(1) Without prejudice to any powers exercisable by surveyors of ships whether by virtue of this Act or otherwise, every surveyor of ships is hereby empowered to go on board any ship to which the Convention of 1954 applies, while the ship is within a port in Ghana, and to require production of any records required to be kept in accordance with that Convention, and to copy any entry in those records and require the master of the ship to certify the copy as a true copy of the entry.

(2) For the purposes of this section, in any proceedings under this Act-

(a) any records kept in pursuance of the Convention of 1954 shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated in those records;

(b) any copy of any entry in such records, which is certified by the master of the ship to be a true copy of the entry, shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated in the entry;

(c) any document purporting to be records kept in pursuance of the Convention of 1954, or purporting to be such a certified copy as is mentioned in the last preceding paragraph, shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be such records or such a certified copy, as the case may be.

(3) If any person fails to comply with any requirement of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds; and if any person wilfully obstructs a surveyor acting in the exercise of a power conferred under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(4) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply to any subsequent Convention, in so far as it relates to the prevention of pollution of the sea by oil, as those provisions apply to the Convention of 1954.