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(1) Where under this Act a ship is to be detained, any commissioned officer on full pay in the Ghana Armed Forces, a proper officer of Customs, or any officer of the Authority designated by the Board for the purpose may enforce the detention of the ship.

(2) Where a ship during detention, or after service on the master of the order or any notice of an order for detention, proceeds to sea before it is released by a competent authority, the master of the ship, as well as the owner, and any person who sends the ship to sea each commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 2500 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or to both.

(3) Where a ship proceeds to sea taking on board an officer authorised to detain the ship or any surveyor or other officer performing the functions of office under this Act or any other enactment, the owner and master of the ship commit an offence and each is liable on summary conviction to

(a) a fine not exceeding 2500 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or to both;

(b) a fine of 100 penalty units for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues; and

(c) pay all the expenses of and incidental to the officer being taken to sea.

(4) An officer detaining a ship may place a police guard on that ship.

(5) A police guard placed on board a ship under subsection (4) shall take necessary steps to prevent the ship from leaving the port.

(6) A person who obstructs an officer or a police guard or surveyor detaining a ship commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of 250 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 12 months or to both.

(7) An officer detaining a ship shall notify the proper officer of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service that the ship is being detained.

(8) Where a ship is liable to detention under this Act the proper officer of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service may detain the ship and refuse to clear that ship outwards.

(9) For the purposes of this section the expression "proper officer of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service" means the officer able to grant a clearance to the ship.