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| (1) Where an authorized officer has reason to suspect that any provision of this Act or any law for the time being in force relating to merchant shipping, merchant seamen or navigation is not being complied with, he may-
| | (a) require the owner, master or any of the crew of any Ceylon ship to produce any official logbooks or other documents relating to the crew or any member thereof in their respective possession or control; | | |
| | (b) require any such master to produce a list of all persons on board his ship, and to take copies of the official log-books or documents, or any part thereof; | | |
| | (c) muster the crew of such ship; | | |
| | (d) summon the master to appear and give any explanation concerning the ship or her crew or the official log-books or documents produced or required to be produced. | | |
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| (2) If any person, on being duly required by an authorized officer under this section,-
| | (a) fails without reasonable cause to produce to that officer any such official log-book or document as he is required to produce under this section; | | |
| | (b) refuses to allow such book or document to be inspected or copied; | | |
| | (c) impedes any muster of the crew required under this section; | | |
| | (d) refuses or neglects to give any explanation which he is required under this section to give; or | | |
| | (e) knowingly misleads or deceives any officer authorized under this section to demand any explanation, | | |
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