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(1) For the purposes of this Act the areas of the sea designated by or in accordance with this section shall be prohibited sea areas.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section the areas specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall be prohibited sea areas.

(3) The Minister, if he considers it necessary to do so for the purpose of protecting the coast and territorial waters of Ghana from pollution by oil, may by legislative instrument, designate any area of the sea, outside the territorial waters of Ghana and outside the areas specified in the First Schedule to this Act, as a prohibited sea area.

(4) For the purpose of giving effect to any variation of the prohibited zones referred to in the Convention of 1954, in accordance with the provisions of that Convention or of any subsequent Convention, the Minister may by legislative instrument vary any of the areas specified in the First Schedule to this Act, or declare that any area specified in that Schedule shall cease to be included therein, or designate as a prohibited area any area of the sea, outside the Territorial waters of Ghana, which apart from the instrument is not a prohibited sea area.