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In the event of sucli discharge or escape of oil or oily mixture as is 

 referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of Article III or in Article IV, a state- 

 ment shall be made in the oil record book of the circumstances of, and 

 reason for, the discharge or escape. 



(3) Each operation described in paragraph (2) of this Article shall be 

 fully recorded without delay in the oil record book so that aU the 

 entries in the book appropriate to that operation are completed. 

 Each page of the book shall be signed by the oflScer or officers in 

 charge of the operations concerned and, when the ship is manned, 

 by the master of the ship. The written entries in the oil record book 

 shall be in an official language of the relevant territory in respect of 

 the ship in accordance with paragraph (1) of Article II, or in English 

 or French. 



(4) Oil record books shall be kept in such a place as to be readily 

 available for inspection at all reasonable times, and, except in the case 

 of unmanned ships under tow, shall be kept on board the ship. They 

 shaU be preserved for a period of two years after the last entry has 

 been made. 



(5) The competent authorities of any of the territories of a Con- 

 tracting Government may inspect on board any ship to which the 

 present Convention applies, while within a port in that territory, the 

 oil record book required to be carried in the ship in compliance with 

 the provisions of this Article, and may make a true copy of any entry 

 in that book and may require the master of the ship to certify that the 

 copy is a true copy of such entry. Any copy so made which purports 

 to have been certified by the master of the ship as a true copy of an 

 entry in the ship's oil record book shall be made admissible in any 

 judicial proceedings as evidence of the facts stated in the entry. 

 Any action by the competent authorities under this paragraph shall 

 be taken as expeditiously as possible and the ship shall not be delayed. 



10. The existing text of Article X of the Convention is replaced by 

 the following : 



Article X 



(1) Any Contracting Government may furnish to the Government 

 of the relevant territory in respect of the ship in accordance with 

 paragraph (1) of Article II particulars in writing of evidence that any 

 provision of the present Convention has been contravened in respect 

 of that ship, wheresoever the alleged contravention may have taken 

 place. If it is practicable to do so, the competent authorities of the 

 former Government shall notify the master of the ship of the alleged 

 contravention. 



(2) Upon receiving such particulars, the Government so informed 

 shall investigate the matter, and may request the other Government 

 to furnish further or better particulars of the allied contravention. 

 If the Government so informed is satisfied that sufficient evidence is 



