(1) The master of a foreign Safety Convention Ship, shall produce to the authorities from whom a clearance for the ship is sought in respect of an international voyage from a Ghanaian port, valid Safety Convention Certificates that are the equivalent of the Safety Convention Certificates issued by the Director-General and required to be in force in respect of a Ghanaian ship.

(2) Clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained until those certificates are produced.

(3) The production of a valid Safety Convention Certificate which is the equivalent of

(a) a qualified certificate; or

(b) an exemption certificate, other than a certificate stating that the ship is wholly exempt from the provisions of the Safety Convention, is not acceptable for the purpose of section 315 unless there is also produced the corresponding qualified certificate or exemption certificate as the case may be.