INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(62, 'ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA', '<table>\n<tr>\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1377" height="64">\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\n                                              THE LAND REGISTRY ACT, 1962</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \n                                              amendments the law relating to the \n                                              registration of instruments \n                                              affecting land.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 14th June, 1962</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \n                                              the National Assembly in this \n                                              present Parliament assembled as \n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART I&#8212;REGISTRY OFFICES</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Offices to be \n                                              Established.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              There shall be a registry office \n                                              at Accra, and at such other place \n                                              or places as the Minister may \n                                              appoint. The Minister may remove \n                                              any office from one place to \n                                              another, and increase or diminish \n                                              the number of offices.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Appointment of \n                                              Registrars.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The President shall appoint a \n                                              Chief Registrar of Lands to \n                                              supervise all registry offices, \n                                              and a registrar at each office.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART II&#8212;PRESENTATION OF \n                                              INSTRUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Instruments \n                                              Registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Any instrument may be registered \n                                              under this Act subject to the \n                                              conditions herein contained.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Instruments, Except \n                                              Wills, to Describe the Land \n                                              Affected.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              No instrument, except a will or \n                                              probate, shall be registered \n                                              unless it contains a description \n                                              (which may be by reference to a \n                                              plan) which, in the opinion of the \n                                              registrar, is sufficient to enable \n                                              the location and boundaries of the \n                                              land to which it relates to be \n                                              identified or a sufficient \n                                              reference to the date and \n                                              particulars of registration of an \n                                              instrument affecting the same land \n                                              and already registered.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Proof of Instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Every instrument presented for \n                                              registration (except a will or an \n                                              instrument which may be registered \n                                              without proof under the provisions \n                                              hereinafter contained), shall be \n                                              proved by the oath of the grantor \n                                              or one of the grantors, or of the \n                                              grantee or one of the grantees, or \n                                              of one of the subscribing \n                                              witnesses, to have been duly \n                                              executed by the grantor.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Any original will presented \n                                              for registration shall be proved \n                                              by the oath of one of the \n                                              subscribing witnesses, or, if both \n                                              of them are dead or if from any \n                                              other circumstance an affidavit \n                                              cannot be obtained from either of \n                                              them, by the oath of some other \n                                              person present at the execution of \n                                              the will, or, failing such person, \n                                              by the oath of some person or \n                                              persons who can testify to the \n                                              handwriting of the testator and \n                                              the subscribing witnesses, to have \n                                              been duly executed by the \n                                              testator.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The oath shall also state \n                                              whether the grantor or testator \n                                              could read and write, and , if he \n                                              could not read and write, shall \n                                              state (except in case of a will \n                                              where the deponent was not present \n                                              at its execution) that the \n                                              instrument was read over and \n                                              interpreted to him at the time of \n                                              its execution by him and that he \n                                              appeared to understand its \n                                              provisions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Schedule.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Form A.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Form B.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The oath required for proving \n                                              an instrument shall be put into \n                                              writing and signed by the deponent \n                                              and filed with the registrar. \n                                              Every registrar may administer the \n                                              oath. The oath may be in the Form \n                                              A or B in the Schedule with such \n                                              variations as circumstances \n                                              require.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Before Whom Proof Shall \n                                              be Made.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The proof hereby required \n                                              shall be made as follows&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) if the instrument was executed \n                                              in Ghana, before the registrar at \n                                              the office where it is presented \n                                              for registration, or before a \n                                              Judge, District Magistrate, or a \n                                              registrar of the High Court;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) if the instrument was executed \n                                              in any Commonwealth country, \n                                              before a Judge, Magistrate, notary \n                                              public, or diplomatic agent or \n                                              consular officer representing or \n                                              acting on behalf of the Republic \n                                              in that country;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) if the instrument was executed \n                                              in any other country, before a \n                                              notary public, or diplomatic agent \n                                              or consular officer representing \n                                              or acting on behalf of the \n                                              Republic in that country.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Form E.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) An instrument not proved \n                                              before the registrar shall not be \n                                              registered unless it bears a \n                                              certificate as near as may be in \n                                              the Form E in the Schedule \n                                              purporting to be under the hand \n                                              and official seal or private seal \n                                              (if there is no official seal), or \n                                              the hand alone if the person has \n                                              no official or private seal, of \n                                              some one of the persons authorised \n                                              to receive such proof to the \n                                              effect that the instrument has \n                                              been proved.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Probate and Judge''s \n                                              Certificates.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \n                                              probate or a judge''s certificate \n                                              may be registered without proof \n                                              upon production thereof to the \n                                              registrar.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Instruments Kept in \n                                              Public Office In another Country.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              If an instrument be executed in \n                                              any part of the world where by law \n                                              the original is kept in the \n                                              custody of a public officer, a \n                                              copy of the original and the \n                                              certificate of proof thereof, \n                                              certified to be correct by the \n                                              public officer in whose custody \n                                              the original is kept, shall be \n                                              registered in the same manner as \n                                              an original instrument, provided \n                                              the original has been proved in \n                                              accordance with this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Instruments Executed \n                                              Before the 24th March, 1883.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The will of a person who died \n                                              before the 24th day of March, \n                                              1883, and any other instrument \n                                              executed before that date, may be \n                                              registered without proof.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART III&#8212;MODE OF REGISTRATION</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Certificate of \n                                              Registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Form D.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Form F. </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The registrar at each office shall \n                                              immediately after the proof before \n                                              him of any instrument presented \n                                              for registration, and upon the \n                                              presentation of any instrument \n                                              duly proved before any other \n                                              person, or of any instrument which \n                                              may be registered under this Act \n                                              without proof, place upon the \n                                              instrument a certificate in the \n                                              Form D or F, as the case may be, \n                                              in the Schedule, or as near \n                                              thereto as may be, specifying the \n                                              year, month, day, and hour of the \n                                              proof or presentation, as the case \n                                              may be, of such instrument; and \n                                              the year, month, day, and hour \n                                              specified in the certificate \n                                              shall, if the instrument is \n                                              ultimately registered, be taken to \n                                              be the year, month, day, and hour \n                                              at which the instrument was \n                                              registered.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Register.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The registrar shall keep a \n                                              Register, and, subject to the \n                                              exceptions hereinafter stated, \n                                              shall register therein in manner \n                                              hereinafter provided all \n                                              instruments presented to him in \n                                              the prescribed form.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Registration of \n                                              Duplicate or Copy.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Registration shall consist in \n                                              filing a duplicate or copy (to be \n                                              provided by the person presenting \n                                              the instrument for registration) \n                                              of the instrument brought for \n                                              registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Every duplicate or copy shall \n                                              bear the certificate required by \n                                              section 10 of this Act to be \n                                              placed on the original instrument, \n                                              and also a certificate signed by \n                                              the registrar that such duplicate \n                                              has been compared and verified \n                                              with the original.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The duplicate or copy may be \n                                              printed, written, typewritten, \n                                              photographed or copied by any \n                                              other process.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The registrar may refuse to \n                                              accept any duplicate or copy that \n                                              is made on paper or other material \n                                              which in his opinion is of a size \n                                              unsuitable for filing or of \n                                              insufficient substance to be \n                                              durable, and may refuse to accept \n                                              any duplicate or copy made in a \n                                              way which in his opinion does not \n                                              produce a permanent impression.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Numbering and Filing of \n                                              Duplicates or Copies.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The registrar shall number every \n                                              duplicate or copy so filed \n                                              consecutively, and shall file \n                                              duplicates or copies in the order \n                                              in which they are received by him.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Endorsed Instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              An instrument endorsed on another \n                                              instrument shall not be registered \n                                              without the instrument on which it \n                                              is endorsed, unless the latter \n                                              instrument is already registered.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Replacement of \n                                              Illegible Instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              If in the opinion of a registrar \n                                              any duplicate or copy of an \n                                              instrument registered in \n                                              accordance with the provisions of \n                                              this Act has deteriorated or \n                                              become illegible or is likely to \n                                              deteriorate or become illegible, \n                                              he may substitute therefor a \n                                              further copy of the original \n                                              instrument or, as the case may be, \n                                              an improved and legible copy of \n                                              the deteriorated or illegible \n                                              duplicate or copy.&nbsp; In every such \n                                              case the registrar shall endorse \n                                              upon the substituted document a \n                                              certificate setting forth the \n                                              circumstances which rendered the \n                                              substitution necessary.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Copies of Maps and \n                                              Plans to be Provided.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Where a map or plan is comprised \n                                              in or annexed to an instrument, a \n                                              true copy of the map or plan must \n                                              accompany the instrument when \n                                              brought for registration, and \n                                              shall be filed in the register.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Books and Registers of \n                                              Particulars of Instruments to be \n                                              Kept.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The registrar shall keep a \n                                              book in which he shall, upon \n                                              registration of any instrument, \n                                              enter the registered number, the \n                                              names of the parties, the date and \n                                              nature of the instrument, and the \n                                              date of registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Chief Registrar may cause \n                                              registrars to keep such other \n                                              books and registers as he thinks \n                                              fit.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Publication of Lists of \n                                              Registered Instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Form G.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Within ten days after the last day \n                                              of each month the registrar in \n                                              charge of each office shall send \n                                              to the Chief Registrar a complete \n                                              list in the Form G in the \n                                              Schedule, or to that effect, of \n                                              all instruments registered in his \n                                              office during the past month. On \n                                              receipt of these lists the Chief \n                                              Registrar shall within fourteen \n                                              days compile one general list \n                                              which shall be retained in his \n                                              office, and shall send one copy of \n                                              it to the registrar in charge of \n                                              each office and publish the list \n                                              in the Gazette.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Searches, Copies and \n                                              Extracts.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \n                                              registrar shall, upon application, \n                                              allow searches to be made at all \n                                              reasonable times in any book, \n                                              register or list in his custody, \n                                              and shall upon request give \n                                              certified copies of, or extracts \n                                              from, any entry in any such book, \n                                              register or list or of any \n                                              duplicate or copy of a registered \n                                              instrument filed in his register.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART IV&#8212;POWER TO REFUSE \n                                              REGISTRATION</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Refusal of \n                                              Registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \n                                              registrar may, subject to the \n                                              provisions of this Part of this \n                                              Act, refuse to register an \n                                              instrument affecting any \n                                              particular land if&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) he is satisfied that the \n                                              instrument deals with the land or \n                                              part of it in a manner \n                                              inconsistent with an instrument \n                                              previously executed whether by the \n                                              same grantor or some predecessor \n                                              in title or by any other person; \n                                              or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) on the face of the records the \n                                              grantor does not appear to him to \n                                              be entitled to deal with the land \n                                              as the instrument purports to do; \n                                              or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) the instrument is made in \n                                              contravention of, or is null and \n                                              void by virtue of, any enactment; \n                                              or </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Notice of Grounds of \n                                              Objection to Register. </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Where, on presentation of an \n                                              instrument for registration, the \n                                              registrar is of opinion that there \n                                              may be grounds under paragraph \n                                              (a), (b) or (c) of section 20 of \n                                              this Act for refusal to register \n                                              the instrument he shall notify the \n                                              grantor and the grantee of his \n                                              opinion and the grounds thereof \n                                              giving them three months within \n                                              which to reply to the notice and \n                                              to satisfy the Chief Registrar as \n                                              to the grantor''s title to deal \n                                              with the land in the manner \n                                              proposed by the instrument.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Where, on presentation of an \n                                              instrument for registration, the \n                                              registrar is of opinion that there \n                                              may be grounds under paragraph \n                                              (a), (b) or (c) of section 20 of \n                                              this Act for refusal to register \n                                              the instrument he shall notify the \n                                              grantor and the grantee of his \n                                              opinion and the grounds thereof \n                                              giving them three months within \n                                              which to reply to the notice and \n                                              to satisfy the Chief Registrar as \n                                              to the grantor''s title to deal \n                                              with the land in the manner \n                                              proposed by the instrument.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Formal Hearing of \n                                              Application for Registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where the Chief Registrar \n                                              remains unsatisfied as to the \n                                              title of the grantor to execute \n                                              the instrument he shall notify the \n                                              grantor and grantee of his opinion \n                                              and that, unless the application \n                                              for registration is withdrawn \n                                              within thirty days or such \n                                              extended period, not longer than \n                                              three months as the Chief \n                                              Registrar may for good cause \n                                              allow, he will proceed to deal \n                                              with it in the manner provided by \n                                              this section.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) If the application is not \n                                              withdrawn within the appointed \n                                              time, the Chief Registrar shall \n                                              serve upon the grantor and the \n                                              grantee and upon every person \n                                              whose interest in the land appears \n                                              to him to be affected by the \n                                              instrument, notice of the time and \n                                              place at which he will proceed to \n                                              hear and determine the question \n                                              whether registration of the \n                                              instrument should be refused, and \n                                              shall publish notice of the \n                                              hearing in the Gazette and in some \n                                              newspaper circulating in the area \n                                              in which the land is situated and \n                                              may cause notice thereof to be \n                                              published in such other manner as \n                                              he thinks fit.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The Chief Registrar shall \n                                              proceed to hear and determine the \n                                              question at the time and place \n                                              appointed or at any other time or \n                                              place to which he may adjourn the \n                                              hearing. He shall hear every \n                                              person claiming to be entitled to \n                                              an interest in the land.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The decision of the Chief \n                                              Registrar shall be communicated in \n                                              writing to the grantor and to \n                                              every person represented at the \n                                              hearing and shall be published in \n                                              the same manner as the notice of \n                                              the hearing.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) The grantor, the grantee, any \n                                              other party represented at the \n                                              hearing and, by leave of the \n                                              Court, any other person may appeal \n                                              to the High Court from the \n                                              decision of the Chief Registrar.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6) Subject to rules of court, the \n                                              rules governing appeals from a \n                                              Circuit Court to the High Court in \n                                              civil matters shall apply to the \n                                              appeal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Requirement as to \n                                              Registration of Instruments \n                                              Showing Grantor''s Title.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Chief Registrar may, as a \n                                              condition of registration, require \n                                              the grantor to present for \n                                              registration any instruments prior \n                                              to the instrument presented for \n                                              registration which, in the opinion \n                                              of the Chief Registrar, are \n                                              necessary in order to show on the \n                                              face of the register the title of \n                                              the grantor to execute the \n                                              instrument.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Where the grantor satisfies \n                                              the Chief Registrar as to the \n                                              existence and purport of any such \n                                              prior instrument and that the \n                                              instrument is not within the \n                                              possession, power or control of \n                                              the grantor, the Chief Registrar \n                                              may accept and register, in lieu \n                                              of the instrument, such \n                                              documentary evidence thereof as he \n                                              considers sufficient.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART V&#8212;CONSEQUENCES OF \n                                              REGISTRATION</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Registration necessary \n                                              for Validity.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), of \n                                              this section, an instrument other \n                                              than,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) a will, or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) a judge''s certificate, </span>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              first executed after the \n                                              commencement of this Act shall be \n                                              of no effect until it is \n                                              registered.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Nothing in this Act shall \n                                              operate to prevent any instrument \n                                              which, by virtue of any enactment, \n                                              takes effect from a particular \n                                              date from so taking effect.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Registration to be \n                                              Actual Notice.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The registration of any \n                                              instrument shall be deemed or \n                                              constitute actual notice of the \n                                              instrument and of the fact of \n                                              registration to all persons and \n                                              for all purposes, as from the date \n                                              of registration, unless otherwise \n                                              provided in any enactment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) This section does not apply to \n                                              a judge''s certificate or a \n                                              probate.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Priority of \n                                              Instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) An instrument, other than a \n                                              will or judge''s certificate, \n                                              whether executed before or after \n                                              the commencement of this Act, \n                                              shall, so far as regards any land \n                                              affected thereby, take effect in \n                                              accordance with this Part of this \n                                              Act as against other instruments \n                                              affecting the same land.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The instrument shall, upon \n                                              registration, take such effect \n                                              from the date of its execution if \n                                              it was presented for registration \n                                              within whichever of the following \n                                              periods is applicable &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) if executed at the place where \n                                              it is registered, the period of \n                                              fifteen days from its date;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) if executed elsewhere in \n                                              Ghana, the period of sixty days \n                                              from its date;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) if executed abroad, the period \n                                              of three months from its date.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The will of a testator dying \n                                              on or after the 24th day of March, \n                                              1883, shall, so far as regards any \n                                              land affected thereby, take such \n                                              effect from the death of the \n                                              testator if registered within such \n                                              of the following periods as is \n                                              applicable, that is to say,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) in the case of the will of a \n                                              person dying in Ghana, the period \n                                              of two months next after the death \n                                              of the testator;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) in the case of the will of a \n                                              person dying abroad, the period of \n                                              eighteen months next after the \n                                              death of the testator; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              and in any other case, the will \n                                              shall take effect from the date of \n                                              its registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Every judge''s certificate \n                                              shall take such effect in \n                                              accordance with its terms.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) In any other case, the \n                                              instrument shall, except as \n                                              otherwise expressly provided in \n                                              this Part of this Act, take such \n                                              effect from the date of its \n                                              registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Copies or Extracts May \n                                              be Put in Evidence.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Every copy or extract or \n                                              certificate of registry purporting \n                                              to be signed by a registrar shall \n                                              be receivable in evidence in any \n                                              Court without further or other \n                                              proof thereof, unless it is proved \n                                              to be a forgery.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The party proposing to use it \n                                              in evidence in a civil case shall \n                                              give notice of his intention in \n                                              writing to the opposite party, and \n                                              at the same time shall deliver to \n                                              him a copy of the copy or extract \n                                              and of the certificate thereon; \n                                              and on proof of the service or on \n                                              admission of the receipt of such \n                                              notice and copy, the certified \n                                              copy or extract shall be received \n                                              in evidence if the Court is of \n                                              opinion that the service has been \n                                              made in sufficient time before the \n                                              hearing to enable the opposite \n                                              party to apply for a search of the \n                                              original book or the register from \n                                              which the copy or extract has been \n                                              taken.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Inspection of \n                                              Registers, Books and Records.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The books, registers and records \n                                              in each office shall be inspected \n                                              by a Judge of a superior court at \n                                              such times as the Chief Justice \n                                              shall direct.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Protection of \n                                              Registrars.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              No action shall be brought against \n                                              the Chief Registrar or a registrar \n                                              in respect of anything done or \n                                              omitted to be done by him in good \n                                              faith in the execution or supposed \n                                              execution of his functions under \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Previously Registered \n                                              Instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              All instruments duly registered or \n                                              deemed to be duly registered in \n                                              pursuance of any law in force \n                                              prior to the commencement of this \n                                              Act shall be retained by the \n                                              registrars in charge thereof and \n                                              every instrument duly registered \n                                              therein in pursuance of the law \n                                              governing its registration at the \n                                              date of its registration shall be \n                                              deemed to be duly registered under \n                                              this Act and shall continue to \n                                              take effect in accordance with \n                                              that law.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Kumasi Lands.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The registers established under \n                                              section 23 of the Kumasi Lands \n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 145), shall \n                                              constitute a Register for the \n                                              purposes of this Act of land \n                                              vested in the President in trust \n                                              for the Golden Stool and the \n                                              Kumasi traditional area, and those \n                                              registers, and key maps relating \n                                              to such land, shall be transferred \n                                              to, and kept by, the Chief \n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Proceedings Under Land \n                                              Development (Protection of \n                                              Purchasers) Act, 1960.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where proceedings to which the \n                                              Land Development (Protection of \n                                              Purchasers) Act, 1960 (Act 2) and \n                                              the Farm Lands (Protection) Act, \n                                              1962 (Act 107) apply are \n                                              instituted in any Court, the \n                                              registrar of the Court shall give \n                                              notice of the proceedings to the \n                                              Chief Registrar who shall adjourn \n                                              consideration of any matter \n                                              affecting the land which is the \n                                              subject of the proceedings until \n                                              the conclusion of the proceedings.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The registrar of the Court by \n                                              which the proceedings are finally \n                                              disposed of shall send to the \n                                              Chief Registrar a copy of the \n                                              judgment and order of the Court, \n                                              and the Chief Registrar shall make \n                                              such additional entries and make \n                                              such cancellations and alterations \n                                              in the register as may be \n                                              necessary to give full effect \n                                              thereto.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Regulations.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Minister may, by \n                                              legislative instrument, make \n                                              Regulations for carrying into \n                                              effect the purposes of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \n                                              generality of subsection (1) the \n                                              regulations may include provisions \n                                              for the charging of fees for any \n                                              services performed under this Act \n                                              and for the regulation of costs.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Offences for Fraudulent \n                                              Transactions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Any person who knowingly &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) purports to make a grant of a \n                                              piece of land to which he has no \n                                              title; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) purports to make a grant of a \n                                              piece of land without authority; \n                                              or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) makes conflicting grants in \n                                              respect of the same piece of land \n                                              to more than one person, shall be \n                                              guilty of an offence which shall \n                                              be a second degree felony and may, \n                                              in addition to any other \n                                              punishment that may be imposed \n                                              upon him, be liable to pay an \n                                              amount of twice the value of the \n                                              aggregate consideration received \n                                              by him.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Repeal and Saving.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Land Registry Ordinance \n                                              (Cap. 133) is hereby repealed.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Any instrument made under the \n                                              repealed enactment and in force \n                                              immediately before the \n                                              commencement of this Act and fees \n                                              and costs in relation to any \n                                              matter for which provision is made \n                                              by this Act shall, until otherwise \n                                              provided by regulations under this \n                                              Act, continue in force.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \n                                              otherwise requires,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Ghana&quot; in relation to any time \n                                              prior to the 6th day of March, \n                                              1957, means the territory \n                                              comprised in Ghana on that date;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;grantee&quot; includes every person \n                                              taking or claiming any interest \n                                              under any instrument;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;grantor&quot; includes a vendor, \n                                              donor, mortgagor, lessor, or other \n                                              person conveying, mortgaging, \n                                              charging, or demising land;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;instrument&quot; means any writing \n                                              affecting land situate in Ghana, \n                                              including a judge''s certificate \n                                              and a memorandum of deposit of \n                                              title deeds;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;judge''s certificate&quot; means a \n                                              certificate of purchase of land \n                                              sold in execution signed by a \n                                              Judge or a District Magistrate, \n                                              and a certificate of title signed \n                                              by a Judge under the State \n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \n                                              (CA 6).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister to \n                                              whom functions under this Act are \n                                              assigned by the President.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Commencement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \n                                              on such day as the Minister may, \n                                              by legislative instrument, \n                                              appoint.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM A</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (Section 5)</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              OATH OF GRANTOR</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              I, A.B.,O......., make oath and \n                                              say that on the ....... day of \n                                              .............. 19..., I duly \n                                              executed the instrument now \n                                              produced to me and marked A, and \n                                              that I can read and write (or, \n                                              cannot read and write and that the \n                                              said instrument was read over and \n                                              interpreted to me by&nbsp; ...... at \n                                              the time of its execution and that \n                                              I understood its provisions).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Sworn at ..............&nbsp; this \n                                              ................. day of \n                                              ................... , 19........</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Before me,&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM B</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (Section 5)</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              OATH OF GRANTEE OR WITNESS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              I, N.M., of ............ , make \n                                              oath and say that on the \n                                              ..............day of ....... 19&nbsp; , \n                                              I saw A.B., of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , duly \n                                              execute the instrument now \n                                              produced to me and marked A, and \n                                              that the said A. B. can read and \n                                              write (or, cannot read and write \n                                              and that the said instrument was \n                                              read over and interpreted to him \n                                              by ............. at the time of \n                                              its execution and that he appeared \n                                              to understand its provisions).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Sworn at ................... \n                                              this.................. day of \n                                              .............. , 19 ..........</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Before me,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM C</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ENDORSEMENT ON INSTRUMENT BY \n                                              OFFICER BEFORE WHOM THE OATH IS \n                                              SWORN</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This is the instrument marked A, \n                                              referred to in the oath of \n                                              ......... sworn before me \n                                              this............&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of \n                                              .................. , 19......</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM D</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (Section 10) </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF PROOF BEFORE \n                                              REGISTRAR</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              On the................ day of \n                                              ............... ,19...... , at \n                                              ............. o''clock in the \n                                              .................. noon this \n                                              instrument was proved before me by \n                                              the oath of the within \n                                              named.........to have been duly \n                                              executed by the within named.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM E</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (Section 6)</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF PROOF NOT BEFORE \n                                              REGISTRAR</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              On the ............... day of \n                                              ..............., 19......, at \n                                              .............. o''clock in the \n                                              ........... noon this instrument \n                                              was proved before me by the oath \n                                              of the within named \n                                              .................... to have been \n                                              duly executed by the within named \n                                              ........................</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Given under my hand and official \n                                              seal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Given under my hand and private \n                                              seal, I having no official seal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Given under my hand, I having no \n                                              official or private seal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM F</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (Section 10)</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF DELIVERY TO \n                                              REGISTRAR OF INSTRUMENT NOT PROVED \n                                              BEFORE HIM</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This instrument was delivered to \n                                              me for registration by \n                                              ................... of&nbsp; at \n                                              .................o''clock in the \n                                              ...............&nbsp; noon this \n                                              ................. day of \n                                              ................. ,19.....</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              FORM G</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (Section 18)</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              MONTHLY LIST</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              o.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of \n                                              receipt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nature of \n                                              instrument&nbsp; Situation of \n                                              land&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of instrument&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              Grantor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              Grantee&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Party \n                                              registering&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n                                              </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n                                              </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n                                              </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n                                              </span></td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n          </td>\n        </tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\n          <td width="777" height="50">\n            <p align="center">\n              </table>\n            </td>\n        </tr>\n', 'First', 'Yes', '');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(63, ' LANDS REGISTRY ACT, 1962, (ACT \n                                              122)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="728" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LANDS REGISTRY ACT, 1962, (ACT \r\n                                              122)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</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 — REGISTRY OFFICES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Offices to be established.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Appointment of registrars.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II—PRESENTATION OF \r\n                                              INSTRUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; Instruments registrable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Instruments except wills, to \r\n                                              describe the land affected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Proof of instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Before whom proof must be \r\n                                              made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Probate and judge''s \r\n                                              certificates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Instruments kept in public \r\n                                              office in another country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Instruments executed before \r\n                                              the 24th March, 1883.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III—MODE OF REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Certificate of registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11.&nbsp; Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Registration of duplicate or \r\n                                              copy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Numbering and filing of \r\n                                              duplicates or copies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Endorsed instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Replacement of illegible \r\n                                              instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Copies of maps and plans to \r\n                                              be provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Books and Registers of \r\n                                              particulars of instruments to be \r\n                                              kept.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Publication of registered \r\n                                              instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Searches, copies and \r\n                                              extracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV—POWER TO REFUSE \r\n                                              REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20.&nbsp; Refusal of registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21.&nbsp; Notice of grounds of \r\n                                              objection to register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Formal hearing of application \r\n                                              for registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Requirement as to registration \r\n                                              of instruments showing grantor''s \r\n                                              title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V—CONSEQUENCES OF \r\n                                              REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24.&nbsp; Registration necessary for \r\n                                              validity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25.&nbsp; Registration to be actual \r\n                                              notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26.&nbsp; Priority of instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27.&nbsp; Copies or extracts may be put \r\n                                              in evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28.&nbsp; Inspection of registers, \r\n                                              books and records.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29.&nbsp; Protection of registrars.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30.&nbsp; Previously registered \r\n                                              instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31.&nbsp; Kumasi Lands.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Proceedings under Land \r\n                                              Development (Protection of \r\n                                              Purchasers) Act, 1960.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33.&nbsp; Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34.&nbsp; Offences for fraudulent \r\n                                              transactions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35.&nbsp; Repeal and saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36.&nbsp; Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37.&nbsp; Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Forms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form A—Oath of grantor</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form B—Oath of grantee or witness</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form C—Endorsement on instrument \r\n                                              by Officer before whom the oath is \r\n                                              sworn</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form D—Certificate of proof before \r\n                                              registrar</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form E—Certificate of proof not \r\n                                              before registrar</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form F—Certificate of delivery to \r\n                                              registrar of instrument not proved \r\n                                              before him</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form G—Monthly list</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \r\n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE LAND REGISTRY ACT, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \r\n                                              amendments the law relating to the \r\n                                              registration of instruments \r\n                                              affecting land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 14th June, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I—REGISTRY OFFICES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1—Offices to be \r\n                                              Established.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a registry office \r\n                                              at Accra, and at such other place \r\n                                              or places as the Minister may \r\n                                              appoint. The Minister may remove \r\n                                              any office from one place to \r\n                                              another, and increase or diminish \r\n                                              the number of offices.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2—Appointment of \r\n                                              Registrars.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President shall appoint a \r\n                                              Chief Registrar of Lands to \r\n                                              supervise all registry offices, \r\n                                              and a registrar at each office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II—PRESENTATION OF \r\n                                              INSTRUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3—Instruments \r\n                                              Registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any instrument may be registered \r\n                                              under this Act subject to the \r\n                                              conditions herein contained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4—Instruments, Except \r\n                                              Wills, to Describe the Land \r\n                                              Affected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No instrument, except a will or \r\n                                              probate, shall be registered \r\n                                              unless it contains a description \r\n                                              (which may be by reference to a \r\n                                              plan) which, in the opinion of the \r\n                                              registrar, is sufficient to enable \r\n                                              the location and boundaries of the \r\n                                              land to which it relates to be \r\n                                              identified or a sufficient \r\n                                              reference to the date and \r\n                                              particulars of registration of an \r\n                                              instrument affecting the same land \r\n                                              and already registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5—Proof of Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every instrument presented for \r\n                                              registration (except a will or an \r\n                                              instrument which may be registered \r\n                                              without proof under the provisions \r\n                                              hereinafter contained), shall be \r\n                                              proved by the oath of the grantor \r\n                                              or one of the grantors, or of the \r\n                                              grantee or one of the grantees, or \r\n                                              of one of the subscribing \r\n                                              witnesses, to have been duly \r\n                                              executed by the grantor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any original will presented \r\n                                              for registration shall be proved \r\n                                              by the oath of one of the \r\n                                              subscribing witnesses, or, if both \r\n                                              of them are dead or if from any \r\n                                              other circumstance an affidavit \r\n                                              cannot be obtained from either of \r\n                                              them, by the oath of some other \r\n                                              person present at the execution of \r\n                                              the will, or, failing such person, \r\n                                              by the oath of some person or \r\n                                              persons who can testify to the \r\n                                              handwriting of the testator and \r\n                                              the subscribing witnesses, to have \r\n                                              been duly executed by the \r\n                                              testator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The oath shall also state \r\n                                              whether the grantor or testator \r\n                                              could read and write, and , if he \r\n                                              could not read and write, shall \r\n                                              state (except in case of a will \r\n                                              where the deponent was not present \r\n                                              at its execution) that the \r\n                                              instrument was read over and \r\n                                              interpreted to him at the time of \r\n                                              its execution by him and that he \r\n                                              appeared to understand its \r\n                                              provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form A.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form B.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The oath required for proving \r\n                                              an instrument shall be put into \r\n                                              writing and signed by the deponent \r\n                                              and filed with the registrar. \r\n                                              Every registrar may administer the \r\n                                              oath. The oath may be in the Form \r\n                                              A or B in the Schedule with such \r\n                                              variations as circumstances \r\n                                              require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6—Before Whom Proof Shall \r\n                                              be Made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The proof hereby required \r\n                                              shall be made as follows—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if the instrument was executed \r\n                                              in Ghana, before the registrar at \r\n                                              the office where it is presented \r\n                                              for registration, or before a \r\n                                              Judge, District Magistrate, or a \r\n                                              registrar of the High Court;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if the instrument was executed \r\n                                              in any Commonwealth country, \r\n                                              before a Judge, Magistrate, notary \r\n                                              public, or diplomatic agent or \r\n                                              consular officer representing or \r\n                                              acting on behalf of the Republic \r\n                                              in that country;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if the instrument was executed \r\n                                              in any other country, before a \r\n                                              notary public, or diplomatic agent \r\n                                              or consular officer representing \r\n                                              or acting on behalf of the \r\n                                              Republic in that country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form E.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An instrument not proved \r\n                                              before the registrar shall not be \r\n                                              registered unless it bears a \r\n                                              certificate as near as may be in \r\n                                              the Form E in the Schedule \r\n                                              purporting to be under the hand \r\n                                              and official seal or private seal \r\n                                              (if there is no official seal), or \r\n                                              the hand alone if the person has \r\n                                              no official or private seal, of \r\n                                              some one of the persons authorised \r\n                                              to receive such proof to the \r\n                                              effect that the instrument has \r\n                                              been proved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7—Probate and Judge''s \r\n                                              Certificates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              probate or a judge''s certificate \r\n                                              may be registered without proof \r\n                                              upon production thereof to the \r\n                                              registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8—Instruments Kept in \r\n                                              Public Office In another Country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If an instrument be executed in \r\n                                              any part of the world where by law \r\n                                              the original is kept in the \r\n                                              custody of a public officer, a \r\n                                              copy of the original and the \r\n                                              certificate of proof thereof, \r\n                                              certified to be correct by the \r\n                                              public officer in whose custody \r\n                                              the original is kept, shall be \r\n                                              registered in the same manner as \r\n                                              an original instrument, provided \r\n                                              the original has been proved in \r\n                                              accordance with this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9—Instruments Executed \r\n                                              Before the 24th March, 1883.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The will of a person who died \r\n                                              before the 24th day of March, \r\n                                              1883, and any other instrument \r\n                                              executed before that date, may be \r\n                                              registered without proof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III—MODE OF REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10—Certificate of \r\n                                              Registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form D.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form F. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The registrar at each office shall \r\n                                              immediately after the proof before \r\n                                              him of any instrument presented \r\n                                              for registration, and upon the \r\n                                              presentation of any instrument \r\n                                              duly proved before any other \r\n                                              person, or of any instrument which \r\n                                              may be registered under this Act \r\n                                              without proof, place upon the \r\n                                              instrument a certificate in the \r\n                                              Form D or F, as the case may be, \r\n                                              in the Schedule, or as near \r\n                                              thereto as may be, specifying the \r\n                                              year, month, day, and hour of the \r\n                                              proof or presentation, as the case \r\n                                              may be, of such instrument; and \r\n                                              the year, month, day, and hour \r\n                                              specified in the certificate \r\n                                              shall, if the instrument is \r\n                                              ultimately registered, be taken to \r\n                                              be the year, month, day, and hour \r\n                                              at which the instrument was \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11—Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The registrar shall keep a \r\n                                              Register, and, subject to the \r\n                                              exceptions hereinafter stated, \r\n                                              shall register therein in manner \r\n                                              hereinafter provided all \r\n                                              instruments presented to him in \r\n                                              the prescribed form.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12—Registration of \r\n                                              Duplicate or Copy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Registration shall consist in \r\n                                              filing a duplicate or copy (to be \r\n                                              provided by the person presenting \r\n                                              the instrument for registration) \r\n                                              of the instrument brought for \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every duplicate or copy shall \r\n                                              bear the certificate required by \r\n                                              section 10 of this Act to be \r\n                                              placed on the original instrument, \r\n                                              and also a certificate signed by \r\n                                              the registrar that such duplicate \r\n                                              has been compared and verified \r\n                                              with the original.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The duplicate or copy may be \r\n                                              printed, written, typewritten, \r\n                                              photographed or copied by any \r\n                                              other process.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The registrar may refuse to \r\n                                              accept any duplicate or copy that \r\n                                              is made on paper or other material \r\n                                              which in his opinion is of a size \r\n                                              unsuitable for filing or of \r\n                                              insufficient substance to be \r\n                                              durable, and may refuse to accept \r\n                                              any duplicate or copy made in a \r\n                                              way which in his opinion does not \r\n                                              produce a permanent impression.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13—Numbering and Filing of \r\n                                              Duplicates or Copies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The registrar shall number every \r\n                                              duplicate or copy so filed \r\n                                              consecutively, and shall file \r\n                                              duplicates or copies in the order \r\n                                              in which they are received by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14—Endorsed Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An instrument endorsed on another \r\n                                              instrument shall not be registered \r\n                                              without the instrument on which it \r\n                                              is endorsed, unless the latter \r\n                                              instrument is already registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15—Replacement of \r\n                                              Illegible Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If in the opinion of a registrar \r\n                                              any duplicate or copy of an \r\n                                              instrument registered in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act has deteriorated or \r\n                                              become illegible or is likely to \r\n                                              deteriorate or become illegible, \r\n                                              he may substitute therefor a \r\n                                              further copy of the original \r\n                                              instrument or, as the case may be, \r\n                                              an improved and legible copy of \r\n                                              the deteriorated or illegible \r\n                                              duplicate or copy.&nbsp; In every such \r\n                                              case the registrar shall endorse \r\n                                              upon the substituted document a \r\n                                              certificate setting forth the \r\n                                              circumstances which rendered the \r\n                                              substitution necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16—Copies of Maps and \r\n                                              Plans to be Provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a map or plan is comprised \r\n                                              in or annexed to an instrument, a \r\n                                              true copy of the map or plan must \r\n                                              accompany the instrument when \r\n                                              brought for registration, and \r\n                                              shall be filed in the register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17—Books and Registers of \r\n                                              Particulars of Instruments to be \r\n                                              Kept.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The registrar shall keep a \r\n                                              book in which he shall, upon \r\n                                              registration of any instrument, \r\n                                              enter the registered number, the \r\n                                              names of the parties, the date and \r\n                                              nature of the instrument, and the \r\n                                              date of registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chief Registrar may cause \r\n                                              registrars to keep such other \r\n                                              books and registers as he thinks \r\n                                              fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18—Publication of Lists of \r\n                                              Registered Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Form G.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Within ten days after the last day \r\n                                              of each month the registrar in \r\n                                              charge of each office shall send \r\n                                              to the Chief Registrar a complete \r\n                                              list in the Form G in the \r\n                                              Schedule, or to that effect, of \r\n                                              all instruments registered in his \r\n                                              office during the past month. On \r\n                                              receipt of these lists the Chief \r\n                                              Registrar shall within fourteen \r\n                                              days compile one general list \r\n                                              which shall be retained in his \r\n                                              office, and shall send one copy of \r\n                                              it to the registrar in charge of \r\n                                              each office and publish the list \r\n                                              in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19—Searches, Copies and \r\n                                              Extracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              registrar shall, upon application, \r\n                                              allow searches to be made at all \r\n                                              reasonable times in any book, \r\n                                              register or list in his custody, \r\n                                              and shall upon request give \r\n                                              certified copies of, or extracts \r\n                                              from, any entry in any such book, \r\n                                              register or list or of any \r\n                                              duplicate or copy of a registered \r\n                                              instrument filed in his register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV—POWER TO REFUSE \r\n                                              REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20—Refusal of \r\n                                              Registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              registrar may, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Part of this \r\n                                              Act, refuse to register an \r\n                                              instrument affecting any \r\n                                              particular land if—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) he is satisfied that the \r\n                                              instrument deals with the land or \r\n                                              part of it in a manner \r\n                                              inconsistent with an instrument \r\n                                              previously executed whether by the \r\n                                              same grantor or some predecessor \r\n                                              in title or by any other person; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) on the face of the records the \r\n                                              grantor does not appear to him to \r\n                                              be entitled to deal with the land \r\n                                              as the instrument purports to do; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the instrument is made in \r\n                                              contravention of, or is null and \r\n                                              void by virtue of, any enactment; \r\n                                              or </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21—Notice of Grounds of \r\n                                              Objection to Register. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where, on presentation of an \r\n                                              instrument for registration, the \r\n                                              registrar is of opinion that there \r\n                                              may be grounds under paragraph \r\n                                              (a), (b) or (c) of section 20 of \r\n                                              this Act for refusal to register \r\n                                              the instrument he shall notify the \r\n                                              grantor and the grantee of his \r\n                                              opinion and the grounds thereof \r\n                                              giving them three months within \r\n                                              which to reply to the notice and \r\n                                              to satisfy the Chief Registrar as \r\n                                              to the grantor''s title to deal \r\n                                              with the land in the manner \r\n                                              proposed by the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where, on presentation of an \r\n                                              instrument for registration, the \r\n                                              registrar is of opinion that there \r\n                                              may be grounds under paragraph \r\n                                              (a), (b) or (c) of section 20 of \r\n                                              this Act for refusal to register \r\n                                              the instrument he shall notify the \r\n                                              grantor and the grantee of his \r\n                                              opinion and the grounds thereof \r\n                                              giving them three months within \r\n                                              which to reply to the notice and \r\n                                              to satisfy the Chief Registrar as \r\n                                              to the grantor''s title to deal \r\n                                              with the land in the manner \r\n                                              proposed by the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22—Formal Hearing of \r\n                                              Application for Registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the Chief Registrar \r\n                                              remains unsatisfied as to the \r\n                                              title of the grantor to execute \r\n                                              the instrument he shall notify the \r\n                                              grantor and grantee of his opinion \r\n                                              and that, unless the application \r\n                                              for registration is withdrawn \r\n                                              within thirty days or such \r\n                                              extended period, not longer than \r\n                                              three months as the Chief \r\n                                              Registrar may for good cause \r\n                                              allow, he will proceed to deal \r\n                                              with it in the manner provided by \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the application is not \r\n                                              withdrawn within the appointed \r\n                                              time, the Chief Registrar shall \r\n                                              serve upon the grantor and the \r\n                                              grantee and upon every person \r\n                                              whose interest in the land appears \r\n                                              to him to be affected by the \r\n                                              instrument, notice of the time and \r\n                                              place at which he will proceed to \r\n                                              hear and determine the question \r\n                                              whether registration of the \r\n                                              instrument should be refused, and \r\n                                              shall publish notice of the \r\n                                              hearing in the Gazette and in some \r\n                                              newspaper circulating in the area \r\n                                              in which the land is situated and \r\n                                              may cause notice thereof to be \r\n                                              published in such other manner as \r\n                                              he thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chief Registrar shall \r\n                                              proceed to hear and determine the \r\n                                              question at the time and place \r\n                                              appointed or at any other time or \r\n                                              place to which he may adjourn the \r\n                                              hearing. He shall hear every \r\n                                              person claiming to be entitled to \r\n                                              an interest in the land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The decision of the Chief \r\n                                              Registrar shall be communicated in \r\n                                              writing to the grantor and to \r\n                                              every person represented at the \r\n                                              hearing and shall be published in \r\n                                              the same manner as the notice of \r\n                                              the hearing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The grantor, the grantee, any \r\n                                              other party represented at the \r\n                                              hearing and, by leave of the \r\n                                              Court, any other person may appeal \r\n                                              to the High Court from the \r\n                                              decision of the Chief Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to rules of court, the \r\n                                              rules governing appeals from a \r\n                                              Circuit Court to the High Court in \r\n                                              civil matters shall apply to the \r\n                                              appeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23—Requirement as to \r\n                                              Registration of Instruments \r\n                                              Showing Grantor''s Title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chief Registrar may, as a \r\n                                              condition of registration, require \r\n                                              the grantor to present for \r\n                                              registration any instruments prior \r\n                                              to the instrument presented for \r\n                                              registration which, in the opinion \r\n                                              of the Chief Registrar, are \r\n                                              necessary in order to show on the \r\n                                              face of the register the title of \r\n                                              the grantor to execute the \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the grantor satisfies \r\n                                              the Chief Registrar as to the \r\n                                              existence and purport of any such \r\n                                              prior instrument and that the \r\n                                              instrument is not within the \r\n                                              possession, power or control of \r\n                                              the grantor, the Chief Registrar \r\n                                              may accept and register, in lieu \r\n                                              of the instrument, such \r\n                                              documentary evidence thereof as he \r\n                                              considers sufficient.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V—CONSEQUENCES OF \r\n                                              REGISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24—Registration necessary \r\n                                              for Validity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), of \r\n                                              this section, an instrument other \r\n                                              than,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a will, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a judge''s certificate, </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              first executed after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall be \r\n                                              of no effect until it is \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in this Act shall \r\n                                              operate to prevent any instrument \r\n                                              which, by virtue of any enactment, \r\n                                              takes effect from a particular \r\n                                              date from so taking effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25—Registration to be \r\n                                              Actual Notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The registration of any \r\n                                              instrument shall be deemed or \r\n                                              constitute actual notice of the \r\n                                              instrument and of the fact of \r\n                                              registration to all persons and \r\n                                              for all purposes, as from the date \r\n                                              of registration, unless otherwise \r\n                                              provided in any enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section does not apply to \r\n                                              a judge''s certificate or a \r\n                                              probate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26—Priority of \r\n                                              Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An instrument, other than a \r\n                                              will or judge''s certificate, \r\n                                              whether executed before or after \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act, \r\n                                              shall, so far as regards any land \r\n                                              affected thereby, take effect in \r\n                                              accordance with this Part of this \r\n                                              Act as against other instruments \r\n                                              affecting the same land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The instrument shall, upon \r\n                                              registration, take such effect \r\n                                              from the date of its execution if \r\n                                              it was presented for registration \r\n                                              within whichever of the following \r\n                                              periods is applicable —</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if executed at the place where \r\n                                              it is registered, the period of \r\n                                              fifteen days from its date;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if executed elsewhere in \r\n                                              Ghana, the period of sixty days \r\n                                              from its date;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if executed abroad, the period \r\n                                              of three months from its date.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The will of a testator dying \r\n                                              on or after the 24th day of March, \r\n                                              1883, shall, so far as regards any \r\n                                              land affected thereby, take such \r\n                                              effect from the death of the \r\n                                              testator if registered within such \r\n                                              of the following periods as is \r\n                                              applicable, that is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of the will of a \r\n                                              person dying in Ghana, the period \r\n                                              of two months next after the death \r\n                                              of the testator;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of the will of a \r\n                                              person dying abroad, the period of \r\n                                              eighteen months next after the \r\n                                              death of the testator; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and in any other case, the will \r\n                                              shall take effect from the date of \r\n                                              its registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every judge''s certificate \r\n                                              shall take such effect in \r\n                                              accordance with its terms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) In any other case, the \r\n                                              instrument shall, except as \r\n                                              otherwise expressly provided in \r\n                                              this Part of this Act, take such \r\n                                              effect from the date of its \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27—Copies or Extracts May \r\n                                              be Put in Evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every copy or extract or \r\n                                              certificate of registry purporting \r\n                                              to be signed by a registrar shall \r\n                                              be receivable in evidence in any \r\n                                              Court without further or other \r\n                                              proof thereof, unless it is proved \r\n                                              to be a forgery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The party proposing to use it \r\n                                              in evidence in a civil case shall \r\n                                              give notice of his intention in \r\n                                              writing to the opposite party, and \r\n                                              at the same time shall deliver to \r\n                                              him a copy of the copy or extract \r\n                                              and of the certificate thereon; \r\n                                              and on proof of the service or on \r\n                                              admission of the receipt of such \r\n                                              notice and copy, the certified \r\n                                              copy or extract shall be received \r\n                                              in evidence if the Court is of \r\n                                              opinion that the service has been \r\n                                              made in sufficient time before the \r\n                                              hearing to enable the opposite \r\n                                              party to apply for a search of the \r\n                                              original book or the register from \r\n                                              which the copy or extract has been \r\n                                              taken.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28—Inspection of \r\n                                              Registers, Books and Records.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The books, registers and records \r\n                                              in each office shall be inspected \r\n                                              by a Judge of a superior court at \r\n                                              such times as the Chief Justice \r\n                                              shall direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29—Protection of \r\n                                              Registrars.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No action shall be brought against \r\n                                              the Chief Registrar or a registrar \r\n                                              in respect of anything done or \r\n                                              omitted to be done by him in good \r\n                                              faith in the execution or supposed \r\n                                              execution of his functions under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30—Previously Registered \r\n                                              Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All instruments duly registered or \r\n                                              deemed to be duly registered in \r\n                                              pursuance of any law in force \r\n                                              prior to the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act shall be retained by the \r\n                                              registrars in charge thereof and \r\n                                              every instrument duly registered \r\n                                              therein in pursuance of the law \r\n                                              governing its registration at the \r\n                                              date of its registration shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be duly registered under \r\n                                              this Act and shall continue to \r\n                                              take effect in accordance with \r\n                                              that law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31—Kumasi Lands.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The registers established under \r\n                                              section 23 of the Kumasi Lands \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 145), shall \r\n                                              constitute a Register for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act of land \r\n                                              vested in the President in trust \r\n                                              for the Golden Stool and the \r\n                                              Kumasi traditional area, and those \r\n                                              registers, and key maps relating \r\n                                              to such land, shall be transferred \r\n                                              to, and kept by, the Chief \r\n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32—Proceedings Under Land \r\n                                              Development (Protection of \r\n                                              Purchasers) Act, 1960.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where proceedings to which the \r\n                                              Land Development (Protection of \r\n                                              Purchasers) Act, 1960 (Act 2) and \r\n                                              the Farm Lands (Protection) Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 107) apply are \r\n                                              instituted in any Court, the \r\n                                              registrar of the Court shall give \r\n                                              notice of the proceedings to the \r\n                                              Chief Registrar who shall adjourn \r\n                                              consideration of any matter \r\n                                              affecting the land which is the \r\n                                              subject of the proceedings until \r\n                                              the conclusion of the proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The registrar of the Court by \r\n                                              which the proceedings are finally \r\n                                              disposed of shall send to the \r\n                                              Chief Registrar a copy of the \r\n                                              judgment and order of the Court, \r\n                                              and the Chief Registrar shall make \r\n                                              such additional entries and make \r\n                                              such cancellations and alterations \r\n                                              in the register as may be \r\n                                              necessary to give full effect \r\n                                              thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33—Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, make \r\n                                              Regulations for carrying into \r\n                                              effect the purposes of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1) the \r\n                                              regulations may include provisions \r\n                                              for the charging of fees for any \r\n                                              services performed under this Act \r\n                                              and for the regulation of costs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34—Offences for Fraudulent \r\n                                              Transactions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who knowingly —</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) purports to make a grant of a \r\n                                              piece of land to which he has no \r\n                                              title; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) purports to make a grant of a \r\n                                              piece of land without authority; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) makes conflicting grants in \r\n                                              respect of the same piece of land \r\n                                              to more than one person, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence which shall \r\n                                              be a second degree felony and may, \r\n                                              in addition to any other \r\n                                              punishment that may be imposed \r\n                                              upon him, be liable to pay an \r\n                                              amount of twice the value of the \r\n                                              aggregate consideration received \r\n                                              by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35—Repeal and Saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Land Registry Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 133) is hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any instrument made under the \r\n                                              repealed enactment and in force \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act and fees \r\n                                              and costs in relation to any \r\n                                              matter for which provision is made \r\n                                              by this Act shall, until otherwise \r\n                                              provided by regulations under this \r\n                                              Act, continue in force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36—Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Ghana&quot; in relation to any time \r\n                                              prior to the 6th day of March, \r\n                                              1957, means the territory \r\n                                              comprised in Ghana on that date;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;grantee&quot; includes every person \r\n                                              taking or claiming any interest \r\n                                              under any instrument;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;grantor&quot; includes a vendor, \r\n                                              donor, mortgagor, lessor, or other \r\n                                              person conveying, mortgaging, \r\n                                              charging, or demising land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;instrument&quot; means any writing \r\n                                              affecting land situate in Ghana, \r\n                                              including a judge''s certificate \r\n                                              and a memorandum of deposit of \r\n                                              title deeds;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;judge''s certificate&quot; means a \r\n                                              certificate of purchase of land \r\n                                              sold in execution signed by a \r\n                                              Judge or a District Magistrate, \r\n                                              and a certificate of title signed \r\n                                              by a Judge under the State \r\n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (CA 6).</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 to \r\n                                              whom functions under this Act are \r\n                                              assigned by the President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37—Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such day as the Minister may, \r\n                                              by legislative instrument, \r\n                                              appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM A</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 5)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OATH OF GRANTOR</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, A.B.,O......., make oath and \r\n                                              say that on the ....... day of \r\n                                              .............. 19..., I duly \r\n                                              executed the instrument now \r\n                                              produced to me and marked A, and \r\n                                              that I can read and write (or, \r\n                                              cannot read and write and that the \r\n                                              said instrument was read over and \r\n                                              interpreted to me by&nbsp; ...... at \r\n                                              the time of its execution and that \r\n                                              I understood its provisions).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sworn at ..............&nbsp; this \r\n                                              ................. day of \r\n                                              ................... , 19........</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me,&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM B</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 5)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OATH OF GRANTEE OR WITNESS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, N.M., of ............ , make \r\n                                              oath and say that on the \r\n                                              ..............day of ....... 19&nbsp; , \r\n                                              I saw A.B., of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , duly \r\n                                              execute the instrument now \r\n                                              produced to me and marked A, and \r\n                                              that the said A. B. can read and \r\n                                              write (or, cannot read and write \r\n                                              and that the said instrument was \r\n                                              read over and interpreted to him \r\n                                              by ............. at the time of \r\n                                              its execution and that he appeared \r\n                                              to understand its provisions).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sworn at ................... \r\n                                              this.................. day of \r\n                                              .............. , 19 ..........</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM C</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENDORSEMENT ON INSTRUMENT BY \r\n                                              OFFICER BEFORE WHOM THE OATH IS \r\n                                              SWORN</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This is the instrument marked A, \r\n                                              referred to in the oath of \r\n                                              ......... sworn before me \r\n                                              this............&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of \r\n                                              .................. , 19......</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM D</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 10) </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF PROOF BEFORE \r\n                                              REGISTRAR</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              On the................ day of \r\n                                              ............... ,19...... , at \r\n                                              ............. o''clock in the \r\n                                              .................. noon this \r\n                                              instrument was proved before me by \r\n                                              the oath of the within \r\n                                              named.........to have been duly \r\n                                              executed by the within named.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM E</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 6)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF PROOF NOT BEFORE \r\n                                              REGISTRAR</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              On the ............... day of \r\n                                              ..............., 19......, at \r\n                                              .............. o''clock in the \r\n                                              ........... noon this instrument \r\n                                              was proved before me by the oath \r\n                                              of the within named \r\n                                              .................... to have been \r\n                                              duly executed by the within named \r\n                                              ........................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Given under my hand and official \r\n                                              seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Given under my hand and private \r\n                                              seal, I having no official seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Given under my hand, I having no \r\n                                              official or private seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM F</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 10)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF DELIVERY TO \r\n                                              REGISTRAR OF INSTRUMENT NOT PROVED \r\n                                              BEFORE HIM</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This instrument was delivered to \r\n                                              me for registration by \r\n                                              ................... of&nbsp; at \r\n                                              .................o''clock in the \r\n                                              ...............&nbsp; noon this \r\n                                              ................. day of \r\n                                              ................. ,19.....</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM G</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 18)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              MONTHLY LIST</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                                              o.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of \r\n                                              receipt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nature of \r\n                                              instrument&nbsp; Situation of \r\n                                              land&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of instrument&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Grantor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Grantee&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Party \r\n                                              registering&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n         ', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 122');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(64, 'LANDS (STATUTORY WAYLEAVES) ACT, \n                                              1963 (ACT 186)', '<table>\n<tr>\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1360" height="64">\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              LANDS (STATUTORY WAYLEAVES) ACT, \n                                              1963 (ACT 186)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              1. Creation of statutory wayleaves.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              2. Works for which statutory \n                                              wayleaves may be created.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              3. Rights of entry for survey.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              4. Rights of entry for \n                                              construction.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              5. Rights of entry for inspection, \n                                              maintenance, etc..</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              6. Compensation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              7. Regulations.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              8. Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              9. Other enactments relating to \n                                              entry on, and acquisition of, \n                                              land.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIXTH</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE LANDS (STATUTORY WAYLEAVES) \n                                              ACT, 1963</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to provide for entry on any \n                                              land for the purpose of the \n                                              construction, installation and \n                                              maintenance of works of public \n                                              utility, and for the creation of \n                                              rights of way and other similar \n                                              rights in respect of such works \n                                              and&nbsp; for purposes connected with \n                                              the matters aforesaid.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 16th July, 1963</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Be IT ENACTED by the President and \n                                              the National Assembly in this&nbsp; \n                                              present Parliament assembled as \n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Creation of Statutory \n                                              Wayleaves.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where the President is of the \n                                              opinion that it is in the public \n                                              interest that any right of way or \n                                              other similar right over any land \n                                              (hereafter in this Act referred to \n                                              as a &quot;statutory wayleave&quot;) be \n                                              created in respect of the whole or \n                                              any part of any of the works \n                                              specified in the next following \n                                              section he may, subject to the \n                                              provisions of this Act, by \n                                              executive instrument (hereafter in \n                                              this Act referred to as a &quot;wayleave \n                                              instrument&quot;) declare the land \n                                              specified in the instrument to be&nbsp; \n                                              subject to such statutory wayleave \n                                              as is specified therein; and on \n                                              the publication of a wayleave \n                                              instrument and without further \n                                              assurance the land shall be deemed \n                                              to be subject to that wayleave \n                                              which shall, in accordance with \n                                              the terms of the instrument, enure \n                                              to the benefit of the Republic, \n                                              any statutory corporation \n                                              specified in the instrument, or \n                                              the public generally.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) A wayleave instrument shall \n                                              contain the following particulars, \n                                              that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) a description (with \n                                              measurements) of the land affected \n                                              by the statutory wayleave together \n                                              with a plan showing the position \n                                              of the works constructed thereon;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) particulars of the person or \n                                              body for whose benefit the \n                                              wayleave is to enure; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) such other particulars of the \n                                              said works as the President thinks \n                                              necessary&nbsp; or expedient to include \n                                              in the instrument.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) A copy of every wayleave \n                                              instrument shall be served on the \n                                              owner or occupier of the land \n                                              affected by the statutory wayleave, \n                                              and if neither the owner or \n                                              occupier can be found shall be \n                                              posted in a conspicuous place on \n                                              the land and published in a \n                                              newspaper circulating in the \n                                              locality.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Any land subject to a \n                                              statutory wayleave shall \n                                              (notwithstanding any rule of law) \n                                              continue to be subject thereto \n                                              until the wayleave is terminated \n                                              in accordance with regulations \n                                              made under this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Works for which \n                                              Statutory Wayleaves may be \n                                              Created.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) A statutory wayleave may be \n                                              created in respect of any of the \n                                              following works, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a)&nbsp; any highway; and </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) any other structure or works \n                                              for the purpose of, or in \n                                              connection with, any public \n                                              utility service;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              any such works being hereafter in \n                                              this Act referred to as &quot;specified \n                                              works&quot;.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Any statutory wayleave created \n                                              for the purposes specified in \n                                              paragraph (a) of the foregoing \n                                              subsection shall, unless the \n                                              contrary intention appears in the \n                                              instrument creating the wayleave, \n                                              be deemed to include the purposes \n                                              specified in paragraph (b) of that \n                                              subsection.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) In this section the expression \n                                              &quot;public utility service&quot; means any \n                                              service provided by the Republic, \n                                              any local authority or statutory \n                                              corporation, for supplying \n                                              electricity, water (for any \n                                              purpose) or gas, or for supplying \n                                              sewerage, transport or \n                                              telecommunication facilities or \n                                              facilities connected with the \n                                              operation of any port, railway, \n                                              tramway or airport.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Rights of Entry for \n                                              Survey.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) With a view to determining \n                                              whether any land is suitable for \n                                              the construction of any specified \n                                              works, any public officer or other \n                                              person acting on behalf of the \n                                              Republic, any local authority or \n                                              statutory corporation may, if \n                                              authorised by or on behalf of the \n                                              Minister with the agreement of the \n                                              appropriate Minister (any person \n                                              so authorised being hereafter in \n                                              this Act referred to as an \n                                              &quot;authorised person&quot;) and subject \n                                              to subsection (2) of this section, \n                                              enter upon any land for the \n                                              purpose of surveying that land.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Before entering on any land in \n                                              pursuance of the foregoing \n                                              subsection the authorised person \n                                              shall give to any person in \n                                              occupation of that land not less \n                                              than twenty-four hours notice of \n                                              his proposed entry; and the notice \n                                              shall contain particulars of the \n                                              land to be surveyed, the purpose \n                                              of the survey and of the works \n                                              proposed to be constructed \n                                              thereon.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Any Minister having functions \n                                              under this section may delegate \n                                              those functions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Rights of Entry for \n                                              Construction.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \n                                              this section an authorised person \n                                              may enter on any land for the \n                                              purpose of carrying out any \n                                              specified works if&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) he has given not less than one \n                                              week''s notice in writing to the \n                                              owner or occupier of the land of \n                                              the proposed entry; or </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) where neither the owner or \n                                              occupier of the land can be found, \n                                              has posted a notice indicating the \n                                              date of the proposed entry (being \n                                              a date not less than one week \n                                              after the posting of the notice) \n                                              in some conspicuous place on the \n                                              land.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Any notice given to any owner \n                                              or occupier or posted on any land \n                                              in pursuance of the foregoing \n                                              subsection shall contain \n                                              particulars of the land to be \n                                              affected by the proposed works and \n                                              particulars of those works, \n                                              including their position by \n                                              reference to a plan.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Any person who wilfully \n                                              obstructs an authorised person in \n                                              the exercise of&nbsp; his rights under \n                                              this, or the last foregoing, \n                                              section shall be guilty of an \n                                              offence and shall be liable on \n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \n                                              fifty pounds or to a term of \n                                              imprisonment not exceeding three \n                                              months or to both.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Rights of Entry for \n                                              Inspection, Maintenance, Etc.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              An authorised person may at any \n                                              time enter on any land for the \n                                              purpose of inspecting, \n                                              maintaining, replacing or removing \n                                              any specified works.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Compensation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where any person suffers any \n                                              loss or damage as a result of the \n                                              carrying out of any survey under \n                                              this Act or as a result of the \n                                              installation, construction, \n                                              inspection, maintenance, \n                                              replacement or removal of any \n                                              specified works that person shall, \n                                              save in so far as the loss or \n                                              damage resulted from or arose out \n                                              of the acts of that person, his \n                                              servants or agents, and subject to \n                                              the provisions of this section, be \n                                              entitled to compensation of an \n                                              amount assessed by the Minister in \n                                              respect of such loss or damage; \n                                              and in assessing such compensation \n                                              the Minister may take into account \n                                              in reduction thereof any amount by \n                                              which a person''s land has \n                                              increased in value as a result of \n                                              the installation or construction \n                                              of the works.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Any claim for compensation \n                                              under the foregoing subsection \n                                              shall be made to the Minister in \n                                              the prescribed form not more than \n                                              three months (or such longer \n                                              period as the Minister may either \n                                              generally or in any particular \n                                              case direct) after the date of the \n                                              declaration made by the President \n                                              under section 1 of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) No person shall be entitled to \n                                              any compensation under this \n                                              section for any loss or damage if&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) in the opinion of the \n                                              Minister&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \n                                              where the alleged damage is to \n                                              land, that land has ben \n                                              sufficiently reinstated; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (ii) where the alleged loss arises \n                                              out of the deprivation of the use \n                                              of any land, the person alleging \n                                              the loss has been offered other \n                                              land of equivalent value;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (iii) where the alleged damage is \n                                              to movable property, that property \n                                              has either been replaced or \n                                              sufficiently restored; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (iv) the works constructed do not \n                                              substantially interfere with the \n                                              enjoyment of the land;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) where the alleged loss arises \n                                              out of the construction of a \n                                              highway, that construction does \n                                              not deprive the owner of the \n                                              parcel of land affected thereby of \n                                              more than one-fifth of the parcel \n                                              and the remainder of that parcel \n                                              continues to be suitable for use \n                                              for the purposes for which it was \n                                              being used before the highway was \n                                              constructed.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Where any person is \n                                              dissatisfied with the amount of \n                                              compensation assessed by the \n                                              Minister under this section, but \n                                              in no other case, the matter may \n                                              be referred by the Minister to a \n                                              Tribunal established in accordance \n                                              with the next following \n                                              subsection.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) The Tribunal shall consist of \n                                              three persons appointed by the \n                                              President, following consultation \n                                              with the Chief Justice, and one of \n                                              those persons shall be a Judge of \n                                              the High Court who shall be \n                                              chairman of the Tribunal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Minister may, by legislative \n                                              instrument, make regulations&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) providing for all matters \n                                              relating to the procedure and \n                                              functions of the Tribunal \n                                              established under this Act; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) generally for giving effect to \n                                              the provisions of this Act, and \n                                              any regulations made by the \n                                              Minister may, without prejudice to \n                                              the generality of the foregoing \n                                              words, impose charges upon any \n                                              person or make provision for the \n                                              payment of fees to the Minister or \n                                              to any person appointed by him, \n                                              and may make provision for the \n                                              termination of any statutory \n                                              wayleave and for all matters \n                                              connected therewith.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \n                                              otherwise requires, the following \n                                              expressions have the meanings \n                                              hereby assigned to them \n                                              respectively, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;The Appropriate Minister&quot; means \n                                              the Minister responsible for the \n                                              works concerned;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;highway&quot; means any road, street, \n                                              path, pavement or square and \n                                              includes any bridge or other \n                                              structure associated therewith;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;the Minister&quot; means the Minister \n                                              responsible for lands;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;specified Works&quot; has the meaning \n                                              assigned to it by section 2 of \n                                              this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;statutory Wayleave&quot; has the \n                                              meaning assigned to it by section \n                                              1 of this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;transport&quot; includes transport by \n                                              canal, by overhead cable, conveyor \n                                              or rail, or by pneumatic dispatch \n                                              tube or by pipe line;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;wayleave \n                                              instrument&quot; has the meaning \n                                              assigned to it by section 1 of \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Other Enactments \n                                              Relating to Entry on, and \n                                              Acquisition of, Land.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act shall not be construed as \n                                              in any way being prejudiced by any \n                                              other enactment relating to the \n                                              entry on, or the acquisition of, \n                                              any land for any purpose \n                                              whatsoever.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PUNISHMENT OF HABITUAL CRIMINALS \n                                              ACT, 1963 (ACT 192)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              1. Punishment of Habitual Criminal \n                                              Offenders.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              2. Medical Examination of Offender \n                                              in Certain Cases.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              3. Convictions by Circuit, \n                                              District and Local Courts.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              4. Repeal and Transitional \n                                              Provision. </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              5. Construction of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SECOND</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ACT</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE PUNISHMENT OF HABITUAL \n                                              CRIMINALS ACT, 1963</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \n                                              punishment of habitual criminal \n                                              offenders and for purposes \n                                              connected therewith.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 9th October, 1963.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \n                                              the National Assembly in this \n                                              present Parliament assembled as \n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Punishment of Habitual \n                                              Criminal Offenders.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where a person who is not less \n                                              than twenty years of age&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) is convicted of any offence \n                                              other than an offence for which he \n                                              is liable to suffer death; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) has been convicted previously \n                                              of at least two offences, each of \n                                              which is either a felony or a \n                                              misdemeanor; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) it appears to the High Court, \n                                              after enquiring into the \n                                              circumstances of the case, that by \n                                              reason of his criminal habits or \n                                              tendencies or of his association \n                                              with persons of bad character, it \n                                              is expedient for the protection of \n                                              the public that he should be \n                                              detained in custody for a \n                                              substantial period, </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              the Court shall, subject to the \n                                              next following section, pass (in \n                                              lieu of any other sentence) a \n                                              sentence of preventive custody \n                                              with productive hard labour for \n                                              such term, not being less than ten \n                                              years, as the Court may determine.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) In this Act the expression \n                                              &quot;productive hard labour&quot; has the \n                                              meaning assigned to it by the \n                                              Public Property (Protection) and \n                                              Corrupt Practices (Prevention) \n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 121).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Medical Examination of \n                                              Offender in Certain Cases.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where in the case of any \n                                              offender to whom subsection (1) of \n                                              the foregoing section applies the \n                                              High Court has reason to believe \n                                              that his physical or mental \n                                              condition is such as to render him \n                                              unsuitable for a sentence of \n                                              preventive custody with productive \n                                              hard labour under that section, \n                                              the Court shall, before passing \n                                              such sentence&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) cause an enquiry to be held \n                                              into, and a written report to be \n                                              made on, the physical and mental \n                                              health of that offender by a \n                                              medical Board consisting of not \n                                              fewer than two suitably qualified \n                                              medical practitioners appointed by \n                                              the Court after consultation with \n                                              the Chief Administrator of the \n                                              Ministry of Health;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) consider the report of the \n                                              Board and take such further \n                                              medical evidence concerning the \n                                              offender as the Court thinks fit; \n                                              and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) furnish the offender or his \n                                              lawyer with a copy of the report.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Where, having regard to such \n                                              report or further medical \n                                              evidence, or to any \n                                              representations made by or on \n                                              behalf of the offender, the Court \n                                              is satisfied that his physical or \n                                              mental health is such as to render \n                                              him unsuitable for a sentence of \n                                              preventive custody with productive \n                                              hard labour, but for no other \n                                              reason, the Court shall (in lieu \n                                              of such sentence) pass such other \n                                              sentence as is authorised by law \n                                              in relation to the offence of \n                                              which he is convicted.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Convictions by Circuit, \n                                              District and Local Courts.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where the Court by which an \n                                              offender to whom paragraphs (a) \n                                              and (b) of subsection (1) of \n                                              section 1 of this Act apply is \n                                              convicted is a Circuit Court, \n                                              District Court or Local Court, the \n                                              Court shall not pass sentence upon \n                                              him but shall commit him for \n                                              sentence to the High Court, and \n                                              any enactment relating to the \n                                              powers of any Court upon committal \n                                              for trial shall apply, so far as \n                                              is relevant, to the committal for \n                                              sentence.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Following such committal the \n                                              High Court shall have power to \n                                              deal with the offender as if he \n                                              had been convicted by that Court \n                                              of the offence (and, if the \n                                              offence is an indictable one, as \n                                              if he had been convicted on \n                                              indictment) and the conviction and \n                                              sentence shall be subject to \n                                              appeal as if he had been so \n                                              convicted.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Repeal and Transitional \n                                              Provision. </span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Section 402 of the Criminal \n                                              Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30) \n                                              (which section relates to \n                                              preventive custody) is hereby \n                                              repealed.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The repeal of the said section \n                                              402 shall not affect any case in \n                                              which, at the date of the passing \n                                              of this Act, enquiries are being \n                                              made under subsection (2) of the \n                                              said section; and any such case \n                                              shall continue to be dealt with by \n                                              the High Court as if this Act had \n                                              never been passed.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Construction of this \n                                              Act.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act shall be read as one with \n                                              the said Criminal Procedure Code.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AIRPORT TAX ACT, 1963 (ACT 209)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AIRPORT TAX (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1985 \n                                              (PNDCL 128)1</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE AIRPORT TAX (AMENDMENT) ACT, \n                                              2001 (ACT 596)2</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE AIRPORT TAX (AMENDMENT) ACT, \n                                              2003 (ACT 638)3</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              1. Imposition of airport tax.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              2. Exemptions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              3. Functions of the Commissioner.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              4. Owners of aircraft to see that \n                                              tax is paid.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              5. Regulations.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              6. Penalty.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              7. Offences by bodies of persons.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              8. Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              8A. Repeal</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              9. Commencement of Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE TWO HUNDRED AND NINTH</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ACT</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE AIRPORT TAX ACT, 1963</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to impose a tax for the use \n                                              of any airport in Ghana by \n                                              aircraft passengers, to provide \n                                              for its collection and for matters \n                                              connected therewith or incidental \n                                              thereto.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 3rd December, 1963</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \n                                              the National Assembly in this \n                                              present Parliament assembled as \n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Imposition of Airport \n                                              Tax.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Every passenger departing from \n                                              an airport in the country by \n                                              aircraft shall pay to the \n                                              Commissioner in respect of each \n                                              flight</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) to a destination outside the \n                                              country, a tax of US$50; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) to a destination within the \n                                              country, a tax of ¢10,000.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) 40% of payment made under \n                                              subsection (1) shall be paid by \n                                              the Commissioner to the Ghana \n                                              Civil Aviation Authority. [As \n                                              substituted by the Airport Tax \n                                              (Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act 638)].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Exemptions.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              No tax shall be levied in respect \n                                              of the following passengers:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) a child under two years;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) a passenger in transit who is \n                                              staying less than twenty-four \n                                              hours in Ghana; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) a passenger in transit who \n                                              satisfies the Commissioner that he \n                                              has been unavoidably delayed in \n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Functions of the \n                                              Commissioner.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) It shall be lawful for the \n                                              Commissioner to&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) inspect any premises for \n                                              ascertaining whether the \n                                              provisions of this Act are being \n                                              carried out; and </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) request in writing any person \n                                              to furnish returns and other \n                                              documents for the purposes of this \n                                              Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Any person who prevents the \n                                              Commissioner without reasonable \n                                              cause from inspecting any premises \n                                              for the purposes of this Act, or \n                                              who fails to furnish a return or \n                                              document which he is requested to \n                                              furnish by the Commissioner within \n                                              the period specified in the \n                                              request, or who furnishes a false \n                                              or incorrect return or document, \n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \n                                              shall, on summary conviction, be \n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding one \n                                              hundred pounds or to imprisonment \n                                              for a term not exceeding one year \n                                              or to both such fine and \n                                              imprisonment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Owners of Aircraft to \n                                              see that Tax is Paid.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Every person who owns, or is \n                                              responsible for, an aircraft shall \n                                              see to it that the tax applicable \n                                              to a passenger has been paid.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Minister of Finance may make \n                                              regulations for carrying out the \n                                              principles and provisions of this \n                                              Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Penalty.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Any person who contravenes the \n                                              provisions of this Act shall be \n                                              guilty of an offence and shall, on \n                                              summary conviction, be liable to a \n                                              fine not exceeding one hundred \n                                              pounds or to imprisonment for a \n                                              term not exceeding twelve months \n                                              or to both such fine and \n                                              imprisonment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Offences by Bodies of \n                                              Persons.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In the case of an offence by a \n                                              body of persons&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) where the body of persons is a \n                                              body corporate, every director and \n                                              officer of the body corporate \n                                              shall be deemed to be guilty of \n                                              that offence; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) where the body of persons is a \n                                              firm, every partner of that firm \n                                              shall be deemed to be guilty of \n                                              that offence:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that no such person shall \n                                              be deemed to be guilty of the \n                                              offence, if he proves that such \n                                              offence was committed without his \n                                              knowledge or that he exercised due \n                                              diligence to prevent the \n                                              commission of the offence.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Commissioner&quot; means Commissioner \n                                              of Income Tax or any other person \n                                              authorised in that behalf by him; \n                                              and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Tax&quot; means the tax payable under \n                                              section 1.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8A&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Airport Tax (Amendment) Law, \n                                              1985 (PNDCL 128) is repealed.. \n                                              [Inserted and to be cited as the \n                                              Airport Tax (Amendment) Act, 2001 \n                                              (Act 596), s.2]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Commencement of Act.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act shall come into force on \n                                              the first day of December, 1963.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n          </td>\n        </tr>\n<tr>\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\n        </tr>\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 186');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(65, 'LEGAL PROFESSION ACT, 1960 (ACT \n                                              32)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1358" 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                                              LEGAL PROFESSION ACT, 1960 (ACT \r\n                                              32)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</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                                              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;ORGANISATION OF THE \r\n                                              PROFESSION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The General Legal Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Status of Lawyers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Qualifications for Enrolment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Only Graduates of Approved \r\n                                              Universities will be Enrolled as \r\n                                              from 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Evidence of Citizen''s \r\n                                              Qualification Abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. The Roll of Lawyers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Call to the Bar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Solicitor''s Licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Penalty for Unlawful Practice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Military Advocates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Government Grants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;LEGAL EDUCATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Arrangements for Legal \r\n                                              Education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Power to Make Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Delegation to Board of Legal \r\n                                              Education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;DISCIPLINE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Erasure from Roll for \r\n                                              Misconduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16A. Erasure from Roll on \r\n                                              Conviction of Certain Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Disciplinary Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Reference of Disciplinary \r\n                                              Cases to Disciplinary Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Rules of Procedure, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Decision of Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Right of Appeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Striking off the Roll.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Rules of Professional Conduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Restoration of Name to the \r\n                                              Roll.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Review of Prohibition on \r\n                                              Practising.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;EMPLOYMENT OF LAWYERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Change of Lawyers During \r\n                                              Hearing of a Case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Liability to Pay Costs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Costs Recoverable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Agreements Inconsistent with \r\n                                              this Act to be Void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;RECOVERY OF FEES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Bill of Fees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Application of Party Charged \r\n                                              to Tax Bill.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Where no Application to Tax \r\n                                              made within One Month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Where Application not to be \r\n                                              Granted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Non-attendance of Party at \r\n                                              Taxation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Costs of Taxation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Form of Order to be Made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Proof of Compliance with Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Completion of Taxation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Power to Court to Order \r\n                                              Delivery of Bill, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Where Lawyer May Begin Suit \r\n                                              within Month of Delivery of Bill.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Applications to be by Motion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Representatives and Assignees \r\n                                              of Lawyers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;PREPARATION OF LEGAL \r\n                                              DOCUMENTS BY UNAUTHORISED PERSONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Name and Address of \r\n                                              Draughtsman to be Endorsed on \r\n                                              Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Unqualified Persons not to \r\n                                              Draw or Prepare Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              45. Agreement to Pay Fees or \r\n                                              Reward to an Unqualified Person to \r\n                                              be Void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              46. Savings for Public Officers \r\n                                              and Engrossing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              47. Power to Except any Class of \r\n                                              Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;KEEPING OF ACCOUNTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              48. General Legal Council to Make \r\n                                              Rules as to Certain Matters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              49. Consequences of Failure to \r\n                                              Comply with Rules.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50. Saving for Full-time Employees \r\n                                              of Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              51. Saving for Part-time \r\n                                              Practitioners.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              52. Relief to Banks.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              53. Provisions as to Rules.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              54. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              55. Continuance of Rules and \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56. Definitions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              57. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule&#8212;Constitution of \r\n                                              General Legal Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule&#8212;Form of Practising \r\n                                              Certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Third Schedule&#8212;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">\r\n                                              THE THIRTY-SECOND</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</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 LEGAL PROFESSION ACT, 1960</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate and amend \r\n                                              the law relating to the legal \r\n                                              profession.</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, 1961</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;ORGANISATION OF THE \r\n                                              PROFESSION</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;The General Legal \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall continue to be a \r\n                                              body, to be called the General \r\n                                              Legal Council, which shall be \r\n                                              concerned with the legal \r\n                                              profession and, in particular:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) with the organisation of legal \r\n                                              education, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) with upholding standards of \r\n                                              professional conduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The constitution of the \r\n                                              Council shall be as set out in the \r\n                                              First Schedule to this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Council may hold land and \r\n                                              other property and do all such \r\n                                              other things as may appear to them \r\n                                              to be required for the purpose of \r\n                                              performing their functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Council shall appoint a \r\n                                              Director of Legal Education, and \r\n                                              such other officers as they may \r\n                                              require, and in the case of \r\n                                              officers required for the purposes \r\n                                              of Part II of this Act the \r\n                                              appointments shall be made on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Director of \r\n                                              Legal Education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Council shall in the \r\n                                              performance of their functions \r\n                                              comply with any general directions \r\n                                              given to them by 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 2&#8212;Status of Lawyers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every person whose name is entered \r\n                                              on the Roll to be kept under this \r\n                                              Part shall&#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) subject to section 8 of this \r\n                                              Act, be entitled to practise as a \r\n                                              lawyer, whether as a barrister or \r\n                                              solicitor or both, and to sue for \r\n                                              and recover his fees, charges and \r\n                                              disbursements for services \r\n                                              rendered as such, 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) be an officer of the Courts, \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) when acting as a lawyer, be \r\n                                              subject to all such liabilities as \r\n                                              attach by law to a solicitor.</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;Qualifications for \r\n                                              Enrolment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person shall be qualified \r\n                                              for enrolment if he satisfies the \r\n                                              General Legal Council&#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 he is of good character, \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) that he holds a qualifying \r\n                                              certificate granted under Part II \r\n                                              of this Act by the General Legal \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person may, at the \r\n                                              discretion of the General Legal \r\n                                              Council, be enrolled if he \r\n                                              satisfies the Council&#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 he is of good character, \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) that he is qualified to \r\n                                              practise in any country having a \r\n                                              sufficiently analogous system of \r\n                                              law and that his qualifications \r\n                                              are such as to render him suitable \r\n                                              for enrolment, and fulfils such \r\n                                              conditions, whether as to status \r\n                                              or proficiency, as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person who is a citizen of&nbsp; \r\n                                              Ghana shall be qualified for \r\n                                              enrolment if he satisfies the \r\n                                              General Legal Council&#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 he is of good character, \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) that he is qualified to \r\n                                              practise law in any country having \r\n                                              a sufficiently analogous system of \r\n                                              law. [As Inserted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 143) s. 1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Notwithstanding any other \r\n                                              provision of this Act a person \r\n                                              shall not be enrolled under \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              unless and until he has \r\n                                              satisfactorily completed a course \r\n                                              of lectures in customary law and \r\n                                              in such other subjects as the \r\n                                              General Legal Council may \r\n                                              prescribe of not less than three \r\n                                              months'' duration at a school of \r\n                                              law or other place of instruction \r\n                                              specified by the General Legal \r\n                                              Council. [As Inserted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession Act (Amendment) (No. 2) \r\n                                              Decree, 1967 (NLCD 213) s. 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;Only Graduates of \r\n                                              Approved Universities will be \r\n                                              Enrolled as from 1971.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              With effect from the first day of \r\n                                              January, 1971 a person shall not \r\n                                              be qualified for enrolment under \r\n                                              any&nbsp; provision of this Act unless \r\n                                              he is the holder of a degree from \r\n                                              a university approved by the \r\n                                              General Legal Council; and&nbsp; [As \r\n                                              Inserted by Legal Profession Act \r\n                                              (Amendment) (No. 2) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              213) s. 1 (b)].</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;Evidence of Citizen''s \r\n                                              Qualification Abroad.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              person who is a citizen of Ghana \r\n                                              may, for the purposes of sections \r\n                                              3 and 4 of this Act, be accepted \r\n                                              as qualified to practise in a \r\n                                              particular country if he has \r\n                                              satisfied the educational tests \r\n                                              required for admission to practise \r\n                                              in that country, notwithstanding \r\n                                              that he may not in fact have been \r\n                                              so admitted to practise.</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;The Roll of Lawyers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Roll of the Supreme Court \r\n                                              heretofore known as the Roll of \r\n                                              Legal Practitioners shall be known \r\n                                              as the Roll of Lawyers and shall \r\n                                              be kept by the Judicial Secretary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person applying for \r\n                                              enrolment shall deposit in the \r\n                                              office of the Judicial Secretary \r\n                                              for custody therein&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) an affidavit of identity in a \r\n                                              form approved by the General Legal \r\n                                              Council, and</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a duly authenticated copy of \r\n                                              his qualifying certificate granted \r\n                                              by the General Legal Council or, \r\n                                              in the case of a person not \r\n                                              holding such a certificate, such \r\n                                              other documents as may be \r\n                                              prescribed,</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              but the Council may, on special \r\n                                              grounds, and on such terms as they \r\n                                              think reasonable, exempt any \r\n                                              person from complying with any \r\n                                              formalities prescribed by this \r\n                                              subsection either absolutely or \r\n                                              for any specified period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Rules made by the General \r\n                                              Legal Council may require that a \r\n                                              person who does not hold a \r\n                                              qualifying certificate issued by \r\n                                              the Council under Part II of this \r\n                                              Act shall before enrolment pay to \r\n                                              the Council a fee not exceeding \r\n                                              £G100 and may provide for \r\n                                              exempting persons from payment of \r\n                                              the fee where the Council thinks \r\n                                              fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A person may, on payment of \r\n                                              the fee appointed by the Council, \r\n                                              obtain from the Judicial Secretary \r\n                                              a certificate of his enrolment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) No stamp duty shall be payable \r\n                                              on enrolment.</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;Call to the Bar.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The General Legal Council shall \r\n                                              from time to time hold formal \r\n                                              meetings at which duly qualified \r\n                                              applicants shall be enrolled and \r\n                                              called to the bar, but the Council \r\n                                              may at their discretion dispense \r\n                                              with the formalities under this \r\n                                              section in any particular case.</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;Solicitor''s Licence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person other than the \r\n                                              Attorney-General or an officer of \r\n                                              his department shall not practise \r\n                                              as a solicitor unless he has in \r\n                                              respect of such practice a valid \r\n                                              annual licence issued by the \r\n                                              General Legal Council to be known \r\n                                              as &quot;a Solicitor''s Licence&quot; in the \r\n                                              form set out in the Second \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act.[deleted by \r\n                                              Stamp Duty Act 2005 (Act 689) \r\n                                              s.51(2)]</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 issued with \r\n                                              a Solicitor''s Licence unless he \r\n                                              has been previously enrolled as a \r\n                                              lawyer under section 3 of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person who has not \r\n                                              previously been entitled to \r\n                                              practise as a solicitor in Ghana \r\n                                              and who does not hold a qualifying \r\n                                              certificate but has, after \r\n                                              qualification, attended and \r\n                                              satisfactorily completed a post \r\n                                              final&nbsp; professional qualifying \r\n                                              course approved by the Council, \r\n                                              shall not be issued with a \r\n                                              Solicitor''s Licence unless he \r\n                                              satisfies the Council that he has, \r\n                                              since qualifying as a lawyer, read \r\n                                              for a period of not less than six \r\n                                              months in&nbsp; the chambers of another \r\n                                              lawyer of not less than seven \r\n                                              years'' standing as a lawyer \r\n                                              approved by the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A person who holds a \r\n                                              qualifying&nbsp; certificate and who \r\n                                              has been enrolled as a lawyer \r\n                                              under section 3 may be issued with \r\n                                              a Solicitor''s Licence so however \r\n                                              that no such person shall be \r\n                                              entitled to establish his own \r\n                                              office as a Solicitor unless the \r\n                                              Council is satisfied that he has \r\n                                              read for a period of not less than \r\n                                              six months in the chambers of \r\n                                              another lawyer of not less than \r\n                                              seven years'' standing as a lawyer \r\n                                              approved by the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Council may before issuing \r\n                                              a Solicitor''s Licence to any \r\n                                              person require that person to \r\n                                              produce such evidence as the \r\n                                              Council may specify showing that \r\n                                              he has not been found guilty of \r\n                                              professional misconduct either in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) A person who practises in \r\n                                              contravention of this section \r\n                                              shall be liable on conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding ¢200 and shall \r\n                                              be incapable of maintaining any \r\n                                              action for the recovery of any \r\n                                              fee, reward or disbursement on \r\n                                              account of or in relation to any \r\n                                              act or proceeding done or taken by \r\n                                              him&nbsp; in the course of such \r\n                                              practice. [As Substituted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1972 (NRCD 88) s.&nbsp; 1].</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;Penalty for Unlawful \r\n                                              Practice.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If a person who is not \r\n                                              enrolled practises as a lawyer or \r\n                                              in any character whatsoever \r\n                                              prepares any document for reward \r\n                                              (either direct or indirect) to be \r\n                                              used in or concerning any cause or \r\n                                              matter before any court or \r\n                                              tribunal he shall be liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              £G50, and for an offence committed \r\n                                              after a conviction under this \r\n                                              subsection for an earlier offence, \r\n                                              to imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding six months, or to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding £G100 or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If a person who is not \r\n                                              enrolled wilfully pretends to be, \r\n                                              or takes or uses any name or \r\n                                              title, or description implying \r\n                                              that he is qualified or recognised \r\n                                              as qualified to act as a lawyer or \r\n                                              barrister or solicitor he shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              £G50 or to imprisonment for a term \r\n                                              not exceeding six 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 10&#8212;Military Advocates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding anything in this \r\n                                              Act, a military advocate may \r\n                                              appear in any court on behalf of a \r\n                                              member of the Armed Forces charged \r\n                                              with any offence, and when so \r\n                                              appearing sections 8 and 9 of this \r\n                                              Act shall not apply 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 11&#8212;Government Grants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              finance may, out of monies \r\n                                              provided by Parliament, make to \r\n                                              the General Legal Council such \r\n                                              grants towards expenditure \r\n                                              incurred by them as he thinks fit \r\n                                              and shall so far as practicable \r\n                                              arrange for the Council to be \r\n                                              informed not less than twelve \r\n                                              months in advance of the amount of \r\n                                              the grants which he proposes to \r\n                                              make to them in any 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 12&#8212;Accounts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Council shall keep \r\n                                              accounts in the form directed by \r\n                                              the Accountant-General and shall \r\n                                              not later than the 31st day of \r\n                                              March in each year prepare a \r\n                                              statement of revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure estimated for the next \r\n                                              financial year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council shall also prepare \r\n                                              not later than the end of any \r\n                                              calendar year a financial \r\n                                              statement covering the previous \r\n                                              financial year in a form approved \r\n                                              by the Auditor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The statement prepared by the \r\n                                              Council under subsection (2) shall \r\n                                              be submitted for audit by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General who shall present \r\n                                              it when audited, together with his \r\n                                              report thereon, to Parliament not \r\n                                              later than the 31st day of March \r\n                                              in the financial year following \r\n                                              that to which the statement \r\n                                              relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;LEGAL EDUCATION</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;Arrangements for Legal \r\n                                              Education.</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                                              General Legal Council to make \r\n                                              arrangements&#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 establishing a system of \r\n                                              legal education,</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 selecting the subjects in \r\n                                              which those seeking to qualify as \r\n                                              lawyers are to be examined,</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 establishing courses of \r\n                                              instruction for students and, \r\n                                              generally, for affording \r\n                                              opportunities for students to read \r\n                                              and to obtain practical experience \r\n                                              in the law,</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) for regulating the admission \r\n                                              of students to pursue courses of \r\n                                              instruction leading to \r\n                                              qualification as lawyers, 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) for holding examinations which \r\n                                              may include preliminary and \r\n                                              intermediate examinations as well \r\n                                              as final qualifying examinations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council may carry out the \r\n                                              arrangements in such manner as \r\n                                              they think fit and, in particular, \r\n                                              either through a school of law set \r\n                                              up by them or through any other \r\n                                              educational institution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Council shall issue to \r\n                                              those who have satisfied the \r\n                                              Council that they have attained \r\n                                              the necessary standards of \r\n                                              proficiency in the law, that they \r\n                                              have obtained adequate practical \r\n                                              experience in the law and that \r\n                                              they are otherwise qualified to \r\n                                              practise as lawyers a certificate \r\n                                              to that effect (hereinafter \r\n                                              referred to as a &quot;qualifying \r\n                                              certificate&quot;).</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;Power to Make \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The General Legal Council may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister make \r\n                                              regulations concerning all matters \r\n                                              connected with legal education \r\n                                              and, in particular, concerning\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the conduct of examinations, \r\n                                              and the fees to be charged to \r\n                                              those sitting for the \r\n                                              examinations,</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) admission to practise as a \r\n                                              lawyer, 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 issue of diplomas to \r\n                                              persons who have passed \r\n                                              examinations held by them.</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;Declaration to Board of \r\n                                              Legal Education.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall continue to be a \r\n                                              Board of Legal Education to whom \r\n                                              the General Legal Council may \r\n                                              delegate the immediate \r\n                                              administration and supervision of \r\n                                              legal education and such other of \r\n                                              their functions as the Council \r\n                                              think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to this section the \r\n                                              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) the Chief Justice;</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 Attorney-General;</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 General Legal \r\n                                              Council nominated by the Chief \r\n                                              Justice;</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 persons nominated by the \r\n                                              Minister as being persons with \r\n                                              wide experience both in the law \r\n                                              and other fields;</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 Director of Legal \r\n                                              Education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The General Legal Council may \r\n                                              at any time with the approval of \r\n                                              the Minister by order vary the \r\n                                              constitution of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The term of office of a person \r\n                                              nominated under this section shall \r\n                                              be determined by the person \r\n                                              nominating him at the time of his \r\n                                              nomination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;DISCIPLINE</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;Erasure from Roll for \r\n                                              Misconduct.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A lawyer who has been guilty \r\n                                              of grave misconduct in a \r\n                                              professional respect (including \r\n                                              any conduct which, in pursuance of \r\n                                              rules made by the General Legal \r\n                                              Council under this Part, is to be \r\n                                              treated as grave misconduct in a \r\n                                              professional respect), shall be \r\n                                              liable&#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 have his name struck off \r\n                                              the Roll of Lawyers, 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) to be prohibited from \r\n                                              practising as a lawyer for a \r\n                                              period specified in the order \r\n                                              suspending him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Section 9 of this Act applies \r\n                                              to a lawyer who is prohibited \r\n                                              under this section from practising \r\n                                              as it applies to a person who is \r\n                                              not enrolled.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16A&#8212;Erasure from Roll on \r\n                                              Conviction of Certain Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The General Legal Council may \r\n                                              direct the Judicial Secretary to \r\n                                              strike off the Roll of Lawyers \r\n                                              without the holding of a \r\n                                              disciplinary enquiry, the name of \r\n                                              any Lawyer who has been convicted \r\n                                              of an offence involving dishonesty \r\n                                              or moral turpitude and the \r\n                                              Judicial Secretary shall comply \r\n                                              with any such direction:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Judicial \r\n                                              Secretary shall not erase the name \r\n                                              of a lawyer from the Roll under \r\n                                              this paragraph unless the period \r\n                                              allowed (if any) within which the \r\n                                              lawyer concerned may lodge an \r\n                                              appeal against his conviction has \r\n                                              expired without his lodging an \r\n                                              appeal or if any such appeal was \r\n                                              lodged by him until the appeal has \r\n                                              been finally disposed of or \r\n                                              withdrawn or abandoned. [As \r\n                                              Inserted by Legal Profession Act \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \r\n                                              338) s. 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 17&#8212;Disciplinary Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The General Legal Council \r\n                                              shall appoint from among their \r\n                                              members, or persons who hold or \r\n                                              have held high judicial office, or \r\n                                              former members of the Council who \r\n                                              are practising as lawyers, a \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee consisting \r\n                                              of such number of persons, not \r\n                                              being less than three nor more \r\n                                              than seven, as the Council think \r\n                                              fit. [As Substituted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1979 (AFRCD 53) s. 1(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council may remove any \r\n                                              member from the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee, but not while he is \r\n                                              hearing a disciplinary case, and \r\n                                              fill any vacancy therein and, \r\n                                              subject to the limit in subsection \r\n                                              (1), increase the number of \r\n                                              members of the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Reference of \r\n                                              Disciplinary Cases to Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any complaint by a person relating \r\n                                              to the conduct of a lawyer shall \r\n                                              be referred to the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee and, if it appears to \r\n                                              the Disciplinary Committee that an \r\n                                              inquiry ought to be held into the \r\n                                              complaint, they shall proceed to \r\n                                              hold the inquiry.</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;Rules of Procedure, \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 Disciplinary Committee may \r\n                                              by legislative instrument make \r\n                                              rules as to the times and places \r\n                                              of the meetings of the Committee, \r\n                                              the manner of summoning members, \r\n                                              and the procedure to be followed \r\n                                              and rules of evidence to be \r\n                                              observed in an inquiry, and in \r\n                                              particular,&#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 securing that any party to \r\n                                              the inquiry shall, if he so \r\n                                              requires, be entitled to be heard \r\n                                              by the Committee, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) for enabling any party to the \r\n                                              inquiry to be represented by a \r\n                                              lawyer, 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) for the allowance to witnesses \r\n                                              of their expenses subject to such \r\n                                              limits as may be prescribed, 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) for prescribing the number of \r\n                                              members to hold an inquiry in a \r\n                                              disciplinary case, and the cases \r\n                                              in which their decision must be \r\n                                              unanimous.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Disciplinary Committee \r\n                                              shall have the powers of the High \r\n                                              Court to summon witnesses, and to \r\n                                              call for the production of \r\n                                              documents, and to examine \r\n                                              witnesses and parties concerned on \r\n                                              oath; and oaths may be \r\n                                              administered for that purpose by \r\n                                              any member of the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All persons summoned to attend \r\n                                              and give evidence, or to produce \r\n                                              documents, at any sitting of the \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee in an \r\n                                              inquiry under this Act shall be \r\n                                              bound to obey the summons to \r\n                                              attend as fully in all respects as \r\n                                              witnesses are bound to obey \r\n                                              subpoenas issued from the High \r\n                                              Court, and every person failing \r\n                                              without reasonable excuse to \r\n                                              attend at the time and place \r\n                                              mentioned in the summons served on \r\n                                              him, or withdrawing without the \r\n                                              permission of the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee, or refusing without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse to answer any \r\n                                              question put to him in the course \r\n                                              of the inquiry, or to produce any \r\n                                              documents which he has been \r\n                                              required to produce shall be \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding £G50.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A person giving evidence in an \r\n                                              inquiry under this Act shall not \r\n                                              be compelled to incriminate \r\n                                              himself, and shall, in respect of \r\n                                              any evidence so given, be entitled \r\n                                              to all privileges to which a \r\n                                              witness giving evidence before the \r\n                                              High Court is entitled.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A person who at any sitting of \r\n                                              the Disciplinary Committee \r\n                                              wilfully insults any member of the \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee, or any \r\n                                              officer of the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee, or wilfully interrupts \r\n                                              the proceedings of the \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee shall be \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding £G100, or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding one year, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the purposes of the law \r\n                                              relating to the offence of perjury \r\n                                              the Disciplinary Committee holding \r\n                                              an inquiry under this Act shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be a court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Decision of \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) After holding an inquiry into \r\n                                              a disciplinary case, the \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee shall \r\n                                              decide whether the allegations \r\n                                              enquired into are proved and if \r\n                                              they decide that those allegations \r\n                                              are proved they may direct the \r\n                                              taking of any such disciplinary \r\n                                              measures as are specified in \r\n                                              section 16 of this Act and make \r\n                                              such order as to costs as they 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                                              (2) The Disciplinary Committee may \r\n                                              if they think fit postpone either \r\n                                              indefinitely or for a specified \r\n                                              period the making of their \r\n                                              decision whether to take any such \r\n                                              disciplinary measures.</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;Right of Appeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the Disciplinary Committee \r\n                                              on the conclusion of an inquiry \r\n                                              into a disciplinary case has \r\n                                              directed the taking of \r\n                                              disciplinary measures or has \r\n                                              postponed its decision under \r\n                                              section 20 of this Act, the lawyer \r\n                                              into whose conduct the inquiry was \r\n                                              made or the complainant into whose \r\n                                              complaint the inquiry was made \r\n                                              may, within twenty-one days from \r\n                                              the date on which the decision of \r\n                                              the Disciplinary Committee is \r\n                                              communicated to him by the \r\n                                              Committee, appeal to the Court of \r\n                                              Appeal&#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) on any question of law, 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) with leave of the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee or the Court of Appeal, \r\n                                              on any question of fact. [As \r\n                                              Substituted by Legal Profession \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1979 (AFRCD \r\n                                              53) s. 1 (b)].</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;Striking off the Roll.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Judicial Secretary shall not \r\n                                              erase the name of the lawyer from \r\n                                              the Roll in pursuance of&nbsp; a \r\n                                              decision of the Committee until \r\n                                              the period of 21 days, under \r\n                                              section 21 of this Act, has \r\n                                              expired and until he has \r\n                                              ascertained that no appeal has \r\n                                              been brought under that section or \r\n                                              that any such appeal has been \r\n                                              disposed of.</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;Rules of Professional \r\n                                              Conduct.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The General Legal Council may \r\n                                              prescribe standards of \r\n                                              professional etiquette and \r\n                                              professional conduct for lawyers, \r\n                                              and may by rules made for this&nbsp; \r\n                                              purpose direct that any specified \r\n                                              breach of the rules shall for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Part constitute \r\n                                              grave misconduct in a professional \r\n                                              respect.</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;Restoration of Name to \r\n                                              the Roll.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to this section, where \r\n                                              the name of any lawyer has been \r\n                                              struck off the Roll in consequence \r\n                                              of a decision in a disciplinary \r\n                                              case or in consequence of a \r\n                                              direction by the General Legal \r\n                                              Council under section 16A of this \r\n                                              Act, his name shall not again be \r\n                                              entered on the Roll except by the \r\n                                              direction of the Council, but the \r\n                                              Council may at any time direct \r\n                                              that his name be restored to the \r\n                                              Roll. [As Inserted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession Act (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1969 (NLCD 338) s. 1 (b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The power of the Council to \r\n                                              restore to the Roll the name of a \r\n                                              lawyer whose name has been struck \r\n                                              off the Roll may be exercised \r\n                                              notwithstanding that the decision \r\n                                              ordering his name to be struck off \r\n                                              the Roll was taken before the \r\n                                              passing 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 25&#8212;Review of Prohibition \r\n                                              on Practising.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where under this Part the \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committee have \r\n                                              directed that a lawyer be \r\n                                              prohibited from practising they \r\n                                              may at any time review their \r\n                                              decision and direct that the \r\n                                              prohibition be withdrawn.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;EMPLOYMENT OF LAWERS</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;Change of Lawyers \r\n                                              During Hearing of a Case.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A party appearing by a lawyer \r\n                                              in any case shall be at liberty to \r\n                                              change his lawyer without an order \r\n                                              for that purpose upon notice of \r\n                                              the change being filed in the \r\n                                              office of the Registrar of the \r\n                                              Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Until notice is so filed and a \r\n                                              copy thereof served upon him, the \r\n                                              former lawyer shall be considered \r\n                                              as appearing for the party until \r\n                                              final judgment, unless allowed by \r\n                                              the Court for any special reason \r\n                                              to cease from acting therein; but \r\n                                              he shall not be bound except under \r\n                                              express agreement or unless \r\n                                              re-engaged, to take any \r\n                                              proceedings in relation to any \r\n                                              appeal from the 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 27&#8212;Liability to Pay Costs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where it appears to the Court \r\n                                              that any case has been commenced \r\n                                              or carried on maliciously or \r\n                                              without probable grounds, and the \r\n                                              party by or on whose behalf it has \r\n                                              been so commenced or carried on \r\n                                              has been represented by a lawyer, \r\n                                              or if it appears that any lawyer \r\n                                              has by any sort of deceit induced \r\n                                              his client to enter into or \r\n                                              continue any litigation, the \r\n                                              lawyer shall, on failure of his \r\n                                              client to pay any costs which he \r\n                                              may be ordered to pay, be liable \r\n                                              to pay the amount thereof to the \r\n                                              party to whom costs are given.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Such failure shall be deemed \r\n                                              to have taken place if the client \r\n                                              has refused or neglected to make \r\n                                              payment after a demand has been \r\n                                              made on him, although no process \r\n                                              of execution may have been used \r\n                                              against him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) This section shall not \r\n                                              restrict the liability of any \r\n                                              lawyer in respect of the above \r\n                                              mentioned or any other misconduct \r\n                                              for which he would otherwise be \r\n                                              punishable.</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;Costs Recoverable.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              lawyer shall not be entitled to \r\n                                              recover any costs in respect of \r\n                                              any proceedings beyond the amount \r\n                                              applicable to the proceedings \r\n                                              which may be allowed by the \r\n                                              authorised scale of fees or, in \r\n                                              matters not therein included, \r\n                                              which the Court may allow on \r\n                                              taxation, having regard to the \r\n                                              skill, labour, and responsibility \r\n                                              involved.</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;Agreements Inconsistent \r\n                                              with this Act to be Void.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any agreement intended to secure \r\n                                              to a lawyer any remuneration, or \r\n                                              to constitute any conditions of \r\n                                              his employment other than \r\n                                              authorised by this Part, shall be \r\n                                              null and void, and if a lawyer \r\n                                              enters into any such agreement, or \r\n                                              receives any larger amount than \r\n                                              authorised, either directly or \r\n                                              indirectly, through any other \r\n                                              person, for his use or benefit, he \r\n                                              shall refund the whole amount of \r\n                                              the overcharge, and shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine which may extend \r\n                                              to double the amount of the \r\n                                              overcharge or to £G20.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;RECOVERY OF FEES</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;Bill of Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              lawyer shall not be entitled to \r\n                                              commence any suit for the recovery \r\n                                              of any fees for any business done \r\n                                              by him as a barrister or solicitor \r\n                                              until the expiration of one month \r\n                                              after he has served on the party \r\n                                              to be charged a bill of those \r\n                                              fees, the bill either being signed \r\n                                              by the lawyer (or in the case of a \r\n                                              partnership by any of the \r\n                                              partners, either in his own name \r\n                                              or in the name of the partnership) \r\n                                              or being enclosed in or \r\n                                              accompanied by a letter signed in \r\n                                              like manner referring to the bill.</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;Application of Party \r\n                                              Charged to Tax Bill.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Upon the party to be charged \r\n                                              applying to the Court within the \r\n                                              month referred to in section 30 of \r\n                                              this Act, the Court may refer the \r\n                                              bill and the demand of the lawyer \r\n                                              to be taxed and settled by the \r\n                                              taxing officer of the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Where no Application to \r\n                                              Tax Made within one Month.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If application is not made within \r\n                                              the month referred to in section \r\n                                              30 of this Act, a reference for \r\n                                              taxation may be made upon the \r\n                                              application of the lawyer, with \r\n                                              such directions and subject to \r\n                                              such conditions as the Court \r\n                                              making the reference thinks \r\n                                              proper, and the Court may restrain \r\n                                              him from commencing a suit for the \r\n                                              recovery of his fees pending the \r\n                                              reference on such terms as the \r\n                                              Court thinks proper.</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;Where Application Not \r\n                                              to be Granted.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No reference shall be directed \r\n                                              upon application made by the party \r\n                                              to be charged after judgment has \r\n                                              been obtained in any suit for the \r\n                                              recovery of the fees of the lawyer \r\n                                              or after expiration of twelve \r\n                                              months after the bill has been \r\n                                              served except under special \r\n                                              circumstances to be proved to the \r\n                                              satisfaction of the Court to which \r\n                                              application for the reference is \r\n                                              made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Non-attendance of Party \r\n                                              at Taxation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Upon any reference, if either the \r\n                                              lawyer or the party to be charged, \r\n                                              having due notice, refuses or \r\n                                              neglects to attend the taxation, \r\n                                              the taxing officer may proceed to \r\n                                              tax and settle the bill ex parte.</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;Costs of Taxation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If on any reference the party to \r\n                                              be charged attends on taxation the \r\n                                              cost of the reference shall, \r\n                                              subject to section 36 of this Act, \r\n                                              be paid according to the event of \r\n                                              the taxation: that is to say, if \r\n                                              the bill when taxed is less by a \r\n                                              sixth part than the bill served, \r\n                                              the lawyer shall pay the costs; \r\n                                              otherwise, the party to be charged \r\n                                              shall pay the costs.</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;Form of Order to be \r\n                                              Made.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every order for a reference \r\n                                              shall direct the taxing officer to \r\n                                              certify what is found to be due to \r\n                                              or from the lawyer in respect of \r\n                                              the bill, including the costs of \r\n                                              the reference.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The taxing officer may certify \r\n                                              especially any circumstances \r\n                                              relating to the bill or reference \r\n                                              and the Court may make any such \r\n                                              order as it thinks&nbsp; proper \r\n                                              respecting the costs of the \r\n                                              reference.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any reference is made \r\n                                              under section 33 of this Act the \r\n                                              Court may, if it thinks fit, give \r\n                                              any special directions relative to \r\n                                              the costs of the reference.</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;Proof of Compliance \r\n                                              with Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall not in any case be \r\n                                              necessary in the first instance \r\n                                              for any lawyer in proving a \r\n                                              compliance with this Part to prove \r\n                                              the contents of the bill served; \r\n                                              it shall be sufficient to prove \r\n                                              that a bill for fees signed in the \r\n                                              manner provided or enclosed in or \r\n                                              accompanied by the letter as \r\n                                              provided was duly served.</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;Completion of Taxation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Upon the completion of the \r\n                                              taxation of the bill, the taxing \r\n                                              officer shall submit for the \r\n                                              approval of the Court the result \r\n                                              of his taxation, including costs, \r\n                                              and, subject to review, the amount \r\n                                              approved by the Court shall be \r\n                                              final and conclusive as to the \r\n                                              amount of the bill and costs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Court may in its \r\n                                              discretion review any approval on \r\n                                              the application of either party \r\n                                              made within twenty-one days of the \r\n                                              approval, and the Court may order \r\n                                              that judgment be entered for the \r\n                                              amount approved, unless the \r\n                                              retainer is disputed, or to make \r\n                                              such other order as the Court \r\n                                              thinks proper.</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;Power to Court to Order \r\n                                              Delivery of Bill, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Court may make an order for \r\n                                              the delivery by any lawyer of any \r\n                                              bill of fees for business done by \r\n                                              him; and the Court shall have all \r\n                                              necessary powers for enforcing the \r\n                                              delivery up by a lawyer of any \r\n                                              deeds, documents, for things in \r\n                                              his possession, custody, or power.</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;Where Lawyer May Begin \r\n                                              Suit within Month of Delivery of \r\n                                              Bill.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Court may authorise a lawyer \r\n                                              to commence a suit for the \r\n                                              recovery of his fees against the \r\n                                              party to be charged, and may refer \r\n                                              his bill of fees to be taxed and \r\n                                              settled by the taxing officer of \r\n                                              the Court, although one month may \r\n                                              not have expired from the delivery \r\n                                              of the bill, on proof to the \r\n                                              satisfaction of the Court that \r\n                                              there is probable cause for \r\n                                              believing that the party \r\n                                              chargeable is about to quit Ghana, \r\n                                              or to become insolvent, or to take \r\n                                              any other steps or to do any other \r\n                                              act which in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Court would tend to defeat or \r\n                                              delay the lawyer in obtaining \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 41&#8212;Applications to be by \r\n                                              motion.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All applications made under this \r\n                                              Part to refer any bill to be taxed \r\n                                              and settled or for the delivery up \r\n                                              of deeds, documents, or things \r\n                                              shall be by motion in the matter \r\n                                              of the lawyer concerned.</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;Representatives and \r\n                                              Assignees of&nbsp; Lawyers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Part applies to the executor, \r\n                                              administrator, and assignee of a \r\n                                              lawyer in respect of business done \r\n                                              by the lawyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;PREPARATION OF LEGAL \r\n                                              DOCUMENTS BY UNAUTHORISED 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 43&#8212;Name and Address of \r\n                                              Drughtsman to be Endorsed on \r\n                                              Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every person who draws or prepares \r\n                                              any legal document for reward \r\n                                              shall endorse or cause to be \r\n                                              endorsed thereon his name and \r\n                                              address; and any person omitting \r\n                                              so to do shall be liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding £G10.</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;Unqualified Persons not \r\n                                              to Draw or Prepare Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No other person than a lawyer \r\n                                              shall either directly or \r\n                                              indirectly for or in expectation \r\n                                              of any fee, gain, or reward draw \r\n                                              or prepare any legal document; and \r\n                                              any person contravening this \r\n                                              section shall be liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine £G50.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 45&#8212;Agreement to Pay fee or \r\n                                              Reward to an Unqualified Person to \r\n                                              be Void.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An agreement to pay a fee or \r\n                                              reward to any person, other than a \r\n                                              lawyer, in consideration of his \r\n                                              drawing or preparing any legal \r\n                                              document is void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who pays to any \r\n                                              person, other than a lawyer, any \r\n                                              fee or reward for having drawn or \r\n                                              prepared or agreed to draw or \r\n                                              prepare a legal document, may sue \r\n                                              for and recover the amount of the \r\n                                              fee or reward from the person to \r\n                                              whom it was paid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 46&#8212;Savings for Public \r\n                                              Officers and Engrossing.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Part does not apply to any \r\n                                              public officer drawing or \r\n                                              preparing a legal document in the \r\n                                              course of his duty as such, nor to \r\n                                              the mere engrossing of document.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 47&#8212;Power to Except any \r\n                                              Class of Document.</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, except from this Part \r\n                                              any class of document specified in \r\n                                              the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;KEEPING OF ACCOUNTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 48&#8212;General Legal Council \r\n                                              to Make Rules as to Certain \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 General Legal Council may \r\n                                              by legislative instrument make \r\n                                              rules requiring lawyers&#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 open and keep separate bank \r\n                                              accounts of clients'' moneys, 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 keep accounts containing \r\n                                              particulars and information as to \r\n                                              moneys received, held or paid by \r\n                                              them, for or on account of their \r\n                                              clients.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The General Legal Council may \r\n                                              take such action and make such \r\n                                              rules as may be necessary to \r\n                                              enable them to ascertain whether \r\n                                              or not the rules are being \r\n                                              complied with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 49&#8212;Consequences of Failure \r\n                                              to Comply with Rules.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If a person fails to comply \r\n                                              with any of the rules made under \r\n                                              section 48 of this Act, any person \r\n                                              may make a complaint in respect of \r\n                                              that failure to the Disciplinary \r\n                                              Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The provisions of Part III of \r\n                                              this Act shall apply in relation \r\n                                              to complaints under this section \r\n                                              as they apply in relation to \r\n                                              application to the Committee under \r\n                                              Part III.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 50&#8212;Saving for Full-time \r\n                                              Employees of Government.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Rules made under section 48 of \r\n                                              this Act shall not apply to any \r\n                                              person who is in full-time \r\n                                              employment as an officer of the \r\n                                              Government or a local authority or \r\n                                              a consultant to an incorporated \r\n                                              body.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 51&#8212;Saving for Part-time \r\n                                              Practitioners.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a person is employed as an \r\n                                              officer of the Government or local \r\n                                              authority or as a consultant to an \r\n                                              incorporated body and at the same \r\n                                              time engages in private practice \r\n                                              as a lawyer, the rules made under \r\n                                              section 48 of this Act shall only \r\n                                              apply to him so far as regards \r\n                                              moneys received, held or paid by \r\n                                              him in the course of the private \r\n                                              practice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 52&#8212;Relief to Banks.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to this section, no \r\n                                              bank shall, in connection with any \r\n                                              transaction on any account of any \r\n                                              lawyer kept with it or with any \r\n                                              other bank (other than an account \r\n                                              kept by a lawyer as a trustee for \r\n                                              a specified beneficiary) incur any \r\n                                              liability or be under any \r\n                                              obligation to make any enquiry or \r\n                                              be deemed to have any knowledge of \r\n                                              any right of any person to any \r\n                                              money paid or credited to any \r\n                                              account which it would not incur \r\n                                              or be under or be deemed to have \r\n                                              in the case of an account kept by \r\n                                              a person entitled absolutely to \r\n                                              all the money paid or credited to \r\n                                              it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall relieve a bank from any \r\n                                              liability or obligation under any \r\n                                              other enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding subsection \r\n                                              (1), a bank at which a lawyer \r\n                                              keeps an account for clients'' \r\n                                              moneys shall not, in respect of \r\n                                              any liability of the lawyer to the \r\n                                              bank, not being a liability in \r\n                                              connection with that account, have \r\n                                              or obtain any recourse or right, \r\n                                              whether by way of set off, \r\n                                              counterclaim, charge, or \r\n                                              otherwise, against moneys standing \r\n                                              to the credit of that account.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in subsection (3) \r\n                                              shall deprive a bank of any right \r\n                                              existing at the time when the \r\n                                              rules made under section 48 of \r\n                                              this Act came into operation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#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 53&#8212;Provisions as to Rules.</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                                              General Legal Council may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, make rules \r\n                                              in relation to any matter referred \r\n                                              to in this Act as prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Rules for the purposes of \r\n                                              section 3, 6 or 8 of this Act \r\n                                              shall not be made save with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A legislative instrument under \r\n                                              this Act shall be subject to \r\n                                              annulment by the National \r\n                                              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 54&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The enactments referred to in the \r\n                                              Third Schedule to this Act are \r\n                                              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 55&#8212;Continuance of Rules \r\n                                              and Regulations. No. 22 of 1958.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Rules and regulations made under \r\n                                              any provision of the Legal \r\n                                              Practitioners Act, 1958, and in \r\n                                              force immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force and shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have been made under the \r\n                                              corresponding provision 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 56&#8212;Definitions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, except where the \r\n                                              contrary intention appears&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;enrolment&quot; means the entry of a \r\n                                              name in the Roll of Lawyers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;fees&quot; includes charges and \r\n                                              disbursements;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;lawyer&quot;, for the purposes of Part \r\n                                              V of this Act, includes any person \r\n                                              enrolled at the time the relevant \r\n                                              business was done; and, for the \r\n                                              purposes of Part VI of this Act, \r\n                                              does not include a lawyer for the \r\n                                              time being suspended from \r\n                                              practice;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;legal document&quot; means any \r\n                                              document (other than a will) \r\n                                              conferring, transferring, \r\n                                              limiting, charging, or \r\n                                              extinguishing, or purporting to \r\n                                              confer, transfer, limit, charge, \r\n                                              or extinguish any right, title, or \r\n                                              interest in property, movable or \r\n                                              immovable, or any document \r\n                                              (including a letter) indicating \r\n                                              that legal proceedings may be \r\n                                              brought against the person whom it \r\n                                              is addressed or any other person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;military advocate&quot; means a \r\n                                              commissioned officer of the Armed \r\n                                              Forces who is certified by the \r\n                                              Chief Justice to be qualified to \r\n                                              practise in a country other than \r\n                                              Ghana;</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                                              to whom functions under this Act \r\n                                              are for the time being assigned by \r\n                                              the President;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;practise&quot;, in relation to a \r\n                                              country other than Ghana means \r\n                                              practise as a barrister, solicitor \r\n                                              or advocate or in a like capacity, \r\n                                              by whatever name called.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 57&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on the 1st day of January, 1961.</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                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CONSTITUTION OF GENERAL LEGAL \r\n                                              COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1) The General Legal \r\n                                              Council shall be a body corporate \r\n                                              having perpetual succession and a \r\n                                              common seal and may sue and be \r\n                                              sued in their corporate name.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council shall not, as a \r\n                                              body corporate, be subject to any \r\n                                              disability as regards the holding \r\n                                              of land to which an individual \r\n                                              would not be subject.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1) Subject to this \r\n                                              paragraph, the Council shall \r\n                                              consist of a chairman, a deputy \r\n                                              chairman and&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the two most senior Judges of \r\n                                              the Supreme Court after the \r\n                                              chairman and the deputy chairman \r\n                                              referred to in subparagraph (2) of \r\n                                              this paragraph;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the Attorney-General;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the Head of the Faculty of \r\n                                              Law at the University of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; three persons nominated by \r\n                                              the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; four members of the Bar \r\n                                              elected by the Ghana Bar \r\n                                              Association. [As Substituted by \r\n                                              the Legal Profession (Amendment) \r\n                                              Act 1964 (Act 226) s. 3]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman shall be the \r\n                                              Chief Justice and the deputy \r\n                                              chairman shall be the most senior \r\n                                              of the other Judges of the Supreme \r\n                                              Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The other members shall \r\n                                              include&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the other Judges of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court;</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 Attorney-General;</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 Head of the Faculty of Law \r\n                                              at the University College of \r\n                                              Ghana;</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 persons nominated by the \r\n                                              Chief Justice;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) two persons nominated by the \r\n                                              Minister;</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) four members of the Bar of not \r\n                                              less than five years'' standing \r\n                                              elected by the Ghana Bar \r\n                                              Association.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The term of office of any \r\n                                              nominated member of the Council \r\n                                              and the conditions under which he \r\n                                              may be removed shall be such as \r\n                                              may be provided by rules under \r\n                                              this Schedule or, if no such rules \r\n                                              have been made, as may be \r\n                                              determined by the person \r\n                                              nominating him at the time of the \r\n                                              nomination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">3 \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1) Decisions of the \r\n                                              Council may be taken by a majority \r\n                                              of those present at a meeting of \r\n                                              the Council, and the quorum at any \r\n                                              meeting shall be five of whom one \r\n                                              shall be the chairman or deputy \r\n                                              chairman. [As Substituted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession Act (Amendment) (No. 2) \r\n                                              Decree 1967 (NLCD 213) s. 1 (c)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to any rules made \r\n                                              under this Schedule, the Council \r\n                                              shall meet at such times and \r\n                                              places as the chairman of the \r\n                                              Council may direct, but the \r\n                                              Council shall meet not less than \r\n                                              twice in any year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Secretary of the Council \r\n                                              shall be a person appointed by the \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The General Legal Council may \r\n                                              appoint committees, in addition to \r\n                                              the Disciplinary Committee, and \r\n                                              delegate to them any of the \r\n                                              Council''s functions other than \r\n                                              their functions under Part III of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. The Council may make rules \r\n                                              governing their proceedings and in \r\n                                              respect of any matter to be \r\n                                              provided under this Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SOLICITOR''S LICENCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PURSUANT to the Legal Profession \r\n                                              Act, 1960, licence is hereby \r\n                                              granted to \r\n                                              .................................... \r\n                                              Esquire, whose name is duly \r\n                                              enrolled on the Roll of Lawyers to \r\n                                              practise as a solicitor in the \r\n                                              year ending on the 31st day of \r\n                                              December, 19 ......... on this \r\n                                              licence being duly stamped.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Dated this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day \r\n                                              of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,&nbsp; 19&nbsp; .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ..............................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Secretary to the General Legal, \r\n                                              Council.&quot;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [As&nbsp; Substituted by Legal \r\n                                              Profession (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1967 (NLCD 143) s. 4].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              REPEALS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 54</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 Legal Practitioners Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 8)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Military Advocates Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 57)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Legal Practitioners Act, 1958 \r\n                                              (No. 22)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Legal Practitioners \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1958 (No. 53).</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">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center"></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 32');
