may by legislative instrument prescribe to be in force in Ghana;

"Load Line Convention Ship" means an international Load Line ship that belongs to a country to which the Load Line Convention applies;

"Load Line Regulations" means the Regulations made by the Minister to give effect to the Load Line Convention;

"Load Line Ship" means

(a) an international Load Line Ship, which is an existing ship of not less than one hundred and fifty tons or a new ship of twenty-four meters or more in length or of fifteen tons or more in weight which carries cargo or passengers on international voyages; or

(b) a Ghanaian Load Line ship, other than an international Load Line ship, which carries cargo or passengers; and

"new ship" means a ship whose keel is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction

(a) in the case of a ship registered in or flying the flag of a country other than Ghana which is a Convention country or a country to which the Convention applies, on the date from which it is declared that the Government of the country has ratified or acceded to the Load Line Convention;

  (b) in the case of any other ship, on the date of the coming into force of this Act.