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(1) Where a seafarer while on board a Ghanaian ship informs the master that the seafarer wishes to make a complaint to the Registrar of Seafarers or a judicial officer or to the proper officer against the master or any of the crew, the master shall as far as the services of the ship will permit, allow the seafarer to go ashore, so that the seafarer can make the complaint,

(a) if the ship is then at a place where there is a proper officer or the Registrar of Seafarers; or

(b) if the ship is not at a place where there is a proper officer or the Registrar of Seafarers then upon her arrival at such a place.

(2) A master of a ship who fails to comply with this section without reasonable cause, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 500 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years or to both.