(1) The Director-General may cause to be removed anything other than a vessel which is causing or is likely to become an obstruction or impediment to navigation in or the use of the approaches to a harbour or port.

(2) Where an object removed under subsection (1) is marked in a manner that is readily identifiable as the property of a person, the Director-General shall, subject to subsection

(3), within one month of the property coming into the Director-General's custody, give notice to that person to take possession of the object at a place named in the notice.

(3) Where possession is not re-taken within fourteen days of the service of the notice, the property shall at the end of that period vest in the Director-General.

(4) Where property removed under subsection (1) is

(a) not so marked as to be readily identifiable as the property of a person; or

(b) so marked but the place of business of the owner is not known to the Director-General or is outside Ghana, and within three months of it coming into the custody of the Director-General has not been claimed by a person who proves to the reasonable satisfaction of the Director General that it belongs to that person, the property shall vest in the Authority.

(5) The Director-General may dispose of property referred to in subsection (3) which is of a perishable nature or the custody of which involves unreasonable expense or inconvenience, at a time and in a manner that the Director-General thinks fit, although it has not been vested in the Authority, and if it is sold, the proceeds shall be applied in payment of expenses incurred by the Director-General under this section in relation to the property.

(6) Where the balance is not claimed within three months from the time when the property came into the custody of the Director-General by a person who proves to the reasonable satisfaction of the Director-General that that person was the owner at the time, that balance shall at the expiry of the period vest in the Authority.

(7) Where property removed under this section

(a) is sold by the Director-General and the proceeds of sale are insufficient to

reimburse the Director-General of the expenses incurred by the Director

General in the exercise of the Director-General's powers of removal, or

(b) is unsaleable, the Director-General may recover the difference or the whole of the expenses as a debt, from the person who was the owner

(d) at the time of its abandonment or loss.

(8) The Director-General shall not under the powers conferred by this section cause to be removed an object placed or constructed by a person or an authority by virtue of the provisions of this Act or any other law.