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(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');
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(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');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(116, 'NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING ACT, 1970 (ACT 351)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1308" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING ACT, \r\n                                              1970 (ACT 351)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Establishment of National \r\n                                              Vocational Training Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Offices of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Functions of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Constitution of the Board.</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. Committees of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Administration and Staffing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Duties of the Director of the \r\n                                              Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Superannuation of employees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Funds of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Estimates of Income and \r\n                                              Expenditure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Accounts and audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Annual Report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Powers of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Bye-laws and Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Exemption from taxes and \r\n                                              rates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Repeals and Revocation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Commencement of this Act.</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 FIFTY-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 NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING \r\n                                              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 establish a National \r\n                                              Vocational Training Institute to \r\n                                              co-ordinate at the national level \r\n                                              all aspects of vocational training \r\n                                              including apprenticeship.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 12th January, 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:-</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE</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                                              National Vocational Training \r\n                                              Institute.</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 to be known as the \r\n                                              National Vocational Training \r\n                                              Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal and may sue and be sued in \r\n                                              its corporate name.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Institute may, for and in \r\n                                              connection with its functions \r\n                                              under this Act, purchase, hold, \r\n                                              manage and dispose of any property \r\n                                              and may enter into such contracts \r\n                                              and other transactions as may be \r\n                                              expedient.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The common seal of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be kept in such \r\n                                              custody as the Board may \r\n                                              determine, and shall not be \r\n                                              affixed to any document or \r\n                                              instrument except by order of the \r\n                                              Board, and in the presence of two \r\n                                              members of the Board, who shall \r\n                                              sign any such document or \r\n                                              instrument independently of the \r\n                                              signatures of any person who may \r\n                                              have signed the document or \r\n                                              instrument as a witness.</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;Offices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The head office of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be at Accra.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute may open branch \r\n                                              offices in all the Regions of \r\n                                              Ghana for the performance of its \r\n                                              functions 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 3&#8212;Functions of the \r\n                                              Institute.</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 Institute \r\n                                              are&#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 organise apprenticeship, \r\n                                              in-plant training and training \r\n                                              programmes for industrial and \r\n                                              clerical workers, and to train the \r\n                                              instructors and training officers \r\n                                              required for that purpose;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to provide for vocational \r\n                                              guidance and career development in \r\n                                              industry;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to develop training standards \r\n                                              and trade testing;</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 initiate a continuing study \r\n                                              of the country''s manpower \r\n                                              requirements at the skilled worker \r\n                                              level;</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 establish and maintain \r\n                                              technical and cultural relations \r\n                                              with international organisations \r\n                                              and other foreign institutions \r\n                                              engaged in activities connected \r\n                                              with vocational training; 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) subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, to do all such things as \r\n                                              are conducive to the attainment of \r\n                                              the objects of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute shall, in the \r\n                                              exercise of its functions, have \r\n                                              financial and administrative \r\n                                              autonomy.</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;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 governing body of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be a Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman and members of \r\n                                              the Board shall be appointed by \r\n                                              the President acting on the advice \r\n                                              of the Prime Minister, in \r\n                                              accordance with article 49 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and the provisions of \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) 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 Director of the Institute,</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) two members representing the \r\n                                              Ghana Trades Union Congress,\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                                              (d) two members representing the \r\n                                              Ghana Employers'' Association,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the Chief Technical Education \r\n                                              Officer, Ministry of Education, \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                                              (f) two other members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Chief Labour Officer and \r\n                                              the Chairman of the Manpower Board \r\n                                              may be appointed members of the \r\n                                              Board under this section and if \r\n                                              they are not so appointed they \r\n                                              shall nevertheless be entitled to \r\n                                              attend and participate at all \r\n                                              meetings of the Board but shall \r\n                                              not vote on any matter before the \r\n                                              Board at any such meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Chairman of the Board \r\n                                              shall be a person of recognised \r\n                                              standing and experience in \r\n                                              administration and industrial \r\n                                              training.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board shall elect from \r\n                                              among their number a person, other \r\n                                              than the Director, to be \r\n                                              Vice-Chairman of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) A member of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Director shall hold \r\n                                              office for the period, not being \r\n                                              more than three years, specified \r\n                                              in his instrument of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The Chairman of the Board may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Minister \r\n                                              for transmission to the Prime \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) A member of the Board may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Chairman \r\n                                              of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) Every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall, on ceasing to be a member, \r\n                                              be eligible for re-appointment, \r\n                                              unless he has ceased to be a \r\n                                              member as a result of misconduct \r\n                                              or removal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (11) Members of the Board may be \r\n                                              paid such allowance or \r\n                                              remuneration as the Minister may \r\n                                              decide.</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                                              Board may decide but shall meet at \r\n                                              least once every three months.</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 at \r\n                                              the 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 quorum at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five or such \r\n                                              greater number as the Board may \r\n                                              determine. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Chairman, if present, \r\n                                              shall preside at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board, and, in his absence, \r\n                                              the Vice-Chairman, and in the \r\n                                              latter''s absence, any member of \r\n                                              the Board elected by the members \r\n                                              present 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                                              (5) Subject to any other \r\n                                              provisions of this Act or any \r\n                                              bye-laws of the Board, all \r\n                                              questions proposed at a meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be determined by a \r\n                                              simple majority of the members \r\n                                              present and voting and where the \r\n                                              votes are equal the Chairman or \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board may request the \r\n                                              attendance of any person to act as \r\n                                              adviser at any meeting of the \r\n                                              Board and that person while so \r\n                                              attending shall have all the \r\n                                              powers of a member except that he \r\n                                              shall not vote on any question and \r\n                                              his presence at the meeting shall \r\n                                              not 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                                              (7) The validity of any act of the \r\n                                              Board shall not be affected by any \r\n                                              vacancy among its members or any \r\n                                              defect in the appointment of a \r\n                                              member thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Subject to the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this paragraph 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;Committees 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 may appoint such \r\n                                              committees consisting of such \r\n                                              number of persons, whether members \r\n                                              of the Board or not, as it thinks \r\n                                              fit to exercise or advise the \r\n                                              Board on the exercise of any of \r\n                                              its functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member of the Board shall be \r\n                                              appointed chairman of every such \r\n                                              committee.</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;Administration and Staff \r\n                                              Matters.</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, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, have \r\n                                              the sole management of the \r\n                                              property, income, funds and \r\n                                              affairs of the Institute. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute shall have a \r\n                                              Director and a Deputy Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Director and the Deputy \r\n                                              Director shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President, acting in accordance \r\n                                              with the advice of the Prime \r\n                                              Minister, and shall hold office \r\n                                              upon such terms and conditions as \r\n                                              may be prescribed in the \r\n                                              instrument of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Board may employ, upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Board thinks fit, such persons as \r\n                                              may be required for the proper and \r\n                                              efficient discharge of the Board''s \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Board may delegate to the \r\n                                              Director of the Institute the \r\n                                              power to appoint persons to such \r\n                                              posts as are designated by the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Every such appointment shall \r\n                                              be submitted to the Board for \r\n                                              approval.</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;Duties of the Director.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Director shall be the \r\n                                              principal technical and \r\n                                              administrative officer of the \r\n                                              Institute and shall subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, perform \r\n                                              the following duties:&#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) exercise authority and general \r\n                                              control over the technical and \r\n                                              administrative staff of the \r\n                                              Institute,</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) co-ordinate and implement the \r\n                                              training programme of the \r\n                                              Institute in accordance with the \r\n                                              general policy of 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                                              (c) submit to the Board progress \r\n                                              reports on the projects of the \r\n                                              Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the absence of the Director \r\n                                              shall the Deputy Director, act \r\n                                              until such time as a new Director \r\n                                              is appointed.</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;Superannuation of \r\n                                              Employees.</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 grant, subject \r\n                                              to the provisions of the Social \r\n                                              Security Act, 1965 (Act 279) and \r\n                                              in accordance with rules made in \r\n                                              that behalf by the Board, \r\n                                              pensions, allowances, gratuities \r\n                                              or retiring awards to such \r\n                                              employees of the Board as the \r\n                                              Board may, after consultation with \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              finance, determine, being \r\n                                              employees to whom the Pensions \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 30) does not \r\n                                              apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board may require any such \r\n                                              employees to contribute to any \r\n                                              pension, provident fund or \r\n                                              superannuation scheme.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;FINANCIAL 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 10&#8212;Funds of the Institute.</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 Institute \r\n                                              shall 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 Institute for \r\n                                              the 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 \r\n                                              Institute by the Government;</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 grants received from the \r\n                                              United Nations Special Fund or \r\n                                              from any international \r\n                                              organization;</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 moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Institute 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                                              (e) gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The assets and liabilities of \r\n                                              the Apprentices Board, dissolved \r\n                                              by this Act, are hereby \r\n                                              transferred to 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;Gifts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every gift intended for the \r\n                                              Institute or for any project of \r\n                                              the Institute shall be made \r\n                                              directly to the Institute.</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;Estimates of \r\n                                              Expenditure.</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 cause to be \r\n                                              prepared estimates of income and \r\n                                              expenditure for each financial \r\n                                              year and submit them through the \r\n                                              Minister for approval by the \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister shall approve, \r\n                                              amend or recommend such changes in \r\n                                              the estimates submitted to him \r\n                                              under the foregoing subsection as \r\n                                              the Minister thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board shall ensure that \r\n                                              any funds approved by the \r\n                                              Government in pursuance of the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be employed solely for the \r\n                                              purposes for which they were \r\n                                              approved and in accordance with \r\n                                              the financial regulations of the \r\n                                              Institute.</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;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 proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to such directions as \r\n                                              to form as the Auditor-General \r\n                                              shall give, the Board shall \r\n                                              prepare, in respect of each \r\n                                              financial year, a statement of \r\n                                              account which shall 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) a balance sheet, a statement \r\n                                              of income and expenditure and a \r\n                                              statement of surplus containing \r\n                                              such information as, had the Board \r\n                                              been a company registered under \r\n                                              the Companies Code, 1963 (Act \r\n                                              179), would be required to be laid \r\n                                              before the company by the \r\n                                              directors at an annual meeting, \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) such other information in \r\n                                              respect of the financial affairs \r\n                                              of the Institute as the Minister \r\n                                              may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) 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                                              (4) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be submitted for \r\n                                              audit to the Auditor-General \r\n                                              within three months after the end \r\n                                              of the financial year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Board shall, as soon as \r\n                                              may be practicable, forward to the \r\n                                              Minister a copy of the audited \r\n                                              accounts and the Auditor-General''s \r\n                                              report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the purpose of this \r\n                                              paragraph, the period extending \r\n                                              from the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              to the end of the current \r\n                                              financial year shall be deemed to \r\n                                              be a financial year.</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;Annual Report.</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, not later \r\n                                              than six months after the end of \r\n                                              each financial year, submit an \r\n                                              annual report to the Minister in \r\n                                              such form as the Minister may \r\n                                              prescribe which shall include the \r\n                                              statement of account specified in \r\n                                              section 13 (2) of this Act and the \r\n                                              Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable lay the report before \r\n                                              the Cabinet.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The audited report of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General shall be included \r\n                                              in the annual report of the \r\n                                              Institute and the annual report of \r\n                                              the Institute shall be published \r\n                                              in such a manner as the Minister \r\n                                              may 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 15&#8212;Minister&#8217;s Powers&#8217;s.</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 generally \r\n                                              responsible for the Institute, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</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;Bye-Laws and \r\n                                              Regulations of the Institute.</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, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister, make \r\n                                              bye-laws or other instruments not \r\n                                              inconsistent with this Act for the \r\n                                              purpose of regulating the \r\n                                              Institute''s business or any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              Institute''s functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board may in particular \r\n                                              make bye-laws 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) govern all employers of \r\n                                              apprentices in any industry and \r\n                                              the apprentices of such employers;</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) govern other matters relating \r\n                                              to apprenticeship between such \r\n                                              employers and apprentices provided \r\n                                              no such bye-laws are made to apply \r\n                                              to the following:&#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                                              seamen,</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) students of a university, \r\n                                              university college or other \r\n                                              educational institution who are \r\n                                              exempted from the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act by executive instrument \r\n                                              in the form of an order made by \r\n                                              the Board, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) other apprentices belonging \r\n                                              to any class or description who \r\n                                              are exempted from the provisions \r\n                                              of this Act by such instrument;</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) specify penalties and fines \r\n                                              for breach of any such bye-laws; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) make provision for payment of \r\n                                              fees or &nbsp;charges as the Board \r\n                                              shall deem fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Exemption from Taxes \r\n                                              and Rates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Institute shall be exempted \r\n                                              from any tax imposed under the \r\n                                              Income Tax Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              78), the Customs and Excise Tariff \r\n                                              Act, 1966 (Act 318) and any rates \r\n                                              imposed by any enactment relating \r\n                                              to local administration.</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;Repeals and Revocation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Apprentices Act, 1961 (Act \r\n                                              45) and the Apprentices Act \r\n                                              (Amendment Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              364)) are hereby repealed and the \r\n                                              Board constituted under the said \r\n                                              Act is, subject to the proviso in \r\n                                              subsection (3), hereby dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Apprentices Board \r\n                                              (Functions) Instrument, 1961 (E.I. \r\n                                              107) is hereby revoked.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subsections (1) and (2) of \r\n                                              this section shall not have effect \r\n                                              with respect to the dissolution of \r\n                                              the said Board until immediately \r\n                                              before the first meeting of the \r\n                                              Board 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 19&#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;the Board&quot; means the Board \r\n                                              constituted under section 4 of \r\n                                              this Act,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the Institute&quot; means the National \r\n                                              Vocational Training Institute \r\n                                              established under section 1 of \r\n                                              this Act,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Labour and \r\n                                              Co-operatives.</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;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Without prejudice to clause 16 \r\n                                              this Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on the 23rd day of October, 1968.</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 351');
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(117, 'NEW TIMES CORPORATION ACT, 1971 (ACT 363)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1257" 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                                              NEW TIMES CORPORATION ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 363)</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;ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW&nbsp; TIMES \r\n                                              CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Establishment of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Compulsory acquisition of \r\n                                              property for Corporation where \r\n                                              there is hindrance</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OBJECTS OF THE CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Objects</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Corporation to conduct its \r\n                                              affairs on sound commercial lines</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE BOARD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. The Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Qualifications, and vacation of \r\n                                              office of members of Board, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Remuneration of Board members</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Meetings of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Board to be in control of \r\n                                              general policy of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Execution of contracts, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Staff of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Secretary of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Internal Auditor</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Capital and Funds of \r\n                                              Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Estimates of revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Staff Welfare Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Depreciation Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Corporation to pay sums into \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Borrowing powers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Corporation to keep proper \r\n                                              books of account</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Financial year of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Annual Report, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Quarterly reports</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Minister''s power of direction</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Bye-laws or other Instruments</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Exemption from taxes, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Dissolution of New Times \r\n                                              Limited</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 SIXTY-THIRD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF 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 NEW TIMES CORPORATION ACT, \r\n                                              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 establish the New Times \r\n                                              Limited as a statutory corporation \r\n                                              and to make other provision in \r\n                                              relation thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 9th July, 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;ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW TIMES \r\n                                              CORPORATION</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 \r\n                                              Corporation.</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 to be known as the \r\n                                              New Times Corporation in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the Corporation.&quot;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal, may sue and be sued in its \r\n                                              own name, and may for the purposes \r\n                                              of its functions under this Act \r\n                                              acquire, hold and dispose of any \r\n                                              moveable or immoveable property \r\n                                              and enter into any transaction \r\n                                              whatsoever.</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;Compulsory Acquisition \r\n                                              of Property for Corporation where \r\n                                              there is Hindrance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where there is any hindrance to \r\n                                              the acquisition by the Corporation \r\n                                              of any property, the property may \r\n                                              be acquired for the Corporation \r\n                                              under the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960&nbsp; (CA 6) or as \r\n                                              the case may be, under the State \r\n                                              Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125), and \r\n                                              each such Act shall, as the case \r\n                                              may be, apply in relation to any \r\n                                              such acquisition with such \r\n                                              modifications as may be necessary \r\n                                              to provide for the vesting of the \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the Corporation and for the cost \r\n                                              of such acquisition to be defrayed \r\n                                              by the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OBJECTS OF THE CORPORATION</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;Objects.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The objects of the Corporation \r\n                                              are&#8212;</span></b></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 carry on the business of \r\n                                              newspaper proprietors, and of \r\n                                              newspaper and general printers and \r\n                                              publishers, advertisers, and \r\n                                              advertising agents and \r\n                                              contractors;</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 purchase or otherwise \r\n                                              acquire or start either wholly or \r\n                                              in part, and to print, publish, \r\n                                              edit, and sell any newspaper, \r\n                                              journal, magazine, periodical, \r\n                                              print, picture, engraving, musical \r\n                                              composition or book and to carry \r\n                                              on the business of publishers, \r\n                                              lithographers, electrotypers, \r\n                                              bill-posters, bookbinders, \r\n                                              booksellers, stationers, \r\n                                              papermakers, type founders, \r\n                                              typecutters, and dealers in type, \r\n                                              ink, paper, and other materials \r\n                                              required for or in connection with \r\n                                              the business of printers and \r\n                                              publishers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to collect and disseminate \r\n                                              news and information, and employ \r\n                                              correspondents, authors, writers \r\n                                              and others and to pay for news and \r\n                                              information however obtained;</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 carry on business as \r\n                                              shorthand writers and reporters, \r\n                                              and to sell and supply news and \r\n                                              information, or literary or \r\n                                              artistic productions, articles, \r\n                                              novels, books and other works;</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 carry on such other \r\n                                              business as may be conveniently or \r\n                                              profitably carried on therewith or \r\n                                              as may enhance the value of any of \r\n                                              the Corporation''s property;</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) to manufacture and deal in all \r\n                                              kinds of articles and things \r\n                                              required for the purposes of any \r\n                                              such business as aforesaid or \r\n                                              commonly dealt with by persons \r\n                                              engaged in any such businesses; \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                                              (g) to do such other things as may \r\n                                              appear to the Corporation to be \r\n                                              incidental or conducive to all or \r\n                                              any of the foregoing objects.</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;Corporation to Conduct \r\n                                              its Affairs on Sound Commercial \r\n                                              Lines.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Corporation to conduct its affairs \r\n                                              on sound commercial lines, and in \r\n                                              particular, so to carry out its \r\n                                              functions under this Act as to \r\n                                              ensure that its revenues are \r\n                                              sufficient to produce on the fair \r\n                                              value of its assets, a reasonable \r\n                                              return measured by taking its net \r\n                                              operating income as a percentage \r\n                                              of the fair value of its fixed \r\n                                              assets in operation plus an \r\n                                              appropriate allowance for its \r\n                                              working capital.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In determining what \r\n                                              constitutes a reasonable return, \r\n                                              all pertinent economic and \r\n                                              financial considerations shall be \r\n                                              taken into account, including but \r\n                                              not limited to the need for net \r\n                                              operating income in an amount \r\n                                              sufficient:&#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 meet interest payments on \r\n                                              borrowings;</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 provide for repayments to \r\n                                              be made each year in respect of \r\n                                              loans incurred by the Corporation \r\n                                              to the extent that such repayments \r\n                                              exceed the year''s provision for \r\n                                              depreciation charged to revenue \r\n                                              account; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to provide a reasonable \r\n                                              proportion of the funds needed for \r\n                                              expanding the Corporation''s \r\n                                              activities and improving its \r\n                                              working;</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 provide reserves for \r\n                                              replacement, expansion or other \r\n                                              purposes if and to the extent that \r\n                                              the Board deems it necessary to \r\n                                              establish such reserves, 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 make such reasonable \r\n                                              payments to the Consolidated Fund \r\n                                              from time to time as may be \r\n                                              determined under section 18 of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In this section, the words \r\n                                              &quot;net operating income&quot; mean the \r\n                                              amount of income remaining after \r\n                                              subtracting from total operating \r\n                                              revenues all charges which in the \r\n                                              normal conduct of business are \r\n                                              proper to be charged to revenue \r\n                                              account, including provision for \r\n                                              adequate maintenance and straight \r\n                                              line depreciation of assets, but \r\n                                              before deducting interest and \r\n                                              other charges on borrowings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;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 5&#8212;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 governing body of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall be a Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) 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 and not less than \r\n                                              four nor more than ten persons \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in consultation with the Council \r\n                                              of State; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the person appointed Managing \r\n                                              Director under section 9 of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Qualifications, and \r\n                                              Vacation of Office of Members of \r\n                                              Board, Etc.</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 be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who \r\n                                              has been sentenced to death or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months without option of a \r\n                                              fine or has been convicted of an \r\n                                              offence involving dishonesty or \r\n                                              moral turpitude and has in each \r\n                                              case not been granted a free \r\n                                              pardon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board if \r\n                                              having been declared as an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law for the time being in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country is \r\n                                              an undischarged insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The members of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director shall \r\n                                              hold office for one year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any member of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Minister \r\n                                              and without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of subsections (1) \r\n                                              and (2) of this section, any \r\n                                              member of the Board may be removed \r\n                                              from office by the President \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the office of a member \r\n                                              of the Board other than the \r\n                                              Managing Director becomes vacant \r\n                                              under subsection (1), (2) or (4) \r\n                                              of this section before the \r\n                                              expiration of his term of office \r\n                                              under subsection (3) of this \r\n                                              section or by his death, the \r\n                                              Minister shall notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of such \r\n                                              event and the President shall, \r\n                                              acting on consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State and subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, \r\n                                              appoint another person in his \r\n                                              place and to hold office for the \r\n                                              unexpired portion of his term of \r\n                                              office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act where it appears to the \r\n                                              Prime Minister on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              that any member of the Board is \r\n                                              unable by reason of absence from \r\n                                              Ghana or illness or any other \r\n                                              sufficient cause from performing \r\n                                              the duties of his office the \r\n                                              President acting in consultation \r\n                                              with the Council of State shall \r\n                                              appoint another person to hold \r\n                                              office in his place until such \r\n                                              time as the Prime Minister is \r\n                                              satisfied that that person is \r\n                                              again able to perform such duties \r\n                                              or until the term of such member \r\n                                              expires, whichever first occurs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall, on ceasing to be a member \r\n                                              be eligible for re-appointment.</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;Remuneration of Board \r\n                                              Members.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any member appointed to the Board \r\n                                              under subsection (2) (a) of \r\n                                              section 5 of this Act as well as \r\n                                              any person co-opted to the Board \r\n                                              under section 8 of this Act may be \r\n                                              paid such remuneration (if any) as \r\n                                              the Board may, with the approval \r\n                                              of the Minister, and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance determine \r\n                                              in relation to him.</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;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 at such places \r\n                                              as the Board may determine but \r\n                                              shall meet at least once in every \r\n                                              month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A special meeting of the Board \r\n                                              shall be called upon a written \r\n                                              request signed by the Chairman or \r\n                                              by a majority of the members of \r\n                                              the Board addressed to the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) At every meeting of the Board \r\n                                              at which he is present, the \r\n                                              Chairman shall preside and in his \r\n                                              absence a member of the Board \r\n                                              appointed by the members present \r\n                                              from among themselves, shall \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Questions proposed at a \r\n                                              meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              members present and voting and in \r\n                                              the event of any equality of votes \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be four, or half \r\n                                              the number of members of the Board \r\n                                              whichever is the greater.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board may, at any time \r\n                                              co-opt any person or persons to \r\n                                              act as an adviser or advisers at \r\n                                              any of its meetings so, however, \r\n                                              that no person so co-opted shall \r\n                                              be entitled to vote at any such \r\n                                              meetings on any matter for \r\n                                              decision by the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The validity of any \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \r\n                                              its members or by any defect in \r\n                                              the appointment of any of them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Any member of the Board who \r\n                                              has any interest in any company or \r\n                                              undertaking with which the \r\n                                              Corporation proposes to make any \r\n                                              contract or who has any interest \r\n                                              in any contract which the \r\n                                              Corporation proposes to make \r\n                                              shall, disclose in writing to the \r\n                                              Board the nature of his interest \r\n                                              and shall, unless the Board \r\n                                              otherwise directs, be disqualified \r\n                                              from participating in any \r\n                                              deliberations of the Board on the \r\n                                              contract and shall in any case be \r\n                                              disqualified from voting in any \r\n                                              decision of the Board on such \r\n                                              contract and any member who \r\n                                              infringes the provisions of this \r\n                                              subsection shall be liable to be \r\n                                              removed from the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              recorded and kept minutes of all \r\n                                              proceedings of its meetings in \r\n                                              such manner and form as the \r\n                                              Minister may in writing direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              CORPORATION</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;Board to be in Control \r\n                                              of General Policy of Corporation.</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, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, have \r\n                                              general control of the management \r\n                                              of the Corporation on matters of \r\n                                              policy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              Managing Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Part III of this Act the Managing \r\n                                              Director shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President acting in consultation \r\n                                              with the Council of State, and \r\n                                              subject to the said provisions \r\n                                              shall hold office upon such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as may be specified \r\n                                              in his instrument of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the office of the \r\n                                              Managing Director becomes vacant \r\n                                              the Board shall notify the \r\n                                              Minister thereof and the Minister \r\n                                              shall in turn notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of the \r\n                                              vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the Managing Director is \r\n                                              incapacitated from the performance \r\n                                              of his functions under this Act \r\n                                              the Board may, subject to \r\n                                              subsection (6) of section 6 of \r\n                                              this Act authorise any senior \r\n                                              employee of the Corporation to \r\n                                              perform those functions for the \r\n                                              duration of the incapacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the Managing Director \r\n                                              shall be the Chief Executive of \r\n                                              the Corporation and shall, subject \r\n                                              to the general control of the \r\n                                              Board on matters of policy, and \r\n                                              subject in particular to such \r\n                                              rules as the Board may make in \r\n                                              that behalf under section 26 of \r\n                                              this Act, be charged with the \r\n                                              direction of the day-to-day \r\n                                              business of the Corporation and of \r\n                                              its administration and \r\n                                              organisation and control of all \r\n                                              the employees of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Subject as aforesaid the \r\n                                              Managing Director may delegate to \r\n                                              any employee of the Corporation \r\n                                              any of his functions under this \r\n                                              Act and may impose such conditions \r\n                                              with respect to the exercise of \r\n                                              such delegated functions as he may \r\n                                              think fit:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              subsection shall be construed so \r\n                                              as to absolve the Managing \r\n                                              Director from ultimate \r\n                                              responsibility for any act than by \r\n                                              any person in pursuance of any \r\n                                              such delegation.</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;Executions of \r\n                                              Contracts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The application of the seal of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall be \r\n                                              authenticated by two signatures, \r\n                                              namely&#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 signature of the Managing \r\n                                              Director or some other member of \r\n                                              the Board authorised by the Board \r\n                                              to authenticate the application of \r\n                                              the seal, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the signature of the Secretary \r\n                                              or some other officer of the \r\n                                              Corporation authorised by the \r\n                                              Board to act in the Secretary''s \r\n                                              place for that purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation may by \r\n                                              instrument in writing under its \r\n                                              common seal empower any person \r\n                                              either generally or in respect of \r\n                                              any specified matters as its \r\n                                              attorney, to execute deeds on its \r\n                                              behalf in any place not situated \r\n                                              in Ghana; and every deed signed by \r\n                                              such attorney on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation and under his seal, \r\n                                              shall be binding on the \r\n                                              Corporation and have the same \r\n                                              effect as if it were under the \r\n                                              common seal of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any instrument or contract \r\n                                              which, if executed or entered into \r\n                                              by a person other than a body \r\n                                              corporate, would not require to be \r\n                                              under seal, may be executed or \r\n                                              entered into on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation by the Managing \r\n                                              Director or any member of the \r\n                                              Board if such person has \r\n                                              previously been authorised by \r\n                                              resolution of the Board to execute \r\n                                              or enter into that particular \r\n                                              instrument or contract:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the Corporation \r\n                                              thinks fit it may by writing under \r\n                                              its common seal appoint any person \r\n                                              outside Ghana as agent to execute \r\n                                              or enter into the instrument or \r\n                                              contract and the instrument or \r\n                                              contract if executed or entered \r\n                                              into on behalf of the Corporation \r\n                                              shall have effect as if it had \r\n                                              been duly executed or entered into \r\n                                              as prescribed for the purposes of \r\n                                              this subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every document purporting to \r\n                                              be an instrument executed or \r\n                                              issued by or on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation and to 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) sealed with the common seal of \r\n                                              the Corporation authenticated in \r\n                                              the manner provided by subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section; 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) signed by and under the seal \r\n                                              of a person appointed as attorney \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section, 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) signed by the Managing \r\n                                              Director or by a member of the \r\n                                              Board or other person authorised \r\n                                              in accordance with subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section to act for that \r\n                                              purpose,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be deemed to be so executed \r\n                                              or issued until the contrary is \r\n                                              shown.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall have effect subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of section 9 of this \r\n                                              Act and of section 12 of the \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (Act 25).</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;Staff of Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation may from time \r\n                                              to time engage such employees as \r\n                                              may be necessary for the proper \r\n                                              and efficient conduct of the \r\n                                              business and functions of the \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation may also \r\n                                              engage the services of such \r\n                                              consultants and advisers as the \r\n                                              Board may upon the recommendation \r\n                                              of the Managing Director \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; Subject to any delegation \r\n                                              effected under clause (2) of \r\n                                              article 140 of the Constitution \r\n                                              and subject also to the other \r\n                                              provisions of the Constitution the \r\n                                              employees of the Corporation, \r\n                                              other than the Managing Director, \r\n                                              shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President acting in accordance \r\n                                              with the advice of the Public \r\n                                              Services Commission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Constitution the employees, \r\n                                              consultants and advisers of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall be engaged on \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Board may on the recommendations \r\n                                              of the Managing Director \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Public Officers may be \r\n                                              transferred or seconded to the \r\n                                              Corporation or may otherwise give \r\n                                              assistance 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 12&#8212;Secretary of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have an \r\n                                              officer to be designated as the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary shall act as \r\n                                              Secretary to the Board and shall, \r\n                                              subject to the directions of the \r\n                                              Board, arrange the business for \r\n                                              and be responsible for the \r\n                                              recording and keeping of minutes \r\n                                              of proceedings of the meetings of \r\n                                              the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Secretary shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable after each meeting of \r\n                                              the Board forward to the Minister \r\n                                              a copy of the minutes of that \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Secretary shall also \r\n                                              perform such functions as the \r\n                                              Board may by writing direct or as \r\n                                              the Managing Director may by \r\n                                              writing delegate to him and shall \r\n                                              be assisted in his functions by \r\n                                              such of the staff of the \r\n                                              Corporation as the Board may on \r\n                                              the recommendations of the \r\n                                              Managing Director direct.</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;Internal Auditor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have an \r\n                                              Internal Auditor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the Internal Auditor \r\n                                              shall be responsible to the \r\n                                              Managing Director for the \r\n                                              performance of his functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; As part of his functions \r\n                                              under this Act the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall, at intervals of \r\n                                              three months, prepare a report on \r\n                                              the Internal Audit work carried \r\n                                              out by him during the period of \r\n                                              three months immediately preceding \r\n                                              the preparation of the report, and \r\n                                              submit the report to the Managing \r\n                                              Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section, the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall make in each report \r\n                                              such observations as appear to him \r\n                                              necessary as to the conduct of the \r\n                                              financial affairs of the \r\n                                              Corporation during the period to \r\n                                              which the report relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Internal Auditor shall \r\n                                              send a copy of each report \r\n                                              prepared by him under this section \r\n                                              to the Minister and also to each \r\n                                              of 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                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Auditor-General, 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                                              the Chairman of the Board of \r\n                                              Directors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;FINANCIAL 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 14&#8212;Capital and Funds of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Government may provide to the \r\n                                              Corporation as working capital and \r\n                                              also as moneys required for \r\n                                              carrying out the functions of the \r\n                                              Corporation such sums as the \r\n                                              Minister may after consultation \r\n                                              with the Cabinet agree, being sums \r\n                                              requested by the Board from the \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;Estimates of Revenue \r\n                                              and Expenditure.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall not less than one \r\n                                              month before the commencement of \r\n                                              each financial year cause to be \r\n                                              prepared in such form as the \r\n                                              Minister may direct estimates of \r\n                                              revenue and expenditure for that \r\n                                              financial year and shall as soon \r\n                                              as possible after they are \r\n                                              prepared submit a copy of the \r\n                                              estimates to 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 16&#8212;Staff Welfare Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              staff welfare fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Corporation shall \r\n                                              transfer to the staff welfare fund \r\n                                              such sum, not exceeding 5 per cent \r\n                                              of the net profits of the \r\n                                              Corporation as the Board may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Corporation may, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister, use the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund for the \r\n                                              provision of staff welfare \r\n                                              facilities such as canteens, low \r\n                                              interest bearing staff welfare \r\n                                              loans and for other purposes aimed \r\n                                              at enhancing the welfare of the \r\n                                              staff of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The operation of the staff \r\n                                              welfare fund shall be subject to \r\n                                              such specific rules and \r\n                                              regulations as may&nbsp; be made 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 17&#8212;Depreciation Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              depreciation fund and for that \r\n                                              purpose the Corporation shall open \r\n                                              a Depreciation Reserve Account \r\n                                              with the Bank of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Corporation shall \r\n                                              transfer to the credit of the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account all \r\n                                              amounts charged to profit and loss \r\n                                              account in respect of depreciation \r\n                                              for buildings, plant and \r\n                                              equipment, fixtures and other \r\n                                              fixed assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Amounts so transferred to the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account shall \r\n                                              be utilised only to replace fixed \r\n                                              assets and equipment which are \r\n                                              worn out or have become obsolete.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; Expenditure in respect of \r\n                                              current repairs and in respect of \r\n                                              purchases of spare parts shall not \r\n                                              be met out of the Depreciation \r\n                                              Reserve Account but shall be \r\n                                              charged to the income and \r\n                                              expenditure account of the \r\n                                              Corporation for the financial year \r\n                                              during which the expenditure is \r\n                                              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 18&#8212;Corporation to Pay Sums \r\n                                              into Consolidated Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to section 4 of this Act \r\n                                              at the end of each financial year, \r\n                                              after the Corporation has made \r\n                                              provision for bad and doubtful \r\n                                              debts, depreciation of assets, \r\n                                              contributions to staff and \r\n                                              superannuation funds and for other \r\n                                              contingencies, if any, and after \r\n                                              appropriation has been made to the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund under section \r\n                                              16 of this Act such part of the \r\n                                              profits of the Corporation \r\n                                              remaining as the Minister after \r\n                                              consultation with the Board and \r\n                                              with the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may by writing direct \r\n                                              shall be paid into the \r\n                                              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 19&#8212;Borrowing Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation may obtain \r\n                                              loans and other credit facilities, \r\n                                              on the guarantee of the Government \r\n                                              from the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              or from such other Bank as the \r\n                                              Minister and the Minister for \r\n                                              Finance may approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Apart from the powers of the \r\n                                              Corporation under subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Corporation \r\n                                              may, with the prior approval of \r\n                                              the Minister and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance borrow \r\n                                              money from any other source.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; For the purpose of any \r\n                                              technical arrangements in \r\n                                              connection with the raising of any \r\n                                              loan under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section the Corporation shall, if \r\n                                              the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              agrees, use the services of that \r\n                                              Bank. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation may borrow \r\n                                              temporarily by way of overdraft or \r\n                                              otherwise, such sums as it may \r\n                                              require for meeting its current \r\n                                              obligations or discharging its \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may on behalf of the \r\n                                              Government, guarantee the \r\n                                              performance of any obligation or \r\n                                              undertaking by the Corporation \r\n                                              under this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may from time to time \r\n                                              prescribe the maximum sums which \r\n                                              the Corporation may borrow under \r\n                                              subsection (1) or (2) of this \r\n                                              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 20&#8212;Corporation to keep \r\n                                              Proper Books of Account.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of account and proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto and \r\n                                              the account books and records of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall be in such \r\n                                              form as the Auditor-General may \r\n                                              approve.</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;Financial Year of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Corporation''s financial \r\n                                              year shall end on the 31st day of \r\n                                              March in each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section the period extending from \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act to \r\n                                              the 31st day of March, 1972 shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be a financial \r\n                                              year.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </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;Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall each year be \r\n                                              audited in accordance with article \r\n                                              135 of the Constitution by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall pay in \r\n                                              respect of such audit such fee (if \r\n                                              any) as the Auditor-General and \r\n                                              the Board may agree or in the case \r\n                                              of failure to agree, such fee as \r\n                                              the Minister may prescribe.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Board as soon as possible upon \r\n                                              receiving the report of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General under this section \r\n                                              to forward a copy of such report \r\n                                              to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable upon receipt thereof, \r\n                                              cause to be laid before the \r\n                                              National Assembly a copy of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General''s report forwarded \r\n                                              to him under this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</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;Annual Report, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall, as soon \r\n                                              as possible after the expiration \r\n                                              of each financial year but within \r\n                                              six months after the termination \r\n                                              of that financial year, submit to \r\n                                              the Minister an annual report \r\n                                              dealing generally with the \r\n                                              activities and operations of the \r\n                                              Corporation within that year which \r\n                                              shall, without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the foregoing \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) a copy of the audited accounts \r\n                                              of the Corporation together with \r\n                                              the Auditor-General''s report \r\n                                              thereon,</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) each report submitted in \r\n                                              relation to that financial year by \r\n                                              the Internal Auditor under section \r\n                                              13 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a statement of all directions \r\n                                              given by the Minister to the \r\n                                              Corporation under section 25 of \r\n                                              this Act within that year,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) such other information as the \r\n                                              Minister may by writing request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A copy of the annual report of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall also be sent \r\n                                              by the Corporation to the \r\n                                              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                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Head of the Central Bureau of \r\n                                              Statistics.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister shall, as soon as \r\n                                              possible after receiving the \r\n                                              annual report of the Corporation, \r\n                                              cause the report to be laid before \r\n                                              the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation shall also \r\n                                              submit to the Minister such other \r\n                                              reports on its financial affairs \r\n                                              as the Minister may by writing \r\n                                              request from time to 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 24&#8212;Quarterly Reports.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              submitted to the Minister as soon \r\n                                              as possible after the months of \r\n                                              June, September, December and \r\n                                              March in each year a statement \r\n                                              showing the revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Corporation and \r\n                                              fluctuations in the number of \r\n                                              persons in employment of the \r\n                                              Corporation during the three \r\n                                              months immediately preceding and \r\n                                              the revenue and expenditure for \r\n                                              the corresponding period in the \r\n                                              year immediately preceding. </span>\r\n                                              </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;Minister''s Power of \r\n                                              Direction.</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 \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act (which \r\n                                              requires the Corporation to \r\n                                              operate on sound commercial \r\n                                              lines), the Minister may give \r\n                                              general directions in writing to \r\n                                              the Corporation on matters of \r\n                                              policy and the Corporation shall \r\n                                              be bound to comply with such \r\n                                              directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Bye-laws or other \r\n                                              Instruments.</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 make bye-laws or \r\n                                              other instruments for the purpose \r\n                                              of carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions and principles of this \r\n                                              Act and for regulating any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              functions of the Corporation or \r\n                                              which is required or authorised by \r\n                                              this Act to be provided for by any \r\n                                              such instruments.</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 may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of the \r\n                                              Constitution and also to the \r\n                                              provisions of the Social Security \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Act 279) make bye-laws \r\n                                              or other instruments under that \r\n                                              subsection for providing the \r\n                                              conditions of service of the staff \r\n                                              of the Corporation including, if \r\n                                              the Board thinks fit, the \r\n                                              operation of a contributory \r\n                                              provident 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 27&#8212;Exemption from Taxes, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall be exempted \r\n                                              from such taxes and duties as the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              may, by writing direct.</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;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, &quot;Minister&quot; means the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Information.</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;Dissolution of New \r\n                                              Times Limited.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Company known immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act as the New Times Limited is \r\n                                              hereby dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All assets, property, rights, \r\n                                              liabilities and obligations of the \r\n                                              said company are hereby \r\n                                              transferred to the Corporation \r\n                                              established by this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The National Newspapers \r\n                                              (Guinea Press Limited) (Interim \r\n                                              Reconstitution) Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              230) is hereby repealed.</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>', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 363');
