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(1) Where a person, who is the owner of a vessel or a wrecked, submerged, sunken or stranded vessel or who is the agent or servant of the owner, wishes to break up the vessel prior to its removal from Ghana, the person shall before commencing salvage or breaking up operations, obtain the written permission of a receiver.

(2) On receipt of an application for permission to break up a vessel, the receiver may before granting the permission

(a) stipulate conditions the receiver considers necessary to minimise the risks or effects of any pollution; and

(b) require security of a reasonable amount as the receiver considers necessary to ensure the safe and effective removal of the vessel or any portion of it.

(3) A person who, without the prior written permission of a receiver, does or causes to be done any salvage or breaking up operations of any vessel or any wrecked, submerged, sunken or stranded vessel lying within Ghana commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 1000 penalty units or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both.