INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(49, 'HABEAS CORPUS ACT, 1964 (ACT 244)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1408" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              HABEAS CORPUS ACT, 1964 (ACT 244)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Application for an order of \r\n                                              habeas corpus.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Enquiry by High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. High Court before which body of \r\n                                              person to be produced.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Release from illegal detention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Appeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Enactments ceasing to apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOURTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT, 1964</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \r\n                                              amendments the law relating to \r\n                                              applications for habeas corpus.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 26th May, 1964</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Application for an Order \r\n                                              of Habeas Corpus.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an allegation is made by \r\n                                              any person that he is being \r\n                                              unlawfully detained an application \r\n                                              may be made under this section to \r\n                                              the High Court or any Judge \r\n                                              thereof for an enquiry into the \r\n                                              cause of the detention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The application may be made \r\n                                              by&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the person alleging that he is \r\n                                              being unlawfully detained,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any person entitled to the \r\n                                              custody of the person detained,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any other person acting on \r\n                                              behalf of the person detained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every such application shall \r\n                                              be in writing containing the \r\n                                              following particulars:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the name and other description \r\n                                              of the person detained;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the place of detention;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the mode and manner of arrest; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) any other particulars the \r\n                                              applicant may wish to bring before \r\n                                              the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              any enactment or rule of law, \r\n                                              where an application has been made \r\n                                              to the High Court or a Judge \r\n                                              thereof under this section by or \r\n                                              on behalf of any person, no such \r\n                                              application shall again be made by \r\n                                              or on behalf of that person on the \r\n                                              same grounds, whether to the same \r\n                                              Court or Judge or to any other \r\n                                              Court or Judge, unless fresh \r\n                                              evidence is adduced in support \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Enquiry by High Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The High Court or the Judge \r\n                                              thereof to whom an application is \r\n                                              made under section 1 of this Act \r\n                                              shall immediately enquire into the \r\n                                              allegation of unlawful detention \r\n                                              and may make an order requiring \r\n                                              the person in whose custody the \r\n                                              applicant (or the person on whose \r\n                                              behalf the application is made) is \r\n                                              detained, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to produce the body of the \r\n                                              person so detained before the High \r\n                                              Court on a day specified in the \r\n                                              order, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to submit a report in writing \r\n                                              stating the grounds of the \r\n                                              detention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;High Court Before Which \r\n                                              Body of Person to be Produced.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The High Court before which the \r\n                                              body of a person is to be produced \r\n                                              in pursuance of an order made \r\n                                              under section 2 of this Act shall, \r\n                                              if the Chief Justice or, if he is \r\n                                              not available, the Judge of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court who is exercising \r\n                                              the office of the Chief Justice so \r\n                                              directs in respect of any \r\n                                              particular case, consist of three \r\n                                              Judges, and shall, in every other \r\n                                              case, consist of one Judge only.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Release from Illegal \r\n                                              Detention.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The High Court shall, upon the \r\n                                              body of the person detained being \r\n                                              produced before it and after \r\n                                              giving the person in whose custody \r\n                                              he is detained an opportunity of \r\n                                              justifying the detention, order \r\n                                              the release of the person detained \r\n                                              unless satisfied that the \r\n                                              detention is in accordance with \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the High Court is \r\n                                              satisfied that the detention is in \r\n                                              accordance with law, but a \r\n                                              question arises as to whether such \r\n                                              law is in excess of the powers \r\n                                              conferred upon Parliament by or \r\n                                              under the Constitution, the \r\n                                              hearing shall be adjourned and the \r\n                                              question referred to the Supreme \r\n                                              Court under section (2) of Article \r\n                                              42 of the Constitution for \r\n                                              decision.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Supreme Court may allow \r\n                                              the person detained, to be at \r\n                                              liberty on bail on such conditions \r\n                                              as it thinks fit until the \r\n                                              question so referred to it has \r\n                                              been decided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Appeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An appeal shall lie to the Supreme \r\n                                              Court, in any proceedings under \r\n                                              this Act, against an order for the \r\n                                              release of the person detained as \r\n                                              well as against the refusal of \r\n                                              such an order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Enactments Ceasing to \r\n                                              Apply.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Each of the following English \r\n                                              statutes shall cease to apply in \r\n                                              Ghana:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Session and Chapter \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Short title</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16 Chas 1, c. 1 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Habeas Corpus Act, 1640</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31 Chas. 2, c. 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Habeas Corpus Act, 1679</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43 Geo. 3, c. 140&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Habeas Corpus Act, 1803</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44 Geo. 3, c. 102&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Habeas Corpus Act, 1804</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56 Geo. 3, c. 100&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Habeas Corpus Act, 1816</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25 Vic. c. 20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Habeas Corpus Act, 1862.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 244');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(50, 'PROPRIETORS ACT, 1957 (NO. 20 OF 1957)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1405" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>HOTEL \r\n                                              PROPRIETORS ACT, 1957 (NO. 20 OF \r\n                                              1957)</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF \r\n                                              SECTIONS</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">1. Short title.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">2. \r\n                                              Interpretation.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">3. Liabilities \r\n                                              and rights of hotel proprietors as \r\n                                              innkeepers.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">4. Modification \r\n                                              of liabilities and rights of hotel \r\n                                              proprietors as innkeepers.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">5. Repeal. 26 \r\n                                              and 27 Vict. C.41.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">SCHEDULE</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Schedule</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;GHANA</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">1957 NO. 20.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">DATE OF ASSENT</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Assented to in \r\n                                              Her Majesty''s Name and on Her \r\n                                              Majesty''s behalf this 28th day of \r\n                                              September, 1957.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">K. A. KORSAH</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Acting \r\n                                              Governor-General.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">AN ACT&nbsp; to \r\n                                              amend the law relating to inns and \r\n                                              innkeepers.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Date of \r\n                                              Commencement: [5th October, \r\n                                              1957.].</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">BE IT ENACTED \r\n                                              by the Queen''s Most Excellent \r\n                                              Majesty, by and with the advice \r\n                                              and consent of the National \r\n                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled, and by the \r\n                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section \r\n                                              1&#8212;Short Title.</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">This Act may be \r\n                                              cited as the Hotel Proprietors \r\n                                              Act, 1957.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section \r\n                                              2&#8212;Interpretation.</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) In this \r\n                                              Act, the expression &quot;hotel&quot; means \r\n                                              an establishment held out by the \r\n                                              proprietor as offering food, drink \r\n                                              and, if so required, sleeping \r\n                                              accommodation without special \r\n                                              contract, to any traveller \r\n                                              presenting himself who appears \r\n                                              able and willing to pay a \r\n                                              reasonable sum for the services \r\n                                              and facilities provided and who is \r\n                                              in a fit state to be received. \r\n                                              Such an establishment shall, and \r\n                                              any other establishment shall not, \r\n                                              be deemed to be an inn.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Cap. 1</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              Interpretation Ordinance shall \r\n                                              apply for the interpretation of \r\n                                              this Act as it applies for the \r\n                                              interpretation of an Ordinance.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section \r\n                                              3&#8212;Liabilities and Rights of Hotel \r\n                                              Proprietors as Innkeepers.</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) The duties, \r\n                                              liabilities and rights which \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act by law \r\n                                              attached to an innkeeper as an \r\n                                              innkeeper shall, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, attach to \r\n                                              the proprietor of an hotel and \r\n                                              shall not attach to any other \r\n                                              person.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              proprietor of an hotel shall, as \r\n                                              an innkeeper, be under the like \r\n                                              liability, if any, to make good to \r\n                                              any guest of his any damage to \r\n                                              property brought to the hotel as \r\n                                              he would be under to make good the \r\n                                              loss thereof.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section \r\n                                              4&#8212;Modification of Liabilities and \r\n                                              Rights of Hotel Proprietors.</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Without \r\n                                              prejudice to any other liability \r\n                                              incurred by him with respect to \r\n                                              any property brought to the hotel, \r\n                                              the proprietor of an hotel shall \r\n                                              not be liable as an innkeeper to \r\n                                              make good to any traveller any \r\n                                              loss of or damage to such property \r\n                                              except where&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) at the time \r\n                                              of the loss or damage sleeping \r\n                                              accommodation at the hotel had \r\n                                              been engaged for the traveller; \r\n                                              and</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) the loss or \r\n                                              damage occurred during the period \r\n                                              commencing with the midnight \r\n                                              immediately preceding, and ending \r\n                                              with the midnight immediately \r\n                                              following, a period for which the \r\n                                              traveller was a guest at the hotel \r\n                                              and entitled to use the \r\n                                              accommodation so engaged.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Without \r\n                                              prejudice to any other liability \r\n                                              or right of his with respect \r\n                                              thereto, the proprietor of an \r\n                                              hotel shall not as an innkeeper be \r\n                                              liable to make good to any guest \r\n                                              of his any loss of or damage to, \r\n                                              or have any lien on, any vehicle \r\n                                              or any property left therein, or \r\n                                              any horse or other live animal or \r\n                                              its harness or other equipment.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) Where the \r\n                                              proprietor of an hotel is liable \r\n                                              as an innkeeper to make good the \r\n                                              loss of or any damage to property \r\n                                              brought to the hotel, his \r\n                                              liability to any one guest shall \r\n                                              not exceed fifty pounds in respect \r\n                                              of any one article, or one hundred \r\n                                              pounds in the aggregate, except \r\n                                              where&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) the \r\n                                              property was stolen, lost or \r\n                                              damaged through the default, \r\n                                              neglect or wilful act of the \r\n                                              proprietor or of some servant of \r\n                                              his; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) the \r\n                                              property was deposited by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the guest expressly for \r\n                                              safe custody with the proprietor \r\n                                              or some servant of his authorised, \r\n                                              or appearing to be authorised, for \r\n                                              the purpose, and, if so required \r\n                                              by the proprietor or that servant, \r\n                                              in a container fastened or sealed \r\n                                              by the depositor; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) at a time \r\n                                              after the guest had arrived at the \r\n                                              hotel, either the property in \r\n                                              question was offered for deposit \r\n                                              as aforesaid and the proprietor or \r\n                                              his servant refused to receive it, \r\n                                              or the guest or some other guest \r\n                                              acting on his behalf wished so to \r\n                                              offer the property in question \r\n                                              but, through the default of the \r\n                                              proprietor or a servant of his, \r\n                                              was unable to do so:</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>Proviso.</i></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Provided that \r\n                                              the proprietor shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to the protection of this \r\n                                              subsection unless, at the time \r\n                                              when the property in question was \r\n                                              brought to the hotel, a copy of \r\n                                              the notice set out in the Schedule \r\n                                              to this Act printed in plain type \r\n                                              was conspicuously displayed in a \r\n                                              place where it could conveniently \r\n                                              be read by his guests at or near \r\n                                              the reception office or desk or, \r\n                                              where there is no reception office \r\n                                              or desk, at or near the main \r\n                                              entrance to the hotel.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section \r\n                                              5&#8212;Repeal.</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">The Innkeepers \r\n                                              Liability Act, 1863, as it applies \r\n                                              in Ghana is hereby repealed.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">SCHEDULE</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(Section 4)</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">NOTICE</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">LOSS OF OR \r\n                                              DAMAGE TO GUESTS'' PROPERTY</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Under the Hotel \r\n                                              Proprietors Act, 1957, an hotel \r\n                                              proprietor may in certain \r\n                                              circumstances be liable to make \r\n                                              good any loss of or damage to a \r\n                                              guest''s property even though it \r\n                                              was not due to any fault of the \r\n                                              proprietor or staff of the hotel.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">This liability \r\n                                              however&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) extends \r\n                                              only to the property of guests who \r\n                                              have engaged sleeping \r\n                                              accommodation at the hotel;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) is limited \r\n                                              to £50 for any one article and a \r\n                                              total of £100 in the case of any \r\n                                              one guest, except in the case of \r\n                                              property which has been deposited, \r\n                                              or offered for deposit, for safe \r\n                                              custody;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) does not \r\n                                              cover motor-cars or other vehicles \r\n                                              of any kind or any property left \r\n                                              in them, or horses or other live \r\n                                              animals.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">This notice \r\n                                              does not constitute an admission \r\n                                              either that the Act applies to \r\n                                              this hotel or that liability \r\n                                              thereunder attaches to the \r\n                                              proprietor of this hotel in any \r\n                                              particular case.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">This printed \r\n                                              impression has been carefully \r\n                                              compared by me with the Bill which \r\n                                              has passed the National Assembly, \r\n                                              and found by me to be a true and \r\n                                              correctly printed copy of the said \r\n                                              Bill.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">L. P. TOSU</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Acting Clerk of \r\n                                              the National Assembly.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n&nbsp;</td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="49" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 20');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(51, 'ILLITERATES'' PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1963 (ACT 217)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1399" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              <b>&nbsp;</b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              ILLITERATES'' PROTECTION \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1963 (ACT 217)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Short Title and Application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Prohibition of Letter-Writing \r\n                                              for Reward without Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Grant and Refusal of Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Conditions to be Fulfilled by \r\n                                              Persons Writing Letters for \r\n                                              Illiterates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Reward for Writing Letters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Production of Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Summary Procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Operation of Ordinance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHAPTER 262.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Gold Coast.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              McCarthy Cap. 212. Ordinances Nos. \r\n                                              4 of 1912, 30 of 1935, 17 of 1942.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE \r\n                                              PROTECTION OF ILLITERATE PERSONS.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Commencement. [1st July, \r\n                                              1912.]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1—Short Title and \r\n                                              Application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Ordinance may be cited as the \r\n                                              &quot;Illiterates'' Protection \r\n                                              Ordinance&quot;, and shall apply to the \r\n                                              Gold Coast. (30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2—Prohibition of \r\n                                              Letter-Writing for Reward Without \r\n                                              Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall not be lawful for any \r\n                                              person for a reward, to be paid to \r\n                                              him or to any other person, to \r\n                                              write any letter or other document \r\n                                              for or at the request of any \r\n                                              illiterate person except in \r\n                                              conformity with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Ordinance and unless he shall \r\n                                              first have obtained a licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3—Grant and Refusal of \r\n                                              Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Licences shall be granted by \r\n                                              District Commissioners or by such \r\n                                              persons as the Governor may in \r\n                                              writing direct:&nbsp; Provided that a \r\n                                              licence may be refused without \r\n                                              reason assigned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form of licence.&nbsp; First Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Licences shall be in the form \r\n                                              in the First Schedule hereto or to \r\n                                              a like effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Non-transferability.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Licences shall not be \r\n                                              transferable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Period of licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every licence shall expire on \r\n                                              the 31st day of December next \r\n                                              after the issue thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee for licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A fee of five pounds shall be \r\n                                              paid for a licence. [As amended by \r\n                                              Illiterates'' Proteection \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1963 (Act 217)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4—Conditions to be \r\n                                              Fulfilled by Persons Writing \r\n                                              Letters for Illiterates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every person writing a letter or \r\n                                              other document for or at the \r\n                                              request of an illiterate person, \r\n                                              whether gratuitously or for a \r\n                                              reward, shall —</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Reading and explanation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Clearly and correctly read \r\n                                              over and explain such letter or \r\n                                              document or cause the same to be \r\n                                              read over and explained to the \r\n                                              illiterate person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Illiterate''s mark.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Cause the illiterate person to \r\n                                              write his signature or make his \r\n                                              mark at the foot of the letter or \r\n                                              other document or to touch the pen \r\n                                              with which the mark is made at the \r\n                                              foot of the letter or other \r\n                                              document;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Writer''s name and address.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Clearly write his full name \r\n                                              and address on the letter or other \r\n                                              document as writer thereof; and \r\n                                              Note of writer''s fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Receipt for fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) State on the letter or other \r\n                                              document the nature and amount of \r\n                                              the reward, if any, charged or \r\n                                              taken or to be charged or taken by \r\n                                              him for writing the said letter or \r\n                                              other document, and shall give a \r\n                                              receipt for the same and keep a \r\n                                              counterfoil thereof to be produced \r\n                                              at the request of any of the \r\n                                              officers named in section 6.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5—Reward for Writing \r\n                                              Letters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person duly licensed under \r\n                                              this Ordinance to charge or take \r\n                                              any fee or reward for writing any \r\n                                              letter or other document for or at \r\n                                              the request of an illiterate \r\n                                              person shall not charge or take \r\n                                              any fee or reward exceeding in \r\n                                              money or in value the amount set \r\n                                              forth in the Second Schedule:&nbsp; \r\n                                              Provided that a fee or reward for \r\n                                              witnessing the signature or other \r\n                                              execution of any letter or other \r\n                                              document shall not be charged \r\n                                              against or taken from a person by \r\n                                              a licensee in respect of any \r\n                                              letter or other document for which \r\n                                              a fee or reward for the writing \r\n                                              thereof has already been charged \r\n                                              against or taken from such person \r\n                                              by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Governor in Council may by \r\n                                              order amend, alter, add to or vary \r\n                                              the Second Schedule; and thereupon \r\n                                              such Schedule shall have effect as \r\n                                              so amended, altered, added to or \r\n                                              varied accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section substituted by 17 of \r\n                                              1942, s.2)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6—Production of Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every licensee shall produce his \r\n                                              licence at the request of any \r\n                                              District Commissioner, Assistant \r\n                                              District Commissioner, or member \r\n                                              of the Police, and also, if a \r\n                                              native, at the request of any \r\n                                              Native Tribunal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7—Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every person who shall act in \r\n                                              contravention of any of the \r\n                                              provisions of this Ordinance, \r\n                                              shall be liable for a first \r\n                                              offence to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              five pounds or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one calendar month with \r\n                                              or without hard labour, and for \r\n                                              any subsequent offence to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding ten pounds or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding three \r\n                                              calendar months with or without \r\n                                              hard labour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Forfeiture of licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In addition to any penalty \r\n                                              aforesaid, a licensee contravening \r\n                                              any of the provisions of this \r\n                                              Ordinance shall be liable to \r\n                                              forfeit his licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8—Summary Procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All offences against this \r\n                                              Ordinance shall be summarily heard \r\n                                              and determined by, and all \r\n                                              penalties shall be recoverable \r\n                                              before, a Magistrate.&nbsp; (Amended by \r\n                                              30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9—Operation of Ordinance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Ordinance shall not apply to \r\n                                              the writing of any letter or other \r\n                                              document or to any letter or other \r\n                                              document written in the course of \r\n                                              his business by a salaried clerk \r\n                                              or by or at the direction of any \r\n                                              person admitted to practise and \r\n                                              practising as a barrister or \r\n                                              solicitor in the Supreme Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FIRST SCHEDULE.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 3(2).)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Amended by 30 of 1935, s.2 and by \r\n                                              17 of 1942, s.3.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ILLITERATES'' PROTECTION ORDINANCE.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LICENCE.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Letter-writer''s licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Licence is hereby granted to \r\n                                              [insert name and address of \r\n                                              licensee] to write letters or \r\n                                              other documents in the Gold Coast \r\n                                              for illiterate persons for a \r\n                                              reward until the 31st day of \r\n                                              December, 19..... , subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of the Illiterates'' \r\n                                              Protection Ordinance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Insert place of issue] \r\n                                              the........ day of ....... ,&nbsp; \r\n                                              19.....</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee 10/-.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of Issuing Officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 5(1).)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; s.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For any letter or document, \r\n                                              for the first 50 words or part \r\n                                              thereof&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For any letter or document, \r\n                                              per 50 words or part thereof after \r\n                                              the first 50 words&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the first copy of the same \r\n                                              per 50 words or part thereof \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) For the second and subsequent \r\n                                              copies of the same, per 50 words \r\n                                              or part \r\n                                              thereof.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If in manuscript&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If type-written&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) For witnessing the signature \r\n                                              or other &nbsp;&nbsp; execution of any \r\n                                              letter or document&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(L.N. \r\n                                              198/55)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 217');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(52, 'INCORPORATED PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ACT, 1962 (ACT 152)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1337" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              INCORPORATED PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS \r\n                                              ACT, 1962 (ACT 152)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Preliminary</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Meaning of partnership.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registration</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Registration of partnership \r\n                                              firms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Method of registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Issue and effect of \r\n                                              certificate of registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Registration of changes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Annual renewal of \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Penalties and disabilities for \r\n                                              breach of section 4, 5, 7 or 8.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Maintenance of register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. No constructive notice of \r\n                                              registered documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nature of the Firm</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Corporate personaliyoty of \r\n                                              the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Publicity</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Publication of firm name and \r\n                                              partners'' names.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Relations of Firm and Partners to \r\n                                              Persons Dealing with Them</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Power of partners to bind the \r\n                                              firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Acts on behalf of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Nature of liability of firm \r\n                                              and partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17.&nbsp; Liabilities of incoming and \r\n                                              outgoing partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Persons liable by \r\n                                              holding-out.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Revocation of continuing \r\n                                              guarantees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Procedure against firm for a \r\n                                              partner''s separate judgment debt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Mortgages and Charges</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;21. Power to grant floating \r\n                                              charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;22. Registration of particulars \r\n                                              of charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;23. Charges to secure fluctuating \r\n                                              amounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;24. Charges on property acquired.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;25. Existing charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;26. Duty to send particulars for \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;27. Register of particulars of \r\n                                              charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;28. Entry of satisfaction on \r\n                                              discharge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;29. Rectification of register of \r\n                                              particulars of charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;30. Registration of enforcement \r\n                                              of security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;31. Registration constituting \r\n                                              notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Accounts</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;32. Keeping of accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;33. Partners'' access to accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Relation of Partners to One \r\n                                              Another</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;34.&nbsp; Fiduciary relationship of \r\n                                              partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;35.&nbsp; Rules applying in absence of \r\n                                              contrary agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;36.&nbsp; Presumed continuance of \r\n                                              terms of partnership agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;37.&nbsp; Nature of interests of \r\n                                              partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;38.&nbsp; Rights of assignee of \r\n                                              partner''s interest in firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Withdrawal from Firm and \r\n                                              Consequences Thereof</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;39.&nbsp; Cessation of membership of \r\n                                              firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;40.&nbsp; Withdrawal of a partner not \r\n                                              to affect the others.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;41.&nbsp; Action by continuing \r\n                                              partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;42.&nbsp; Apportionment of premium.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;43.&nbsp; Rights where partnership \r\n                                              agreement rescinded for \r\n                                              misrepresentation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Winding up of Firm</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;44.&nbsp; Modes of winding up.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;45.&nbsp; Continuance of firm until \r\n                                              dissolution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;46.&nbsp; Winding up as result of \r\n                                              joint insolvency proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;47.&nbsp; Winding up under order of \r\n                                              Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;48.&nbsp; Voluntary winding up.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;49.&nbsp; Notification that firm is \r\n                                              being wound up.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;50.&nbsp; Application of firm''s \r\n                                              property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;51.&nbsp; Dissolution after winding \r\n                                              up.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;52.&nbsp; Dissolution of moribund \r\n                                              firms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;53.&nbsp; Dissolution of defaulting \r\n                                              firms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;54.&nbsp; Appeals to the Court against \r\n                                              summary dissolution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Supplemental</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;55.&nbsp; Applications and appeals to \r\n                                              the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;56.&nbsp; Fees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;57.&nbsp; Inspection and copies of \r\n                                              registered documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;58.&nbsp; Saving of rules of equity \r\n                                              and common law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;59.&nbsp; Conversion of existing \r\n                                              companies into partnerships.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;60.&nbsp; Rules.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The First Schedule&#8212;Table of Fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Second \r\n                                              Schedule&#8212;Re-registration under \r\n                                              this Act of companies registered \r\n                                              under the Companies Ordinance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \r\n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE INCORPORATED PRIVATE \r\n                                              PARTNERSHIPS ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              incorporation and registration of \r\n                                              partnerships and, to declare and \r\n                                              amend the law applicable thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 20th November, \r\n                                              1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Preliminary</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on the first day of January, 1963.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;business&quot; includes every trade or \r\n                                              profession;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;charge&quot; includes a mortgage, \r\n                                              legal or equitable;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Court&quot; means the High Court;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;firm&quot; means a body corporate \r\n                                              formed by registration of a \r\n                                              partnership in accordance with \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;partner&quot; includes a sole \r\n                                              surviving or continuing member of \r\n                                              a firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;partnership&quot; shall have the \r\n                                              meaning assigned to it by section \r\n                                              3 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed form&quot; means a form \r\n                                              prescribed by the Registrar for \r\n                                              the purposes of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Registrar&quot; means the \r\n                                              Registrar-General or other \r\n                                              Registrar appointed for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act and includes \r\n                                              any assistant or deputy registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Meaning of Partnership.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Partnership means the \r\n                                              association of two or more \r\n                                              individuals carrying on business \r\n                                              jointly for the purpose of making \r\n                                              profits:&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the association of \r\n                                              members of,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Sch</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a company registered under the \r\n                                              Companies Ordinance, (Cap. 193), \r\n                                              or any statutory re-enactment \r\n                                              thereof, unless it is \r\n                                              re-registered hereunder in \r\n                                              accordance with section 59 of this \r\n                                              Act and the Second Schedule \r\n                                              hereto;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a company, body corporate, or \r\n                                              unincorporated association formed \r\n                                              under any other enactment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; a body corporate formed in \r\n                                              accordance with the law of any \r\n                                              foreign country whether or not \r\n                                              carrying on business in Ghana; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a joint venture without a firm \r\n                                              name for one or more specific \r\n                                              operations,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall not be a partnership within \r\n                                              the meaning of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Family ownership or \r\n                                              co-ownership of property shall not \r\n                                              of itself create a partnership \r\n                                              whether or not the family or \r\n                                              co-owners share any profits made \r\n                                              by the use of that property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject as aforesaid, the \r\n                                              sharing of the net profits of a \r\n                                              business shall, prima facie, be \r\n                                              evidence of a partnership, but,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the remuneration of a servant \r\n                                              or agent of a person engaged in \r\n                                              business by a share of profits of \r\n                                              the business shall not of itself \r\n                                              make the servant or agent a \r\n                                              partner; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person shall not be deemed \r\n                                              to be a partner if it is shown \r\n                                              that he did not participate in the \r\n                                              carrying on of the business and \r\n                                              was not authorised so to do.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registration</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Registration of \r\n                                              Partnership Firms.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) After the expiration of three \r\n                                              months from the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act, it shall not be lawful \r\n                                              for a partnership to carry on \r\n                                              business unless the firm shall \r\n                                              have been duly registered in \r\n                                              accordance with section 5 of this \r\n                                              Act and not struck off the \r\n                                              register under section 51, 52 or \r\n                                              53 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No partnership consisting of \r\n                                              more than twenty persons or of \r\n                                              which any body corporate is a \r\n                                              member shall be registered under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Method of Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Registration under this Act \r\n                                              shall be effected in the manner \r\n                                              following, that is to say, there \r\n                                              shall be sent or delivered to the \r\n                                              Registrar for registration a copy \r\n                                              of the partnership agreement and a \r\n                                              statement in the prescribed form \r\n                                              signed by all the partners \r\n                                              containing the following \r\n                                              particulars, namely,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the firm name of the \r\n                                              partnership;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the general nature of the \r\n                                              business;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the address and Post Office \r\n                                              Box number of,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              the principal place of business of \r\n                                              the partnership; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii)&nbsp; all other places in Ghana at \r\n                                              which the business is carried on;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the names and any former \r\n                                              names, residential addresses and \r\n                                              business occupations of the \r\n                                              partners;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the date of commencement of \r\n                                              the partnership, unless the \r\n                                              partnership has commenced more \r\n                                              than twelve months prior to the \r\n                                              date of the statement;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) particulars of any charges \r\n                                              requiring registration under \r\n                                              section 25 of this Act or a \r\n                                              statement that there are no such \r\n                                              charges,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and where particulars of any \r\n                                              charge require registration under \r\n                                              section 25 of this Act, the \r\n                                              statement shall be accompanied by \r\n                                              the documents required by that \r\n                                              section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Registrar,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the partnership is not one \r\n                                              which is registrable under this \r\n                                              Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any of the businesses which \r\n                                              the partnership has been carrying \r\n                                              on or is to carry on is unlawful;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the name of the firm is \r\n                                              misleading or undesirable;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) any of the partners is an \r\n                                              infant or of unsound mind or a \r\n                                              person who, within the preceding \r\n                                              five years, has been guilty of \r\n                                              fraud or dishonesty, whether \r\n                                              convicted or not, in connection \r\n                                              with any trade or business or is \r\n                                              an undischarged bankrupt; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; the statement is incomplete, \r\n                                              illegible, inaccurate, irregular, \r\n                                              or on paper insufficiently durable \r\n                                              to be suitable for registration,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Registrar shall, upon payment \r\n                                              of the prescribed fee, register \r\n                                              the said statement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the purposes of forming an \r\n                                              opinion in accordance with the \r\n                                              immediately preceding subsection, \r\n                                              the Registrar may call upon any \r\n                                              partner or former partner to \r\n                                              supply such information as he \r\n                                              shall think fit; and may require \r\n                                              the books and accounts of the \r\n                                              partnership to be produced for his \r\n                                              inspection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the Registrar refuses \r\n                                              registration on any of the grounds \r\n                                              specified in paragraph (a), (b) or \r\n                                              (d) of subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section, any partner or person \r\n                                              claiming to be a partner shall \r\n                                              have a right of appeal to the \r\n                                              Court against the decision of the \r\n                                              Registrar in accordance with \r\n                                              subsection (2) of section 55 of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5)&nbsp; The provisions of the \r\n                                              Registration of Business Names \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 151) shall not \r\n                                              apply to any firm registered under \r\n                                              this Act and not struck off the \r\n                                              register under section 51, 52 or \r\n                                              53 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Issue and Effect of \r\n                                              Certificate of Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Upon registration the \r\n                                              Registrar shall certify under his \r\n                                              seal that the firm has been \r\n                                              registered and is incorporated and \r\n                                              such certificate shall state the \r\n                                              names of the partners and that \r\n                                              their liability is unlimited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall insert a \r\n                                              notice in the Gazette stating the \r\n                                              issue of the certificate and the \r\n                                              terms thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; The certificate, or a copy \r\n                                              thereof, certified as correct \r\n                                              under the hand of the Registrar, \r\n                                              or the Gazette containing the \r\n                                              notice referred to in the \r\n                                              immediately preceding subsection, \r\n                                              shall be conclusive evidence that \r\n                                              the firm has been duly \r\n                                              incorporated under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Registration of Changes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Wherever any change has been \r\n                                              made or has occurred in any of the \r\n                                              particulars registered in \r\n                                              accordance with the foregoing \r\n                                              sections, the existing partners \r\n                                              shall, within twenty-eight days \r\n                                              after the change, deliver to the \r\n                                              Registrar for registration a \r\n                                              statement in the prescribed form \r\n                                              signed by all the partners or \r\n                                              their agents authorised in \r\n                                              writing, containing particulars of \r\n                                              the change.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subsections (2), (3) and (4) \r\n                                              of section 5 of this Act shall \r\n                                              apply as if such statement were a \r\n                                              statement delivered for \r\n                                              registration under that section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the change is of the \r\n                                              firm name or of the identity of \r\n                                              the partners, the Registrar, upon \r\n                                              registration of the statement, \r\n                                              shall issue an amended certificate \r\n                                              of registration and shall insert a \r\n                                              notice in the Gazette stating the \r\n                                              issue of such certificate and the \r\n                                              terms thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Annual Renewal of \r\n                                              Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Once in every year the \r\n                                              partners shall deliver to the \r\n                                              Registrar for registration a \r\n                                              statement in the prescribed form \r\n                                              renewing the registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of every \r\n                                              partnership registered between the \r\n                                              first day of January and the \r\n                                              thirtieth day of June in any year \r\n                                              the notice shall be delivered for \r\n                                              registration within twenty-eight \r\n                                              days after the first day of \r\n                                              January each year: and in the case \r\n                                              of every partnership registered \r\n                                              between the first day of July and \r\n                                              the thirty-first day of December \r\n                                              in any year the notice shall be \r\n                                              delivered for registration within \r\n                                              twenty-eight days after the first \r\n                                              day of July each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of Subsections \r\n                                              (2), (3) and (4) of section 5 of \r\n                                              this Act shall apply as if such \r\n                                              statement were a statement \r\n                                              delivered for registration under \r\n                                              that section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Penalties and \r\n                                              Disabilities for Breach of \r\n                                              Sections 4, 5, 7 or 8.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the event of default in \r\n                                              complying with sections 4,&nbsp; 5, 7 \r\n                                              or 8 of this Act,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) every partner shall be liable \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding five \r\n                                              pounds for each day during which \r\n                                              the default continues;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the rights of the firm \r\n                                              concerned and of the partners \r\n                                              therein arising out of any \r\n                                              contract made during such time as \r\n                                              the default continues shall not be \r\n                                              enforceable by action or other \r\n                                              legal proceedings:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the firm may apply to the Court \r\n                                              for relief against the disability \r\n                                              imposed by this paragraph; and the \r\n                                              Court, on being satisfied that it \r\n                                              is just and equitable to grant \r\n                                              relief, may grant such relief \r\n                                              either generally or as respects \r\n                                              any particular contract and on \r\n                                              such conditions as the Court may \r\n                                              impose;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) nothing herein contained \r\n                                              shall prejudice the rights of any \r\n                                              other parties as against the firm \r\n                                              or the partners, or any other \r\n                                              person, in respect of such \r\n                                              contract;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) if any action or proceeding \r\n                                              shall be commenced by any other \r\n                                              party against the firm or the \r\n                                              partners to enforce the rights of \r\n                                              such party in respect of such \r\n                                              contract, nothing herein contained \r\n                                              shall preclude the firm or the \r\n                                              partners from enforcing in that \r\n                                              action or proceeding by way of \r\n                                              counter-claim, set-off or \r\n                                              otherwise, such rights as it or \r\n                                              they may have against that party \r\n                                              in respect of that contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If there shall be any error or \r\n                                              omission in any statement or \r\n                                              notice delivered to the Registrar \r\n                                              in accordance with sections 5, 7 \r\n                                              or 8 of this Act every partner in \r\n                                              the firm concerned shall be liable \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding fifty \r\n                                              pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Maintenance of \r\n                                              Register.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Registrar shall maintain a \r\n                                              register and an index of all firms \r\n                                              registered under this Act, and of \r\n                                              all statements and notices \r\n                                              relating to each firm so \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;No Constructive Notice \r\n                                              of Registered Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except as provided by section 31 \r\n                                              of this Act, a person shall not be \r\n                                              deemed to have knowledge of any \r\n                                              particulars by reason only that \r\n                                              such particulars are stated or \r\n                                              referred to in any statement or \r\n                                              notice registered in accordance \r\n                                              with this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nature of the Firm</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Corporate Personality \r\n                                              of the Firm.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) From the date of registration \r\n                                              mentioned in the certificate of \r\n                                              registration issued in accordance \r\n                                              with section 6 of this Act, the \r\n                                              firm shall be a body corporate \r\n                                              under the firm name, distinct from \r\n                                              the partners of whom it is \r\n                                              composed, and capable forthwith of \r\n                                              exercising all the powers of a \r\n                                              natural person of full capacity in \r\n                                              so far as such powers can be \r\n                                              exercised by a body corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding any changes in \r\n                                              the constitution of the \r\n                                              partnership, the firm shall \r\n                                              continue to exist as a corporate \r\n                                              body until dissolved in accordance \r\n                                              with section 51, 52 or 53 of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding that the firm \r\n                                              is a body corporate, each partner \r\n                                              therein shall be liable, without \r\n                                              limitation, for the debts and \r\n                                              obligations of the firm in the \r\n                                              manner referred to in section 16 \r\n                                              of this Act; but shall be entitled \r\n                                              to an indemnity from the firm and \r\n                                              to contribution from his \r\n                                              co-partners in accordance with his \r\n                                              rights under the partnership \r\n                                              agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Publicity</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Publication of Firm \r\n                                              Name and Partners'' Names.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every firm shall,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) carry on business only under \r\n                                              the registered firm name, and \r\n                                              shall paint or affix, and keep \r\n                                              painted or affixed, the registered \r\n                                              firm name on the outside of every \r\n                                              office or place in which its \r\n                                              business is carried on, in a \r\n                                              conspicuous position in letters \r\n                                              easily legible;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) have the registered firm name \r\n                                              and the present forenames or the \r\n                                              initials thereof, and any former \r\n                                              forenames or surnames of all the \r\n                                              partners in the firm accurately \r\n                                              mentioned in legible characters at \r\n                                              the head of all trade circulars \r\n                                              and business letters of the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) keep exhibited in a \r\n                                              conspicuous position at the \r\n                                              principal place of business of the \r\n                                              firm the firm''s latest certificate \r\n                                              of registration issued under \r\n                                              section 6 or 7 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If default is made in \r\n                                              complying with this section the \r\n                                              firm shall be liable to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Relations of Firm and Partners to \r\n                                              Persons Dealing with Them</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Power of Partners to \r\n                                              Bind the Firm.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every partner shall be an \r\n                                              agent of the firm for the purpose \r\n                                              of the business of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The acts of every partner \r\n                                              shall bind the firm if,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) such acts were authorised, \r\n                                              expressly or impliedly, by his \r\n                                              other partners or were \r\n                                              subsequently ratified by them;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) such acts were done for \r\n                                              carrying on in the usual way \r\n                                              business of the kind carried on by \r\n                                              the firm, unless the partner so \r\n                                              acting has in fact no authority to \r\n                                              act for the firm in the particular \r\n                                              matter and the person with whom he \r\n                                              is dealing knows that he has no \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the acts of a partner \r\n                                              are for a purpose apparently not \r\n                                              connected with the firm''s ordinary \r\n                                              course of business, the firm shall \r\n                                              not be bound unless he is in fact \r\n                                              authorised by his other partners \r\n                                              or his act is subsequently \r\n                                              ratified by them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If it has been agreed between \r\n                                              the partners that any restriction \r\n                                              shall be placed on the power of \r\n                                              any one or more of them to bind \r\n                                              the firm, no act done in \r\n                                              contravention of the agreement \r\n                                              shall be binding on the firm with \r\n                                              respect to persons having notice \r\n                                              of the agreement:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that an agreement \r\n                                              purporting to limit the extent of \r\n                                              the liability of the firm or the \r\n                                              partners in respect of any act \r\n                                              binding the firm shall not be \r\n                                              effective except as between the \r\n                                              actual parties to the agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Acts on Behalf of the \r\n                                              Firm.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An act or instrument relating \r\n                                              to the business of a firm and done \r\n                                              or executed in the firm name, or \r\n                                              in any other manner showing an \r\n                                              intention to bind the firm by any \r\n                                              person thereto authorised, whether \r\n                                              a partner or not, shall be binding \r\n                                              on the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section shall not affect \r\n                                              any general rule of law relating \r\n                                              to the execution of deeds or \r\n                                              negotiable instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Nature of Liability of \r\n                                              Firm and Partners.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every partner in a firm shall be \r\n                                              jointly and severally liable with \r\n                                              the firm and the other partners \r\n                                              for all debts and obligations of \r\n                                              the firm incurred while he is a \r\n                                              partner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Liabilities of Incoming \r\n                                              and Outgoing Partners.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person who is admitted as a \r\n                                              partner into an existing firm \r\n                                              shall not thereby become liable to \r\n                                              the creditors of the firm for \r\n                                              anything done before he became a \r\n                                              partner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A partner who retires from a \r\n                                              firm shall not thereby cease to be \r\n                                              liable for the debts or \r\n                                              obligations of the firm incurred \r\n                                              before his retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A retiring partner may be \r\n                                              discharged from any existing \r\n                                              liability by an agreement to that \r\n                                              effect between himself and the \r\n                                              firm and the creditor, and this \r\n                                              agreement may be either express or \r\n                                              inferred as a fact from the course \r\n                                              of dealing between the creditor \r\n                                              and the firm as newly constituted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a person deals with a \r\n                                              firm after the retirement of any \r\n                                              partner whom he knew to be a \r\n                                              partner in the firm, he shall be \r\n                                              entitled to treat the retired \r\n                                              partner as still being a partner \r\n                                              until he has notice of the \r\n                                              retirement and the retired partner \r\n                                              shall be liable accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) If any such person had \r\n                                              dealings with the firm prior to \r\n                                              the retirement he shall not be \r\n                                              deemed to have notice of the \r\n                                              retirement unless he has actual \r\n                                              knowledge thereof, but an \r\n                                              advertisement in a daily newspaper \r\n                                              circulating in the district in \r\n                                              which is situated the principal \r\n                                              place of business of the firm \r\n                                              shall be notice to persons who \r\n                                              have not had dealings with the \r\n                                              firm prior to the retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The estate of a partner who \r\n                                              dies or has an insolvency order \r\n                                              made against him under the \r\n                                              Insolvency Act, 1962 (Act 153) or, \r\n                                              subject as provided by subsections \r\n                                              (4) and (5) of this section, a \r\n                                              partner who retires, shall not be \r\n                                              liable for any debts or \r\n                                              obligations of the firm contracted \r\n                                              or incurred after the date of the \r\n                                              death, insolvency order, or \r\n                                              retirement respectively.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Persons Liable by \r\n                                              Holding Out.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every person who by words spoken \r\n                                              or written or by conduct \r\n                                              represents himself, or who \r\n                                              knowingly suffers himself to be \r\n                                              represented, as a partner in a \r\n                                              particular firm shall be liable as \r\n                                              a partner to any other person who \r\n                                              has, on the faith of any such \r\n                                              representation, allowed the firm \r\n                                              to incur debts or obligations to \r\n                                              him whether the representation has \r\n                                              or has not been made or \r\n                                              communicated to such other person \r\n                                              by or with the knowledge of the \r\n                                              apparent partner making the \r\n                                              representation or suffering it to \r\n                                              be made:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where after a \r\n                                              partner''s death or retirement the \r\n                                              firm continues to do business in \r\n                                              the same firm name, the continued \r\n                                              use of that name or of the former \r\n                                              partner''s name as part thereof, \r\n                                              shall not of itself make his \r\n                                              estate or him liable for any debts \r\n                                              or obligations of the firm \r\n                                              contracted or incurred after his \r\n                                              death or retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Revocation of \r\n                                              Continuing Guarantees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A continuing guarantee given \r\n                                              to a third person in respect of \r\n                                              the transactions of a firm shall, \r\n                                              in the absence of any agreement to \r\n                                              the contrary, be revoked as to \r\n                                              future transactions by any change \r\n                                              in the partners who are members of \r\n                                              the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A continuing guarantee given \r\n                                              to a firm in respect of the \r\n                                              transactions of a third person \r\n                                              shall not, in the absence of any \r\n                                              agreement to the contrary, be \r\n                                              revoked as to future transactions \r\n                                              by any change in the partners who \r\n                                              are members of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Procedure against Firm \r\n                                              for a Partner''s Separate Judgment \r\n                                              Debt.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A writ of execution shall not \r\n                                              issue against the property of a \r\n                                              firm except on a judgment against \r\n                                              the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where judgment has been \r\n                                              recovered against any partner the \r\n                                              Court may, on the application of \r\n                                              the judgment creditor, make an \r\n                                              order charging the partner''s \r\n                                              interest in the firm with payment \r\n                                              of the amount of the judgment debt \r\n                                              and interest thereon, and may, by \r\n                                              the same or a subsequent order \r\n                                              appoint a receiver of that \r\n                                              partner''s share of profits, \r\n                                              whether already declared or \r\n                                              accruing, and of any other money \r\n                                              that may be coming to him in \r\n                                              respect of the partnership, and \r\n                                              direct all accounts and inquiries, \r\n                                              and give all other orders and \r\n                                              directions which might have been \r\n                                              given or directed if the charge \r\n                                              had been made in favour of the \r\n                                              judgment creditor by the partner \r\n                                              or which the circumstances of the \r\n                                              case may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The other partners may at any \r\n                                              time redeem the interest charged \r\n                                              or, in the case of a sale being \r\n                                              directed, may purchase the same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mortgages and Charges</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Power to Grant Floating \r\n                                              Charges.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A firm may grant a floating \r\n                                              charge over the whole or a \r\n                                              specified part of its undertaking \r\n                                              and assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A floating charge shall be an \r\n                                              equitable charge on the whole or a \r\n                                              specified part of the firm''s \r\n                                              undertaking and assets both \r\n                                              present and future, so however, \r\n                                              that the charge shall not preclude \r\n                                              the firm from dealing with such \r\n                                              assets until,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the security becomes \r\n                                              enforceable in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of the charge and the \r\n                                              chargee, pursuant to a power in \r\n                                              that behalf in the instrument of \r\n                                              charge, appoints a receiver or \r\n                                              manager or enters into possession \r\n                                              of such assets; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the Court appoints a receiver \r\n                                              or manager of such assets on the \r\n                                              application of the chargee; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the firm goes into \r\n                                              liquidation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On the happening of any such \r\n                                              event as is specified in the \r\n                                              immediately preceding subsection, \r\n                                              the charge shall be deemed to \r\n                                              crystallise and to become a fixed \r\n                                              equitable charge on such of the \r\n                                              firm''s assets as are subject to \r\n                                              the charge; and if a receiver or \r\n                                              manager is withdrawn with the \r\n                                              consent of the chargee or the \r\n                                              chargee withdraws from possession \r\n                                              before the charge has been fully \r\n                                              discharged, the charge shall \r\n                                              thereupon cease to be a fixed \r\n                                              charge and shall become a floating \r\n                                              charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A fixed charge on any property \r\n                                              shall have priority over a \r\n                                              floating charge affecting that \r\n                                              property unless the terms on which \r\n                                              the floating charge was granted \r\n                                              prohibited the firm from granting \r\n                                              any later charge having priority \r\n                                              over the floating charge and the \r\n                                              person in whose favour such fixed \r\n                                              charge was granted had actual \r\n                                              notice of that prohibition at the \r\n                                              time when the charge was granted \r\n                                              to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) After a floating charge has \r\n                                              been granted over any part of the \r\n                                              undertaking and assets of a firm \r\n                                              no payment or return shall be made \r\n                                              to any partner by the firm out of \r\n                                              any assets subject to the charge, \r\n                                              except to the extent agreed by the \r\n                                              chargee, and if any such payment \r\n                                              or return is made without such \r\n                                              agreement the security of the \r\n                                              chargee shall become immediately \r\n                                              enforceable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Registration of \r\n                                              Particulars of Charges.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every charge, other than those \r\n                                              specified in subsection (3) of \r\n                                              this section, created after the \r\n                                              date of registration of the firm \r\n                                              pursuant to section 5 of this Act \r\n                                              by a firm, or by any partner in \r\n                                              the firm to secure any debt or \r\n                                              obligation of the firm, shall be \r\n                                              void so far as any security on the \r\n                                              property of the firm or any \r\n                                              partner therein is thereby \r\n                                              conferred, unless the particulars \r\n                                              hereinafter prescribed, together \r\n                                              with the original or a certified \r\n                                              copy of the instrument, if any, by \r\n                                              which the charge is created or \r\n                                              evidenced, are delivered in the \r\n                                              prescribed form to the Registrar \r\n                                              for registration within \r\n                                              twenty-eight days after its \r\n                                              creation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section shall not \r\n                                              prejudice any contract or \r\n                                              obligation for repayment of the \r\n                                              money thereby secured and when a \r\n                                              charge becomes void under this \r\n                                              section the money secured thereby \r\n                                              shall immediately become payable \r\n                                              notwithstanding any provision to \r\n                                              the contrary in any contract.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) This section shall not apply \r\n                                              to any pledge of, or possessory \r\n                                              lien on, goods, or to any charge \r\n                                              by way of pledge, deposit, letter \r\n                                              of hypothecation or trust receipt, \r\n                                              of bills of lading, dock warrants \r\n                                              or other documents of title to \r\n                                              goods, or of bills of exchange, \r\n                                              promissory notes or other \r\n                                              negotiable securities for money.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The particulars requiring \r\n                                              delivery for registration under \r\n                                              this section shall be,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the date of creation of the \r\n                                              charge;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the nature of the charge;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the amount secured by the \r\n                                              charge, or the maximum sum deemed \r\n                                              to be secured thereby in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              section 23 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; short particulars of the \r\n                                              property charged;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; the grantor of the charge;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f)&nbsp; the persons entitled to the \r\n                                              charge; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) in the case of a floating \r\n                                              charge, the nature of any \r\n                                              restriction on the power of the \r\n                                              firm to grant further charges \r\n                                              ranking in priority to, or pari \r\n                                              passu with, the charge thereby \r\n                                              created.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section a certified copy shall be \r\n                                              a copy which has endorsed thereon \r\n                                              a certificate to the effect that \r\n                                              it is a true and complete copy of \r\n                                              the original, signed by some \r\n                                              person interested therein, \r\n                                              otherwise than on behalf of the \r\n                                              firm or the partners; and where \r\n                                              the original is in a language \r\n                                              other than English the copy shall \r\n                                              also contain an English \r\n                                              translation similarly certified to \r\n                                              the effect that it is an accurate \r\n                                              translation of the original.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Nothing in this section \r\n                                              contained shall affect the \r\n                                              provisions of any other enactment \r\n                                              relating to the registration of \r\n                                              charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Charges to Secure \r\n                                              Fluctuating Amounts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a charge, particulars of \r\n                                              which require registration under \r\n                                              section 22 of this Act, is \r\n                                              expressed to secure all sums due \r\n                                              or to become due or some other \r\n                                              uncertain or fluctuating amount, \r\n                                              the particulars required under \r\n                                              paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of \r\n                                              the said section 22 shall state \r\n                                              the maximum sum deemed to be \r\n                                              secured by the charge, being the \r\n                                              maximum sum covered by the stamp \r\n                                              duty paid thereon, and the charge \r\n                                              shall be void, so far as any \r\n                                              security on the firm''s or any \r\n                                              partner''s property is thereby \r\n                                              conferred, as respects any excess \r\n                                              over the stated maximum:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that, if,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) additional stamp duty is \r\n                                              subsequently paid on the charge; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) at any time thereafter prior \r\n                                              to the commencement of the winding \r\n                                              up of the firm amended particulars \r\n                                              of the charge stating the \r\n                                              increased maximum sum deemed to be \r\n                                              secured thereby, together with the \r\n                                              original instrument by which the \r\n                                              charge was created or evidenced, \r\n                                              are delivered to the Registrar for \r\n                                              registration, then, as from the \r\n                                              date of such delivery the charge, \r\n                                              if otherwise valid, shall be \r\n                                              effective to the extent of the \r\n                                              increased maximum sum except as \r\n                                              regards any person who, prior to \r\n                                              the date of such delivery, has \r\n                                              acquired any proprietary rights \r\n                                              in, or a fixed or floating charge \r\n                                              on, the property subject to the \r\n                                              charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Charges on Property \r\n                                              Acquired.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) When a firm acquires any \r\n                                              property which is subject to a \r\n                                              charge of such kind that \r\n                                              particulars of it would, if it had \r\n                                              been created by the firm after the \r\n                                              acquisition of the property, have \r\n                                              been required to be registered \r\n                                              under section 22 of this Act, the \r\n                                              firm shall cause particulars of \r\n                                              the charge together with the \r\n                                              document, if any, by which the \r\n                                              charge was created or evidenced or \r\n                                              a copy thereof, certified as \r\n                                              provided in subsection (5) of \r\n                                              section 22 of this Act, to be \r\n                                              delivered to the Registrar for \r\n                                              registration within twenty-eight \r\n                                              days after the date on which the \r\n                                              acquisition is completed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The particulars requiring \r\n                                              registration under this section \r\n                                              shall be those specified in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of section 22 of \r\n                                              this Act with the addition of the \r\n                                              date of the acquisition of the \r\n                                              property by the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Failure to comply with this \r\n                                              section shall not affect the \r\n                                              validity of the charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Existing Charges.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where, at the date of first \r\n                                              registration of the firm in \r\n                                              accordance with section 5 of this \r\n                                              Act, the firm or any of the \r\n                                              partners therein has property on \r\n                                              which there is a charge \r\n                                              particulars of which would require \r\n                                              registration if it had been \r\n                                              created after the date of \r\n                                              registration of the firm, the firm \r\n                                              shall cause particulars of the \r\n                                              charge as required by section 22 \r\n                                              of this Act, together with the \r\n                                              document, if any, by which the \r\n                                              charge was created or a copy \r\n                                              thereof certified as required by \r\n                                              that section, to be delivered to \r\n                                              the Registrar for registration in \r\n                                              accordance with section 5 of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Failure to comply with this \r\n                                              section shall not affect the \r\n                                              validity of the charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Duty to Send \r\n                                              Particulars for Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              firm to send to the Registrar for \r\n                                              registration the particulars \r\n                                              required to be sent under sections \r\n                                              22 to 25 of this Act, but \r\n                                              registration may be effected on \r\n                                              the application of any person \r\n                                              interested therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If any firm makes default in \r\n                                              sending to the Registrar any \r\n                                              particulars requiring registration \r\n                                              as aforesaid, then, unless the \r\n                                              particulars have been duly \r\n                                              delivered for registration by some \r\n                                              other person, the firm shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              fifty pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Register of Particulars \r\n                                              of Charges.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar shall keep, with \r\n                                              respect to each firm, a register \r\n                                              of the particulars duly delivered \r\n                                              to him pursuant to sections 22 to \r\n                                              25 of this Act and shall enter the \r\n                                              particulars therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall give a \r\n                                              certificate under his hand of the \r\n                                              registration of particulars of any \r\n                                              charge registered in pursuance of \r\n                                              such sections and the certificate \r\n                                              shall be conclusive evidence, \r\n                                              except in favour of the firm or of \r\n                                              any other person who shall have \r\n                                              delivered false or incomplete \r\n                                              particulars or an incorrect copy \r\n                                              of any document, that the \r\n                                              requirements of sections 22 to 25 \r\n                                              of this Act have been complied \r\n                                              with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In the case of a charge of the \r\n                                              type referred to in section 23 of \r\n                                              this Act the certificate shall \r\n                                              state the maximum sum deemed to be \r\n                                              secured by such charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The original or certified copy \r\n                                              of the charge delivered with the \r\n                                              particulars shall not be \r\n                                              registered or retained by the \r\n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Entry of Satisfaction \r\n                                              on Discharge.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Registrar shall, on \r\n                                              application being made in the \r\n                                              prescribed form and on evidence \r\n                                              being given to his satisfaction \r\n                                              with respect to any charge of \r\n                                              which particulars have been \r\n                                              registered,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that the debt for which the \r\n                                              charge was given has been paid or \r\n                                              satisfied in whole or in part; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that the whole or part of the \r\n                                              property has been released from \r\n                                              the charge, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              enter on the register a memorandum \r\n                                              of satisfaction in whole or in \r\n                                              part or of the fact that the whole \r\n                                              or part of the property has been \r\n                                              released from the charge, as the \r\n                                              case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Rectification of \r\n                                              Register of Particulars of \r\n                                              Charges.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Court, on being satisfied \r\n                                              that the omission to register \r\n                                              particulars of a charge within the \r\n                                              time required by this Act or that \r\n                                              the omission or misstatement of \r\n                                              any particulars with respect to \r\n                                              any such charge was accidental, or \r\n                                              due to inadvertence or to some \r\n                                              other sufficient cause, or is not \r\n                                              of a nature to prejudice the \r\n                                              position of creditors of the firm, \r\n                                              or that on other grounds it is \r\n                                              just and equitable to grant \r\n                                              relief, may, on the application of \r\n                                              the firm or any person interested, \r\n                                              and on such terms as seem to the \r\n                                              Court just and expedient, order \r\n                                              that the time for registration \r\n                                              shall be extended, or as the case \r\n                                              may be, that the omission or \r\n                                              misstatement shall be corrected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) When the Court grants an \r\n                                              extension of time for \r\n                                              registration, the charge shall \r\n                                              not, unless the Court shall \r\n                                              otherwise order, adversely affect \r\n                                              any person who, prior to the date \r\n                                              of actual registration of the \r\n                                              particulars of the charge, shall \r\n                                              have acquired any proprietary \r\n                                              rights in, or a fixed or floating \r\n                                              charge on, the property subject to \r\n                                              the charge, and shall be \r\n                                              ineffective against the Official \r\n                                              Trustee and any creditors of the \r\n                                              firm if the winding up of the firm \r\n                                              commences before the date of \r\n                                              actual registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Registration of \r\n                                              Enforcement of Security.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If any person obtains an order \r\n                                              for the appointment of a receiver \r\n                                              of any of the property subject to \r\n                                              a charge particulars of which \r\n                                              require to be delivered for \r\n                                              registration pursuant to sections \r\n                                              22 to 25 of this Act, or appoints \r\n                                              such a receiver or enters into \r\n                                              possession of such property under \r\n                                              any powers contained in such \r\n                                              charge, notice of the fact in the \r\n                                              prescribed form shall, within ten \r\n                                              days from the date of the order of \r\n                                              appointment or entry into \r\n                                              possession, be given to the \r\n                                              Registrar who shall enter the fact \r\n                                              in the register of the particulars \r\n                                              of charges relating to such firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If default is made in giving \r\n                                              the notice required under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              the receiver, the person entering \r\n                                              into possession, the firm, and any \r\n                                              partner of the firm who is in \r\n                                              default shall each be liable to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding five pounds for \r\n                                              every day during which the default \r\n                                              continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any person appointed \r\n                                              receiver of the property of the \r\n                                              firm ceases to act as such \r\n                                              receiver or where any person \r\n                                              having entered into possession \r\n                                              goes out of possession he shall, \r\n                                              within ten days of so ceasing to \r\n                                              act or to remain in possession, \r\n                                              give notice to that effect in the \r\n                                              prescribed form to the Registrar \r\n                                              who shall enter the notice in the \r\n                                              register of particulars of \r\n                                              charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If any person makes default in \r\n                                              complying with the requirements of \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section he \r\n                                              shall be liable to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding five pounds for every \r\n                                              day during which the default \r\n                                              continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Registrar shall cause a \r\n                                              copy of any notice given under \r\n                                              this section to be published in \r\n                                              the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Registration \r\n                                              Constituting Notice.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The registration of any \r\n                                              particulars on the register of \r\n                                              particulars of charges shall \r\n                                              constitute actual notice of such \r\n                                              particulars, but not of the \r\n                                              contents of any document referred \r\n                                              to therein or delivered therewith, \r\n                                              to all persons and for all \r\n                                              purposes as from the date of \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Accounts</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Keeping of Accounts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every firm shall cause to be \r\n                                              kept proper accounts with respect \r\n                                              to its financial position and \r\n                                              changes therein, and with respect \r\n                                              to the control of, and accounting \r\n                                              for, all property acquired whether \r\n                                              for resale or for use in the \r\n                                              firm''s business and in particular \r\n                                              with respect to,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) all sums of money received and \r\n                                              expended by or on behalf of the \r\n                                              firm and the matters in respect of \r\n                                              which the receipt and expenditure \r\n                                              takes place;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) all sales and purchases by the \r\n                                              firm of property, goods and \r\n                                              services;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the assets and liabilities of \r\n                                              the firm and the interests of the \r\n                                              partners therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every firm shall, at intervals \r\n                                              of not more than fifteen months, \r\n                                              cause to be prepared,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a profit and loss account \r\n                                              giving a true and fair view of the \r\n                                              profit or loss of the firm for the \r\n                                              period to which it relates; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a balance sheet giving a true \r\n                                              and fair view of the assets and \r\n                                              liabilities and state of affairs \r\n                                              of the firm and of the value of \r\n                                              the interest of each of the \r\n                                              partners therein as at the end of \r\n                                              the period to which the profit and \r\n                                              loss account relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Registrar may, by order \r\n                                              published in the Gazette, \r\n                                              prescribe the form of, or minimum \r\n                                              information to be given in, \r\n                                              accounts and balance sheets to be \r\n                                              kept and prepared in accordance \r\n                                              with this section and may require \r\n                                              accounts and balance sheets to be \r\n                                              audited and may prescribe the \r\n                                              qualifications of auditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If there shall be any default \r\n                                              in maintaining or preparing the \r\n                                              accounts and balance sheet \r\n                                              required by this section each \r\n                                              partner shall be liable to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Partners Access to \r\n                                              Accounts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding any agreement to \r\n                                              the contrary, each partner in the \r\n                                              firm shall have a right of access \r\n                                              to the firm''s accounts and may \r\n                                              inspect and copy any of them and \r\n                                              each partner or former partner, \r\n                                              and the personal representative of \r\n                                              a deceased partner shall be \r\n                                              supplied with a copy of the profit \r\n                                              and loss account and balance sheet \r\n                                              prepared in accordance with the \r\n                                              immediately foregoing section and \r\n                                              relating to any period during \r\n                                              which he was a partner in the \r\n                                              firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Relation of Partners to One \r\n                                              Another</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Fiduciary Relationship \r\n                                              of Partners.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Partners shall stand in a \r\n                                              fiduciary relationship towards the \r\n                                              firm and their co-partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) every partner shall be bound \r\n                                              to render to every other partner \r\n                                              full information of all things \r\n                                              affecting the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) every partner shall account to \r\n                                              the firm for any benefit derived \r\n                                              by him without the consent of the \r\n                                              other partners from any \r\n                                              transaction concerning the firm or \r\n                                              from any use by him of the firm''s \r\n                                              property, name or business \r\n                                              connection;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if a partner, without the \r\n                                              consent of the other partners, \r\n                                              directly or indirectly carries on \r\n                                              any business of the same nature \r\n                                              as, and competing with, that of \r\n                                              the firm, he shall account for, \r\n                                              and pay over to the firm, all \r\n                                              profits made by him in that \r\n                                              business.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Rules Applying in \r\n                                              Absence of Contrary Agreement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act the mutual rights and \r\n                                              duties of the partners whether \r\n                                              ascertained by agreement or by the \r\n                                              provisions of this section may be \r\n                                              varied by the consent of all the \r\n                                              partners and such consent may be \r\n                                              either express or inferred from a \r\n                                              course of dealing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to any agreement, \r\n                                              express or implied, the following \r\n                                              rules shall apply, that is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) all the partners shall be \r\n                                              entitled to share equally in the \r\n                                              capital and profits of the firm \r\n                                              and shall&nbsp; contribute equally \r\n                                              towards the losses sustained by \r\n                                              the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the firm shall indemnify every \r\n                                              partner in respect of payments \r\n                                              made and personal liabilities \r\n                                              incurred by him,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              in the ordinary and proper conduct \r\n                                              of the business of the firm; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) in or about anything \r\n                                              necessarily done for the \r\n                                              preservation of the business or \r\n                                              property of the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a partner, making, for the \r\n                                              purpose of the firm, any actual \r\n                                              payment or advance beyond the \r\n                                              amount of capital which he has \r\n                                              agreed to subscribe shall be \r\n                                              entitled to interest at the rate \r\n                                              of five per centum per annum from \r\n                                              the date of payment or advance;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) notwithstanding that the \r\n                                              partnership agreement provides for \r\n                                              payment of interest on the capital \r\n                                              subscribed by any partner, a \r\n                                              partner shall not be entitled to \r\n                                              payment of such interest before \r\n                                              the ascertainment of the profits \r\n                                              of the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) every partner may take part in \r\n                                              the management of the business of \r\n                                              the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) &nbsp;no partner shall be entitled \r\n                                              to remuneration for acting in the \r\n                                              firm''s business;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) no person may be introduced as \r\n                                              a partner without his consent and \r\n                                              the consent of all the existing \r\n                                              partners;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) any difference arising as to \r\n                                              ordinary matters connected with \r\n                                              the firm''s business may be decided \r\n                                              by a majority of the partners, but \r\n                                              no change may be made in the \r\n                                              nature of the firm''s business \r\n                                              without the consent of all the \r\n                                              existing partners;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              the partnership books and accounts \r\n                                              shall be kept at the place of \r\n                                              business of the firm or the \r\n                                              principal place of business if \r\n                                              there is more than one.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to any express \r\n                                              agreement, on any partner ceasing \r\n                                              to be a partner in the firm the \r\n                                              provisions of subsections (3), (4) \r\n                                              and (5) of section 41 of this Act \r\n                                              shall apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Presumed Continuance of \r\n                                              Terms of Partnership Agreement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a partnership is expressed \r\n                                              to be for a fixed term, and, after \r\n                                              the expiration of that term, the \r\n                                              partners or some of them expressly \r\n                                              or impliedly agree to remain \r\n                                              partners in the firm, the rights \r\n                                              and duties of such partners, in \r\n                                              the absence of agreement to the \r\n                                              contrary, shall remain the same as \r\n                                              they were at the expiration of the \r\n                                              term so far as is consistent with \r\n                                              the incidents of a partnership at \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Nature of Interests of \r\n                                              Partners.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The interests of the partners in \r\n                                              the firm shall be personal estate \r\n                                              and shall not be in the nature of \r\n                                              real or immovable property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212;Rights of Assignee of \r\n                                              Partner''s Interest in Firm.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An assignment by any partner \r\n                                              of his interest in the firm, \r\n                                              either absolute or by way of a \r\n                                              charge, shall not, as against the \r\n                                              other partners, entitle the \r\n                                              assignee to interfere in the \r\n                                              management or administration of \r\n                                              the firm or to require any \r\n                                              accounts of the firm''s \r\n                                              transactions or to inspect the \r\n                                              partnership books, but shall \r\n                                              entitle the assignee only to \r\n                                              receive the share of profits to \r\n                                              which the assigning partner would \r\n                                              otherwise be entitled, and the \r\n                                              assignee shall accept the account \r\n                                              of profits agreed to by the \r\n                                              partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the event of the assigning \r\n                                              partner ceasing to be a partner in \r\n                                              the firm the assignee shall be \r\n                                              entitled to receive the amount \r\n                                              which the assigning partner or his \r\n                                              estate would be entitled to \r\n                                              receive as between himself and the \r\n                                              other partners and, for the \r\n                                              purpose of ascertaining that \r\n                                              amount, to an account as from the \r\n                                              date of his ceasing to be a \r\n                                              partner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Withdrawal from Firm and \r\n                                              Consequences thereof</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;Cessation of Membership \r\n                                              of Firm.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A partner shall cease to be a \r\n                                              partner in the firm in the event \r\n                                              of,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) his death;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) his becoming an alien enemy \r\n                                              during time of war;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) an insolvency order being made \r\n                                              against him under the provisions \r\n                                              of the Insolvency Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              153).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the other partners so elect \r\n                                              in writing, a partner shall cease \r\n                                              to be a partner in the firm if he \r\n                                              suffers his interest in the \r\n                                              partnership to be charged under \r\n                                              section 20 of this Act for his \r\n                                              separate debt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A partnership agreement may \r\n                                              validly provide that on the \r\n                                              occurrence of any of the events \r\n                                              therein specified any partner \r\n                                              shall cease to be a partner either \r\n                                              automatically or at the option of \r\n                                              the other partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) On application by a partner \r\n                                              the Court may order that any \r\n                                              partner shall cease to be a \r\n                                              partner in the firm in any of the \r\n                                              following cases, that is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) when such partner is shown to \r\n                                              the satisfaction of the Court to \r\n                                              have become permanently of unsound \r\n                                              mind;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) when such partner is shown to \r\n                                              the satisfaction of the Court to \r\n                                              have become in any other way \r\n                                              permanently incapable of \r\n                                              performing his part of the \r\n                                              partnership agreement;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) when such partner has been \r\n                                              guilty of such conduct as, in the \r\n                                              opinion of the Court, regard being \r\n                                              had to the nature of the firm''s \r\n                                              business, is calculated \r\n                                              prejudicially to affect the \r\n                                              carrying on of the business;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) when such partner wilfully or \r\n                                              persistently commits a breach of \r\n                                              the partnership agreement, or \r\n                                              otherwise so conducts himself in \r\n                                              matters relating to the firm''s \r\n                                              business that it is not reasonably \r\n                                              practicable for the other partners \r\n                                              to carry on the business in \r\n                                              partnership with him;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) whenever circumstances have \r\n                                              arisen which, in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Court, render it just and \r\n                                              equitable that such partner should \r\n                                              cease to be a partner in the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Application to the Court on \r\n                                              any of the grounds specified in \r\n                                              paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of the \r\n                                              immediately preceding subsection \r\n                                              may be made by any partner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Application on any of the \r\n                                              grounds specified in paragraphs \r\n                                              (c) and (d) of subsection (4) of \r\n                                              this section may not be made by \r\n                                              the partner whose conduct is \r\n                                              alleged to justify the making of \r\n                                              an order that he shall cease to be \r\n                                              a partner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Subject to any agreement \r\n                                              between the partners, if the \r\n                                              partnership is for an undefined \r\n                                              term or has become a partnership \r\n                                              at will in accordance with section \r\n                                              36 of this Act, a partner may at \r\n                                              any time retire from the firm by \r\n                                              giving notice in writing to the \r\n                                              other partners of his intention to \r\n                                              retire, and thereupon such partner \r\n                                              shall cease to be a partner in the \r\n                                              firm as from the date mentioned in \r\n                                              the notice as the date of \r\n                                              retirement or, if no date is so \r\n                                              mentioned, as from the date of the \r\n                                              communication of the notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) A partnership agreement may \r\n                                              validly provide that any partner \r\n                                              may retire from the partnership in \r\n                                              the manner therein specified and \r\n                                              on retirement in accordance with \r\n                                              such provisions the partner shall \r\n                                              cease to be a member of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) On any partner ceasing to be a \r\n                                              partner he or any other partner \r\n                                              may publicly notify the same, and \r\n                                              may require the other partner or \r\n                                              partners to concur for that \r\n                                              purpose in all necessary or proper \r\n                                              acts, if any, which cannot be done \r\n                                              without his or their concurrence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;Withdrawal of a Partner \r\n                                              not to Affect the Others.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The fact that a partner has ceased \r\n                                              to be a partner in the firm shall \r\n                                              not affect the existence of the \r\n                                              firm or the mutual rights and \r\n                                              duties of the other partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Action by Continuing \r\n                                              Partners.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If, on any partner ceasing to \r\n                                              be a partner in the firm there is \r\n                                              only one surviving or continuing \r\n                                              partner of the firm the surviving \r\n                                              or continuing partner shall, \r\n                                              within six months of the \r\n                                              cessation, either,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) admit another member or \r\n                                              members into partnership in the \r\n                                              firm; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) commence to wind up the firm \r\n                                              in accordance with section 47 or \r\n                                              48 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to any express \r\n                                              agreement relating to the passing \r\n                                              or acquisition of the interest in \r\n                                              the firm of a partner who ceases \r\n                                              to be a partner and the admission \r\n                                              in his place of any new partner, \r\n                                              the provisions of subsections (3), \r\n                                              (4) and (5) of this section shall \r\n                                              apply when any partner ceases to \r\n                                              be a partner and whether there is \r\n                                              one or more than one, surviving or \r\n                                              continuing partner of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Within six months after a \r\n                                              partner has ceased to be a partner \r\n                                              in the firm the surviving or \r\n                                              continuing partners shall either,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) admit into partnership in the \r\n                                              firm the person or persons (in \r\n                                              this section called the \r\n                                              successors) who shall have \r\n                                              acquired or agreed to acquire or \r\n                                              succeeded to the interest in the \r\n                                              firm of such former partner; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) purchase the interest in the \r\n                                              firm of the former partner at a \r\n                                              price to be determined in default \r\n                                              of agreement by a single \r\n                                              arbitrator appointed by the \r\n                                              parties or, if they cannot agree \r\n                                              upon an appointment, nominated by \r\n                                              the President for the time being \r\n                                              of the Association of Accountants \r\n                                              in Ghana; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) commence to wind up the firm \r\n                                              in accordance with section 47 or \r\n                                              48 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the successors shall be \r\n                                              admitted into partnership in the \r\n                                              firm in accordance with paragraph \r\n                                              (a) of the immediately preceding \r\n                                              subsection they shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have become partners in the firm \r\n                                              in the place of the former partner \r\n                                              as from the date when he ceased to \r\n                                              be a partner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) If the surviving or continuing \r\n                                              partners elect to purchase the \r\n                                              interest of the former partner or \r\n                                              to wind up the firm, the amount \r\n                                              payable to the former partner, or \r\n                                              his successors, in respect of his \r\n                                              interest shall, as between himself \r\n                                              and the firm in the absence of \r\n                                              agreement to the contrary, be \r\n                                              deemed to be a debt due from the \r\n                                              firm as at the date of his ceasing \r\n                                              to be a partner and shall carry \r\n                                              interest therefrom at the rate of \r\n                                              five per centum per annum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Apportionment of \r\n                                              Premium.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where one partner has paid a \r\n                                              premium to another on entering \r\n                                              into a partnership agreement for a \r\n                                              fixed term and the firm is wound \r\n                                              up or the partner paying the \r\n                                              premium ceases to be a partner of \r\n                                              the partner to whom the premium \r\n                                              was paid, the Court may order the \r\n                                              return of the premium, or such \r\n                                              part thereof as it thinks just, \r\n                                              having regard to the terms of the \r\n                                              partnership agreement, to the \r\n                                              length of time during which the \r\n                                              partnership has continued and to \r\n                                              all the circumstances of the case, \r\n                                              unless,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the winding up of the firm or \r\n                                              the cessation of the partnership \r\n                                              is, in the judgment of the Court, \r\n                                              wholly or chiefly due to the \r\n                                              misconduct of the partner who paid \r\n                                              the premium; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the firm is wound up or the \r\n                                              partnership ceases as a result of \r\n                                              an agreement which contained no \r\n                                              provision for a return of any part \r\n                                              of the premium.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Rights Where \r\n                                              Partnership Agreement Rescinded \r\n                                              for Misrepresentation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a partnership agreement is \r\n                                              rescinded on the ground of the \r\n                                              fraud or misrepresentation of one \r\n                                              of the parties thereto, the party \r\n                                              entitled to rescind shall be \r\n                                              entitled, without prejudice to any \r\n                                              other right,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to a lien on the firm''s \r\n                                              assets, after satisfying the \r\n                                              firm''s liabilities, for any sum of \r\n                                              money paid by him for the purchase \r\n                                              of his interest in the firm and \r\n                                              for any capital contributed by \r\n                                              him;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to stand in the place of the \r\n                                              creditors of the firm for any \r\n                                              payments made by him in respect of \r\n                                              the firm''s liabilities; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to be indemnified by the \r\n                                              person guilty of the fraud or \r\n                                              making the representation against \r\n                                              all the liabilities of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Winding up of Firm</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Modes of Winding up.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The winding-up of a firm may be \r\n                                              either,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) as a result of insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings under the Insolvency \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 153) against all \r\n                                              the partners jointly; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) under an order of the Court; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) by voluntary liquidation by \r\n                                              the partners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 45&#8212;Continuance of Firm \r\n                                              Until Dissolution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The firm shall, from the \r\n                                              commencement of the winding up, \r\n                                              cease to carry on its business \r\n                                              except so far as may be required \r\n                                              for the beneficial winding up \r\n                                              thereof but the corporate state \r\n                                              and corporate powers of the firm \r\n                                              shall continue until it is \r\n                                              dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 46&#8212;Winding up as Result of \r\n                                              Joint Insolvency Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Unless the firm is being wound \r\n                                              up under an order of the Court \r\n                                              under section 47 of this Act one \r\n                                              or more of the creditors of the \r\n                                              firm may institute insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings under the Insolvency \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 153) against all \r\n                                              the partners jointly if the \r\n                                              conditions specified in section 9 \r\n                                              of that Act are complied with, and \r\n                                              for the purposes of such section \r\n                                              anything done by or to a firm \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be done by or \r\n                                              to all the partners jointly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If a protection order is made \r\n                                              against all the partners jointly \r\n                                              the order shall have the effect of \r\n                                              appointing the Official Trustee to \r\n                                              be the liquidator of the firm and, \r\n                                              pursuant to section 37 of the \r\n                                              Insolvency Act, 1962 (Act 153), as \r\n                                              from the date of the order all the \r\n                                              interests of the partners and all \r\n                                              the powers and authority of the \r\n                                              partners in relation to the firm \r\n                                              shall vest in the Official \r\n                                              Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A copy of the protection order \r\n                                              shall be delivered by the Official \r\n                                              Trustee to the Registrar for \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If an insolvency order is made \r\n                                              against the partners jointly, all \r\n                                              the assets of the firm shall be \r\n                                              administered by the Official \r\n                                              Trustee in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of the Insolvency Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 153) as if they were the \r\n                                              joint estate of the partners but \r\n                                              the creditors of the firm shall be \r\n                                              entitled to prove for such debts \r\n                                              as are provable under the \r\n                                              provisions of the Insolvency Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 153) against both the \r\n                                              firm''s assets and the separate \r\n                                              estate of each partner liable \r\n                                              therefor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 47&#8212;Winding up Under order \r\n                                              of Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A firm, notwithstanding that \r\n                                              it is being wound up voluntarily, \r\n                                              may be wound up under an order of \r\n                                              the Court on the application of,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; any partner of the firm;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any former partner, or his \r\n                                              legal representative, who has not \r\n                                              been paid the amount due in \r\n                                              respect of such former partner''s \r\n                                              interest in the firm; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No application under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be made after insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings under the Insolvency \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 153) have been \r\n                                              commenced by or against all the \r\n                                              partners jointly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Court may order the \r\n                                              winding up of a firm on an \r\n                                              application being made under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section if,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the firm does not commence \r\n                                              business within a year from its \r\n                                              registration or suspends its \r\n                                              business for a whole year;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the firm carries on business \r\n                                              for more than six months with \r\n                                              fewer than two partners;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the firm is unable to pay its \r\n                                              debts as they fall due; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the Court is of the opinion \r\n                                              that it is otherwise just and \r\n                                              equitable that the firm should be \r\n                                              wound up by the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Before making a winding up \r\n                                              order the Court shall enquire as \r\n                                              to the solvency of the firm; and \r\n                                              unless the Court is satisfied that \r\n                                              the debts and liabilities of the \r\n                                              firm will be paid in full within a \r\n                                              period of six months from the \r\n                                              commencement of the winding up, if \r\n                                              the Court orders the winding up of \r\n                                              the firm, the order shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be a protection order \r\n                                              under the Insolvency Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 153) made against all the \r\n                                              partners jointly and accordingly \r\n                                              subsections (2), (3) and (4) of \r\n                                              the immediately preceding section \r\n                                              shall apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Except as provided in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section \r\n                                              when the Court makes a winding up \r\n                                              order it shall appoint the \r\n                                              Official Trustee, the Registrar or \r\n                                              such other person as it thinks fit \r\n                                              as liquidator to wind up the \r\n                                              affairs of the firm and within \r\n                                              forty-eight hours of the drawing \r\n                                              up of the winding up order a copy \r\n                                              thereof shall be delivered by the \r\n                                              liquidator to the Registrar for \r\n                                              registration and the Registrar \r\n                                              shall cause notice thereof to be \r\n                                              published in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where, before the making of \r\n                                              the winding up order, the partners \r\n                                              have commenced to wind up \r\n                                              voluntarily, the winding up shall \r\n                                              be deemed to have commenced at the \r\n                                              date of the commencement of the \r\n                                              voluntary winding up and, unless \r\n                                              the Court otherwise directs, all \r\n                                              proceedings taken in the voluntary \r\n                                              winding up shall be deemed to have \r\n                                              been validly taken; and in any \r\n                                              other case the winding up shall be \r\n                                              deemed to commence at the date of \r\n                                              the making of the winding up \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) As from the date of the \r\n                                              winding up order all the powers \r\n                                              and authority of the partners in \r\n                                              relation to the firm shall cease \r\n                                              and shall vest in the liquidator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 48&#8212;Voluntary Winding up.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A firm may be wound up by way \r\n                                              of voluntary liquidation by the \r\n                                              partners if all the partners \r\n                                              therein so agree and send \r\n                                              notification thereof in the \r\n                                              prescribed form to the Registrar \r\n                                              for registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The winding up shall be deemed \r\n                                              to commence at the date of the \r\n                                              registration by the Registrar of \r\n                                              such notification and notice \r\n                                              thereof shall be published by him \r\n                                              in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The authority of each partner \r\n                                              to bind the firm and the other \r\n                                              rights and obligations of the \r\n                                              partners shall continue, \r\n                                              notwithstanding the winding up \r\n                                              until the firm is dissolved or a \r\n                                              protection order under the \r\n                                              Insolvency Act, 1962 (Act 153) is \r\n                                              made against all the partners \r\n                                              jointly or an order is made for \r\n                                              the winding up of the firm under \r\n                                              an order of the Court, so far as \r\n                                              may be necessary to wind up the \r\n                                              affairs of the firm and to \r\n                                              complete transactions begun but \r\n                                              unfinished at the time of the \r\n                                              commencement of the winding up, \r\n                                              but not otherwise.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If at any time a partner is of \r\n                                              the opinion that the firm shall \r\n                                              not be able to pay its debts in \r\n                                              full within six months from the \r\n                                              commencement of the winding up, he \r\n                                              shall forthwith give notice in the \r\n                                              prescribed form to the Registrar \r\n                                              who shall register such notice and \r\n                                              cause a copy thereof to be \r\n                                              published in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Within twenty-one days from \r\n                                              the expiration of six months from \r\n                                              the commencement of the winding \r\n                                              up, the partners shall send to the \r\n                                              Registrar a statement in the \r\n                                              prescribed form stating whether or \r\n                                              not all the debts of the firm have \r\n                                              been paid in full, and the \r\n                                              Registrar shall register such \r\n                                              statement and cause a copy thereof \r\n                                              to be published in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) If any partner shall wilfully \r\n                                              default in complying with \r\n                                              subsection (4) or (5) of this \r\n                                              section or shall wilfully make any \r\n                                              misstatement in any statement sent \r\n                                              thereunder he shall be liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding six \r\n                                              months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 49&#8212;Notification that Firm \r\n                                              is Being Wound up.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When a firm is being wound up \r\n                                              otherwise than voluntarily by the \r\n                                              partners, every invoice, order, or \r\n                                              business letter issued by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the firm, being a \r\n                                              document in or on which the name \r\n                                              of the firm appears, shall contain \r\n                                              a statement that the firm is being \r\n                                              wound up and shall state the name \r\n                                              or official title of the \r\n                                              liquidator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 50&#8212;Application of Firm''s \r\n                                              Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On the winding up of a firm \r\n                                              every partner, and every former \r\n                                              partner, or his legal \r\n                                              representative, who has not been \r\n                                              paid the amount due in respect of \r\n                                              such former partner''s interest in \r\n                                              the firm, shall be entitled, as \r\n                                              against the other partners in the \r\n                                              firm and the persons claiming \r\n                                              through them in respect of their \r\n                                              interests as partners, to have the \r\n                                              undertaking and assets of the firm \r\n                                              sold (the business being sold as a \r\n                                              going concern if practicable) and \r\n                                              the proceeds applied in payment of \r\n                                              the debts and liabilities of the \r\n                                              firm and the surplus applied in \r\n                                              payment of what may be due to the \r\n                                              partners respectively after \r\n                                              deducting what may be due from \r\n                                              them as partners to the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In settling accounts between \r\n                                              the partners the following rules \r\n                                              shall, subject to any agreement, \r\n                                              be observed, that is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) losses, other than \r\n                                              deficiencies of capital, shall be \r\n                                              paid first out of profits, next \r\n                                              out of capital and lastly, if \r\n                                              necessary, by the partners \r\n                                              individually in the proportion in \r\n                                              which they were entitled to share \r\n                                              profits;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) deficiencies of capital shall \r\n                                              not be made up but shall be borne \r\n                                              by the partners in the proportion \r\n                                              in which they were entitled to \r\n                                              capital;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the assets of the firm shall \r\n                                              be applied in the following manner \r\n                                              and order, that is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              in paying the debts and \r\n                                              liabilities of the firm to persons \r\n                                              who are not partners therein;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii)&nbsp; in paying to each partner \r\n                                              rateably what is due from the firm \r\n                                              to him for advances as opposed to \r\n                                              his agreed share of capital;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii)&nbsp; in paying to each partner \r\n                                              rateably what is due from the firm \r\n                                              to him in respect of capital;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) the ultimate residue, if any, \r\n                                              shall be divided among the \r\n                                              partners in the proportion in \r\n                                              which profits are divisible.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If, in a voluntary winding up \r\n                                              by the partners, the debts and \r\n                                              liabilities of the firm are not \r\n                                              paid in full, and an insolvency \r\n                                              order under the Insolvency Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 153) is made against all \r\n                                              the partners jointly as a result \r\n                                              of insolvency proceedings \r\n                                              commenced within one year after \r\n                                              the commencement of the voluntary \r\n                                              winding up, any sum paid in the \r\n                                              voluntary winding up to a creditor \r\n                                              which would not have been paid had \r\n                                              the debts been paid in the order \r\n                                              prescribed by section 47 of the \r\n                                              Insolvency Act, 1962 (Act 153) in \r\n                                              accordance with section 54 of that \r\n                                              Act, the creditor shall, on \r\n                                              receipt of a notice given in that \r\n                                              behalf by the Official Trustee, \r\n                                              restore that sum to the Official \r\n                                              Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 51&#8212;Dissolution after \r\n                                              Winding Up.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) When the Registrar is \r\n                                              satisfied that the winding up of \r\n                                              the affairs of the firm is \r\n                                              complete then, unless the \r\n                                              undertaking of the firm has been \r\n                                              disposed of as a going concern to \r\n                                              another partnership and the change \r\n                                              duly registered in accordance with \r\n                                              section 7 of this Act, the \r\n                                              Registrar shall strike the firm \r\n                                              off the register and notify the \r\n                                              same in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The firm shall thereupon be \r\n                                              deemed to be dissolved as at the \r\n                                              date of the publication in the \r\n                                              Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If any property of the firm \r\n                                              has not in fact been effectually \r\n                                              disposed of in the winding up, it \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be vested, in \r\n                                              the case of a voluntary winding \r\n                                              up, in the partners and, in any \r\n                                              other case, in the Official \r\n                                              Trustee upon trust to pay thereout \r\n                                              any outstanding debts and \r\n                                              liabilities of the firm and \r\n                                              subject thereto for the former \r\n                                              partners in accordance with their \r\n                                              rights under the partnership \r\n                                              agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Notwithstanding the \r\n                                              dissolution of the firm the former \r\n                                              partners shall remain jointly and \r\n                                              severally liable to pay the debts \r\n                                              and liabilities of the firm in so \r\n                                              far as these have not been fully \r\n                                              discharged in the winding up or \r\n                                              otherwise.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 52&#8212;Dissolution of Moribund \r\n                                              Firms.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the Registrar, of his \r\n                                              own knowledge or upon information \r\n                                              supplied by any partner or \r\n                                              creditor of a firm, has reasonable \r\n                                              cause to believe that a firm is \r\n                                              not carrying on business whether \r\n                                              by reason of the fact that the \r\n                                              business has ceased or has been \r\n                                              transferred to a company \r\n                                              incorporated under the Companies \r\n                                              Code or to some other person, he \r\n                                              may send to the last registered \r\n                                              principal place of business of the \r\n                                              firm a letter by registered post \r\n                                              enquiring whether the firm is \r\n                                              carrying on business, and stating \r\n                                              that if it is not so carrying on \r\n                                              business or if no reply is \r\n                                              received within two months from \r\n                                              the date thereof a notice will be \r\n                                              published in the Gazette with a \r\n                                              view to striking the firm off the \r\n                                              register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the Registrar either \r\n                                              receives a reply from the firm to \r\n                                              the effect that it is not so \r\n                                              carrying on business or does not \r\n                                              within the specified time receive \r\n                                              any answer thereto, the Registrar \r\n                                              may publish in the Gazette and \r\n                                              send by registered post to the \r\n                                              last registered principal place of \r\n                                              business of the firm, a notice \r\n                                              that at the expiration of two \r\n                                              months from the date of that \r\n                                              notice the firm shall, unless \r\n                                              cause be shown to the contrary, be \r\n                                              struck off the register and \r\n                                              dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) At or after the expiration of \r\n                                              the time mentioned in the notice \r\n                                              the Registrar may, unless cause is \r\n                                              shown, strike the firm off the \r\n                                              register and shall publish notice \r\n                                              thereof in the Gazette and on such \r\n                                              publication in the Gazette the \r\n                                              firm shall be dissolved:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the joint and several liability of \r\n                                              every partner in the firm for the \r\n                                              firm''s debts and obligations shall \r\n                                              continue and may be enforced as if \r\n                                              the firm had not been dissolved;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              affect the power of the Court to \r\n                                              order the winding up of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the Registrar is satisfied \r\n                                              that a firm dissolved in \r\n                                              accordance with the foregoing \r\n                                              provisions of this section is \r\n                                              carrying on business he may at any \r\n                                              time restore the firm to the \r\n                                              register and publish notice \r\n                                              thereof in the Gazette and \r\n                                              thereupon the firm shall be deemed \r\n                                              never to have been dissolved, but \r\n                                              for the purposes of section 9 of \r\n                                              this Act the partners shall be \r\n                                              deemed to remain in default until \r\n                                              the date of publication of the \r\n                                              notice in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 53&#8212;Dissolution of \r\n                                              Defaulting Firm.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar may strike a \r\n                                              firm off the register if, in his \r\n                                              opinion,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the business of the firm is \r\n                                              unlawful or the firm is being \r\n                                              operated for any illegal purpose;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the firm has committed a \r\n                                              breach of any of the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall not strike \r\n                                              a firm off the register on the \r\n                                              grounds specified in paragraph (b) \r\n                                              of subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              unless,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) he shall have sent by \r\n                                              registered post to the last \r\n                                              registered principal place of \r\n                                              business of the firm a letter \r\n                                              specifying the breach and \r\n                                              requiring it to be remedied or \r\n                                              ended to his satisfaction within \r\n                                              the time therein specified and \r\n                                              stating that if not so remedied or \r\n                                              ended the firm may be struck off \r\n                                              the register and dissolved; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the breach is not, within the \r\n                                              time so specified, remedied or \r\n                                              ended to his satisfaction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On striking the firm off the \r\n                                              register the Registrar shall \r\n                                              publish in the Gazette and send by \r\n                                              registered post to the last \r\n                                              registered principal place of \r\n                                              business of the firm a notice that \r\n                                              the firm has been struck off the \r\n                                              register and dissolved and on such \r\n                                              publication in the Gazette the \r\n                                              firm shall be dissolved:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the joint and several liability of \r\n                                              every partner in the firm to pay \r\n                                              the firm''s debts and obligations \r\n                                              shall continue and may be enforced \r\n                                              as if the firm had not been \r\n                                              dissolved;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              affect the power of the Court to \r\n                                              order the winding up of the firm.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 54&#8212;Appeals to the Court \r\n                                              Against Dissolution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any firm struck off the \r\n                                              register under section 52 or 53 of \r\n                                              this Act shall have a right to \r\n                                              appeal to the Court against the \r\n                                              decision of the Registrar in \r\n                                              accordance with subsection (2) of \r\n                                              section 55 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) When the Court allows such \r\n                                              appeal the firm shall, subject to \r\n                                              compliance with any terms and \r\n                                              conditions specified in the order, \r\n                                              be restored to the register and be \r\n                                              deemed never to have been \r\n                                              dissolved and the Registrar shall \r\n                                              publish notice thereof in the \r\n                                              Gazette but, unless the Court \r\n                                              otherwise orders, the partners \r\n                                              shall, for the purposes of section \r\n                                              9 of this Act, be deemed to remain \r\n                                              in default until the date of \r\n                                              publication of the notice in the \r\n                                              Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Supplemental</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 55&#8212;Applications and \r\n                                              Appeals to the Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar may apply to the \r\n                                              Court for directions in relation \r\n                                              to any matter arising in \r\n                                              connection with his functions \r\n                                              under this Act, and on any such \r\n                                              application the Court may give \r\n                                              such directions or make such order \r\n                                              as the Court thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where any section of this Act \r\n                                              provides that there shall be a \r\n                                              right of appeal to the Court \r\n                                              against a decision of the \r\n                                              Registrar written notice of any \r\n                                              appeal shall be given by the \r\n                                              appellant to the Registrar at \r\n                                              least twenty-eight days prior to \r\n                                              the hearing and the Registrar may \r\n                                              appear at the hearing and give \r\n                                              evidence and call witnesses and \r\n                                              draw the attention of the Court to \r\n                                              any relevant matters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On such appeal the Court may \r\n                                              make such order as it thinks fit \r\n                                              either confirming or rescinding or \r\n                                              varying such decision and on such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as it thinks \r\n                                              fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 56&#8212;Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Sch.</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In respect of the several \r\n                                              matters set out in the first \r\n                                              column of the Table in the First \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act there shall \r\n                                              be paid to the Registrar the fees \r\n                                              specified in the second column of \r\n                                              that Table but except as provided \r\n                                              in the Schedule no fee shall be \r\n                                              payable on the registration of any \r\n                                              document under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a fee is payable on the \r\n                                              registration of any document the \r\n                                              document shall not be deemed to \r\n                                              have been delivered to the \r\n                                              Registrar for registration until \r\n                                              the appropriate fee has been paid \r\n                                              to the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 57&#8212;Inspection and Copies \r\n                                              of Registered Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person may inspect the \r\n                                              register of particulars of charges \r\n                                              and any document registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar upon payment of one \r\n                                              shilling for each inspection of \r\n                                              the register and documents \r\n                                              relating to one firm, and may \r\n                                              require a copy of, or extract \r\n                                              from, any document registered by \r\n                                              the Registrar on payment of such \r\n                                              fee as the Registrar may \r\n                                              prescribe, not exceeding one pound \r\n                                              for each page.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 58&#8212;Saving of Rules of \r\n                                              Equity and Common Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The rules of equity and common law \r\n                                              applicable to partnership shall \r\n                                              continue in force except in so far \r\n                                              as they are inconsistent with the \r\n                                              express provisions of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 59&#8212;Conversion of Existing \r\n                                              Companies into Partnerships.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Sch.</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              company, limited or unlimited, \r\n                                              registered under the Companies \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 193), may be \r\n                                              re-registered under this Act in \r\n                                              the manner set forth in the Second \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act upon making \r\n                                              application in accordance with the \r\n                                              said Schedule within three months \r\n                                              after the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 60&#8212;Rules.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Justice may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, make Rules, other than \r\n                                              rules of court, relating to \r\n                                              procedure under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              TABLE OF FEES TO BE PAID TO THE \r\n                                              REGISTRAR</span></p>\r\n                                              <table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none">\r\n                                                <tr>\r\n                                                  <td width="475" valign="top" style="width: 356.4pt; border: 1.0pt solid windowtext; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm">\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  Matters in Respect of which \r\n                                                  Fees are Payable</span></td>\r\n                                                  <td width="115" valign="top" style="width: 86.4pt; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt solid windowtext; border-top: 1.0pt solid windowtext; border-bottom: 1.0pt solid windowtext; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm">\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  Amount of Fee in Cedis</span></td>\r\n                                                </tr>\r\n                                                <tr>\r\n                                                  <td width="475" valign="top" style="width: 356.4pt; border-left: 1.0pt solid windowtext; border-right: 1.0pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt solid windowtext; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm">\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  (i) For registration of \r\n                                                  partnership under section 5</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  (ii) For filing a change of \r\n                                                  partnership name or \r\n                                                  composition or partnership \r\n                                                  under section 7</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  (iii) For each annual renewal \r\n                                                  under section \r\n                                                  8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                                  </p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  (iv) For filing particulars of \r\n                                                  charges for registration under \r\n                                                  section 22 in respect of each \r\n                                                  charge.</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  (v) For filing a memorandum of \r\n                                                  satisfaction for registration \r\n                                                  under section \r\n                                                  28.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                                  </p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  (vi) For restoration of a firm \r\n                                                  to the register under section \r\n                                                  52(4).</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  &nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                                                  <td width="115" valign="top" style="width: 86.4pt; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt solid windowtext; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm">\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  300,000.00</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  100,000.00</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  150,000.00</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  40,000.00</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  40,000.00</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                  100,000.00</span></td>\r\n                                                </tr>\r\n                                              </table>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [As substituted by The \r\n                                              Incorporated Private Partnerships \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 2001 (Act 605) s. \r\n                                              1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 59)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              RE-REGISTRATION UNDER THIS ACT OF \r\n                                              COMPANIES REGISTERED UNDER THE \r\n                                              COMPANIES ORDINANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. At any time within three months \r\n                                              after the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              the members of a company \r\n                                              registered under the Companies \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 193) may apply to \r\n                                              the Registrar for re-registration \r\n                                              of the company as an Incorporated \r\n                                              Private Partnership under this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The application shall be signed \r\n                                              by all the members of the company \r\n                                              and shall be accompanied by the \r\n                                              following documents:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a copy of the partnership \r\n                                              agreement which will replace the \r\n                                              memorandum and articles of \r\n                                              association of the company if the \r\n                                              company is re-registered under \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the statement referred to in \r\n                                              section 5 of this Act, together \r\n                                              with any documents which are \r\n                                              required to accompany that \r\n                                              statement;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a statutory declaration by a \r\n                                              legal practitioner to the effect \r\n                                              that all the members are of full \r\n                                              age and sound mind and that the \r\n                                              legal practitioner has explained \r\n                                              to them the effect of \r\n                                              re-registration under this Act and \r\n                                              that he is satisfied that they \r\n                                              understand and agree. If the \r\n                                              liability of members of the \r\n                                              company is limited the statutory \r\n                                              declaration shall expressly \r\n                                              declare that the legal \r\n                                              practitioner has explained to the \r\n                                              members that after re-registration \r\n                                              their liability for the existing \r\n                                              debts and obligations of the \r\n                                              company and for the debts and \r\n                                              obligations of the firm will be \r\n                                              unlimited and that they understand \r\n                                              and agree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The Registrar shall cause to be \r\n                                              published in the Gazette a notice \r\n                                              to the effect that application has \r\n                                              been made for re-registration of \r\n                                              the company under this Act and \r\n                                              inviting anyone who wishes to show \r\n                                              cause why it should not be so \r\n                                              re-registered to make \r\n                                              representations to him within the \r\n                                              time specified in the notice not \r\n                                              being less than twenty-eight days \r\n                                              from the date of publication of \r\n                                              such notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The Registrar, after \r\n                                              considering any such \r\n                                              representations, may in his \r\n                                              absolute discretion and on payment \r\n                                              of a fee of two pounds register \r\n                                              the said statement referred to in \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) \r\n                                              hereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Thereupon all the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act shall apply as if \r\n                                              registration of a firm had been \r\n                                              effected in accordance with \r\n                                              section 5 of this Act except that \r\n                                              it shall be stated on the register \r\n                                              and in the certificate of \r\n                                              registration referred to in \r\n                                              section 6 of this Act that the \r\n                                              firm was formerly registered as a \r\n                                              company under the Companies \r\n                                              Ordinance and shall give the name \r\n                                              and number under which it was so \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Upon such registration the \r\n                                              Registrar shall strike the company \r\n                                              off the register of companies \r\n                                              registered under the Companies \r\n                                              Ordinance and endorse on such \r\n                                              register a notice to the effect \r\n                                              that the company has re-registered \r\n                                              under this Act and give the name \r\n                                              and number under which it is so \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. The firm shall thereupon be \r\n                                              deemed to have been duly \r\n                                              registered and incorporated under \r\n                                              this Act and shall cease to be a \r\n                                              company registered and \r\n                                              incorporated under the Companies \r\n                                              Ordinance and the firm and the \r\n                                              members thereof shall thenceforth \r\n                                              be jointly and severally liable \r\n                                              for the debts and obligations of \r\n                                              the firm and for the debts and \r\n                                              obligations of the former company \r\n                                              as if such debts and obligations \r\n                                              had been incurred by the firm, but \r\n                                              subject as aforesaid \r\n                                              re-registration in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of this Schedule \r\n                                              shall not affect any rights or \r\n                                              obligations of the former company \r\n                                              or render defective any legal \r\n                                              proceedings by or against the \r\n                                              former company, and any \r\n                                              proceedings which might have been \r\n                                              continued or commenced by or \r\n                                              against it by its former name and \r\n                                              status as a company registered \r\n                                              under the Companies Ordinance may \r\n                                              be continued or commenced by or \r\n                                              against it under its new name and \r\n                                              status as an incorporated \r\n                                              partnership registered under this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE INCORPORATED PRIVATE \r\n                                              PARTNERSHIPS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1980 \r\n                                              (ACT 423)1.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE INCORPORATED PRIVATE \r\n                                              PARTNERSHIPS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997 \r\n                                              (ACT 532)2.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE INCORPORATED PRIVATE \r\n                                              PARTNERSHIPS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001 \r\n                                              (ACT 605)3.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 152');
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(53, 'INSOLVENCY ACT, 1962 (ACT 153)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1371" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              INSOLVENCY ACT, 1962 (ACT 153)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The Official Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Powers of Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Insolvent Estates Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Insolvency Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Notices in Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Liability for default.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Annual Report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Petitions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Commencement of proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Creditor''s petition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Debtor''s petition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Procedure on petitions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Protection Orders</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Effect of protection order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Debtor''s statement of affairs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Debtor''s proposal for \r\n                                              arrangement with creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Creditors'' proof of debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. First meeting of creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Judicial Consideration</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Application to Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Hearing of application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Insolvency order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Confirmation of arrangement \r\n                                              with creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Rescission of protection \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Bankruptcy</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Public examination of debtor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Adjudication of bankruptcy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Additional duties and \r\n                                              disabilities of bankrupt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General Duties and Disabilities of \r\n                                              Debtor</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Duty to co-operate with \r\n                                              Official Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Duty to disclose \r\n                                              after-acquired property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Duty of disclosure when \r\n                                              obtaining credit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Liability to arrest and \r\n                                              seizure of property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Liability to interception of \r\n                                              letters, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Discharge</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Date of discharge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Earlier discharge where \r\n                                              additional payment made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Alteration of bankrupt''s \r\n                                              discharge date.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Certificate of discharge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Effect of discharge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Termination of Proceedings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. When proceedings come to an \r\n                                              end.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Order terminating proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;ADMINISTRATION OF \r\n                                              DEBTOR''S PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Assets passing to Official Trustee</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37.&nbsp; Vesting on making of \r\n                                              protection order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38.&nbsp; After-acquired property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39.&nbsp; Repayments by preferred \r\n                                              creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.&nbsp; Repayment of gifts, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41.&nbsp; Repayments by moneylenders.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42.&nbsp; Sums to be credited to \r\n                                              debtor''s official account.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General Functions of Official \r\n                                              Trustee</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43.&nbsp; Duty to protect assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44.&nbsp; Duty to realise assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              45.&nbsp; Duty to verify debts ranking \r\n                                              for dividend.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              46.&nbsp; Duty to amend admitted \r\n                                              proofs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              47.&nbsp; Duty to ascertain priority of \r\n                                              debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              48.&nbsp; Duty to consult creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              49.&nbsp; Enquiries by Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Assets Passing from Official \r\n                                              Trustee</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50.&nbsp; Cases where insolvency order \r\n                                              not made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              51.&nbsp; Disclaimer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              52.&nbsp; Fees and outgoings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              53.&nbsp; Return of personal effects to \r\n                                              debtor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              54.&nbsp; Dividends to creditors.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              55.&nbsp; Return of surplus assets to \r\n                                              debtor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56&nbsp;&nbsp; Payments to be made only out \r\n                                              of debtor''s property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;ARRANGEMENTS WITH \r\n                                              CREDITORS APART FROM INSOLVENCY \r\n                                              PROCEEDINGS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              57.&nbsp; Arrangements to which this \r\n                                              Part applies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              58.&nbsp; Arrangements Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              59.&nbsp; Arrangements voidable unless \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60.&nbsp; Setting aside of arrangement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              61.&nbsp; Arrangement not to count as \r\n                                              suspension of payments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;MODIFICATIONS IN SPECIAL \r\n                                              CASES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              62.&nbsp; Debtors not of full age and \r\n                                              capacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              63.&nbsp; Joint debtors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              64.&nbsp; Debtors who are trustees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              65.&nbsp; Participation in insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings by subsequent \r\n                                              creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212; ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES \r\n                                              OF DECEASED INSOLVENTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              66.&nbsp; Administration orders.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              67.&nbsp; Effect of administration \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              68.&nbsp; Creditors'' proof of debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              69.&nbsp; First meeting of creditors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              70. Duties of deceased''s \r\n                                              representative.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              71. Application of Part III of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              72. Order terminating \r\n                                              administration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              73. Death of debtor during \r\n                                              insolvency proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              74. Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              75. Evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              76. Rules.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              77. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              78. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule&#8212;Meetings of Creditors</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THIRD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE INSOLVENCY ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              protection of creditors and \r\n                                              debtors in cases of insolvency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 20th November, \r\n                                              1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Official Trustee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be an Official \r\n                                              Trustee, whose post shall be a \r\n                                              Civil Service post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any act required or authorised \r\n                                              to be done by or in relation to \r\n                                              the Official Trustee may instead \r\n                                              be done by or in relation to any \r\n                                              Civil Servant for the time being \r\n                                              authorised in that behalf either \r\n                                              by the Official Trustee or under \r\n                                              any enactment, and a Civil Servant \r\n                                              shall be presumed to be so \r\n                                              authorised unless the contrary is \r\n                                              shown.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) References to the Official \r\n                                              Trustee in any enactment shall be \r\n                                              taken to include all Civil \r\n                                              Servants authorised or presumed to \r\n                                              be authorised as aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where he considers it \r\n                                              necessary for the exercise of his \r\n                                              functions, the Official Trustee \r\n                                              may avail himself for appropriate \r\n                                              payment of the services of persons \r\n                                              who are not Civil Servants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Powers of Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person aggrieved by an act \r\n                                              done by the Official Trustee in \r\n                                              the exercise of his functions \r\n                                              under this Act may appeal to the \r\n                                              Court, which shall make such order \r\n                                              as it thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If any person refuses or fails \r\n                                              to comply with a requirement made \r\n                                              by the Official Trustee under this \r\n                                              Act, the Official Trustee may \r\n                                              apply to the Court, and the Court \r\n                                              may order the requirement to be \r\n                                              carried out.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If the Official Trustee is in \r\n                                              doubt as to any matter arising in \r\n                                              connection with his functions \r\n                                              under this Act he may apply to the \r\n                                              Court for directions. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Insolvent Estates Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a public fund \r\n                                              to be known as the Insolvent \r\n                                              Estates Fund, to which shall be \r\n                                              credited all sums received by the \r\n                                              Official Trustee under this Act \r\n                                              and to which shall be debited all \r\n                                              sums disbursed by him thereunder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) There shall be an account \r\n                                              within the Insolvent Estates Fund \r\n                                              to which shall be credited all \r\n                                              sums received by the Official \r\n                                              Trustee by way of fees and other \r\n                                              charges, in this Act referred to \r\n                                              as the Fees Account.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All payments required or \r\n                                              authorised by this Act to be met \r\n                                              out of the Insolvent Estates Fund \r\n                                              are hereby charged on that Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Insolvency Register.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Official Trustee shall \r\n                                              make and keep a register, to be \r\n                                              known as the Insolvency Register, \r\n                                              in which as respects every debtor \r\n                                              in relation to whom a protection \r\n                                              order is made, the&nbsp; following \r\n                                              information shall be recorded as \r\n                                              it becomes available, that is to \r\n                                              say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the name and address of the \r\n                                              debtor, any previous names of the \r\n                                              debtor, and any change in the \r\n                                              debtor''s name or address which is \r\n                                              notified to the Official Trustee;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the date of the making of the \r\n                                              protection order;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the date on which the \r\n                                              protection order ceases to have \r\n                                              effect, and the reason for its \r\n                                              ceasing to have effect;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) if an insolvency order is \r\n                                              made, the date of the making of \r\n                                              the order, the date on which the \r\n                                              debtor is discharged and the date \r\n                                              on which the insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings are terminated;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) if the debtor is adjudged \r\n                                              bankrupt, the date of the \r\n                                              adjudication, the appointed \r\n                                              discharge date, and any alteration \r\n                                              in that date;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) if a participation order is \r\n                                              made, the date of the making of \r\n                                              the order and, if the debtor''s \r\n                                              discharge is revoked by virtue of \r\n                                              the order, a statement to that \r\n                                              effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an administration order \r\n                                              is made in respect of a deceased \r\n                                              debtor, the following information \r\n                                              shall be recorded in the \r\n                                              Insolvency Register as it becomes \r\n                                              available, that is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the name and the last address \r\n                                              of the debtor, and any previous \r\n                                              names of the debtor;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the date of the making of the \r\n                                              administration order; and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the date of the termination of \r\n                                              the administration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Insolvency Register shall \r\n                                              at all reasonable times be open \r\n                                              for public inspection on payment \r\n                                              of such fee, if any, as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Official Trustee shall, on \r\n                                              application being made by any \r\n                                              person in the prescribed form, and \r\n                                              on payment of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              provide copies of any entry in the \r\n                                              Insolvency Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Notices in Gazette.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever any information \r\n                                              requires to be recorded in the \r\n                                              Insolvency Register, the Official \r\n                                              Trustee, in addition to recording \r\n                                              the information in the Register, \r\n                                              shall also cause it to be \r\n                                              published in the Gazette within \r\n                                              fourteen days after it becomes \r\n                                              available to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) As soon as may be after the \r\n                                              end of each June and December, the \r\n                                              Official Trustee shall cause a \r\n                                              notice to be published in the \r\n                                              Gazette giving the names, \r\n                                              including former names, and \r\n                                              addresses of all bankrupts, \r\n                                              together with the dates on which \r\n                                              they were adjudged bankrupt and \r\n                                              their appointed discharge dates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Liability for Default.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No liability shall attach to \r\n                                              the Official Trustee in respect of \r\n                                              any breach of a duty imposed on \r\n                                              him by or under this Act, and \r\n                                              except in so far as may result \r\n                                              from an order made under \r\n                                              subsection (3) of section 42 of \r\n                                              this Act, no liability shall \r\n                                              attach to the Republic in respect \r\n                                              of any such breach.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              affect the institution against a \r\n                                              Civil Servant of any criminal \r\n                                              proceedings or of disciplinary \r\n                                              proceedings under the Civil \r\n                                              Service Act, 1960 (C.A. 5).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As soon as may be after the end of \r\n                                              each December, the Official \r\n                                              Trustee shall prepare a report \r\n                                              giving details of the operation of \r\n                                              this Act during the previous year, \r\n                                              and the report shall be laid \r\n                                              before the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Petitions</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Commencement of \r\n                                              Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Insolvency proceedings in \r\n                                              respect of a debtor shall be \r\n                                              initiated by the presentation of a \r\n                                              petition to the Official Trustee \r\n                                              in the prescribed manner, and \r\n                                              accompanied by the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              for the making by him of an \r\n                                              interim order, to be known as a \r\n                                              protection order, enabling the \r\n                                              debtor''s assets to be conserved \r\n                                              for the protection of his \r\n                                              creditors until his affairs have \r\n                                              been considered by the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; A petition shall not be \r\n                                              presented in respect of a body \r\n                                              corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A petition shall not be \r\n                                              presented in respect of two or \r\n                                              more debtors except where debts \r\n                                              are owed by those debtors jointly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a petition has been \r\n                                              presented, the Court may, on&nbsp; an \r\n                                              application being made by the \r\n                                              Official Trustee, restrain the \r\n                                              institution or continuance of any \r\n                                              civil proceedings by or against \r\n                                              the debtor other than proceedings \r\n                                              by a secured creditor for the \r\n                                              realisation of his security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A petition may be withdrawn or \r\n                                              amended, with the consent in \r\n                                              writing of the Official Trustee, \r\n                                              at any time before a protection \r\n                                              order is made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Creditor''s Petition.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A petition may be presented in \r\n                                              respect of a debtor by any one or \r\n                                              more of his creditors if his \r\n                                              indebtedness to the petitioner, \r\n                                              or, as the case may be, the \r\n                                              petitioners collectively, in \r\n                                              liquidated sums payable \r\n                                              immediately amounts to at least \r\n                                              five hundred pounds and if,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the debtor has, within the \r\n                                              preceding three months, given \r\n                                              notice to any of his creditors \r\n                                              that he has suspended, or is about \r\n                                              to suspend, payment of his debts;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the sheriff has, within the \r\n                                              preceding three months, and in \r\n                                              pursuance of a writ of fieri \r\n                                              facias issued in Ghana in respect \r\n                                              of the debtor, taken possession of \r\n                                              any of the debtor''s property and \r\n                                              either sold the property or \r\n                                              retained it for at least \r\n                                              twenty-one days; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any of the debtor''s creditors \r\n                                              is entitled to proceed with the \r\n                                              execution, by means of a writ of \r\n                                              fieri facias issued or issuable in \r\n                                              Ghana, of a judgment or order \r\n                                              obtained against the debtor not \r\n                                              less than seven days previously.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Where any of the petitioners \r\n                                              is a secured creditor,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the value and description of \r\n                                              the security shall be specified in \r\n                                              the petition; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) for the purpose of applying \r\n                                              the five hundred pounds limit \r\n                                              under the preceding subsection the \r\n                                              amount of the secured debt shall \r\n                                              be reduced by the value of the \r\n                                              security as so specified.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Debtor''s Petition.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A petition may be presented by \r\n                                              a debtor in respect of his own \r\n                                              affairs if the debtor is insolvent \r\n                                              and his indebtedness in liquidated \r\n                                              sums payable immediately amounts \r\n                                              to at least five hundred pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If any of his said \r\n                                              indebtedness is to a secured \r\n                                              creditor then, unless the total of \r\n                                              unsecured debts amounts to at \r\n                                              least five hundred pounds in \r\n                                              liquidated sums payable \r\n                                              immediately, the debtor shall \r\n                                              specify the value and description \r\n                                              of the security in his petition \r\n                                              and, for the purpose of applying \r\n                                              the five hundred pounds limit \r\n                                              under the preceding subsection, \r\n                                              the amount of the secured debt \r\n                                              shall be reduced by the value of \r\n                                              the security as so specified.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Procedure on Petitions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A copy of a creditor''s \r\n                                              petition shall be served on the \r\n                                              debtor by the petitioner on or \r\n                                              before the day on which it is \r\n                                              presented.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) After seven days have elapsed \r\n                                              following the presentation of a \r\n                                              petition, the Official Trustee \r\n                                              shall consider the petition and \r\n                                              evidence in support thereof, \r\n                                              together, in the case of a \r\n                                              creditor''s petition, with any \r\n                                              representations made by the debtor \r\n                                              and evidence in support thereof; \r\n                                              and if the petition is not \r\n                                              withdrawn and the Official Trustee \r\n                                              considers that it was duly \r\n                                              presented he shall make a \r\n                                              protection order thereon:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that he shall not make a \r\n                                              protection order if it appears to \r\n                                              him that, owing to payments by the \r\n                                              debtor or other change of \r\n                                              circumstances, the debtor''s total \r\n                                              indebtedness in liquidated sums \r\n                                              payable immediately, including \r\n                                              indebtedness to persons who are \r\n                                              not parties to the petition, has, \r\n                                              after deduction of the value of \r\n                                              securities held in respect \r\n                                              thereof, fallen below five hundred \r\n                                              pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the Official Trustee is \r\n                                              of opinion that a petition was not \r\n                                              duly presented or that the \r\n                                              indebtedness of the debtor has \r\n                                              been reduced as aforesaid he \r\n                                              shall, if the petition has not \r\n                                              been withdrawn, give notice to the \r\n                                              petitioner and, in the case of a \r\n                                              creditor''s petition, to the debtor \r\n                                              that the petition is dismissed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where two or more petitions \r\n                                              are presented in respect of a \r\n                                              debtor a protection order made on \r\n                                              any of the petitions shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have been made on all of \r\n                                              them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) After a protection order has \r\n                                              been made no further petition \r\n                                              shall be presented in respect of \r\n                                              the debtor before the termination \r\n                                              of the insolvency proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Protection Orders</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Effect of Protection \r\n                                              Order.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              While a protection order has \r\n                                              effect,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) existing and after-acquired \r\n                                              property of the debtor shall vest \r\n                                              in the Official Trustee in \r\n                                              accordance with sections 37 and 38 \r\n                                              of this Act and shall be conserved \r\n                                              by him in accordance with section \r\n                                              43 thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the debtor shall be subject \r\n                                              to the duties and disabilities \r\n                                              specified in sections 25, 26, 28 \r\n                                              and 29 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; no civil proceedings by or \r\n                                              against the debtor shall be \r\n                                              instituted or continued without \r\n                                              the leave of the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Debtor''s Statement of \r\n                                              Affairs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Within seven days after the \r\n                                              making of a protection order, or \r\n                                              such longer period as the Official \r\n                                              Trustee may allow, the debtor \r\n                                              shall lodge with the Official \r\n                                              Trustee a statement of his affairs \r\n                                              conforming to the following \r\n                                              subsection, unless such a \r\n                                              statement has been lodged \r\n                                              previously.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The statement of affairs \r\n                                              shall contain,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) particulars of the debtor''s \r\n                                              existing and potential assets and \r\n                                              of all other property in his \r\n                                              possession or control;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a list of creditors, showing \r\n                                              the amounts and due dates of debts \r\n                                              and particulars of securities \r\n                                              held;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) particulars of the debtor''s \r\n                                              transactions during such period as \r\n                                              the Official Trustee may specify;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; a statement of the reasons \r\n                                              for the debtor''s insolvency, \r\n                                              unless he denies that he is \r\n                                              insolvent,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              together with such additional \r\n                                              information as may be required by \r\n                                              rules or by the Official Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Debtor''s Proposal for \r\n                                              Arrangement with Creditors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Within seven days after the making \r\n                                              of a protection order, or such \r\n                                              longer period as the Official \r\n                                              Trustee may allow, the debtor, if \r\n                                              he wishes to make a proposal for \r\n                                              an arrangement with creditors, may \r\n                                              lodge details of the proposal with \r\n                                              the Official Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Creditors'' Proof of \r\n                                              Debts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In this Act &quot;provable debt&quot; \r\n                                              means an obligation the value of \r\n                                              which is capable of assessment in \r\n                                              money, being,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any obligation which, apart \r\n                                              from this Act, would have been \r\n                                              enforceable by the creditor \r\n                                              against the debtor at the date on \r\n                                              which the protection order was \r\n                                              made, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any existing or future \r\n                                              obligation, other than an \r\n                                              obligation unenforceable by virtue \r\n                                              of the law relating to limitation \r\n                                              of actions, which, by reason of \r\n                                              some transaction which took place \r\n                                              before the said date, might, apart \r\n                                              from this Act, have become \r\n                                              enforceable by the creditor \r\n                                              against the debtor after that \r\n                                              date,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and references in this Act to the \r\n                                              value of a provable debt shall be \r\n                                              references to its value apart from \r\n                                              this Act on the said date.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At any time while a protection \r\n                                              order has effect any creditor may \r\n                                              lodge with the Official Trustee a \r\n                                              statement, to be known as a proof \r\n                                              of debts, in accordance with the \r\n                                              following subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; A proof of debts shall be in \r\n                                              two parts, the first part \r\n                                              containing brief particulars of,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the values and due dates of \r\n                                              provable debts alleged by the \r\n                                              creditor to be outstanding in his \r\n                                              favour against the debtor and the \r\n                                              nature and value of any securities \r\n                                              held by the creditor in respect of \r\n                                              such debts;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the values and due dates of \r\n                                              any obligations outstanding in the \r\n                                              debtor''s favour against the \r\n                                              creditor, being obligations which \r\n                                              would be provable debts if a \r\n                                              protection order had been made \r\n                                              against the creditor on the date \r\n                                              on which the protection order was \r\n                                              made against the debtor;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the nature and value of \r\n                                              securities of any description held \r\n                                              by the debtor in respect of such \r\n                                              obligations as are mentioned in \r\n                                              the preceding paragraph;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the total values of the \r\n                                              aforesaid debts, obligations and \r\n                                              securities, and the second part \r\n                                              containing details of the \r\n                                              transactions from which the said \r\n                                              debts and obligations arose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A copy of the first part of \r\n                                              any proof lodged under this \r\n                                              section shall be given by the \r\n                                              Official Trustee to the debtor and \r\n                                              to each creditor who is mentioned \r\n                                              in the debtor''s statement of \r\n                                              affairs or who, not being so \r\n                                              mentioned, himself lodges a proof; \r\n                                              and if the debtor knows or \r\n                                              believes that the proof is false \r\n                                              in any material particular it \r\n                                              shall be his duty to inform the \r\n                                              Official Trustee thereof as soon \r\n                                              as is practicable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Official Trustee shall \r\n                                              examine every proof of debts \r\n                                              lodged with him and if, after \r\n                                              considering any representations \r\n                                              made by the debtor or any other \r\n                                              creditor, it appears to him that \r\n                                              any item is improperly included or \r\n                                              any value incorrectly stated or \r\n                                              that the proof is otherwise \r\n                                              incorrect, he shall give notice of \r\n                                              the objection to the creditor, who \r\n                                              may lodge an amended proof within \r\n                                              the period specified in the notice \r\n                                              or such extended period as the \r\n                                              Official Trustee may allow.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) If it does not appear to the \r\n                                              Official Trustee that a proof is \r\n                                              incorrect he shall give notice to \r\n                                              the creditor that he admits the \r\n                                              proof subject to verification \r\n                                              under section 45 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) If the creditor fails to lodge \r\n                                              an amended proof or a further \r\n                                              amended proof, as the case may be, \r\n                                              within the period allowed under \r\n                                              subsection (5) of this section and \r\n                                              the Official Trustee is still of \r\n                                              opinion that the previous proof is \r\n                                              incorrect he shall give notice to \r\n                                              the creditor that he rejects the \r\n                                              proof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;First Meeting of \r\n                                              Creditors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Official Trustee shall \r\n                                              call a first meeting of creditors \r\n                                              for a date not later than four \r\n                                              weeks after the publication of a \r\n                                              protection order, and shall give \r\n                                              such notice of the meeting as may \r\n                                              be practicable to each creditor \r\n                                              who is mentioned in the debtor''s \r\n                                              statement of affairs or who, not \r\n                                              being so mentioned, has lodged a \r\n                                              proof of debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) So far in advance as may be \r\n                                              practicable, the Official Trustee \r\n                                              shall give to every such creditor \r\n                                              a copy of the debtor''s statement \r\n                                              of affairs and of any proposal for \r\n                                              an arrangement with creditors \r\n                                              lodged by him, together with any \r\n                                              observations thereon that the \r\n                                              Official Trustee may wish to make.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Official Trustee shall put \r\n                                              to the meeting such questions as \r\n                                              he considers appropriate:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the debtor has \r\n                                              proposed an arrangement with \r\n                                              creditors, the meeting shall be \r\n                                              asked to approve or reject the \r\n                                              proposal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) An arrangement with creditors \r\n                                              shall not be taken to be approved \r\n                                              unless it has secured at least \r\n                                              three-quarters of the votes cast.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The meeting shall be closed \r\n                                              not later than six weeks after the \r\n                                              publication of the protection \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6)&nbsp; The Schedule to this Act \r\n                                              shall apply in relation to the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Judicial Consideration</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Application to Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Within fourteen days after the \r\n                                              closing of the first meeting of \r\n                                              creditors, the Official Trustee \r\n                                              shall make an application to the \r\n                                              Court, in this Act referred to as \r\n                                              an application for judicial \r\n                                              consideration, to enable the Court \r\n                                              to consider the debtor''s affairs \r\n                                              and give its decision as to the \r\n                                              future course of the insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On an application for judicial \r\n                                              consideration the Court&nbsp; may make \r\n                                              one or other of the following \r\n                                              orders, namely,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) an insolvency order;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) an order confirming an \r\n                                              arrangement with creditors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) an order rescinding the \r\n                                              protection order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On the making of any such \r\n                                              order the protection order shall \r\n                                              cease to have effect, so however \r\n                                              that the debtor''s assets shall \r\n                                              remain vested in the Official \r\n                                              Trustee except as otherwise \r\n                                              provided by section 50 of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Hearing of Application.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) At the hearing of an \r\n                                              application for judicial \r\n                                              consideration the debtor and any \r\n                                              creditor who has lodged a proof of \r\n                                              debts may appear and be heard \r\n                                              either in person or by counsel, \r\n                                              and the Official Trustee shall \r\n                                              submit to the Court a report on \r\n                                              the circumstances of the case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The Official Trustee''s report \r\n                                              shall include a statement of,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the grounds on which the \r\n                                              protection order was made ;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the assets of the debtor which \r\n                                              have become vested&nbsp; in the \r\n                                              Official Trustee;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the liabilities of the \r\n                                              debtor;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the conduct of the debtor \r\n                                              before and since the presentation \r\n                                              of the petition; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) any decisions taken at the \r\n                                              first meeting of creditors, \r\n                                              together with any other \r\n                                              information which may assist the \r\n                                              Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Official Trustee and any \r\n                                              other person entitled to appear \r\n                                              may, with the leave of the Court, \r\n                                              adduce oral or written evidence \r\n                                              and cross-examine any witness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Official Trustee to give whatever \r\n                                              assistance the Court may require \r\n                                              to enable it to reach a \r\n                                              conclusion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Insolvency Order.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Court shall make an \r\n                                              insolvency order in every case in \r\n                                              which it does not, under either of \r\n                                              the two following sections, \r\n                                              confirm an arrangement with \r\n                                              creditors or rescind the \r\n                                              protection order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an insolvency order is \r\n                                              made the Official Trustee shall \r\n                                              proceed to realise and distribute \r\n                                              the debtor''s assets in accordance \r\n                                              with Part III of this Act, and \r\n                                              while the order has effect,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the debtor shall be subject to \r\n                                              the duties and disabilities \r\n                                              specified in sections 25 to 29 of \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; no civil proceedings by or \r\n                                              against the debtor shall be \r\n                                              instituted or continued without \r\n                                              the leave of the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Confirmation of \r\n                                              Arrangement with Creditors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an arrangement with \r\n                                              creditors was approved by the \r\n                                              first meeting of creditors and it \r\n                                              does not appear that grounds for \r\n                                              bankruptcy exist or that it is \r\n                                              likely that they exist, the Court \r\n                                              shall make an order confirming the \r\n                                              arrangement if,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) its terms are fair and \r\n                                              reasonable;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) it provides for an order of \r\n                                              priority of payments corresponding \r\n                                              to that laid down by section 54 of \r\n                                              this Act; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) it provides for payment in \r\n                                              full of any fees and outgoings due \r\n                                              to the Official Trustee in respect \r\n                                              of the insolvency proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the conditions specified in \r\n                                              paragraphs (a) to (c) of the \r\n                                              preceding subsection are not \r\n                                              satisfied the Court may adjourn \r\n                                              the hearing of the application for \r\n                                              judicial consideration and direct \r\n                                              the first meeting of creditors to \r\n                                              be reopened with a view to the \r\n                                              submission by the debtor of \r\n                                              proposals for a modified \r\n                                              arrangement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On confirmation by the Court \r\n                                              an arrangement with creditors \r\n                                              shall, in respect of every \r\n                                              provable debt owed by the debtor, \r\n                                              become binding on the debtor and \r\n                                              on each creditor who was entitled \r\n                                              to lodge a proof, whether or not \r\n                                              that creditor voted in favour of \r\n                                              the arrangement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Official Trustee to supervise the \r\n                                              carrying into effect of an \r\n                                              arrangement with creditors \r\n                                              confirmed by the Court; and the \r\n                                              Court may, on the application of \r\n                                              the Official Trustee or any person \r\n                                              interested, from time to time give \r\n                                              such directions as may be \r\n                                              expedient for carrying it into \r\n                                              effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) If it appears to the Court, on \r\n                                              the application of the Official \r\n                                              Trustee or any person interested,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that default has been made in \r\n                                              carrying into effect an \r\n                                              arrangement with creditors \r\n                                              confirmed by the Court, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that for any reason it is \r\n                                              impracticable or would be unjust \r\n                                              to proceed with the arrangement, \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) that confirmation of the \r\n                                              arrangement was procured by fraud,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Court may annul the \r\n                                              arrangement but without prejudice \r\n                                              to anything previously done \r\n                                              thereunder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where an arrangement is \r\n                                              annulled the Court may make a \r\n                                              protection order against the \r\n                                              debtor, and this Act shall \r\n                                              thereafter apply as if the \r\n                                              protection order had been then \r\n                                              made on a creditor''s petition by \r\n                                              the Official Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Rescission of \r\n                                              Protection Order.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Court shall rescind the \r\n                                              protection order if it appears,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that having regard to any new \r\n                                              evidence and to the circumstances \r\n                                              generally, the order should not \r\n                                              have been made; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that owing to payments made on \r\n                                              behalf of the debtor or other \r\n                                              change of circumstances, payment \r\n                                              in full has been achieved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the Official Trustee \r\n                                              informs the Court that the assets \r\n                                              vested in him in respect of the \r\n                                              debtor are likely to be sufficient \r\n                                              to provide for payment in full, \r\n                                              the Court may adjourn&nbsp; the hearing \r\n                                              of the application for judicial \r\n                                              consideration and authorise the \r\n                                              Official Trustee to realise and \r\n                                              distribute the assets in the same \r\n                                              manner as if an insolvency order \r\n                                              had been made. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the hearing has been \r\n                                              adjourned under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection the Official Trustee \r\n                                              shall apply to the Court for the \r\n                                              hearing to be resumed,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) when payment in full has been \r\n                                              achieved; or&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if at any time it appears to \r\n                                              him that the assets are after all \r\n                                              insufficient to provide for \r\n                                              payment&nbsp; in full,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and where it is satisfied that \r\n                                              payment in full has been achieved \r\n                                              the Court shall rescind the \r\n                                              protection order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Bankruptcy.</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Public Examination of \r\n                                              Debtor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If, at any time when an \r\n                                              insolvency order is made, or on an \r\n                                              application made by the Official \r\n                                              Trustee at any subsequent time \r\n                                              before the debtor''s discharge from \r\n                                              the insolvency order, it appears \r\n                                              to the Court that grounds for \r\n                                              bankruptcy exist or that it is \r\n                                              likely that they exist, the Court \r\n                                              shall direct the debtor to undergo \r\n                                              an examination as to his conduct \r\n                                              and affairs at a public sitting of \r\n                                              the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to section 8 of the \r\n                                              Oaths Act, 1960 (C.A. 12) (by \r\n                                              which a person is permitted to \r\n                                              give evidence on affirmation in \r\n                                              certain cases) the debtor shall be \r\n                                              examined on oath and shall answer \r\n                                              all questions put to him by the \r\n                                              Court or allowed by the Court to \r\n                                              be put to him by or on behalf of \r\n                                              the Official Trustee or any \r\n                                              creditor who has lodged a proof of \r\n                                              debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A transcript of the \r\n                                              examination shall be made and read \r\n                                              to or by the debtor and signed by \r\n                                              him; and the signed transcript may \r\n                                              be used as evidence in any \r\n                                              subsequent civil or criminal \r\n                                              proceedings affecting the debtor, \r\n                                              whether instituted under this Act \r\n                                              or not.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Adjudication of \r\n                                              Bankruptcy.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a public examination has \r\n                                              been held under the preceding \r\n                                              section, the Court shall make an \r\n                                              order adjudging the debtor a \r\n                                              bankrupt if one or more of the \r\n                                              following have been established, \r\n                                              namely,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that for a consecutive period \r\n                                              of twelve months within the three \r\n                                              years preceding the making of the \r\n                                              protection order, the debtor \r\n                                              continued to carry on his trade or \r\n                                              business in the knowledge that he \r\n                                              was insolvent;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that the debtor contributed to \r\n                                              his insolvency by rash \r\n                                              speculations or culpable neglect \r\n                                              of his business affairs, or by \r\n                                              gambling or unjustifiable \r\n                                              extravagance;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) that a provable debt was \r\n                                              contracted by the debtor with the \r\n                                              intention that it should not be \r\n                                              met or without a reasonable \r\n                                              expectation of being able to meet \r\n                                              it;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) that the debtor has failed to \r\n                                              account satisfactorily for assets \r\n                                              of his which have disappeared \r\n                                              since the date of the making of \r\n                                              the protection order or during the \r\n                                              year previous to that date;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) that the debtor has \r\n                                              persistently and without adequate \r\n                                              excuse failed to carry out his \r\n                                              duties in the insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) that the debtor is a former \r\n                                              bankrupt;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) that within the preceding \r\n                                              three years the debtor has been \r\n                                              convicted of an offence involving \r\n                                              dishonesty in relation to property \r\n                                              and has been sentenced to \r\n                                              imprisonment for three months or \r\n                                              more,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) that within the preceding \r\n                                              three years the debtor has been \r\n                                              convicted of an offence under \r\n                                              section 7 or 8 of the Registration \r\n                                              of Business Names Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              151).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The order shall specify a date \r\n                                              for the discharge of the bankrupt, \r\n                                              being a date at least two years \r\n                                              after the making of the order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the Court has directed \r\n                                              the debtor to undergo a public \r\n                                              examination under the preceding \r\n                                              section but the examination cannot \r\n                                              be held because the debtor has \r\n                                              absconded, or is medically unfit \r\n                                              to appear, or for any other \r\n                                              reason, the Court may proceed \r\n                                              under this section as if the \r\n                                              examination had been held.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Additional Duties and \r\n                                              Disabilities of Bankrupt.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In addition to the duties and \r\n                                              disabilities imposed on a bankrupt \r\n                                              by virtue of an insolvency order \r\n                                              having been made against him, he \r\n                                              shall be subject to the provisions \r\n                                              of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A bankrupt shall not,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) carry on, or take part in the \r\n                                              management or direction of, any \r\n                                              trade or business;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) operate an account with a \r\n                                              bank, building society or similar \r\n                                              institution;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) obtain credit exceeding ten \r\n                                              pounds; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) enter into any hire-purchase \r\n                                              agreement,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              except with the consent in writing \r\n                                              of the Official Trustee and in \r\n                                              accordance with such directions as \r\n                                              may from time to time be given to \r\n                                              him by the Official Trustee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-fam