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(1) A person shall not undertake in Ghana the building of a ship unless that person has been granted a licence to do so by the Minister for Industries in consultation with the Minister and the Minister for Agriculture where the ship is a fishing vessel.

(2) The design for the building of a ship shall be subject to the approval of the Minister or the body charged by law with the responsibility.

(3) The building of any ship in Ghana shall be supervised by a surveyor employed by the person who commissioned the building of the ship and it shall be the duty of the employer to submit periodic progress reports of the work on the ship to the Minister.

(4) A person shall not sell or offer for sale, whether within or outside Ghana, any new ship built in Ghana unless there has been issued in respect of that ship a Certificate of Seaworthiness by the Minister in such form as may be prescribed.

(5) The Minister may in consultation with the Board of the Ghana Maritime Authority make Regulations prescribing the

(a) standards and specifications for the design and construction of different types of ships; and

(b) forms of application, licence and Certificate of Seaworthiness described in this section.

(6) The owner, operator and master of a ship built or sold in contravention of subsections (1), (2), (3), or (4) commit an offence and each is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 500 penalty units and in addition the court may order the forfeiture of the ship in respect of which the offence was committed.