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(111, 'GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 (ACT 324)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1294" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 \r\n                                              (ACT 324)</span></b></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. Establishment of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Membership of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Functions of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Terms of membership</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Meetings of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Staff</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Funds of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Accounts and audit</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Remuneration</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Power to make legislative \r\n                                              instrument</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Interpretation.</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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              TWENTY-FOURTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\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 GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, \r\n                                              1970</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish and \r\n                                              incorporate the Grains Development \r\n                                              Board, to provide for its \r\n                                              functions and maintenance and to \r\n                                              provide for connected or \r\n                                              incidental matters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT : 17th April, 1970</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 Presidential \r\n                                              Commission and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as 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;Establishment of the \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate which shall be \r\n                                              known as the Grains Development \r\n                                              Board (hereinafter referred to as \r\n                                              the &quot;Board&quot;).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall have perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal, and \r\n                                              may sue and be sued in its \r\n                                              corporate name.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board shall have power, \r\n                                              for the discharge of any of its \r\n                                              functions, to acquire and hold any \r\n                                              property and to dispose of such \r\n                                              property and to enter into any \r\n                                              contract or other transactions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where there is any hindrance \r\n                                              to the acquisition of any property \r\n                                              under subsection (3) of this \r\n                                              section, the property may be \r\n                                              acquired for the Board under the \r\n                                              State Property and Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (C.A. 6) or as the case may \r\n                                              be, under the State Lands Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 125) and each such Act \r\n                                              shall, as the case may be, apply \r\n                                              with respect to any such \r\n                                              acquisition with such modification \r\n                                              as may be necessary to provide for \r\n                                              the vesting of the property \r\n                                              acquired thereunder in the Board \r\n                                              and for the cost of such \r\n                                              acquisition to be defrayed by the \r\n                                              Board.</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;Membership of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall consist of&#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 Chairman;</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 person appointed Executive \r\n                                              Secretary under section 6 of 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                                              (c) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Agriculture;</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) four other members to be \r\n                                              appointed from among farming, \r\n                                              business, financial, consumer and \r\n                                              other interests whose \r\n                                              representation on the Board may be \r\n                                              found necessary by the Board; 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) two other members to be \r\n                                              appointed from farmers'' \r\n                                              associations organised in \r\n                                              accordance with subsection (1)(b) \r\n                                              of section 3 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All members of the Board \r\n                                              including the Chairman shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              on the advice of the Prime \r\n                                              Minister.</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;Functions of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The functions of the Board \r\n                                              shall be&#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) to undertake the \r\n                                              multiplication of improved seeds \r\n                                              and their supply to farmers;</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 organise grain and legume \r\n                                              farmers and farmers'' associations \r\n                                              through which credit and \r\n                                              production requisites can be \r\n                                              channelled to the producers, and \r\n                                              to assist the farmers'' \r\n                                              associations to market their \r\n                                              produce until such time as they \r\n                                              can manage most of the services \r\n                                              themselves;</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 creation of marketing \r\n                                              facilities for grain and legumes \r\n                                              crops;</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) to collect statistical data on \r\n                                              grains and legumes for the purpose \r\n                                              of planning the production of \r\n                                              these crops to meet local demands \r\n                                              and for export; 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) to co-ordinate and assist \r\n                                              research into problems of grains \r\n                                              and legumes and the organisation \r\n                                              of extension work on them.</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                                              general effect of subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Board shall \r\n                                              have power to carry out the \r\n                                              following activities:&#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) to develop lands suitable for \r\n                                              large scale production of grain \r\n                                              and legume crops, and give them \r\n                                              out in viable farm units to \r\n                                              farmers on such conditions of \r\n                                              tenure that will help the Board to \r\n                                              achieve its objects and assure the \r\n                                              farmers of security of tenure; 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 mobilise funds from local \r\n                                              and foreign sources for the \r\n                                              purpose of running &quot;small credit&quot; \r\n                                              schemes for the farmers'' \r\n                                              associations that produce grains \r\n                                              and legumes.</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;Terms of Membership.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chairman and members of \r\n                                              the Board shall hold office for \r\n                                              three years and shall be eligible \r\n                                              for re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member, including the \r\n                                              Chairman may resign his&nbsp; \r\n                                              membership of the Board by notice \r\n                                              in writing addressed to the \r\n                                              President through the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A member, including the \r\n                                              Chairman may be removed from \r\n                                              membership of the Board only when \r\n                                              he&#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) becomes a person 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) is absent from three \r\n                                              consecutive meetings of the Board \r\n                                              without permission;</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) is proved guilty of serious \r\n                                              misconduct in relation to his \r\n                                              duties as Chairman or member of \r\n                                              the Board;</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) is sentenced to death or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term exceeding \r\n                                              12 months without the option of a \r\n                                              fine or is convicted of an offence \r\n                                              involving dishonesty;</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) is declared insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt under any law in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country; 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                                              (f) (if he were a person possessed \r\n                                              of professional qualifications) is \r\n                                              disqualified or suspended, \r\n                                              otherwise than at his own request, \r\n                                              from practising his profession in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country by \r\n                                              order of any competent authority \r\n                                              made in respect of him personally.</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;Meetings of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such times and places as the \r\n                                              Chairman may decide but shall meet \r\n                                              at least once in every month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman may, and shall on \r\n                                              request in writing of not less \r\n                                              than five members of the Board, \r\n                                              call an extraordinary meeting of \r\n                                              the Board at such time and place \r\n                                              as he may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman if present, shall \r\n                                              preside at every meeting of the \r\n                                              Board, and in his absence any \r\n                                              member of the Board designated by \r\n                                              the Chairman shall preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If no member of the Board is \r\n                                              so designated the members of the \r\n                                              Board present shall elect one of \r\n                                              their number to preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The quorum at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to other provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, all questions proposed \r\n                                              at a meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              the members present and voting and \r\n                                              where the votes are equal the \r\n                                              Chairman or the person presiding \r\n                                              shall have a second or casting \r\n                                              vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The Board may, and shall, if \r\n                                              the Minister thinks fit, request \r\n                                              the attendance of any person to \r\n                                              act as adviser at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board and that person while so \r\n                                              attending shall have all the \r\n                                              powers of a member except that he \r\n                                              is not to vote on any question and \r\n                                              his presence at the meeting is not \r\n                                              to count towards the constitution \r\n                                              of a quorum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The validity of any act or \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \r\n                                              its members or any defect in the \r\n                                              appointment of a member thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) Subject to the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this section the \r\n                                              Board may regulate its own \r\n                                              procedure.</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;Staff.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may, subject to such \r\n                                              limitation as to number as may be \r\n                                              imposed on it by the Minister, \r\n                                              appoint and employ such officers \r\n                                              and staff including the Executive \r\n                                              Secretary as it may think \r\n                                              necessary for the proper discharge \r\n                                              of its functions under this Act \r\n                                              and there shall be paid to such \r\n                                              officers and staff such salaries \r\n                                              or remuneration as the Minister \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance, \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Public officers with suitable \r\n                                              qualifications may be transferred \r\n                                              or seconded to the Board upon such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister, determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board may also engage the \r\n                                              services of such consultants, \r\n                                              advisers and other persons and \r\n                                              upon such conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister determine.</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;Funds of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              include&#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) any grants received from the \r\n                                              Government by the Board for the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions;</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 loans granted to the Board \r\n                                              by the Government or any other \r\n                                              body or person;</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 money accruing to the \r\n                                              Board in the course of the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \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                                              (d) any gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All moneys received by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the Board shall be \r\n                                              deposited to the credit of the \r\n                                              Board in a bank approved by the \r\n                                              Board.</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;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of accounts and prepare \r\n                                              proper records in relation thereto \r\n                                              all of which shall be in such form \r\n                                              as the Auditor-General may \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall submit to the \r\n                                              Minister such report of the \r\n                                              Board''s financial affairs as the \r\n                                              Minister may at any time require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Board shall be submitted to the \r\n                                              Auditor-General within three \r\n                                              months after the end of every \r\n                                              financial year and the \r\n                                              Auditor-General shall cause them \r\n                                              to be audited as required by \r\n                                              article 135 of the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Auditor-General may make \r\n                                              to the Board or to the Minister \r\n                                              such reports as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may consider \r\n                                              necessary.</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;Remuneration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No remuneration shall be paid to a \r\n                                              member of the Board by reason of \r\n                                              his membership of the Board, but a \r\n                                              member shall be reimbursed for \r\n                                              travelling, transport and \r\n                                              subsistence expenses approved by \r\n                                              the Board and incurred by him in \r\n                                              attending a meeting of the Board \r\n                                              or an authorised conference abroad \r\n                                              on behalf of the Board.</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;Power to make \r\n                                              Legislative Instrument.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make such provision not \r\n                                              inconsistent with this Act, as \r\n                                              appears to him to be necessary to \r\n                                              give effect to the provisions and \r\n                                              principles of this Act and may \r\n                                              include in any such instrument \r\n                                              provisions relating to any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              functions of the Board.</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;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&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for&nbsp; Agriculture.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Financial year&quot; means the \r\n                                              financial year of the Government.</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></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', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 324');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(112, 'HOSPITAL FEES ACT, 1971 (ACT 387)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1298" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial">HOSPITAL \r\n                                              FEES ACT, 1971 (ACT 387)</font></b></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">&nbsp;1. Hospital \r\n                                              Fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;2. General \r\n                                              exemptions from hospital fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;3. Exemptions \r\n                                              for particular services</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;4. Exemptions \r\n                                              for particular classes of persons</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;5. Increased \r\n                                              fees payable in certain cases</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;6. Persons \r\n                                              liable to pay fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;7. Manner of \r\n                                              payment of fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;8. Recovery of \r\n                                              fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;9. Evidence</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">10. False \r\n                                              representations</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">11. Regulations</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">12. \r\n                                              Interpretation</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">13. Repeals</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">14. \r\n                                              Commencement.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial">THE THREE \r\n                                              HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVENTH</font></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial">ACT OF THE \r\n                                              PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF \r\n                                              GHANA</font></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ENTITLED</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">THE HOSPITAL \r\n                                              FEES ACT,&nbsp; 1971</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">AN ACT&nbsp; to \r\n                                              regulate the fees payable in \r\n                                              respect of hospital services, and \r\n                                              for matters connected therewith.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">DATE OF ASSENT: \r\n                                              6th October, 1971</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">BE IT ENACTED&nbsp; \r\n                                              by the President and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              1&#8212;Hospital Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, any \r\n                                              person who receives services at a \r\n                                              hospital shall pay for those \r\n                                              services the prescribed basic \r\n                                              fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Except as \r\n                                              provided by this Act and \r\n                                              regulations made thereunder, no \r\n                                              person shall be liable to pay any \r\n                                              fees in respect of services \r\n                                              rendered to him in a hospital.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              2&#8212;General Exemptions from Hospital \r\n                                              Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">No fees shall \r\n                                              be paid in respect of services \r\n                                              rendered in a hospital to&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) any person \r\n                                              certified in writing by a medical \r\n                                              officer to be unable to pay those \r\n                                              fees on the ground of poverty;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) any person \r\n                                              suffering from such disease or \r\n                                              condition as may be prescribed;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) any pupil \r\n                                              or student receiving full-time \r\n                                              education in a recognised \r\n                                              institution;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(d) any \r\n                                              prescribed class of persons \r\n                                              working or studying within the \r\n                                              Health Service;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(e) any person \r\n                                              requested by the medical officer \r\n                                              concerned to attend or come to a \r\n                                              hospital for admission for the \r\n                                              purpose of teaching;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(f) any person \r\n                                              for the time being in lawful \r\n                                              custody;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(g) any \r\n                                              certified psychiatric patient;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(h) any other \r\n                                              prescribed class of persons.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              3&#8212;Exemptions for Particular \r\n                                              Services.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid in respect of any \r\n                                              medical examination or report \r\n                                              required by any department of \r\n                                              state, or in connection with the \r\n                                              official duties of any employee of \r\n                                              a department of state, or in \r\n                                              connection with the entry of any \r\n                                              person into a department of state \r\n                                              or his departure therefrom.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person \r\n                                              receiving medical attention in a \r\n                                              hospital in respect of any medical \r\n                                              report relating to him.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person in \r\n                                              respect of any prescribed \r\n                                              laboratory examination carried out \r\n                                              on him during out-patient \r\n                                              attendance.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person in \r\n                                              respect of X-ray films taken for \r\n                                              the purposes of tuberculosis \r\n                                              control.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(5) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person other \r\n                                              than a non-resident alien&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) in respect \r\n                                              of any casualty treatment given \r\n                                              which does not involve admission \r\n                                              into hospital; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) in respect \r\n                                              of treatment involving splints or \r\n                                              other similar appliances.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              4&#8212;Exemptions for Particular \r\n                                              Classes of Persons.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) No fees \r\n                                              other than the fees prescribed for \r\n                                              accommodation and maintenance \r\n                                              shall be paid in respect of \r\n                                              services rendered in a hospital \r\n                                              to&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) any person \r\n                                              who is not gainfully employed and \r\n                                              who is under the age of eighteen \r\n                                              years or over the age of \r\n                                              sixty-five years;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) any person \r\n                                              other than a non-resident alien in \r\n                                              respect of ante-natal care at a \r\n                                              health post, rural health centre \r\n                                              or clinic, or any other hospital \r\n                                              specified by the Director of \r\n                                              Medical Services by notice \r\n                                              published in the Gazette;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) any \r\n                                              maternity patient who has had four \r\n                                              or more child births;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(d) any \r\n                                              maternity patient referred to a \r\n                                              hospital from a clinic or health \r\n                                              centre;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(e) any \r\n                                              maternity patient referred to a \r\n                                              hospital by a registered midwife \r\n                                              or registered medical \r\n                                              practitioner.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) No fees in \r\n                                              respect of accommodation or \r\n                                              maintenance shall be paid where \r\n                                              any person referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) is exempted from \r\n                                              such payment by any provision of \r\n                                              section 2.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) \r\n                                              Notwithstanding the provisions of \r\n                                              subsections (1) and (2) of this \r\n                                              section where a patient requests \r\n                                              for special amenities such patient \r\n                                              shall pay such fees as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              5&#8212;Increased Fees Payable in \r\n                                              Certain Cases.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Where services \r\n                                              are rendered in a hospital to any \r\n                                              person who is&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) a private \r\n                                              patient; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) a \r\n                                              non-resident alien; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) a member of \r\n                                              the diplomatic staff of a country \r\n                                              which does not give reciprocal \r\n                                              medical coverage to Ghanaian \r\n                                              diplomatic staff accredited to \r\n                                              that country or Ghanaians resident \r\n                                              in that country; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(d) the wife or \r\n                                              child of a person referred to in \r\n                                              paragraph (c),</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">and such person \r\n                                              is liable to pay any fee under the \r\n                                              foregoing provisions of this Act, \r\n                                              the fee payable shall be not less \r\n                                              than such fee as shall be payable \r\n                                              by a Ghanaian diplomat accredited \r\n                                              to or resident in the country of \r\n                                              that person.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              6&#8212;Persons Liable to Pay Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Subject to \r\n                                              the provision of this section, the \r\n                                              person liable to pay any fee under \r\n                                              this Act shall be the person in \r\n                                              respect of whom the service was \r\n                                              rendered.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) \r\n                                              Notwithstanding subsection (1), \r\n                                              where it is a term in the \r\n                                              conditions of service of any \r\n                                              person employed by the Government \r\n                                              that such person shall be entitled \r\n                                              to receive any free medical \r\n                                              attention, such person shall to \r\n                                              that extent not be liable for the \r\n                                              payment of fees under this Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              7&#8212;Manner of Payment of Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) The fees \r\n                                              payable under this Act shall be \r\n                                              paid to the hospital revenue \r\n                                              officer at the hospital where the \r\n                                              fees were incurred, upon the issue \r\n                                              by that officer of a bill \r\n                                              specifying the fees to be paid.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              hospital revenue officer shall \r\n                                              issue an official receipt to every \r\n                                              person making a payment under this \r\n                                              Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) Any \r\n                                              hospital revenue officer who \r\n                                              fails, at the time of receiving a \r\n                                              payment under this Act, to issue \r\n                                              an official receipt to the person \r\n                                              making that payment, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding two thousand new cedis \r\n                                              or to imprisonment not exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months or to both.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              8&#8212;Recovery of Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">A hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer or any other \r\n                                              person appointed by the Minister \r\n                                              may sue for the recovery of any \r\n                                              fees payable under this Act which \r\n                                              are unpaid together with any costs \r\n                                              properly incurred.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              9&#8212;Evidence.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">In any \r\n                                              proceedings for the recovery of \r\n                                              any fees payable under this Act, \r\n                                              an account signed by the hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer setting out the \r\n                                              amount claimed from the defendant \r\n                                              in the proceedings shall be \r\n                                              admissible in evidence without \r\n                                              proof of the signature, and shall \r\n                                              be prima facie evidence of the \r\n                                              amount due.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              10&#8212;False Representations.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Any person \r\n                                              who by a false representation \r\n                                              obtains without payment or at a \r\n                                              reduced rate of payment any \r\n                                              medicine, surgical appliance, \r\n                                              attendance or treatment at a \r\n                                              hospital shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred new cedis.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Any person \r\n                                              who commits any of the acts \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall, whether or not he is \r\n                                              prosecuted, be liable to pay for \r\n                                              such medicine, surgical appliance, \r\n                                              attendance or treatment at the \r\n                                              prescribed rates, and in respect \r\n                                              of such payment shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to the benefit of any \r\n                                              exemption under this Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              11&#8212;Regulations.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">The Minister \r\n                                              may with the approval of the \r\n                                              Cabinet by legislative instrument \r\n                                              make regulations prescribing \r\n                                              anything that is to be prescribed \r\n                                              for the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              granting further exemptions in \r\n                                              respect of any class of persons or \r\n                                              any form of treatment, or \r\n                                              otherwise for giving effect to the \r\n                                              provisions and purposes of this \r\n                                              Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              12&#8212;Interpretation.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) In this \r\n                                              Act,&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;department of \r\n                                              state&quot; includes the Civil Service, \r\n                                              the Judicial Service, the Teaching \r\n                                              Service, the Police Service, the \r\n                                              Prisons Service, the Armed Forces \r\n                                              of Ghana, and any other prescribed \r\n                                              service;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;hospital&quot; \r\n                                              means any government-controlled \r\n                                              hospital, dispensary, health \r\n                                              centre, clinic, mental or \r\n                                              psychiatric hospital or other \r\n                                              government medical institution at \r\n                                              which medical treatment is \r\n                                              available;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer&quot; means the officer \r\n                                              responsible for the collection of \r\n                                              fees at a hospital;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;medical \r\n                                              officer concerned&quot; means a medical \r\n                                              officer wholly or partly \r\n                                              responsible for the medical care \r\n                                              of a patient at a hospital;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;Minister&quot; \r\n                                              means the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Health;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;non-resident \r\n                                              alien&quot; means an alien who does not \r\n                                              have a residence permit entitling \r\n                                              him to remain in Ghana for six \r\n                                              months or more, or who is not \r\n                                              lawfully exempted from having a \r\n                                              residence permit;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;prescribed&quot; \r\n                                              means prescribed by regulations \r\n                                              made under section 11;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;private \r\n                                              patient&quot; means a patient who \r\n                                              requests and is prepared to pay \r\n                                              for special attention and \r\n                                              amenities in lieu of the attention \r\n                                              and amenities ordinarily \r\n                                              appropriate to his case;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;special \r\n                                              amenities&quot; means the accommodation \r\n                                              and maintenance of a patient in a \r\n                                              ward designated by the Director of \r\n                                              Medical Services as an amenity \r\n                                              ward, in which the patient enjoys \r\n                                              personal facilities for washing \r\n                                              and toilet and where special diets \r\n                                              and other facilities are provided \r\n                                              at extra cost.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where there \r\n                                              is any doubt as to whether an \r\n                                              institution at which treatment is \r\n                                              available is government-controlled \r\n                                              so as to be a &quot;hospital&quot; within \r\n                                              the meaning of this Act, the \r\n                                              Director of Medical Services, \r\n                                              after consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister, may resolve such doubt \r\n                                              by notice published in the \r\n                                              Gazette.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              13&#8212;Repeals.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">The Hospital \r\n                                              Fees Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. 360) \r\n                                              and the Hospital Fees Decree, 1969 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1970 (Act 325) \r\n                                              are hereby repealed.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              14&#8212;Commencement.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">This Act shall \r\n                                              be deemed to come into force on \r\n                                              the 1st day of October, 1971.</font></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">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 387');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(113, 'LIQUOR LICENSING ACT, 1970 (ACT 331)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1300" height="64">\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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LIQUOR LICENSING ACT, 1970 (ACT \r\n                                              331)</span></b></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                                              PART I&#8212;MANUFACTURE OF SPIRITS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Licence to manufacture spirits</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Inspection of stills</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SALE OF SPIRITS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Licence to sell spirits</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Akpeteshie</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Stock book to be kept</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Invoices</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Storage of spirits</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;SALE OF WINE AND BEER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Licence to sell wine and beer</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Young persons to be excluded</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Power to demand name and \r\n                                              address</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Police Officers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Liability of employer</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Limitation of actions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Sale without licence in \r\n                                              special cases</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Repeals and savings</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&#8212;Fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule&#8212;Fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Third Schedule&#8212;Duty per gallon</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fourth Schedule&#8212;Fee</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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\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 LIQUOR LICENSING ACT, 1970</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 the law \r\n                                              relating to liquor licensing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 2nd July, 1970</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 Presidential \r\n                                              Commission and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as 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;MANUFACTURE OF SPIRITS</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;Licence to Manufacture \r\n                                              Spirits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall manufacture or \r\n                                              commence to manufacture spirits \r\n                                              except under and in accordance \r\n                                              with a distiller''s licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may, after consultation \r\n                                              with the Minister, by executive \r\n                                              instrument direct that any \r\n                                              distiller or group of distillers \r\n                                              of refined spirit nominated in the \r\n                                              instrument be placed under the \r\n                                              control of the Excise Ordinance, \r\n                                              1953 (No. 31).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The fees per annum payable for \r\n                                              a distiller''s licence shall be \r\n                                              those set out in the First \r\n                                              Schedule.</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;Inspection of Stills.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An Inspector may enter at any \r\n                                              time any premises in respect of \r\n                                              which a distiller''s licence is in \r\n                                              force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any police officer in uniform \r\n                                              may enter at any time any premises \r\n                                              on which he has reasonable grounds \r\n                                              to suspect that spirits have been \r\n                                              or are being manufactured in \r\n                                              contravention of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person empowered to enter \r\n                                              premises under this section may&#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) inspect the premises and any \r\n                                              still, spirits or other article \r\n                                              therein;</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) require any person on the \r\n                                              premises to give any information \r\n                                              in his possession as to the \r\n                                              activities carried on in the \r\n                                              premises and the person by whom \r\n                                              they are 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                                              (c) take away a sample not \r\n                                              exceeding one-third of a pint from \r\n                                              any container of liquid found on \r\n                                              the premises.</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;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#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) for the issue of distillers'' \r\n                                              licences by the Minister, and the \r\n                                              conditions attached to and \r\n                                              duration of such licences;</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 method of collection \r\n                                              of the fees payable therefor;</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) designating persons to act as \r\n                                              Inspector for the purposes of \r\n                                              section 2;</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) altering or revoking the fees \r\n                                              set out in the First Schedule;</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) otherwise for carrying out the \r\n                                              principles and purposes of this \r\n                                              Part;</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) for materials and apparatus \r\n                                              for distilling akpeteshie;</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) for the storage of akpeteshie \r\n                                              for purposes of maturity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section may authorise the \r\n                                              inclusion in a distiller''s licence \r\n                                              of a condition requiring that \r\n                                              spirits manufactured under the \r\n                                              licence be offered for sale to any \r\n                                              statutory corporation or other \r\n                                              person named for that purpose in \r\n                                              the regulations.</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;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who&#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) contravenes section 1 (1); 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) obstructs or fails to comply \r\n                                              with a requirement of any \r\n                                              Inspector or police officer in the \r\n                                              exercise of his powers under \r\n                                              section 2; 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) contravenes any condition \r\n                                              included in a distiller''s licence,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding five hundred \r\n                                              new cedis or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one year, or to both and \r\n                                              any apparatus and spirits in \r\n                                              relation to which the offence was \r\n                                              committed shall be forfeited and \r\n                                              disposal of as the Court may \r\n                                              direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In proceedings under this \r\n                                              section a document purporting to \r\n                                              state the results of an analysis \r\n                                              carried out by direction of the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Health \r\n                                              shall be prima facie evidence of \r\n                                              the facts stated therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SALE OF SPIRITS</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;Licence to sell Spirits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), no \r\n                                              person shall sell spirits on any \r\n                                              premises or in the open, except \r\n                                              under and in accordance with one \r\n                                              of the following licences&#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 wholesale licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits in quantities of not less \r\n                                              than two gallons at a time, not to \r\n                                              be consumed on the premises, to \r\n                                              any person who holds a spirit \r\n                                              licence;</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 store licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits for consumption on or off \r\n                                              the premises;</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 hotel licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits within a hotel;</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 restaurant licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits to be consumed with a meal \r\n                                              in a restaurant;</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) an occasional licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits on a special occasion at a \r\n                                              specified 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                                              (f) a bar licence to sell spirits \r\n                                              for consumption on the premises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Spirits manufactured by the \r\n                                              holder of a distiller''s licence \r\n                                              may be sold by him&#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) wholesale, on the premises on \r\n                                              which they were manufactured and \r\n                                              in any store remote from those \r\n                                              premises; 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) retail, in any such store, \r\n                                              subject to such conditions, if \r\n                                              any, as the Comptroller of Customs \r\n                                              and Excise may impose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The fees payable for a licence \r\n                                              under subsection (1) shall be \r\n                                              those set out in the Second \r\n                                              Schedule.</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;Akpeteshie.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall sell \r\n                                              akpeteshie under any spirit \r\n                                              licence unless the licence is \r\n                                              expressly endorsed to authorise \r\n                                              the licensee to sell akpeteshie.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A spirit licence may be \r\n                                              limited to the sale of akpeteshie.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No spirit licence shall be \r\n                                              required for the sale of \r\n                                              akpeteshie to any statutory \r\n                                              corporation or other person \r\n                                              prescribed by regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A distiller of refined spirit \r\n                                              shall have a first option on the \r\n                                              purchase of all products of a \r\n                                              distiller of akpeteshie.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The rate per gallon of the \r\n                                              duty payable on akpeteshie \r\n                                              produced shall be that set out in \r\n                                              the Third Schedule;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no duty shall be \r\n                                              payable on the sale by a \r\n                                              manufacturer of akpeteshie of his \r\n                                              products to a manufacturer of \r\n                                              refined spirit. </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;Stock Book to be Kept.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every licensee shall enter \r\n                                              into a stock book to be kept by \r\n                                              him for that purpose a true record \r\n                                              of all spirits bought and sold by \r\n                                              him, and shall within seven days \r\n                                              after the expiration of every \r\n                                              month render to the police officer \r\n                                              in charge of the district in which \r\n                                              the licensee sells spirits a true \r\n                                              and accurate return in the form \r\n                                              prescribed by regulations, \r\n                                              showing&#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 quantity of each \r\n                                              description of spirits on hand at \r\n                                              the commencement of that month;</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 quantity of each \r\n                                              description of spirits bought or \r\n                                              sold by him during that month and \r\n                                              the names of persons from whom \r\n                                              such quantity was bought; 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) the stock of each description \r\n                                              of spirits remaining hand on the \r\n                                              last day of the immediately \r\n                                              preceding month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No licensee shall render a \r\n                                              return which is false or lacking \r\n                                              in any material particular.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any police officer not below \r\n                                              the rank of Inspector, and any \r\n                                              police officer authorised in \r\n                                              writing by a police officer not \r\n                                              below the rank of Inspector, may \r\n                                              at any time between the hours of 8 \r\n                                              a.m. and 6 p.m. inspect the \r\n                                              stock-in-trade of any licensee and \r\n                                              require him to produce his stock \r\n                                              book for the purpose of comparing \r\n                                              the entries therein with such \r\n                                              stock-in-trade, and may seize any \r\n                                              spirits found in excess of the \r\n                                              stock shown in the stock book.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall not apply to locally \r\n                                              manufactured spirits.</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;Invoices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A licensee shall retain and \r\n                                              produce on demand for inspection \r\n                                              by a police officer not below the \r\n                                              rank of Inspector all invoices \r\n                                              issued in respect of all purchases \r\n                                              of spirits.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A licensee who sells spirits \r\n                                              to a purchaser in any quantity \r\n                                              except in tots shall cause to be \r\n                                              issued to that purchaser an \r\n                                              invoice bearing&#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 address of that \r\n                                              purchaser;</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 number of the licensee''s \r\n                                              licence;</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 date of purchase,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the licensee shall retain the \r\n                                              duplicate of the invoice and shall \r\n                                              on demand produce it to a police \r\n                                              officer not below the rank of \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall not apply to locally \r\n                                              manufactured spirits.</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;Storage of Spirits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              licensee shall not store spirits \r\n                                              in any place other than his place \r\n                                              of 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 10&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations&#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) prescribing the method and \r\n                                              form of application for a licence \r\n                                              to sell spirits and the authority \r\n                                              to which the application is to be \r\n                                              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) prescribing the procedure \r\n                                              relating to the grant of a \r\n                                              licence, including the \r\n                                              consideration of objections to the \r\n                                              grant, and appeals to the Minister \r\n                                              from a grant or a refusal to grant \r\n                                              a licence;</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) prescribing the form and \r\n                                              duration of the licence, the \r\n                                              method of collection of fees \r\n                                              payable therefor, the conditions \r\n                                              to be observed by a licensee and \r\n                                              the duties of a licensee;</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) providing for the transfer of \r\n                                              a licence;</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) prescribing permitted hours \r\n                                              and providing for all matters in \r\n                                              relation thereto;</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) prescribing the time at or \r\n                                              within which the duty on \r\n                                              akpeteshie produced is to be paid, \r\n                                              the method of collection of such \r\n                                              duty, and the repayment of any \r\n                                              duty paid in error contrary to the \r\n                                              proviso to section 6(5);</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) altering or revoking any of \r\n                                              the fees set out in the Second and \r\n                                              Third Schedules;</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) providing for or prescribing \r\n                                              any other matter or thing which \r\n                                              the Minister considers expedient \r\n                                              for giving effect to the \r\n                                              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 11&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who contravenes \r\n                                              section 5 (1), 6 (1) or 9 or any \r\n                                              condition included in a licence to \r\n                                              sell spirits shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of section 7 or 8 shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence and liable \r\n                                              on summary conviction to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding five hundred new \r\n                                              cedis or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one year, or to both, \r\n                                              and any spirits seized under \r\n                                              section 7 in relation to which the \r\n                                              offence was committed may be \r\n                                              forfeited and disposed of as the \r\n                                              Court may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In the event of a second \r\n                                              conviction of a licensed person \r\n                                              under this section, his licence \r\n                                              shall be suspended for a year, and \r\n                                              in the event of a third or \r\n                                              subsequent conviction under this \r\n                                              section he shall be disqualified \r\n                                              from holding any such licence for \r\n                                              such period, not less than five \r\n                                              years in each case, as the Court \r\n                                              shall direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A conviction for an offence \r\n                                              under this section shall be \r\n                                              endorsed on the licence, if any, \r\n                                              of the offender.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;SALE OF WINE AND BEER</span></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;Licence to sell Wine \r\n                                              and Beer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall sell wine or \r\n                                              beer on any premises or in the \r\n                                              open, except under and in \r\n                                              accordance with one of the \r\n                                              following licences&#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 spirit licences granted \r\n                                              under section 5;</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 off-licence to sell wine \r\n                                              and beer not to be consumed on the \r\n                                              premises;</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 on-licence to sell wine and \r\n                                              beer which may be consumed on the \r\n                                              premises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The fee payable for a licence \r\n                                              to sell wine and beer shall for \r\n                                              every store be that set out in the \r\n                                              Fourth Schedule. </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;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations&#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) prescribing or providing for, \r\n                                              in respect of licences to sell \r\n                                              wine and beer, all such matters as \r\n                                              may be prescribed or provided for \r\n                                              under section 10 in respect of \r\n                                              licences to sell spirits;</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) altering or revoking the fee \r\n                                              set out in the Fourth Schedule.</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;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who contravenes \r\n                                              section 12 (1) or any condition \r\n                                              included in a licence to sell wine \r\n                                              and beer shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subsections (3) and (4) of \r\n                                              section 11 shall apply in the \r\n                                              event of a conviction under this \r\n                                              section as they apply to a \r\n                                              conviction under section 11.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;GENERAL</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;Young Persons to be \r\n                                              Excluded.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No holder of a licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits, wine or beer shall allow \r\n                                              any person under the apparent age \r\n                                              of eighteen years to be at any \r\n                                              time in the bar of the licenced \r\n                                              premises during permitted hours.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any licensee who contravenes \r\n                                              this section, and any person who \r\n                                              causes or procures any person \r\n                                              under the apparent age of eighteen \r\n                                              years to enter or to be in the bar \r\n                                              of any licensed premises during \r\n                                              the permitted hours, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              fifty new cedis and in default of \r\n                                              payment to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If a person under the apparent \r\n                                              age of eighteen years is found in \r\n                                              the bar of any licensed premises \r\n                                              during permitted hours, the holder \r\n                                              of the licence shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have committed an offence under \r\n                                              this section unless he shows that \r\n                                              he had used all due care to \r\n                                              prevent that person from being \r\n                                              admitted to the bar or the young \r\n                                              person had attained the age of \r\n                                              eighteen years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No licensee under this Act \r\n                                              shall sell any spirit, wine or \r\n                                              beer to any drunken person or \r\n                                              permit any disorderly or improper \r\n                                              conduct on his premises or any \r\n                                              part of the premises attached \r\n                                              thereto.</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;Power to Demand Name \r\n                                              and Address.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any police officer in uniform \r\n                                              may demand the name and address of \r\n                                              any person found after the \r\n                                              permitted hours on any premises \r\n                                              licensed for the sale of spirits, \r\n                                              wine or beer, and, if he has \r\n                                              reasonable ground to suspect that \r\n                                              the name or address given is \r\n                                              false, he may require evidence of \r\n                                              its correctness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who fails upon \r\n                                              demand to give his name and \r\n                                              address, or satisfactory evidence \r\n                                              of such name and address, may be \r\n                                              arrested by the police officer \r\n                                              without warrant and taken as soon \r\n                                              as practicable before a \r\n                                              magistrate.</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;Police Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No licensee under the Act shall \r\n                                              sell akpeteshie, spirits, beer or \r\n                                              wine to any police officer in \r\n                                              uniform.</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;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who&#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) when required to give his name \r\n                                              and address under section 16, \r\n                                              fails to do so or gives a false \r\n                                              name or address; 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) not being an inmate, servant \r\n                                              or lodger, on premises licensed \r\n                                              for the sale of spirits, wine or \r\n                                              beer, or otherwise lawfully \r\n                                              permitted to be upon such \r\n                                              premises, is found on such \r\n                                              premises after the permitted hours \r\n                                              without reasonable excuse; 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 falsely representing \r\n                                              himself to be a lodger, buys or \r\n                                              obtains, or attempts to buy or \r\n                                              obtain, spirits, wine or beer at \r\n                                              any premises after the permitted \r\n                                              hours,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding twenty new cedis.</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;Liability of Employer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              master or employer shall be liable \r\n                                              for an offence committed under \r\n                                              sections 4, 11, 14 or 18 by his \r\n                                              servant or agent in the course of \r\n                                              his employment.</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;Limitation of Actions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No prosecution shall be commenced \r\n                                              under this Act after the \r\n                                              expiration of six months from the \r\n                                              date of the offence.</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;Sale without Licence in \r\n                                              Special Cases.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nothing in this Act contained \r\n                                              shall prevent&#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 executor or administrator \r\n                                              of a deceased licensee or the \r\n                                              assignee or trustee of any \r\n                                              licensee who becomes insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt before the expiration of \r\n                                              his license, from selling any \r\n                                              spirits, wine or beer coming to \r\n                                              them in that capacity in the \r\n                                              premises specified in the licence; \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                                              (b) the executor or administrator \r\n                                              of any person not licensed who \r\n                                              dies leaving among his assets or \r\n                                              estate a private stock of spirits, \r\n                                              wine or beer not exceeding fifty \r\n                                              gallons from selling it; 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 person from selling his \r\n                                              private stock of spirits, wine or \r\n                                              beer not exceeding twenty-five \r\n                                              gallons at any sale of his effects \r\n                                              on leaving 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) any officer of or person \r\n                                              authorised by any court from \r\n                                              selling any spirits, wine or beer \r\n                                              seized or taken in execution under \r\n                                              due process of law.</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;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&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;akpeteshie&quot; \r\n                                              means spirits manufactured in \r\n                                              Ghana by the distillation of a \r\n                                              fermented liquid in a simple pot \r\n                                              still;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;bar&quot; means any open drinking bar \r\n                                              on licensed premises or any part \r\n                                              of the licensed premises \r\n                                              exclusively or mainly used for the \r\n                                              sale and consumption of spirits, \r\n                                              wine or beer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;beer&quot; includes any description of \r\n                                              beer, and any liquor made or sold \r\n                                              as a description of beer or as a \r\n                                              substitute for beer and which \r\n                                              contains more than one per cent of \r\n                                              pure alcohol, but does not include \r\n                                              pito and other similar locally \r\n                                              brewed liquors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;blend&quot; means to mix the products \r\n                                              of two or more distillers to \r\n                                              obtain a uniform product;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;compound&quot; means to mix an \r\n                                              ingredient or material&nbsp; with \r\n                                              spirits, but does not include \r\n                                              methylating; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;distiller&quot; means any person who \r\n                                              produces spirits by the \r\n                                              distillation of fermented spirits \r\n                                              or by the distillation of \r\n                                              fermented spirits or by chemical \r\n                                              means and includes any person who \r\n                                              rectifies, compounds, blends or \r\n                                              methylates;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;licensee&quot; means a person holding \r\n                                              a licence to sell spirits, wine or \r\n                                              beer under this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;methylate&quot; \r\n                                              means to mix non-potable methyl \r\n                                              alcohol&nbsp; and other substances with \r\n                                              spirits to render them \r\n                                              non-potable;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;permitted hours&quot; means the hours \r\n                                              during which any licensed premises \r\n                                              are by regulations allowed to be \r\n                                              open for the sale of spirits, wine \r\n                                              or beer under this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;premises&quot; includes any store, \r\n                                              hotel or restaurant and&nbsp; the \r\n                                              curtilage thereof and any yard \r\n                                              attached thereto;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;rectify&quot; means to purify spirits \r\n                                              by&nbsp; distillation,filtration or \r\n                                              other means;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;refined spirits&quot; means spirits \r\n                                              produced by rectifying akpeteshie;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;sell&quot; includes to dispose&nbsp; of by \r\n                                              barter, exchange or in any other \r\n                                              manner for valuable consideration;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;spirits&quot; means akpeteshie, \r\n                                              brandy, gin, liqueur, rum,whisky \r\n                                              and all other distilled liquors \r\n                                              and includes all liquors mixed \r\n                                              with spirits and all mixtures, \r\n                                              compounds or preparations made \r\n                                              with spirits, but does not include \r\n                                              alcohols other than ethyl alcohol \r\n                                              and potable methyl alcohol and \r\n                                              medical preparations containing \r\n                                              alcohol;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;store&quot; includes a house, shop and \r\n                                              every other building not being a \r\n                                              hotel, bar or restaurant;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;wine&quot; does not include palm wine.</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;Repeals and Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following enactments are \r\n                                              hereby repealed&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor Licences (Spirits) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 220).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor Licences (Wine and Beer) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 221).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Young Persons (Exclusion from \r\n                                              Licensed Premises) Ordinance (No. \r\n                                              48 of 1952).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor (Northern Territories) \r\n                                              Ordinance (No. 26 of 1953).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor Licences Act, 1959 (No. \r\n                                              19).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Manufacture and Sale of Spirits \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 154).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Manufacture and Sale of Spirits \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              209).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Manufacture and Sale of Spirits \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              219).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of \r\n                                              the Manufacture and Sale of \r\n                                              Spirits Act, 1962 (Act 154), all \r\n                                              statutory instruments made \r\n                                              thereunder and in force \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              the corresponding provision of \r\n                                              this Act, until revoked, modified \r\n                                              or otherwise altered.</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 1 (3))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FEES</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; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              N¢&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                                              1. Fee for distiller''s licence&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              40.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Fee for distillers nominated \r\n                                              under section \r\n                                              1(2):&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; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) distiller who methylates \r\n                                              only&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                                              10.00&nbsp; </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) distiller who compounds or \r\n                                              blends only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              20.00&nbsp; </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) distiller who rectifies \r\n                                              only&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              40.00&nbsp; </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) full distiller \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;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              60.00&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                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 5 (3))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FEES</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                                              &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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              N¢&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                                              1. For a wholesale licence&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              100.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50.00 half-yearly&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                                              2. For a store licence&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;&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                                              80.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.00 half-yearly &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                                              3. For a hotel licence&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;&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                                              120.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60.00 half-yearly&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                                              4. For a restaurant licence&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              80.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.00 half-yearly&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                                              5. For an occasional \r\n                                              licence&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              10.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. For a bar licence&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;&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                                              80.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.00 half-yearly&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                                              7. For an extension of \r\n                                              hours&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;&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                                              1.00 for each </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              additional hour&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -324.0pt; margin-left: 324.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. For a wholesale licence limited \r\n                                              to the sale of akpeteshie \r\n                                              only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10.00 yearly\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 324.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              or 5.00 half-yearly</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 324.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&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                                              9. For a store licence limited to \r\n                                              the sale of akpeteshie only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10.00 yearly </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              or 5.00 half-yearly&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">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 6)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DUTY PER GALLON</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40 Np</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The duty on part of a gallon shall \r\n                                              be in proportion for any part of a \r\n                                              gallon. The strength of the \r\n                                              spirits shall be determined by the \r\n                                              Sykes'' hydrometer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 12 (2))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FEE</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              N¢12.00 for a yearly licence and \r\n                                              N¢6.00 for a half-yearly licence.</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">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n   \r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 331');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(114, 'LOANS ACT, 1970 (ACT 335)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1302" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LOANS ACT, 1970 (ACT 335)</span></b></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                                              PART I&#8212;LOCAL LOANS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Raising of loans in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Authenticating of agreements, \r\n                                              securities, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;EXTERNAL LOANS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Authority to raise external \r\n                                              loans.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. External loan agreements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Power to issue bonds, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Statutory Corporations to \r\n                                              require approval of Minister \r\n                                              before raising a loan.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Terms and conditions of loans \r\n                                              to be approved by National \r\n                                              Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Moneys received to be paid into \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund or other \r\n                                              prescribed public fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Repayment of Government loans \r\n                                              charged on Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Guarantees of loans by \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. National Assembly may approve \r\n                                              standard terms of agreements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Requests for National Assembly \r\n                                              approval to be responsibility of \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Guarantee by Government of \r\n                                              loan to prescribed bodies to be \r\n                                              effected by Bank of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Restriction on prescribed body \r\n                                              borrowing while a guarantee is in \r\n                                              force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Minister''s powers in event of \r\n                                              default by prescribed body.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Prescribed body to repay \r\n                                              Government sums paid under \r\n                                              guarantee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Issue and management of loans, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Statement of loan \r\n                                              transactions, etc. to be included \r\n                                              in public accounts of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Regulations, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Paragraphs 14 and 15 of \r\n                                              N.L.C.D. 165 not to apply to \r\n                                              transactions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Exchange Control Act to apply \r\n                                              to agreements, etc. 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                                              22. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Repeals.</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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\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 LOANS ACT, 1970</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to make provision for the \r\n                                              raising of loans by the Government \r\n                                              and for other purposes connected \r\n                                              therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 3rd July, 1970.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS clauses (3) and (4) of \r\n                                              article 133 of the Constitution \r\n                                              provide that no loan shall be \r\n                                              raised by the Government on behalf \r\n                                              of itself or any other public \r\n                                              institution or authority otherwise \r\n                                              than by or under the authority of \r\n                                              an Act of Parliament and prescribe \r\n                                              certain provisions which shall be \r\n                                              incorporated in such Act of \r\n                                              Parliament:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED by the \r\n                                              Presidential Commission and the \r\n                                              National Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;LOCAL LOANS</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;Raising of Loans in \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Government may, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act raise \r\n                                              within Ghana whether on behalf of \r\n                                              itself or any other public \r\n                                              institution or authority, loans of \r\n                                              such sums of money as may be \r\n                                              agreed between the Government and \r\n                                              the lender:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no such agreement \r\n                                              for the raising of any such loan \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the Cabinet \r\n                                              for its approval except after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister may, for the \r\n                                              purposes of subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section&#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) borrow the money by the issue \r\n                                              and sale of securities in such \r\n                                              form, for such separate sums, at \r\n                                              such rates of interest and upon \r\n                                              such other terms and conditions as \r\n                                              the Minister may approve; 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) enter into such contracts or \r\n                                              agreements relating to the \r\n                                              borrowing of the money or the \r\n                                              issue or sale of securities \r\n                                              relating thereto on such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as the Minister may \r\n                                              approve,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Government may borrow \r\n                                              under subsections (1) and (2) of \r\n                                              this section such sums of money as \r\n                                              are required for the payment of \r\n                                              any securities issued under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              are maturing or have been called \r\n                                              for redemption.</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;Authenticating of \r\n                                              Agreements, Securities, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Contracts and agreements \r\n                                              entered into and securities issued \r\n                                              under section 1 of this Act shall \r\n                                              be signed by the Minister or such \r\n                                              other person as the Minister may \r\n                                              designate in writing and in the \r\n                                              case of securities, shall be \r\n                                              countersigned by such other person \r\n                                              as the Minister may so designate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister may direct that \r\n                                              there shall be substituted for the \r\n                                              signatures in the proper \r\n                                              handwriting of one or both of the \r\n                                              persons authorised under this \r\n                                              section to sign or countersign \r\n                                              securities, facsimiles thereof \r\n                                              printed from engraving and such \r\n                                              substitution shall be effected \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If both the signature and \r\n                                              counter-signature on a security \r\n                                              issued under this section are to \r\n                                              be printed, they shall only be \r\n                                              printed on the securities \r\n                                              (together with any distinguishing \r\n                                              mark) from engraving after the&nbsp; \r\n                                              securities have been delivered to \r\n                                              the Minister or the Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;EXTERNAL LOANS</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;Authority to raise \r\n                                              External Loans.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, the Government may, whether \r\n                                              on behalf of itself or any other \r\n                                              public institution or authority \r\n                                              and in such manner and on such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as may be \r\n                                              agreed between the Government and \r\n                                              the party by whom the external \r\n                                              loan is to be granted, enter into \r\n                                              any agreement providing for the \r\n                                              raising by the Republic of an \r\n                                              external loan:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no such agreement \r\n                                              for the raising of an external \r\n                                              loan shall be submitted to the \r\n                                              Cabinet for its approval except \r\n                                              after consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister.</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;External Loan \r\n                                              Agreements.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An agreement to be entered into \r\n                                              for the purposes of section 3 of \r\n                                              this Act shall, subject to section \r\n                                              7 of this Act, be executed for and \r\n                                              on behalf of the Government by the \r\n                                              Minister or by such other person \r\n                                              as the Minister may by writing \r\n                                              designate for that purpose.</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;Power to Issue Bonds, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may issue such \r\n                                              bonds, promissory notes or other \r\n                                              instruments and on such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as may be necessary for \r\n                                              the purpose of giving effect to \r\n                                              the terms of any loan agreement \r\n                                              entered into in accordance with \r\n                                              this Part of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any bond, promissory note or \r\n                                              other instrument issued under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section may \r\n                                              be signed by the Minister or by \r\n                                              any other person designated in \r\n                                              writing for that purpose by the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS</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;Statutory Corporations \r\n                                              to require Approval of Minister \r\n                                              before Raising a Loan.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except where the Minister \r\n                                              otherwise directs by legislative \r\n                                              instrument either generally or in \r\n                                              the case of any particular \r\n                                              corporation or class of \r\n                                              corporations, no statutory \r\n                                              corporation shall raise any loan \r\n                                              without the prior approval in \r\n                                              writing of the Minister.</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;Terms and Conditions of \r\n                                              Loans to be Approved by National \r\n                                              Assembly.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The terms and conditions of any \r\n                                              loans obtained by the Government \r\n                                              under Part I or II of this Act or \r\n                                              under any other enactment shall \r\n                                              not come into operation unless \r\n                                              they have been laid before the \r\n                                              National Assembly and approved by \r\n                                              the National Assembly by \r\n                                              resolution.</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;Moneys received to be \r\n                                              paid into Consolidated Fund or \r\n                                              other Prescribed&nbsp; Public Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any moneys received in respect \r\n                                              of any loan referred to in section \r\n                                              7 of this Act shall be paid into \r\n                                              the Consolidated Fund and form \r\n                                              part thereof, or into some other \r\n                                              public fund of Ghana either \r\n                                              existing at the time of the loan \r\n                                              or created for the purposes of the \r\n                                              loan and shall be applied for \r\n                                              purposes for which they were \r\n                                              obtained and in accordance with \r\n                                              the agreement under which they \r\n                                              were obtained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where any sum has become \r\n                                              payable out of any moneys paid \r\n                                              into the Consolidated Fund or \r\n                                              other public fund under subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section under an \r\n                                              agreement by which a loan is \r\n                                              granted for any purpose prescribed \r\n                                              under the agreement, the money \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be charged on \r\n                                              the Consolidated Fund or such \r\n                                              other public fund into which the \r\n                                              money has been paid under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this 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;Repayment of Government \r\n                                              Loans Charged on Consolidated \r\n                                              Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All moneys required for the \r\n                                              discharge of all loans obtained \r\n                                              under Part I or Part II of this \r\n                                              Act, and also for the payment of \r\n                                              all interest and other charges in \r\n                                              relation thereto and the principal \r\n                                              and interest on all securities are \r\n                                              hereby charged on the Consolidated \r\n                                              Fund and shall be paid in \r\n                                              accordance with the terms and \r\n                                              conditions of the relevant \r\n                                              agreement applicable thereto.</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;Guarantees of Loans by \r\n                                              Government.</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 section, the Government may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act guarantee loans on such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as may be agreed by \r\n                                              the parties to the agreement \r\n                                              providing for the guarantee \r\n                                              including (if any) the requirement \r\n                                              of the payment of a commission for \r\n                                              affording the guarantee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any such agreement may be \r\n                                              signed on behalf of the Government \r\n                                              by the Minister or by any other \r\n                                              person designated in writing by \r\n                                              the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No agreement providing for a \r\n                                              guarantee by the Government of any \r\n                                              loan shall come into operation \r\n                                              unless the terms and conditions of \r\n                                              the agreement have been laid \r\n                                              before the National Assembly and \r\n                                              approved by the Assembly by \r\n                                              resolution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where any money falls to be \r\n                                              paid by the Government in \r\n                                              satisfaction of any obligation \r\n                                              guaranteed by the Government that \r\n                                              money shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              charged on the Consolidated 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 11&#8212;National Assembly may \r\n                                              Approve Standard Terms of \r\n                                              Agreements.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National Assembly may if \r\n                                              it thinks fit, by resolution \r\n                                              approve from time to time standard \r\n                                              terms and conditions of agreements \r\n                                              for the purposes of sections 7 and \r\n                                              10 of this Act and up to such \r\n                                              limits as the National Assembly \r\n                                              may by resolution prescribe.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the National Assembly \r\n                                              has approved any terms and \r\n                                              conditions under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section any agreement entered \r\n                                              into by the Government in the \r\n                                              terms and conditions so approved \r\n                                              and within the limits prescribed \r\n                                              by the National Assembly shall \r\n                                              come into operation in accordance \r\n                                              with its terms and without the \r\n                                              need for further approval of the \r\n                                              National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The National Assembly may, \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything in this \r\n                                              section, by resolution request \r\n                                              that any particular agreements or \r\n                                              classes of agreements shall be \r\n                                              brought before it for further \r\n                                              approval before they shall come \r\n                                              into operation and no agreement in \r\n                                              respect of which such a request \r\n                                              has been made shall come into \r\n                                              operation without such approval, \r\n                                              and the National Assembly may in \r\n                                              any case by resolution, revoke or \r\n                                              vary any approval granted under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section so \r\n                                              far as concerns agreements to be \r\n                                              entered into after such revocation \r\n                                              or variation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister shall cause \r\n                                              agreements entered into by virtue \r\n                                              of an approval granted under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section to \r\n                                              be laid before the National \r\n                                              Assembly as soon as practicable \r\n                                              after they have been entered into.</span></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;Requests for National \r\n                                              Assembly Approval to be \r\n                                              Responsibility of&nbsp; Minister.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister shall be responsible \r\n                                              for laying before the National \r\n                                              Assembly for its approval the \r\n                                              terms and conditions of any loan \r\n                                              or guarantee the terms and \r\n                                              conditions of which are required \r\n                                              by this Act to be laid before the \r\n                                              National Assembly and approved by \r\n                                              a resolution of the Assembly.</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;Guarantee by Government \r\n                                              of Loan to Prescribed Bodies to be \r\n                                              Effected by Bank of Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to section 10 of this Act, \r\n                                              where any prescribed body is \r\n                                              desirous of raising any loan and \r\n                                              the terms of the agreement under \r\n                                              which the loan is to be raised \r\n                                              require a guarantee of the loan by \r\n                                              Government, the Government may, if \r\n                                              the Minister has, with the \r\n                                              concurrence of the Bank and before \r\n                                              the raising of the loan, given his \r\n                                              approval in writing to the terms \r\n                                              and conditions subject to which \r\n                                              the loan is to be raised, by \r\n                                              writing request the Bank&#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) to guarantee the discharge by \r\n                                              the prescribed body of its \r\n                                              obligations in respect of the \r\n                                              loan, 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 undertake such other \r\n                                              obligations as may be provided for \r\n                                              in the agreement relating to the \r\n                                              loan and the Bank shall comply \r\n                                              with such request.</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;Restriction on \r\n                                              Prescribed Body Borrowing while a \r\n                                              Guarantee is in Force.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Without prejudice to the general \r\n                                              effect of section 6 of this Act, \r\n                                              during any period in which any \r\n                                              guarantee or other undertaking \r\n                                              given by the Bank in respect of a \r\n                                              prescribed body remains in force \r\n                                              under section 13 of this Act, that \r\n                                              body shall not, except with the \r\n                                              consent in writing of the \r\n                                              Minister, raise any further loan \r\n                                              requiring a guarantee by \r\n                                              Government.</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;Minister''s Powers in \r\n                                              Event of Default by Prescribed \r\n                                              Body.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the Minister is \r\n                                              satisfied that there is reasonable \r\n                                              cause to believe&#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) that a prescribed body is \r\n                                              likely to fail or be unable to \r\n                                              discharge any of its obligations \r\n                                              under any agreement concluded \r\n                                              under section 13 of 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                                              (b) that the Bank is or may become \r\n                                              liable under any guarantee or \r\n                                              other undertaking given by it \r\n                                              under section 13 of this Act in \r\n                                              respect of that obligation, </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister may by writing give \r\n                                              or authorise any other person to \r\n                                              give such directions to the \r\n                                              prescribed body as the Minister \r\n                                              may think necessary or desirable \r\n                                              to ensure that satisfactory \r\n                                              arrangements are made by the \r\n                                              prescribed body to enable that \r\n                                              body duly to discharge its \r\n                                              obligations under such agreement \r\n                                              or under this Act:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the prescribed \r\n                                              body is a statutory corporation or \r\n                                              other body for which \r\n                                              responsibility has been assigned \r\n                                              by the Prime Minister or by any \r\n                                              enactment to any Minister, that \r\n                                              Minister shall not exercise his \r\n                                              powers under this subsection \r\n                                              except after consultation with \r\n                                              such Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A prescribed body shall comply \r\n                                              with any directions given to it \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section notwithstanding anything \r\n                                              to the contrary and where that \r\n                                              body is a statutory corporation \r\n                                              the provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall, for the purpose of giving \r\n                                              effect to such directions, \r\n                                              override the provisions of any \r\n                                              enactment under which that body \r\n                                              exists.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any sum becomes payable \r\n                                              by the Bank under a guarantee or \r\n                                              undertaking given by that Bank \r\n                                              under section 13 of this Act, that \r\n                                              sum shall be deemed to be charged \r\n                                              on the Consolidated 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 16&#8212;Prescribed Body to \r\n                                              repay Government sums paid under \r\n                                              Guarantee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If any sum is paid out of the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund in respect of \r\n                                              any liability incurred by the Bank \r\n                                              under a guarantee or other \r\n                                              undertaking given under section 13 \r\n                                              of this Act in respect of any loan \r\n                                              raised by a prescribed body, that \r\n                                              body shall repay such sum together \r\n                                              with interest and other charges \r\n                                              thereon at the same rate if any, \r\n                                              as are payable on the loan under \r\n                                              the agreement relating to the loan \r\n                                              into the Consolidated Fund in such \r\n                                              manner and at such time or by such \r\n                                              instalments as the Minister may \r\n                                              direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If any sum is so paid out of \r\n                                              the Consolidated Fund the Minister \r\n                                              shall as soon as possible after \r\n                                              the end of each financial year \r\n                                              beginning with the financial year \r\n                                              in which the sum was paid and \r\n                                              ending with that in which all \r\n                                              liabilities in respect of that sum \r\n                                              and any interest payable thereon \r\n                                              is finally discharged by the \r\n                                              prescribed body concerned, lay \r\n                                              before the National Assembly a \r\n                                              statement relating to that sum.</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;Issue and Management of \r\n                                              Loans, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister shall cause to be \r\n                                              maintained a system of books and \r\n                                              records&#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) showing all moneys authorised \r\n                                              to be borrowed and all loans \r\n                                              authorised to be guaranteed 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) containing a description and \r\n                                              record of all moneys so borrowed \r\n                                              and securities (if any) issued and \r\n                                              all loans so guaranteed; 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) showing all amounts paid in \r\n                                              respect of the principal of, or \r\n                                              interest on, all moneys so \r\n                                              borrowed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Bank shall annually and as \r\n                                              often as required by the Minister \r\n                                              in writing, give to the Minister a \r\n                                              statement giving an account in \r\n                                              such form and terms and containing \r\n                                              such information as the Minister \r\n                                              may direct of all its transactions \r\n                                              in connection with the discharge \r\n                                              of its functions under section 38 \r\n                                              of the Bank of Ghana Act, 1963 \r\n                                              (Act 182).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister may provide for \r\n                                              the creation and management of a \r\n                                              sinking fund with respect to any \r\n                                              issue of securities, or with \r\n                                              respect to all securities issued \r\n                                              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 18&#8212;Statement of Loan \r\n                                              Transactions, etc. to be included \r\n                                              in Public Accounts of Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An annual statement of all \r\n                                              transactions effected under \r\n                                              sections 1, 3 and 10 of this Act \r\n                                              shall be included in the public \r\n                                              accounts of Ghana.</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;Regulations, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make such regulations \r\n                                              or make such orders as he deems \r\n                                              necessary or expedient to provide \r\n                                              for the management of the public \r\n                                              debt and the payment of interest \r\n                                              thereon and without prejudice to \r\n                                              the generality of the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this section may \r\n                                              make regulations or orders in \r\n                                              respect of all or any of the \r\n                                              following matters:&#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) for the inscription or \r\n                                              registration of securities and \r\n                                              prescribing the effect of such \r\n                                              inscriptions or registration;</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 transfer, \r\n                                              transmission, exchange, \r\n                                              redemption, cancellation and \r\n                                              destruction of any securities and \r\n                                              without limiting the generality of \r\n                                              the preceding provisions of this \r\n                                              paragraph&#8212;</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                                              for the transmission, transfer or \r\n                                              redemption of securities as a \r\n                                              result of a judgment of a court or \r\n                                              of death, dissolution or \r\n                                              bankruptcy of the registered owner \r\n                                              thereof; 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) for prescribing the \r\n                                              conditions upon which the \r\n                                              transfer, transmission, exchange \r\n                                              and redemption of securities \r\n                                              registered in the names of infants \r\n                                              or other persons not of full \r\n                                              capacity to enter into ordinary \r\n                                              contracts may be 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                                              (c) for the issue of securities or \r\n                                              the making of payments in respect \r\n                                              of damaged, lost, stolen or \r\n                                              destroyed securities or interest \r\n                                              coupons and the register \r\n                                              pertaining thereto and prescribing \r\n                                              conditions for such issue or \r\n                                              payments;</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) requiring guarantees to be \r\n                                              given to the Bank in such manner \r\n                                              and by such persons as may be \r\n                                              specified in the regulations or \r\n                                              orders before the Bank is \r\n                                              authorised to make entry in a \r\n                                              register maintained by the Bank \r\n                                              for the purposes of 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                                              (e) authorising the correction by \r\n                                              the Bank, in such circumstances as \r\n                                              may be specified in the \r\n                                              regulations or orders of errors in \r\n                                              such register and otherwise \r\n                                              authorising the rectification of \r\n                                              such register; 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                                              (f) generally for the better \r\n                                              carrying into effect of the \r\n                                              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 20&#8212;Paragraphs 14 and 15 of \r\n                                              N.L.C.D. 165 not to Apply to \r\n                                              Transactions under this Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraphs 14 and 15 of the \r\n                                              Financial Administration Decree, \r\n                                              1967 (N.L.C.D. 165) (which relate \r\n                                              to government contracts) shall not \r\n                                              apply to any transaction under \r\n                                              this Act unless the Minister \r\n                                              otherwise directs.</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;Exchange Control Act to \r\n                                              apply to Agreements, etc. under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall have effect subject \r\n                                              to the provisions of the Exchange \r\n                                              Control Act, 1961 (Act 71) and to \r\n                                              the provisions of any statutory \r\n                                              instrument made thereunder but \r\n                                              subject thereto, any transaction \r\n                                              or thing duly affected in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act shall be valid and have \r\n                                              full force and effect \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything to the \r\n                                              contrary.</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;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&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Bank&quot; means the Bank of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;external loan&quot; means a loan \r\n                                              raised from all or &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; any of the \r\n                                              following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the Government of any country \r\n                                              other than Ghana,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any person, body or \r\n                                              institution whether resident in \r\n                                              Ghana or outside Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a loan raised in currency \r\n                                              other than Ghana currency or a \r\n                                              loan the repayment of which is to \r\n                                              be made in currency other than \r\n                                              Ghana currency; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;guarantee&quot; includes an \r\n                                              undertaking to repay a &nbsp;&nbsp; loan \r\n                                              whether conditioned upon a default \r\n                                              or not;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;loan&quot; includes an overdraft and \r\n                                              any moneys lent or given to the \r\n                                              Government on condition of return \r\n                                              or repayment and any other form of \r\n                                              borrowing or lending in respect of \r\n                                              which&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) moneys from the Consolidated \r\n                                              Fund or any other public fund, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) moneys from any fund by \r\n                                              whatever name called established \r\n                                              for the purposes of repayment \r\n                                              whether in whole or in part and \r\n                                              whether directly or indirectly, \r\n                                              may be used for repayment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed body&quot; means&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a body corporate established \r\n                                              by an Act or by a statutory \r\n                                              instrument made under an Act,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any company or partnership in \r\n                                              which the Government has a \r\n                                              controlling interest being a \r\n                                              company or partnership which is \r\n                                              registered under the Companies \r\n                                              Code, 1963 (Act 179) or as the \r\n                                              case may be, under the \r\n                                              Incorporated Private Partnerships \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 152),</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any other company or \r\n                                              partnership (whether the \r\n                                              Government has any interest in it \r\n                                              or not) which is registered under \r\n                                              the Companies Code, 1963 (Act 179) \r\n                                              or as the case may be under the \r\n                                              Incorporated Private Partnerships \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 152);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;securities&quot; include securities of \r\n                                              the Government or of any other \r\n                                              country approved by the Minister \r\n                                              and bonds, notes, deposits, \r\n                                              certificates, debentures and \r\n                                              treasury bills.</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;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following enactments are \r\n                                              hereby repealed:&#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) Paragraphs 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 \r\n                                              and 30, the word &quot;loan&quot; appearing \r\n                                              in paragraph 13 and the proviso to \r\n                                              paragraph 46 (1) of the Financial \r\n                                              Administration Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              165),</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 External Loans Decree, \r\n                                              1968 (N.L.C.D. 246), 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 provisions relating to the \r\n                                              External Loans Decree, 1968 in the \r\n                                              Second Schedule to the \r\n                                              Constitution (Consequential and \r\n                                              Transitional Provisions) Decree, \r\n                                              1969 (N.L.C.D. 406).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of \r\n                                              the enactments referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section any \r\n                                              loans or other transactions or \r\n                                              statutory instruments existing \r\n                                              thereunder immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in effect under the \r\n                                              corresponding provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</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">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 335');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(115, 'MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT, 1971 (ACT 367)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1295" height="64">\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: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT, 1971 (ACT \r\n                                              367)</span></b></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                                              PART I&#8212;DIVORCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Petition for divorce</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Proof of breakdown of marriage</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Adultery of respondent</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Unreasonable behaviour of \r\n                                              respondent</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Desertion of respondent</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Consent of respondent</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Failure of parties to live as \r\n                                              man and wife</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Promotion of reconciliation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Restriction on petitions within \r\n                                              two years of marriage</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Petitioner''s conduct no bar to \r\n                                              divorce</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Respondent entitled to divorce \r\n                                              without cross-petition</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Alleged adulterer may be \r\n                                              joined</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OTHER MATRIMONIAL CAUSES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Nullity</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Children of annulled marriages</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Presumption of death and \r\n                                              dissolution of marriage</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Neglect to maintain spouse or \r\n                                              child</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Unreasonable conduct towards \r\n                                              spouse or child</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISION, \r\n                                              CHILD CUSTODY AND OTHER RELIEF</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. General powers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Financial provision for spouse</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Property settlement</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Conveyance of title</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Custody and financial \r\n                                              provision for children</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Security for payment</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Payment of costs</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Orders of restraint, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Orders relating to assets</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Modification of financial \r\n                                              provision, custody and support</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Financial provision to cease \r\n                                              on re-marriage or death</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Orders terminating on child \r\n                                              reaching majority</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Failure to comply with order \r\n                                              to make financial provision</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;JURISDICTION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. General matrimonial \r\n                                              jurisdiction</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Domicile of married women</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Additional jurisdiction \r\n                                              relating to financial provision</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Additional jurisdiction \r\n                                              relating to child custody</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Choice of law</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Recognition of foreign decrees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS AND \r\n                                              SUPPLEMENTARY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Decrees to be final</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Bequest to divorced spouse to \r\n                                              be invalid</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Privacy of proceedings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Transfer of undefended actions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Application of this Act</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Abolition of right to claim \r\n                                              restitution of conjugal rights</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Enactments ceasing to have \r\n                                              effect.</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 THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              SIXTY-SEVENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</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 MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT, 1971</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 matrimonial \r\n                                              causes and for other matters \r\n                                              connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 7th September, \r\n                                              1971</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;DIVORCE</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;Petition for Divorce.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A petition for divorce may be \r\n                                              presented to the court by either \r\n                                              party to a marriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The sole ground for granting a \r\n                                              petition for divorce shall be that \r\n                                              the marriage has broken down \r\n                                              beyond reconciliation.</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;Proof of Breakdown of \r\n                                              Marriage.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purpose of showing \r\n                                              that the marriage has broken down \r\n                                              beyond reconciliation the \r\n                                              petitioner shall satisfy the court \r\n                                              of one or more of the following \r\n                                              facts:&#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) that the respondent has \r\n                                              committed adultery and that by \r\n                                              reason of such adultery the \r\n                                              petitioner finds it intolerable to \r\n                                              live with the respondent; 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 respondent has \r\n                                              behaved in such a way that the \r\n                                              petitioner cannot reasonably be \r\n                                              expected to live with the \r\n                                              respondent; 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 the respondent has \r\n                                              deserted the petitioner for a \r\n                                              continuous period of at least two \r\n                                              years immediately preceding the \r\n                                              presentation of the petition; 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) that the parties to the \r\n                                              marriage have not lived as man and \r\n                                              wife for a continuous period of at \r\n                                              least two years immediately \r\n                                              preceding the presentation of the \r\n                                              petition and the respondent \r\n                                              consents to the grant of a decree \r\n                                              of divorce; provided that such \r\n                                              consent shall not be unreasonably \r\n                                              withheld, and where the Court is \r\n                                              satisfied that it has been so \r\n                                              withheld, the Court may grant a \r\n                                              petition for divorce under this \r\n                                              paragraph notwithstanding the \r\n                                              refusal; 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) that the parties to the \r\n                                              marriage have not lived as man and \r\n                                              wife for a continuous period of at \r\n                                              least five years immediately \r\n                                              preceding the presentation of the \r\n                                              petition; 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                                              (f) that the parties to the \r\n                                              marriage have, after diligent \r\n                                              effort, been unable to reconcile \r\n                                              their differences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On a petition for divorce it \r\n                                              shall be the duty of the court to \r\n                                              inquire, so far as is reasonable, \r\n                                              into the facts alleged by the \r\n                                              petitioner and the respondent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding that the court \r\n                                              finds the existence of one or more \r\n                                              of the facts specified in \r\n                                              subsection (1), the court shall \r\n                                              not grant a petition for divorce \r\n                                              unless it is satisfied, on all the \r\n                                              evidence, that the marriage has \r\n                                              broken down beyond reconciliation.</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;Adultery of Respondent.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where with a view to \r\n                                              reconciliation the parties to the \r\n                                              marriage have lived with each \r\n                                              other as man and wife for a period \r\n                                              or periods after it became known \r\n                                              to the petitioner that the \r\n                                              respondent had since the \r\n                                              celebration of the marriage, \r\n                                              committed adultery, then&#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) if the length of that period \r\n                                              or of those periods together was \r\n                                              six months or less, their living \r\n                                              with each other as man and wife \r\n                                              during that period or those \r\n                                              periods shall be disregarded in \r\n                                              determining whether for the \r\n                                              purposes of section 2 (1) (a) the \r\n                                              petitioner finds it intolerable to \r\n                                              live with the respondent; 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                                              (b) if the length of that period \r\n                                              or those periods together exceeded \r\n                                              six months, the petitioner shall \r\n                                              not be entitled to rely on that \r\n                                              adultery for the purposes of \r\n                                              section 2 (1) (a).</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;Unreasonable Behaviour \r\n                                              of Respondent.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of section 2 (1) \r\n                                              (b), in determining whether the \r\n                                              petitioner cannot reasonably be \r\n                                              expected to live with the \r\n                                              respondent, the court shall \r\n                                              disregard any period or periods \r\n                                              not exceeding six months in the \r\n                                              aggregate during which the parties \r\n                                              to the marriage lived with each \r\n                                              other as man and wife after the \r\n                                              date of the occurrence of the \r\n                                              final incident relied on by the \r\n                                              petitioner and proved to the court \r\n                                              in support of his allegation.</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;Desertion of Respondent.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purposes of section 2 \r\n                                              (1) (c), in determining whether \r\n                                              the period for which the \r\n                                              respondent has deserted petitioner \r\n                                              has been continuous, the court \r\n                                              shall disregard any period or \r\n                                              periods not exceeding six months \r\n                                              in the aggregate during which the \r\n                                              parties resumed living as man and \r\n                                              wife.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of section 2 \r\n                                              (1) (c) the court may treat a \r\n                                              period of desertion as having \r\n                                              continued at a time when the \r\n                                              deserting party was incapable of \r\n                                              continuing the necessary intention \r\n                                              if the evidence before the court \r\n                                              is such that, had that party not \r\n                                              been so incapable, the court would \r\n                                              have inferred that his desertion \r\n                                              continued at that time.</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;Consent of Respondent.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purposes of section 2 \r\n                                              (1) (d) the court must be \r\n                                              satisfied that a consent to \r\n                                              divorce has been given by the \r\n                                              respondent only after the \r\n                                              respondent has been given such \r\n                                              information as will enable him to \r\n                                              understand the consequences of his \r\n                                              consent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the only fact specified \r\n                                              in section 2 upon which the \r\n                                              petitioner relies in support of \r\n                                              his petition is that mentioned in \r\n                                              section 2 (1) (d), the court may, \r\n                                              on application by the respondent \r\n                                              at any time before the decree is \r\n                                              made, dismiss the proceedings if \r\n                                              it is satisfied that the \r\n                                              petitioner misled the respondent, \r\n                                              intentionally or unintentionally, \r\n                                              about any matter which the \r\n                                              respondent took into account in \r\n                                              deciding to consent to the grant \r\n                                              of a decree.</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;Failure of Parties to \r\n                                              Live as Man and Wife.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of section 2 (1) \r\n                                              (d) and (e), in determining \r\n                                              whether the period for which the \r\n                                              parties to a marriage have not \r\n                                              lived as man and wife has been \r\n                                              continuous, the court shall \r\n                                              disregard any period or periods \r\n                                              not exceeding six months in the \r\n                                              aggregate during which the parties \r\n                                              resumed living as man and wife.</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;Promotion of \r\n                                              Reconciliation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On the hearing of a petition \r\n                                              for divorce, the petitioner or his \r\n                                              counsel shall inform the court of \r\n                                              all efforts made by or on behalf \r\n                                              of the petitioner, both before and \r\n                                              after the commencement of the \r\n                                              proceedings, to effect a \r\n                                              reconciliation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If at any stage of the \r\n                                              proceedings for divorce it appears \r\n                                              to the court that there is a \r\n                                              reasonable possibility of \r\n                                              reconciliation, the court may \r\n                                              adjourn the proceedings for a \r\n                                              reasonable time to enable attempts \r\n                                              to be made to effect a \r\n                                              reconciliation, and may direct \r\n                                              that the parties to the marriage, \r\n                                              together with representatives of \r\n                                              their families or any conciliator \r\n                                              appointed by the court and \r\n                                              mutually agreeable to the parties, \r\n                                              attempt to effect a \r\n                                              reconciliation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) When proceedings are resumed \r\n                                              after an adjournment under \r\n                                              subsection (2), the conciliator, \r\n                                              or if no conciliator has been \r\n                                              appointed, counsel for the \r\n                                              petitioner, shall make a report to \r\n                                              the court of the result of the \r\n                                              adjournment, and the report shall \r\n                                              be limited to a statement that the \r\n                                              parties have been reconciled or \r\n                                              have not been reconciled or that \r\n                                              more time is needed to effect a \r\n                                              reconciliation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Evidence of statements or \r\n                                              other actions of the parties or \r\n                                              their representatives in \r\n                                              connection with attempts at \r\n                                              reconciliation under subsection \r\n                                              (2) shall not be admissible in \r\n                                              court in the divorce proceedings.</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;Restriction on Petitions \r\n                                              Within Two Years of Marriage.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), no \r\n                                              petition for divorce shall be \r\n                                              presented to the court within two \r\n                                              years from the date of the \r\n                                              marriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The court may, on application, \r\n                                              allow the presentation of a \r\n                                              petition for divorce within two \r\n                                              years from the date of the \r\n                                              marriage on the ground of \r\n                                              substantial hardship suffered by \r\n                                              the petitioner or depravity on the \r\n                                              part of the respondent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In determining the application \r\n                                              under subsection (2) the court \r\n                                              shall have regard to the interest \r\n                                              of any child of the household and \r\n                                              to the question whether there is a \r\n                                              reasonable possibility of \r\n                                              reconciliation between the \r\n                                              parties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If it appears to the court \r\n                                              that leave under subsection (2) \r\n                                              was obtained by the petitioner by \r\n                                              any misrepresentation or \r\n                                              concealment of the nature of the \r\n                                              case, the court may dismiss the \r\n                                              petition, without prejudice to any \r\n                                              petition which may be brought \r\n                                              after the expiration of the period \r\n                                              of two years from the date of that \r\n                                              marriage upon the same, or \r\n                                              substantially the same, facts as \r\n                                              those proved in support of the \r\n                                              dismissed petition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) This section shall not be \r\n                                              deemed to prohibit the \r\n                                              presentation of a petition based \r\n                                              upon matters which occurred within \r\n                                              two years from the date of the \r\n                                              marriage.</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;Petitioner''s Conduct No \r\n                                              Bar to Divorce.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Without prejudice to any provision \r\n                                              of this Act which empowers or \r\n                                              requires the court to dismiss a \r\n                                              petition for divorce, nothing in \r\n                                              any enactment or rule of law shall \r\n                                              be taken as empowering or \r\n                                              requiring the court to dismiss \r\n                                              such a petition on the ground of \r\n                                              collusion between the parties in \r\n                                              connection with the presentation \r\n                                              or prosecution of the petition or \r\n                                              on the ground of any conduct on \r\n                                              the part of the petitioner.</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;Respondent Entitled to \r\n                                              Divorce Without Cross-Petition.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If in any proceedings for divorce \r\n                                              the respondent alleges against the \r\n                                              petitioner and proves the facts \r\n                                              required by sections 1 (2) and 2 \r\n                                              (1), the court may in those \r\n                                              proceedings give to the respondent \r\n                                              the relief to which the respondent \r\n                                              would have been entitled if the \r\n                                              respondent had presented a \r\n                                              separate petition seeking that \r\n                                              relief.</span></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;Alleged Adulterer may \r\n                                              be Joined.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              On a petition for divorce in which \r\n                                              adultery is alleged, the person \r\n                                              alleged to have committed adultery \r\n                                              with the party to the marriage may \r\n                                              be, but need not be, made a party \r\n                                              to the proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OTHER MATRIMONIAL CAUSES</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;Nullity.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person may present a \r\n                                              petition to the court for a decree \r\n                                              annulling his marriage on the \r\n                                              ground that it is by law void or \r\n                                              voidable (in this Act referred to \r\n                                              as &quot;a decree of nullity&#8221;).</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 other \r\n                                              grounds on which a marriage is by \r\n                                              law void or voidable, a marriage \r\n                                              shall, subject to subsection (3), \r\n                                              be voidable on the ground&#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) that the marriage has not been \r\n                                              consummated owing to the wilful \r\n                                              refusal of the respondent to \r\n                                              consummate it; 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 at the time of the \r\n                                              marriage either party to the \r\n                                              marriage was of unsound mind or \r\n                                              subject to recurrent attacks of \r\n                                              insanity; 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 the respondent was at the \r\n                                              time of the marriage pregnant by \r\n                                              some person other than the \r\n                                              petitioner; 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) that the respondent was at the \r\n                                              time of the marriage suffering \r\n                                              from an incurable venereal disease \r\n                                              in a communicable form.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The court shall not grant a \r\n                                              decree of nullity in a case \r\n                                              falling within paragraphs (b), (c) \r\n                                              or (d) of subsection (2) unless it \r\n                                              is satisfied that&#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 petitioner was at the time \r\n                                              of the marriage ignorant of the \r\n                                              facts making the marriage voidable; \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                                              (b) proceedings were instituted \r\n                                              within a year from the date of the \r\n                                              marriage; 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) marital intercourse with the \r\n                                              consent of the petitioner has not \r\n                                              taken place since the petitioner \r\n                                              discovered the existence of the \r\n                                              facts making the marriage voidable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              be construed as validating a \r\n                                              marriage which is by law void but \r\n                                              with respect to which a decree of \r\n                                              nullity has not been granted.</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;Children of Annulled \r\n                                              Marriages.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a decree of nullity is \r\n                                              granted, any child of the parties \r\n                                              to the decree shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have the same status and rights as \r\n                                              if the marriage of his parents had \r\n                                              been dissolved rather than \r\n                                              annulled.</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;Presumption of Death \r\n                                              and Dissolution of Marriage.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any married person may present \r\n                                              a petition to the court to have it \r\n                                              presumed that the other party to \r\n                                              the marriage is dead and to have \r\n                                              the marriage dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The court may, if it is \r\n                                              satisfied that reasonable grounds \r\n                                              for the application of the \r\n                                              presumption exist, make a decree \r\n                                              of presumption of death and \r\n                                              dissolution of marriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In any proceedings under this \r\n                                              section, the fact that for a \r\n                                              period of seven years or more the \r\n                                              other party to the marriage has \r\n                                              been continually absent from the \r\n                                              petitioner and the petitioner has \r\n                                              no reason to believe that the \r\n                                              other party has been living within \r\n                                              that time shall be evidence that \r\n                                              the other party is dead until the \r\n                                              contrary is proved.</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;Neglect to Maintain \r\n                                              Spouse or Child.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Either party to a marriage may \r\n                                              petition the court for an order \r\n                                              for maintenance on the ground that \r\n                                              the other party to the marriage \r\n                                              has wilfully neglected to provide, \r\n                                              or to make a proper contribution \r\n                                              towards, reasonable maintenance \r\n                                              for the petitioner or any child of \r\n                                              the household.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A wife shall not be deemed to \r\n                                              have wilfully neglected her \r\n                                              husband unless the court is \r\n                                              satisfied that, in all the \r\n                                              circumstances, it is reasonable to \r\n                                              expect the wife to provide or \r\n                                              contribute towards maintenance for \r\n                                              her husband; and for the purpose \r\n                                              of so satisfying itself the court \r\n                                              shall consider&#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) any impairment of the \r\n                                              husband''s earning capacity, \r\n                                              whether through age, illness, \r\n                                              disability or otherwise; 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) any resources of the husband; \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                                              (c) the earning capacity and any \r\n                                              resources of the wife; 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 circumstances \r\n                                              relating to the financial position \r\n                                              of the parties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A respondent shall not be \r\n                                              deemed to have wilfully neglected \r\n                                              a child of the household where \r\n                                              that child is not the natural or \r\n                                              adopted child of the respondent \r\n                                              unless the court is satisfied in \r\n                                              all the circumstances that it is \r\n                                              reasonable to expect the \r\n                                              respondent to provide or \r\n                                              contribute towards maintenance for \r\n                                              that child of the household; and \r\n                                              for the purpose of so satisfying \r\n                                              itself, the court shall consider&#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) whether the respondent had \r\n                                              assumed any responsibility for the \r\n                                              child''s maintenance, and if so, \r\n                                              the extent, duration and basis of \r\n                                              that assumed responsibility; 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) whether any person other than \r\n                                              the respondent is responsible for \r\n                                              the maintenance of the child, and \r\n                                              if so, the extent to which that \r\n                                              party is maintaining, or might be \r\n                                              able to maintain, the child; 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) any other circumstances \r\n                                              relating to the relationship \r\n                                              between the respondent and the \r\n                                              child.</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;Unreasonable Conduct \r\n                                              Towards Spouse or Child.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Either party to a marriage may \r\n                                              petition the Court for a child \r\n                                              custody order on the ground that \r\n                                              the other party to the marriage \r\n                                              has persistently behaved in an \r\n                                              unreasonable manner towards either \r\n                                              the petitioner or any child of the \r\n                                              household.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISION, \r\n                                              CHILD CUSTODY AND OTHER RELIEF.</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;General Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In any proceedings under this Act, \r\n                                              the court may exercise any of the \r\n                                              powers specified in this Part.</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;Financial Provision for \r\n                                              Spouse.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The court may, whenever it thinks \r\n                                              just and equitable, award \r\n                                              maintenance pending suit or \r\n                                              financial provision to either \r\n                                              party to the marriage, but no \r\n                                              order for maintenance pending suit \r\n                                              or financial provision shall be \r\n                                              made until the court has \r\n                                              considered the standard of living \r\n                                              of the parties and their \r\n                                              circumstances.</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;Property Settlement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The court may order either \r\n                                              party to the marriage to pay to \r\n                                              the other party such sum of money \r\n                                              or convey to the other party such \r\n                                              movable or immovable property as \r\n                                              settlement of property rights or \r\n                                              in lieu thereof or as part of \r\n                                              financial provision as the court \r\n                                              thinks just and equitable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Payments and conveyances under \r\n                                              this section may be ordered to be \r\n                                              made in gross or by instalments.</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;Conveyance of Title.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) When a decree of divorce or \r\n                                              nullity is granted, if the court \r\n                                              is satisfied that either party to \r\n                                              the marriage holds title to \r\n                                              movable or immovable property part \r\n                                              or all of which rightfully belongs \r\n                                              to the other, the court shall \r\n                                              order transfer or conveyance of \r\n                                              the interest to the party entitled \r\n                                              to it upon such terms as the court \r\n                                              thinks just and equitable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) When a transfer or conveyance \r\n                                              of movable or immovable property \r\n                                              is ordered by the court and the \r\n                                              party ordered to make the transfer \r\n                                              or conveyance is either unable or \r\n                                              unwilling to do so, the court may \r\n                                              order the registrar of the court \r\n                                              to execute the appropriate \r\n                                              transfer or conveyance on the part \r\n                                              of that party.</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;Custody and Financial \r\n                                              Provision for Children.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In all proceedings under this \r\n                                              Act, it shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              court to inquire whether there are \r\n                                              any children of the household.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The court may, either on its \r\n                                              own initiative or on application \r\n                                              by a party to any proceedings \r\n                                              under this Act, make any order \r\n                                              concerning any child of the \r\n                                              household which it thinks \r\n                                              reasonable and for the benefit of \r\n                                              the child.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (2), an \r\n                                              order under that section may&#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) award custody of the child to \r\n                                              any person;</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) regulate the right of access \r\n                                              of any person to the child;</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) provide for the education and \r\n                                              maintenance of the child out of \r\n                                              the property or income of either \r\n                                              or both of the parties to the \r\n                                              marriage.</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;Security for Payment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the court has reason to \r\n                                              believe that a party ordered to \r\n                                              make a payment or payments may be \r\n                                              unwilling or unlikely to pay, the \r\n                                              court may order that party to give \r\n                                              reasonable security for any \r\n                                              payment or payments ordered.</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;Payment of Costs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At any time after the commencement \r\n                                              of the proceedings, the court may \r\n                                              require either party to the \r\n                                              marriage to pay to the other party \r\n                                              such sum or sums of money as are \r\n                                              reasonable to enable that party to \r\n                                              maintain or defend the suit.</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;Orders of Restraint, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The court may by order \r\n                                              restrain&#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) either party to the marriage \r\n                                              from leaving the jurisdiction \r\n                                              until the court is satisfied that \r\n                                              that party has made adequate \r\n                                              provision to satisfy any award the \r\n                                              court has made or may make in the \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                                              (b) any person from removing any \r\n                                              child of the household from the \r\n                                              jurisdiction,</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 party to the marriage from \r\n                                              imposing any restraint on the \r\n                                              personal liberty of, or from \r\n                                              harming or interfering with, the \r\n                                              other party to the marriage or any \r\n                                              child of the household, for as \r\n                                              long as it thinks necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The court may order any person \r\n                                              to return any child of the \r\n                                              household to the jurisdiction.</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;Orders Relating to \r\n                                              Assets.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The court may by order \r\n                                              restrain either party to the \r\n                                              marriage, or any other person, \r\n                                              from permitting the disposition of \r\n                                              the assets or property of either \r\n                                              party to the marriage, and the \r\n                                              court may rescind any disposition \r\n                                              of such assets or property that \r\n                                              has been made with the intention \r\n                                              of defeating the financial \r\n                                              provision or property settlement \r\n                                              of the other party, except that a \r\n                                              disposition for value to a \r\n                                              purchaser in good faith may not be \r\n                                              rescinded.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The court may make any order \r\n                                              concerning the property of either \r\n                                              party to the marriage or of any \r\n                                              child of the household that is \r\n                                              appropriate to preserve or \r\n                                              maintain that asset or property \r\n                                              while the suit is pending before \r\n                                              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 27&#8212;Modification of \r\n                                              Financial Provision, Custody and \r\n                                              Support.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), the \r\n                                              court may from time to time \r\n                                              rescind or vary any order in \r\n                                              respect of maintenance pending \r\n                                              suit and financial provision, or \r\n                                              the care, custody and support of \r\n                                              any child, 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) No order of financial \r\n                                              provision for a party to the \r\n                                              marriage may be made subsequent to \r\n                                              a decree of divorce or nullity in \r\n                                              any case in which&#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 decree contains, an \r\n                                              express waiver of financial \r\n                                              provision; 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 decree provides for a \r\n                                              money or property settlement in \r\n                                              lieu of financial provision and \r\n                                              that settlement has been executed; \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) the decree does not grant \r\n                                              liberty to apply for financial \r\n                                              provision in the future.</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;Financial Provision to \r\n                                              Cease on Remarriage or Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A party to the marriage shall \r\n                                              not be entitled to financial \r\n                                              provision for himself in respect \r\n                                              of any period after his \r\n                                              remarriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The death of a party for whose \r\n                                              benefit an order for financial \r\n                                              provision has been made, or the \r\n                                              death of the party adversely \r\n                                              affected by such order, shall \r\n                                              automatically terminate the order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall be without prejudice to the \r\n                                              right of any party ordered to make \r\n                                              financial provision to apply to \r\n                                              the Court under section 27 (1), at \r\n                                              any time subsequent to such order, \r\n                                              to rescind or vary such order for \r\n                                              any sufficient cause.</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;Orders Terminating on \r\n                                              Child Reaching Majority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An order for care, custody or \r\n                                              support of a child shall \r\n                                              automatically terminate when the \r\n                                              child reaches the age of \r\n                                              twenty-one years, unless the order \r\n                                              provides otherwise with a view to \r\n                                              making reasonable provision for \r\n                                              the further education of such a \r\n                                              child, or for the care, custody \r\n                                              and support of such a child who is \r\n                                              so incapacitated that he cannot be \r\n                                              expected to care for himself.</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;Failure to Comply with \r\n                                              Order to Make Financial Provision.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Failure to comply with an order of \r\n                                              the Court to make financial \r\n                                              provision under this Act for a \r\n                                              spouse or child shall, in addition \r\n                                              to any other effect it might have, \r\n                                              be deemed to commence a period of \r\n                                              desertion by the party to the \r\n                                              marriage who has failed to comply \r\n                                              with the order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;JURISDICTION</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;General Matrimonial \r\n                                              Jurisdiction.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The court shall have jurisdiction \r\n                                              in any proceedings under this Act \r\n                                              where either party to the \r\n                                              marriage&#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) is a citizen of 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                                              (b) is domiciled 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) has been ordinarily resident \r\n                                              in Ghana for at least three years \r\n                                              immediately preceding the \r\n                                              commencement of the proceedings.</span></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;Domicile of Married \r\n                                              Women.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the sole purpose of \r\n                                              determining jurisdiction under \r\n                                              this Act, the domicile of a \r\n                                              married woman shall be determined \r\n                                              as if the woman was above the age \r\n                                              of twenty-one and not married.</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;Additional Jurisdiction \r\n                                              Relating to Financial Provision.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In addition to any other \r\n                                              jurisdiction conferred by this \r\n                                              Act, the court shall have \r\n                                              jurisdiction, where a party who \r\n                                              may be ordered to make financial \r\n                                              provision has assets in Ghana, to \r\n                                              order that party to make financial \r\n                                              provision not exceeding the value \r\n                                              of those assets.</span></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;Additional Jurisdiction \r\n                                              Relating to Child Custody.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In addition to any other \r\n                                              jurisdiction conferred by this \r\n                                              Act, the court shall have \r\n                                              jurisdiction to make child custody \r\n                                              arrangements whenever the child \r\n                                              whose custody is in question is \r\n                                              present in Ghana.</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;Choice of Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In any proceedings under this Act, \r\n                                              except in proceedings for a decree \r\n                                              of nullity of a void marriage, the \r\n                                              issues shall be determined as if \r\n                                              both parties to the marriage were \r\n                                              domiciled in Ghana at the \r\n                                              commencement of the proceedings.</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;Recognition of Foreign \r\n                                              Decrees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The court shall recognize as valid \r\n                                              a decree of divorce, nullity or \r\n                                              presumption of death and \r\n                                              dissolution of marriage, obtained \r\n                                              by judicial process or otherwise, \r\n                                              which is not contrary to natural \r\n                                              justice, and which&#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) has been granted by any \r\n                                              tribunal which had a significant \r\n                                              and substantial connection with \r\n                                              the parties to the marriage; 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) is in accordance with the law \r\n                                              of the place where both parties to \r\n                                              the marriage were ordinarily \r\n                                              resident at the time of the action \r\n                                              dissolving or annulling the \r\n                                              marriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS AND \r\n                                              SUPPLEMENTARY</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;Decrees to be Final.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every decree of divorce, nullity \r\n                                              and presumption of death and \r\n                                              dissolution of marriage under this \r\n                                              Act shall take effect from the \r\n                                              date on which the court gave \r\n                                              judgment.</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;Bequest to Divorced \r\n                                              Spouse to be Invalid.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any gift to or appointment in \r\n                                              favour of one spouse in the will \r\n                                              of the other shall be invalidated \r\n                                              if the marriage has been \r\n                                              terminated under this Act by \r\n                                              divorce or annulment, unless the \r\n                                              will contains an express provision \r\n                                              to the contrary.</span></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;Privacy of Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The court may direct that any \r\n                                              proceedings under this Act be \r\n                                              heard in private and may exclude \r\n                                              all persons except officers of the \r\n                                              court, the parties and their \r\n                                              witnesses and lawyers where the \r\n                                              court is satisfied that the \r\n                                              interests of the parties or the \r\n                                              children of the household so \r\n                                              require.</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;Transfer of Undefended \r\n                                              Actions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chief Justice may by writing \r\n                                              under his hand transfer any \r\n                                              undefended action under this Act \r\n                                              from the High Court or a Circuit \r\n                                              Court to a District Court, and \r\n                                              that court shall have \r\n                                              jurisdiction.</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;Application of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) This Act shall apply to all \r\n                                              monogamous marriages. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On application by a party to a \r\n                                              marriage other than a monogamous \r\n                                              marriage, the court shall apply \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act to that \r\n                                              marriage, and in so doing, subject \r\n                                              to the requirements of justice, \r\n                                              equity and good conscience, the \r\n                                              Court may&#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) have regard to the peculiar \r\n                                              incidents of that marriage in \r\n                                              determining appropriate relief, \r\n                                              financial provision and child \r\n                                              custody arrangements;</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) grant any form of relief \r\n                                              recognised by the personal law of \r\n                                              the parties to the proceedings, \r\n                                              either in addition to or in \r\n                                              substitution for the matrimonial \r\n                                              reliefs afforded by this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In the application of section \r\n                                              2 (1) of this Act to a marriage \r\n                                              other than a monogamous marriage, \r\n                                              the court shall have regard to any \r\n                                              facts recognised by the personal \r\n                                              law of the parties as sufficient \r\n                                              to justify a divorce, including in \r\n                                              the case of a customary law \r\n                                              marriage (but without prejudice to \r\n                                              the foregoing) the following&#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) wilful neglect to maintain a \r\n                                              wife or child;</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) impotence;</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) barrenness or sterility;</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) intercourse prohibited under \r\n                                              that personal law on account of \r\n                                              consanguinity, affinity or other \r\n                                              relationship;</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) persistent false allegations \r\n                                              of infidelity by one spouse \r\n                                              against another:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this subsection \r\n                                              shall have effect subject to the \r\n                                              requirements of justice, equity \r\n                                              and good conscience.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) In the application of this Act \r\n                                              to any marriage under customary \r\n                                              law, the words &quot;child of the \r\n                                              household&quot; shall be construed as \r\n                                              including any child recognised \r\n                                              under customary law as a child of \r\n                                              the parties.</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;Abolition of Right to \r\n                                              Claim Restitution of Conjugal \r\n                                              Rights.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              After the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              no person may petition the court \r\n                                              for restitution of conjugal \r\n                                              rights.</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;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&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;adultery&quot; means the voluntary \r\n                                              sexual intercourse of a married \r\n                                              person with one of the opposite \r\n                                              sex other than his or her spouse;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;child of the household&quot; means any \r\n                                              child, whether the natural or \r\n                                              adopted child of both or either of \r\n                                              the parties, or any other child \r\n                                              who is treated by both parties as \r\n                                              a permanent member of their \r\n                                              household;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;court&quot; means (subject to section \r\n                                              40) the High Court or a Circuit \r\n                                              Court;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;financial provision&quot; includes \r\n                                              maintenance and all other forms of \r\n                                              financial support provided by one \r\n                                              spouse to the other or to any \r\n                                              child of the household;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;maintenance pending suit&quot; \r\n                                              includes all forms of financial \r\n                                              support provided by one spouse to \r\n                                              the other or to any child of the \r\n                                              household from the commencement to \r\n                                              the determination of the \r\n                                              proceedings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;marriage&quot; except as otherwise \r\n                                              provided in section 41 of this Act \r\n                                              means a monogamous marriage;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;monogamous marriage&quot; does not \r\n                                              include a potentially polygamous \r\n                                              marriage.</span></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;Enactments Ceasing to \r\n                                              have Effect.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any English statute relating \r\n                                              to matrimonial causes which was in \r\n                                              force in Ghana immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              cease to apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This Act shall not apply to \r\n                                              any proceedings commenced before \r\n                                              the coming into force of this Act, \r\n                                              and accordingly notwithstanding \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              any such proceedings may be \r\n                                              continued and determined after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act in \r\n                                              accordance with the law in force \r\n                                              immediately before such \r\n                                              commencement.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              HOSPITAL FEES ACT, 1971 (ACT 387)</span></b></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                                              &nbsp;1. Hospital Fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;2. General exemptions from \r\n                                              hospital fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;3. Exemptions for particular \r\n                                              services</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;4. Exemptions for particular \r\n                                              classes of persons</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;5. Increased fees payable in \r\n                                              certain cases</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;6. Persons liable to pay fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;7. Manner of payment of fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;8. Recovery of fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;9. Evidence</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. False representations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Repeals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Commencement.</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 THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              EIGHTY-SEVENTH</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 HOSPITAL FEES ACT, 1971</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT&nbsp; to regulate the fees \r\n                                              payable in respect of hospital \r\n                                              services, and for matters \r\n                                              connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 6th October, 1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED&nbsp; by the President \r\n                                              and 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;Hospital Fees.</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, any person who receives \r\n                                              services at a hospital shall pay \r\n                                              for those services the prescribed \r\n                                              basic fees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except as provided by this Act \r\n                                              and regulations made thereunder, \r\n                                              no person shall be liable to pay \r\n                                              any fees in respect of services \r\n                                              rendered to him in a hospital.</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;General Exemptions from \r\n                                              Hospital Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No fees shall be paid in respect \r\n                                              of services rendered in a hospital \r\n                                              to&#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) any person certified in \r\n                                              writing by a medical officer to be \r\n                                              unable to pay those fees on the \r\n                                              ground of poverty;</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 suffering from such \r\n                                              disease or condition as may be \r\n                                              prescribed;</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 pupil or student receiving \r\n                                              full-time education in a \r\n                                              recognised 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                                              (d) any prescribed class of \r\n                                              persons working or studying within \r\n                                              the Health Service;</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 person requested by the \r\n                                              medical officer concerned to \r\n                                              attend or come to a hospital for \r\n                                              admission for the purpose of \r\n                                              teaching;</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) any person for the time being \r\n                                              in lawful custody;</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) any certified psychiatric \r\n                                              patient;</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 other prescribed class of \r\n                                              persons.</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;Exemptions for \r\n                                              Particular Services.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No fees shall be paid in \r\n                                              respect of any medical examination \r\n                                              or report required by any \r\n                                              department of state, or in \r\n                                              connection with the official \r\n                                              duties of any employee of a \r\n                                              department of state, or in \r\n                                              connection with the entry of any \r\n                                              person into a department of state \r\n                                              or his departure therefrom.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No fees shall be paid by any \r\n                                              person receiving medical attention \r\n                                              in a hospital in respect of any \r\n                                              medical report relating to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No fees shall be paid by any \r\n                                              person in respect of any \r\n                                              prescribed laboratory examination \r\n                                              carried out on him during \r\n                                              out-patient attendance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No fees shall be paid by any \r\n                                              person in respect of X-ray films \r\n                                              taken for the purposes of \r\n                                              tuberculosis control.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) No fees shall be paid by any \r\n                                              person other than a non-resident \r\n                                              alien&#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) in respect of any casualty \r\n                                              treatment given which does not \r\n                                              involve admission into hospital; \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                                              (b) in respect of treatment \r\n                                              involving splints or other similar \r\n                                              appliances.</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;Exemptions for \r\n                                              Particular Classes of Persons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No fees other than the fees \r\n                                              prescribed for accommodation and \r\n                                              maintenance shall be paid in \r\n                                              respect of services rendered in a \r\n                                              hospital to&#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) any person who is not \r\n                                              gainfully employed and who is \r\n                                              under the age of eighteen years or \r\n                                              over the age of sixty-five years;</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 other than a \r\n                                              non-resident alien in respect of \r\n                                              ante-natal care at a health post, \r\n                                              rural health centre or clinic, or \r\n                                              any other hospital specified by \r\n                                              the Director of Medical Services \r\n                                              by notice published in the \r\n                                              Gazette;</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 maternity patient who has \r\n                                              had four or more child births;</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 maternity patient referred \r\n                                              to a hospital from a clinic or \r\n                                              health centre;</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 maternity patient referred \r\n                                              to a hospital by a registered \r\n                                              midwife or registered medical \r\n                                              practitioner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No fees in respect of \r\n                                              accommodation or maintenance shall \r\n                                              be paid where any person referred \r\n                                              to in subsection (1) is exempted \r\n                                              from such payment by any provision \r\n                                              of section 2.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding the provisions \r\n                                              of subsections (1) and (2) of this \r\n                                              section where a patient requests \r\n                                              for special amenities such patient \r\n                                              shall pay such fees as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</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;Increased Fees Payable \r\n                                              in Certain Cases.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where services are rendered in a \r\n                                              hospital to any person who is&#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 private patient; 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) a non-resident alien; 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) a member of the diplomatic \r\n                                              staff of a country which does not \r\n                                              give reciprocal medical coverage \r\n                                              to Ghanaian diplomatic staff \r\n                                              accredited to that country or \r\n                                              Ghanaians resident in that \r\n                                              country; 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 wife or child of a person \r\n                                              referred to in paragraph (c),</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and such person is liable to pay \r\n                                              any fee under the foregoing \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, the fee \r\n                                              payable shall be not less than \r\n                                              such fee as shall be payable by a \r\n                                              Ghanaian diplomat accredited to or \r\n                                              resident in the country of that \r\n                                              person.</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;Persons Liable to Pay \r\n                                              Fees.</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 provision of \r\n                                              this section, the person liable to \r\n                                              pay any fee under this Act shall \r\n                                              be the person in respect of whom \r\n                                              the service was rendered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding subsection \r\n                                              (1), where it is a term in the \r\n                                              conditions of service of any \r\n                                              person employed by the Government \r\n                                              that such person shall be entitled \r\n                                              to receive any free medical \r\n                                              attention, such person shall to \r\n                                              that extent not be liable for the \r\n                                              payment of fees 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;Manner of Payment of \r\n                                              Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The fees payable under this \r\n                                              Act shall be paid to the hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer at the hospital \r\n                                              where the fees were incurred, upon \r\n                                              the issue by that officer of a \r\n                                              bill specifying the fees to be \r\n                                              paid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The hospital revenue officer \r\n                                              shall issue an official receipt to \r\n                                              every person making a payment \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any hospital revenue officer \r\n                                              who fails, at the time of \r\n                                              receiving a payment under this \r\n                                              Act, to issue an official receipt \r\n                                              to the person making that payment, \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding two thousand \r\n                                              new cedis or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months or to \r\n                                              both.</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;Recovery of Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              hospital revenue officer or any \r\n                                              other person appointed by the \r\n                                              Minister may sue for the recovery \r\n                                              of any fees payable under this Act \r\n                                              which are unpaid together with any \r\n                                              costs properly incurred.</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;Evidence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In any proceedings for the \r\n                                              recovery of any fees payable under \r\n                                              this Act, an account signed by the \r\n                                              hospital revenue officer setting \r\n                                              out the amount claimed from the \r\n                                              defendant in the proceedings shall \r\n                                              be admissible in evidence without \r\n                                              proof of the signature, and shall \r\n                                              be prima facie evidence of the \r\n                                              amount due.</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;False Representations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who by a false \r\n                                              representation obtains without \r\n                                              payment or at a reduced rate of \r\n                                              payment any medicine, surgical \r\n                                              appliance, attendance or treatment \r\n                                              at a hospital shall be guilty of \r\n                                              an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who commits any of \r\n                                              the acts referred to in subsection \r\n                                              (1) shall, whether or not he is \r\n                                              prosecuted, be liable to pay for \r\n                                              such medicine, surgical appliance, \r\n                                              attendance or treatment at the \r\n                                              prescribed rates, and in respect \r\n                                              of such payment shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to the benefit of any \r\n                                              exemption 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 11&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may with the approval \r\n                                              of the Cabinet by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations \r\n                                              prescribing anything that is to be \r\n                                              prescribed for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act, granting further \r\n                                              exemptions in respect of any class \r\n                                              of persons or any form of \r\n                                              treatment, or otherwise for giving \r\n                                              effect to the provisions and \r\n                                              purposes 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 12&#8212;Interpretation.</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,&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;department of state&quot; includes the \r\n                                              Civil Service, the Judicial \r\n                                              Service, the Teaching Service, the \r\n                                              Police Service, the Prisons \r\n                                              Service, the Armed Forces of \r\n                                              Ghana, and any other prescribed \r\n                                              service;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;hospital&quot; means any \r\n                                              government-controlled hospital, \r\n                                              dispensary, health centre, clinic, \r\n                                              mental or psychiatric hospital or \r\n                                              other government medical \r\n                                              institution at which medical \r\n                                              treatment is available;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;hospital revenue officer&quot; means \r\n                                              the officer responsible for the \r\n                                              collection of fees at a hospital;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;medical officer concerned&quot; means \r\n                                              a medical officer wholly or partly \r\n                                              responsible for the medical care \r\n                                              of a patient at a hospital;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Health;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;non-resident alien&quot; means an \r\n                                              alien who does not have a \r\n                                              residence permit entitling him to \r\n                                              remain in Ghana for six months or \r\n                                              more, or who is not lawfully \r\n                                              exempted from having a residence \r\n                                              permit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations made under section 11;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;private patient&quot; means a patient \r\n                                              who requests and is prepared to \r\n                                              pay for special attention and \r\n                                              amenities in lieu of the attention \r\n                                              and amenities ordinarily \r\n                                              appropriate to his case;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;special amenities&quot; means the \r\n                                              accommodation and maintenance of a \r\n                                              patient in a ward designated by \r\n                                              the Director of Medical Services \r\n                                              as an amenity ward, in which the \r\n                                              patient enjoys personal facilities \r\n                                              for washing and toilet and where \r\n                                              special diets and other facilities \r\n                                              are provided at extra cost.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is any doubt as to \r\n                                              whether an institution at which \r\n                                              treatment is available is \r\n                                              government-controlled so as to be \r\n                                              a &quot;hospital&quot; within the meaning of \r\n                                              this Act, the Director of Medical \r\n                                              Services, after consultation with \r\n                                              the Minister, may resolve such \r\n                                              doubt by notice published in the \r\n                                              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 13&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Hospital Fees Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              360) and the Hospital Fees Decree, \r\n                                              1969 (Amendment) Act, 1970 (Act \r\n                                              325) are hereby repealed.</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;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 be deemed to come \r\n                                              into force on the 1st day</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              </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', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 367');
