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                                              STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1959 
                                              (NO. 52 OF 1959)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              As amended</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. Short Title, Commencement and 
                                              Repeals.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. Interpretation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. Statutory Instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. Legislative Instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. Executive Instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              6. Making of Instruments in 
                                              Advance.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. Limitation of Power to Modify 
                                              Acts.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. Multiple Exercise of Powers.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              9. Penalties.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              10. Instruments Required to be 
                                              Laid before Assembly.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              11. Instruments Subject to 
                                              Annulment.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              12. Reckoning of Time.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              13. Commencement of Instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              14. Amendment and Revocation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              15. Citation of Instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              16. Effect of Failure to Publish 
                                              or Lay before Assembly.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              17. Power to make Instruments for 
                                              Purposes of this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              17A. Repeal.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">
                                              GHANA</span></p>
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                                              <b></p>
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                                              NO. 52 OF 1959</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Assented to in Her Majesty's Name 
                                              and on Her Majesty's behalf this 
                                              11th day of November, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Governor-General.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AN ACT to amend the law relating 
                                              to instruments made under 
                                              statutory powers.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Date of Commencement. </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [11th November, 1959, subject to 
                                              section 1(2).]</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most 
                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the 
                                              advice and consent of the National 
                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled, and by the 
                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 1&#8212;Short Title, 
                                              Commencement and Repeals.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1)&nbsp; This Act may be cited as the 
                                              Statutory Instruments Act, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Sections 4, 5, 8 and 17 of 
                                              this Act shall come into operation 
                                              on such date as the 
                                              Attorney-General may by order 
                                              appoint.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Except where otherwise 
                                              expressly provided, this Act shall 
                                              apply in relation to Acts and 
                                              statutory instruments whether 
                                              passed or made before or after the 
                                              passing of this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No. 29 of 1957.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4)&nbsp; Sections 12, 13 and 14 of the 
                                              Interpretation Act, 1957 are 
                                              hereby repealed.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5)&nbsp; In so far as they apply in 
                                              relation to statutory instruments, 
                                              the following provisions of the 
                                              Interpretation Act, 1957 are also 
                                              hereby repealed, namely, sections 
                                              4 to 10, subsection (2) of section 
                                              11 and section 25.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 2&#8212;Interpretation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In this Act&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;Act&quot; includes an Ordinance and an 
                                              Order of Her Majesty in Council;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;Assembly&quot; means the National 
                                              Assembly;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;enactment&quot; means a provision 
                                              contained in an Act, but does not 
                                              include any provision laying down 
                                              the legislative powers of 
                                              Parliament;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;instrument&quot; has its natural 
                                              meaning and shall not be construed 
                                              by reference to the definition 
                                              thereof contained in section 3 of 
                                              the Interpretation Act, 1957.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 3&#8212;Statutory Instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              An instrument made (whether 
                                              directly or indirectly) under a 
                                              power conferred by an enactment 
                                              shall be known as a statutory 
                                              instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 4&#8212;Legislative Instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) The Attorney-General may by 
                                              legislative instrument declare 
                                              that statutory instruments made 
                                              under enactments specified therein 
                                              are legislative in character and 
                                              of sufficient importance to 
                                              justify separate publication.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Statutory instruments made 
                                              under enactments specified under 
                                              subsection (1) or under powers 
                                              expressed to be exercisable by 
                                              legislative instrument shall be 
                                              known as legislative instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3)&nbsp; Legislative instruments shall 
                                              be published by the Government 
                                              Printer and, if a legislative 
                                              instrument is published otherwise 
                                              than in the Gazette, a notice of 
                                              its publication shall be inserted 
                                              as soon as may be in the Gazette.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 5&#8212;Executive Instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Statutory instruments other than 
                                              legislative instruments or 
                                              instruments of a judicial 
                                              character shall be known as 
                                              executive instruments.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 6&#8212;Making of Instruments in 
                                              Advance.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Subject to the provisions of 
                                              section 13 of this Act, a 
                                              statutory instrument may be made 
                                              under an enactment contained in 
                                              any Act at any time after the 
                                              passing of the Act notwithstanding 
                                              that the said enactment has not 
                                              come into operation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 7&#8212;Limitation of Power to 
                                              Modify Acts.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              An enactment conferring power to 
                                              make a statutory instrument shall 
                                              not be taken to authorise the 
                                              inclusion in the instrument of any 
                                              provision amending, repealing or 
                                              conflicting with any enactment 
                                              except as may be expressly stated 
                                              in the enactment conferring the 
                                              said power.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 8&#8212;Multiple Exercise of 
                                              Powers.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1)&nbsp; A statutory instrument may be 
                                              made&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a)&nbsp; by one authority under two or 
                                              more separate powers;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) by two or more authorities 
                                              jointly under one or more separate 
                                              powers vested in each of them.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) One statutory instrument may 
                                              be made under powers variously 
                                              expressed as powers to make rules, 
                                              regulations or other different 
                                              descriptions of legislative 
                                              instrument or under powers 
                                              variously expressed as powers to 
                                              make orders, directions or other 
                                              different descriptions of 
                                              executive instrument, and the 
                                              provisions of the instrument may 
                                              be described as being of one of 
                                              those descriptions.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              This subsection shall apply in 
                                              relation to a power expressed 
                                              merely as a power to make a 
                                              legislative instrument or an 
                                              executive instrument as it applies 
                                              in relation to a power expressed 
                                              as a power to make a particular 
                                              description of legislative 
                                              instrument or executive 
                                              instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Nothing in this section shall 
                                              authorise the making of a 
                                              legislative instrument partly 
                                              under a power to make an executive 
                                              instrument or the making of an 
                                              executive instrument partly under 
                                              a power to make a legislative 
                                              instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 9&#8212;Penalties.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) There may be included in a 
                                              statutory instrument containing a 
                                              prohibition or requirement, a 
                                              provision where a person failing 
                                              to comply with that prohibition or 
                                              requirement is made liable to 
                                              penalties.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any penalty prescribed for an 
                                              offence by virtue of this section 
                                              shall not exceed a fine of ¢5 
                                              million or imprisonment for one 
                                              year or both; and in the case of a 
                                              continuing offence, an additional 
                                              penalty not exceeding ¢100,000.00 
                                              in respect of each day on which 
                                              the offence continues may be 
                                              prescribed by the instrument. [As 
                                              Substituted by the Statutory 
                                              Instruments (Amendment) Act, 1997 
                                              (Act 539)].</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 10&#8212;Instruments Required to 
                                              be Laid before Assembly.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where by any Act a statutory 
                                              instrument is required to be laid 
                                              before the Assembly after being 
                                              made, a copy of the instrument 
                                              shall be so laid in accordance 
                                              with Standing Orders of the 
                                              Assembly at least seven days 
                                              before the instrument is to come 
                                              into operation:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that if a Minister 
                                              notifies the Speaker that it is 
                                              essential that an instrument 
                                              should come into operation before 
                                              the preceding provisions of this 
                                              section can be complied with, 
                                              those provisions need not be 
                                              complied with but a copy of the 
                                              instrument shall be laid as 
                                              aforesaid as soon as is 
                                              practicable after it has been 
                                              made, whether or not it has 
                                              already come into operation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 11&#8212;Instruments Subject to 
                                              Annulment.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where by any Act a statutory 
                                              instrument is declared to be 
                                              subject to annulment by the 
                                              Assembly&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a)&nbsp; the instrument shall be laid 
                                              before the Assembly after being 
                                              made; and </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) if within twenty days 
                                              beginning with the day on which 
                                              the instrument is so laid the 
                                              Assembly resolves that the 
                                              instrument be annulled the 
                                              instrument shall be deemed to be 
                                              revoked, but without prejudice to 
                                              the making of a further 
                                              instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 12&#8212;Reckoning of Time.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In reckoning any period of seven 
                                              or twenty days for the purpose of 
                                              either of the two last preceding 
                                              sections, no account shall be 
                                              taken of any time during which the 
                                              Assembly is dissolved or prorogued 
                                              or is adjourned for more than 
                                              three days.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 13&#8212;Commencement of 
                                              Instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) A statutory instrument shall 
                                              come into operation on the date 
                                              specified in that behalf in the 
                                              instrument or if no date is so 
                                              specified, then&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) in the case of a legislative 
                                              instrument made after the coming 
                                              into operation of section 4 of 
                                              this Act, [As Inserted by Official 
                                              Publication Act, 1959 (No. 85 of 
                                              1959) s. 4a].</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) in any case, on the date on 
                                              which thee instrument is made: [As 
                                              Substituted by Official 
                                              Publication Act, 1959 (No. 85 of 
                                              1959) S. 4b)].</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that (No. 85 of 1959) is 
                                              made after passing but before the 
                                              coming into operation of the 
                                              enactment under which it is made, 
                                              the instrument whether or not it 
                                              is previously published, shall not 
                                              come into operation before the 
                                              date on which the said enactment 
                                              comes into operation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) A statutory instrument may 
                                              provide that it shall come into 
                                              operation on a date earlier than 
                                              the making thereof, not being a 
                                              date earlier than the coming into 
                                              operation of the enactment under 
                                              which it is made:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that no person shall be 
                                              deemed to be guilty of an offence 
                                              under the instrument in respect of 
                                              anything done or omitted to be 
                                              done before the making thereof.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 14&#8212;Amendment and 
                                              Revocation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where an Act confers power to 
                                              make a statutory instrument, the 
                                              Act shall, unless the context 
                                              otherwise requires, be deemed also 
                                              to confer power, exercisable by 
                                              the like authority and in the like 
                                              manner, to amend or revoke the 
                                              instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Repealed by the Interpretation 
                                              Act, (CA 4), s. 34)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where a statutory instrument 
                                              is amended by an Act or further 
                                              statutory instrument the 
                                              Attorney-General may authorise the 
                                              reprinting of the whole or a part 
                                              of the instrument in a form which 
                                              gives effect to the amendments 
                                              thereto; and when published by 
                                              authority the instrument or part 
                                              thereof as so reprinted shall be 
                                              conclusive evidence of the 
                                              provisions of the amended 
                                              instrument or part. </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 15&#8212;Citation of Instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) It shall be sufficient for all 
                                              purposes to cite a statutory 
                                              instrument made on or after the 
                                              first day of January, 1960, either 
                                              by the title set out at the head 
                                              of the instrument on publication 
                                              or by the number allotted to the 
                                              instrument on publication and the 
                                              calender year.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) If an incorrect title is given 
                                              to an instrument so made on 
                                              publication the authority by whom 
                                              the instrument was made may by 
                                              notice in the Gazette correct the 
                                              title, and subsection (1) shall 
                                              thereafter have effect as if the 
                                              corrected title had been set out 
                                              at the head of the instrument on 
                                              publication.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 16&#8212;Effect of Failure to 
                                              Publish or Lay before Assembly.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Failure to observe any requirement 
                                              imposed by this or any other Act 
                                              as to the publication of a 
                                              statutory instrument or the laying 
                                              thereof before the Assembly shall 
                                              not invalidate the instrument, but 
                                              the Assembly may at any time 
                                              resolve that an instrument as 
                                              respects which any such 
                                              requirement has not been observed 
                                              shall be deemed never to have come 
                                              into operation or shall be deemed 
                                              to be revoked.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 17&#8212;Power to make 
                                              Instruments for Purposes of this 
                                              Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1)&nbsp; The Attorney-General may by 
                                              legislative instrument&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) amend the provisions or any 
                                              Act conferring power to make 
                                              statutory instruments, being an 
                                              Act passed before the coming into 
                                              operation of this section, so as 
                                              to bring those provisions into 
                                              conformity with this Act or 
                                              otherwise for the purposes of this 
                                              Act;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) make such other provision as 
                                              appears expedient for the purposes 
                                              of this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2)&nbsp; An instrument made under this 
                                              section shall be subject to 
                                              annulment by the Assembly.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 17A&#8212;Repeal.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Statutory Instruments (Amendment) 
                                              Law, 1991(PNDCL 249).[Inserted and 
                                              to be cited as&nbsp; the Statutory 
                                              Instruments (Amendment) Act, 1997 
                                              (Act 539), s.2] </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              This printed impression has been 
                                              carefully compared by me with the 
                                              Bill which has passed the National 
                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a 
                                              true and correctly printed copy of 
                                              the said Bill.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              K. B. AYENSU.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              amended by</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS ACT, 1959 
                                              (NO. 85 OF 1959)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              INTERPRETATION ACT, 1960 (C.A. 4)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (AMENDMENT) 
                                              ACT, 1997 (ACT 539)</span></p>
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