(1) All ships registered in Ghana which use oil as fuel for either engines or boilers shall be so fitted as to prevent oil fuel from leaking or draining into bilges unless effective means are provided to ensure that the oil in the bilges is not discharged in contravention of this Act.

(2) For the purpose of preventing or reducing discharges of oil and mixtures containing oil into the sea, the Minister may, by legislative instrument, make regulations requiring ships registered in Ghana to be fitted with such equipment, and to comply with such requirements, as may be prescribed.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding subsection, where any regulations made thereunder require ships to be fitted with equipment of a prescribed description, the regulations may provide that equipment of that description shall not be installed in a ship to which the regulations apply unless it is of a type approved by the Minister.