Minimum period for retention of a declaration of security
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18.—(1) Any declaration of security that is completed in respect of a ship or a port facility shall be retained for a period of at least three years after it was last used—
(a)in respect of ships, on board the ship by the master; and
(b)in respect of port facilities by the port facility security officer.
(2) In the case of ships, any completed declaration of security relating to one of its last ten calls at port facilities, shall be retained on board the ship by the master for as long as it relates to any of those last ten calls, even where the period over which those calls extend exceeds the minimum three year period referred to in paragraph (1).