(1) The master of every ship registered in Ghana (not being a tanker) of 80 tons gross tonnage or over which uses fuel oil shall maintain a record-

(a) of any occasion on which oil or a mixture containing oil is discharged from his ship for the purpose of securing the safety of any vessel or of preventing damage to any vessel or cargo;

(b) of any occasion on which oil or a mixture containing oil is found to be escaping, or to have escaped, from any such ship in consequence of damage to the ship, or by reason of leakage;

(c) of the carrying out, on board or in connection with any such ship, of operations relating to -

(i) the ballasting of oil tanks (whether cargo or bunker fuel tanks) and the discharge of ballast from, and cleaning of, such tanks, or

(ii) the separation of oil from water, or from other substances in any mixture containing oil, or

(iii) the disposal of any oil or water, or any other substance, arising from operations relating to any of the matters specified in the preceding sub-paragraphs, or

(iv) the disposal of any other oil residues.

(2) The records required to be maintained of the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall be in the form set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act, and those to be maintained of the matters specified in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section, in the form set out in Part III of that Schedule.

(3) The master of every ship being a tanker registered in Ghana shall maintain a record in the form set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act of the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of this section and in the form set out in Part II of the Second Schedule of the matters specified in paragraph (c) of that subsection.

(4) The records required to be maintained in accordance with this section shall be retained in the ship for a period of two years after the last entry has been made and shall be kept readily available for inspection at all reasonable times.