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(1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), where an aircraft or ship before arriving at the port or other approved place or having left an approved port or place for a destination outside the country, is compelled to land or bring to within the country owing to accident, stress of weather or other unavoidable cause, the master shall

(a) immediately report to the nearest proper officer or the nearest District Coordinating Director;

(b) on demand by a proper officer, produce the journey log-book or other papers relating to the aircraft or ship or its cargo and passengers,

(c) not allow any goods to be unloaded from the aircraft or ship without the consent of the proper officer, and

(d) not allow a passenger on board the aircraft or ship to leave the immediate vicinity of the aircraft or ship without the consent of the proper officer.

(2) In the case of a private aerodrome, wharf or quay,

(a) the master shall immediately report the arrival of the aircraft or ship and the name of the place that the aircraft or ship came from to the proprietor of the place; and

(b) the proprietor shall

(i) immediately report the arrival of the aircraft or ship to the nearest proper officer or to the nearest District Coordinating Director;

(ii) not allow any goods to be unloaded from the aircraft or ship or any passenger to leave the private aerodrome, wharf or quay without the consent of a proper officer.