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(1) An officer on duty may board a conveyance within the country and stay on board for a period that the officer considers necessary.

(2) The officer shall have access to every part of the conveyance and the officer may

(a) search the conveyance,

(b) demand for books or other documents which ought to be on board or require that all or any of the books or other documents be brought for inspection;

(c) examine all goods on board as well as goods that are being loaded or unloaded;

(d) secure a part of the conveyance by means that the officer considers necessary;

(e) require any goods to be unloaded and removed for examination or for the security of the goods, or to unload and remove them at the expense of the master; or

(f) lock up, seal, mark or secure any goods on board by any means that the officer considers necessary.

(3) Where an officer acting in the course of duty, finds that access to a place or to a box or chest is obstructed, or the key of a place, box or chest which is locked is withheld, the officer may open the place, box or chest in any manner.

(4) Where an officer finds goods concealed on board the conveyance, the person in charge of the conveyance shall forfeit the goods.

(5) The master of a conveyance shall incur a penalty of not less than one thousand and not more than three thousand penalty units, where

(a) a lock, mark or seal is placed on goods or stores on board a conveyance, or on a place or package in which the goods or stores are opened, altered or broken before due delivery of the goods or stores within the country without authorisation of the proper officer;

(b) any of the goods or stores are secretly conveyed away;

(c) the goods, stores, pieces or packages which have been secured by the officer are opened within Ghana without the authority of the proper officer; or

(d) the goods are not unloaded and removed for examination or for the security of the goods as required by the officer.

(6) The master of a conveyance shall respond to a question that the officer may ask in relation to the conveyance and the cargo, stores, baggage, officers, crew, passengers and the flight or voyage of the conveyance.

(7) A master of a conveyance shall incur a penalty of not less than one hundred and not more than three hundred penalty units and may have the conveyance detained, where that person

(a) refuses or without reasonable cause fails to produce books or other documents in relation to the conveyance on demand;

(b) fails to bring the book or document to the officer when required;

(c) fails to respond to a question put to that person by the officer.

(8) The master of a ship on which an officer is required to be stationed shall provide suitable accommodation and sufficient meals under the deck for the period that the officer remains on board.

(9) The master of a ship may, with the approval of the Commissioner-General and subject to conditions that the Commissioner General may impose, pay an amount equivalent to twenty penalty units for each day that the officer remains stationed on the ship instead of providing sufficient meals in accordance with subsection (8).

(10) Where the master of a ship on which an officer is stationed neglects or refuses to provide the officer with suitable accommodation and sufficient meals under the deck or pay the relevant amount specified under subsection (9), the master shall incur a penalty of a sum not less than one thousand penalty units and not more than three thousand penalty units.