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(1, 'ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ACT, 1960 (CA 7)', '<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ACT, 1960 (CA 7)</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Acts and Bills</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>1. Acts and Bills.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#2>2. Titles.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#3>3. Words of enactment.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#4>4. Sub-divisions.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Procedure Following Passing of Bills</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#5>5. Preparation of presentation copies.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#6>6. The President''s assent.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#7>7. Numbering.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#8>8. Original copies.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#9>9. Publication.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#10>10. Published copies to be evidence.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Commencement and Citation</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#11>11. Commencement.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#12>12. Citation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Miscellaneous and Supplemental</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#13>13. Act may be amended or repealed in the same session.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#14>14. Evidence of pre-Republican Acts and Ordinances.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#15>15. Commencement of this Act.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#16>16. Repeal.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Forms</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#17>Part I&#8212;Form of Authentication Statement</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#18>Part II&#8212;Form of Speaker''s Certificate</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#19>Part III&#8212;Form of Statement of President&#8217;s\r\n        Assent</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#20>Part IV&#8212;Form of Statement of Partial Assent</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">AN ACT OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ACT, 1960</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">AN ACT to provide for the form and commencement of\r\n        Acts of Parliament, for the procedure following the passing of Bills and for other\r\n        matters connected with Acts and Bills.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">DATE OF PASSING: 29th June, 1960.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">WHEREAS by section 2 of the Constituent Assembly and\r\n        Plebiscite Act, 1960 (No. 1) this Constituent Assembly is authorised to enact such\r\n        provisions for or in connection with the establishment of a new constitution as\r\n        it thinks fit;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">AND WHEREAS it is expedient to enact the provisions\r\n        hereinafter appearing in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">NOW THEREFORE be it enacted by the Constituent Assembly\r\n        as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Acts and Bills</span></i></p>\r\n <a name=1></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 1&#8212;Acts and Bills.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The three next following sections shall apply with\r\n        respect to the form of Acts of Parliament, and the form of Bills shall correspond\r\n        therewith.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=2></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 2&#8212;Titles.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Every Act shall bear at the head a short title immediately\r\n        followed by a long title describing the provisions of the Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=3></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 3&#8212;Words of Enactment.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The provisions of every Act shall be prefaced by the\r\n        following words of enactment, which shall be taken to extend to all sections of\r\n        the Act and to my Schedules and other provisions contained therein&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Be it enacted by the President and the National Assembly\r\n        in this present Parliament assembled as follows&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<a name=4></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 4&#8212;Sub-Divisions.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If an Act contains more than one enactment it shall\r\n        be divided into sections and if a section contains more than one enactment it shall\r\n        be divided into subsections.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Procedure Following Passing of Bills</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=5></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 5&#8212;Preparation of Presentation Copies.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) As soon as a Bill has been passed by the National\r\n        Assembly the text of the Bill as passed shall be sent by the Clerk of the Assembly\r\n        to the Government Printer, who shall print four copies thereof on vellum or on paper\r\n        of enduring quality and send the copies to the Clerk of the Assembly.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) On receiving the said copies the Clerk shall carefully\r\n        compare them with the text of the Bill as passed and if he finds them to be correct\r\n        shall sign on each copy a statement in the form set out in Part I of the Schedule\r\n        to this Act, and shall cause the copies to be presented to the President.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If the Bill was passed in exercise of a legislative\r\n        power expressed by the Constitution to be reserved to the people the Clerk shall,\r\n        before causing the said copies to be presented to the President, submit them to\r\n        the Speaker who, if he is satisfied that power to pass the Bill has been conferred\r\n        on Parliament in the manner provided by section (2) of Article 20 of the Constitution,\r\n        shall sign on each copy a certificate in the form set out in Part II of the Schedule\r\n        to this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=6></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 6&#8212;The President&#8217;s Assent.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The President shall signify that he assents to\r\n        a Bill, or that he assents to a part thereof and refuses his assent to the remainder,\r\n        by signing on each copy of the Bill prepared in accordance with section 5 of this\r\n        Act a statement to that effect in the form set out in Part III or Part IV of the\r\n        Schedule to this Act, as the case may require, and causing the Presidential Seal\r\n        to be affixed thereto.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where assent is given to a part only of a Bill\r\n        the Clerk shall make in each copy of the Bill so prepared and such deletions, such\r\n        amendments of figures, punctuation and grammar, as may be necessary for the purpose\r\n        of the conversion of that part of the Bill into an Act; and the Bill shall thereafter\r\n        be deemed to have been passed as so altered.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) A Bill or, as the case may be, a part thereof shall\r\n        become an Act of Parliament on the signature by the President of the first of the\r\n        said copies.</span></p>\r\n<a name=7></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 7&#8212;Numbering.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Acts shall be numbered consecutively from the establishment\r\n        of the Republic in accordance with the order in which they became Acts, and the\r\n        numbering shall not begin afresh at the commencement of a calendar year, a new Parliament\r\n        or any other period.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) As soon as the President has signed a copy of an\r\n        Act under section 6 of this Act, the Clerk of the National Assembly shall enter\r\n        on the copy the number of the Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=8></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 8&#8212;Original Copies.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where the foregoing procedure purports to have\r\n        been followed in relation to copies of an Act, the copies shall be deemed to be\r\n        the original copies of the, the Act and shall be conclusive evidence of the terms\r\n        of the Act, its number and the date of assent.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The President shall retain one of the original\r\n        copies and shall cause one each of the remainder to be deposited with the Chief\r\n        Justice, the Speaker and the Archivist.</span></p>\r\n<a name=9></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 9&#8212;Publication.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Every Act shall be published by the Government Printer\r\n        as soon as may be after the President''s assent has been signified, and shall be\r\n        so published&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) with the omission of the statements contained in\r\n        the original copies by virtue of sections 5 and 6 of this Act, but with the inclusion\r\n        of any certificate given by the Speaker in accordance with subsection (3) of the\r\n        said section 5, and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) with the insertion of a statement of the date on\r\n        which the President''s assent was signified.</span></p>\r\n<a name=10></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 10&#8212; Published Copies to be Evidence.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">A copy of any Act, other than an original copy, purporting\r\n        to have been printed or published by the Government Printer shall be prima facie\r\n        evidence of the terms of the Act, its number and the date of assent.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Commencement and Citation</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=11></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 11&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Except so far as may be otherwise provided in an\r\n        Act, the Act shall come into operation at the commencement of the day following\r\n        the day on which the President''s assent is signified.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) A provision in an Act regulating the coming into\r\n        operation of the Act or any part thereof shall have effect notwithstanding that\r\n        the part of the Act containing the provision has not come into operation.</span></p>\r\n<a name=12></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 12&#8212; Citation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The citation of the short title to an Act shall be\r\n        sufficient to identify the Act.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Miscellaneous and Supplemental</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=13></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 13&#8212;Act may be Amended or Repealed\r\n        in the Same Session.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">An Act passed in any session of the National Assembly\r\n        may be amended or repealed in the same session.</span></p>\r\n<a name=14></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 14&#8212;Evidence of Pre-Republican Acts\r\n        and Ordinances.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The original copies of Acts of the Constituent\r\n        Assembly prepared under the order of that Assembly, and the original copies of Acts\r\n        and Ordinances passed or made after 31st December, 1954, and prepared under the\r\n        Ordinances Authentication Ordinance (Cap. 2) shall be conclusive evidence of the\r\n        terms of the Act or Ordinance and of any particulars relating to the Act or Ordinance\r\n        entered thereon.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) A copy of any such Act or Ordinance as is referred\r\n        to in the preceding subsection, being a copy, other than an original copy, purporting\r\n        to have been printed or published by the Government Printer, shall be prima facie\r\n        evidence of the terms of the Act or Ordinance and of any particulars relating to\r\n        the Act or Ordinance appearing thereon.</span>\r\n</p>\r\n<a name=15></a> \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 15&#8212;Commencement of this Act.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This Act shall come into operation at the same time\r\n        as the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n<a name=16></a>         \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 16&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Ordinances Authentication Ordinance (Cap. 2) is\r\n        hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">FORMS</span></p>\r\n<a name=17></a>     \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART I</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Authentication Statement</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This printed impression has been carefully compared\r\n        by me with the Bill which has passed the National Assembly and found by me to be\r\n        a true copy of that Bill.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        Signed ......................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        Clerk of the National Assembly</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Date of authentication&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<a name=18></a>     \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART II</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Speaker''s Certificate</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">I hereby certify that power to pass this Act has been\r\n        conferred on Parliament in the manner provided by section (2) of Article 20 of the\r\n        Constitution.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        Signed&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        Speaker.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Date of certificate&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<a name=19></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART III</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Statement of President&#8217;s Assent</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">I hereby signify my assent to this Bill.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Signed&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        President</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        Date of assent&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<a name=20></a>     \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART IV</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Statement of Partial Assent</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">I hereby signify my assent to the provisions of this\r\n        Bill described below and my refusal of assent to the remainder.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        Signed&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;President</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        Date of assent&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n&nbsp;', 'FIRST', 'Yes', 'ACT 7');
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(2, 'ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT, 1961 (ACT 63)', '<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT, 1961 (ACT 63)</a></span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">As amended by</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1985 (PNDCL\r\n        113)1.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART I&#8212;DEVOLUTION OF MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>1. Devolution on personal representatives.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#2>2. Status of personal representatives.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#3>3. Property of the deceased.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#4>4. Property devolving under customary law.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART II&#8212;THE ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#5>5. Application.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Appointment and Functions</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#6>6. Appointment and incorporation of Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#7>7. Liability of the Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#8>8. Liability of the Government.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#9>9. Non-liability of Administrator-General and Government.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#10>10. Sale of goods of third party.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#11>11. No security or oath required from Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#12>12. Administrator-General may be appointed executor.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#13>13. Grants to be made to Administrator-General by that\r\n        name.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#14>14. Effect of grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#15>15. Entry of name of Administrator-General in company''s\r\n        books not to constitute notice of a trust.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Grant of Probate or of Letters of Administration</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#16>16. Power of Administrator-General to petition court.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#17>17. Entering upon estate before court order.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#18>18. Time of application.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#19>19. Uncertainty as to succession.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>20. Grants to persons appearing.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>21. Grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>22. Transfer by private executor or administrator to\r\n        Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Revocation of Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration\r\n    </a></span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#23>23. Revocation of grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=24>24. Costs of Administrator-General on revocation of\r\n        grant.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#25>25. On revocation previous acts of Administrator-General\r\n        deemed valid.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#26>26. Payments made by Administrator-General prior to\r\n        revocation of grant.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#27>27. Movable and immovable property to be realised.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#28>28. Payment of debts and distribution of assets.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#29>29. Disposal of assets received from abroad.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#30>30. Barring of claims.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#31>31. Costs in suit against Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#32>32. Power of Administrator-General to pay for improvements.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#33>33. Power to apply to court for directions or information.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#34>34. Administrator-General to keep accounts.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#35>35. Right of interested person to inspect accounts,\r\n        etc.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#36>36. Payment of money into the prescribed bank and investment\r\n        of surplus funds.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#37>37. Administrator-General to file final account.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#38>38. Power to file interim account.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#39>39. Administrator-General to file interim accounts.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#40>40. Power to transfer share of minor to relative.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Distribution of Residue</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#41>41. Distribution of proceeds of estate.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#42>42. Disposal of immovable property.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#43>43. Assets of persons not domiciled in Ghana payable\r\n        to executor abroad.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#45>44. Disposal of proceeds of intestate estates.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#45>45. Order on petition.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#46>46. Rival claims to residue.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#47>47. Assets unclaimed for five years to be transferred\r\n        to Consolidated Fund.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#48>48. Power of Minister to dispose of unclaimed assets.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#49>49. Fees.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#50>50. Expenses.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#51>51. Right of Administrator-General to costs.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration of Small Estates</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#52>52. Power to administer where assets do not exceed\r\n        ¢100.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#53>53. Power to remit fees in estates not exceeding £G100.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#54>54. Power to make rules.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#55>55. Power to Administrator-General to appoint agents.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#56>56. Power to administer oath.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#57>57. False evidence.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#58>58. Agent may take charge of assets.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#59>59. Annual report of Administrator-General.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART III&#8212;EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">General Provisions</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#60>60. Necessity for probate.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#61>61. Cesser of right of executor to prove.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#62>62. Withdrawal of renunciation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#63>63. Executor of executor represents original testator.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#64>64. Right of proving executors to exercise powers.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#65>65. Liability of acting executor failing to apply for\r\n        probate.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#66>66. Executor not to act while administration is in\r\n        force.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#67>67. Continuance of legal proceedings after revocation\r\n        of temporary administration.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#68>68. Rights and liabilities of administrator.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Duties, Rights and Obligations</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#69>69. Duty of personal representative as to inventory.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#70>70. Distress for rent.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#71>71. Protection of persons acting on probate or administration.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#72>72. Liability of person fraudulently obtaining estate\r\n        of deceased.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#73>73. Liability of estate of personal representative.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART IV&#8212;GRANTS OF PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#74>74. Power to grant representation of movable and immovable\r\n        property separately or together.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#75>75. Grant in case of insolvency.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#76>76. Provisions as to the number of personal representatives.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#77>77. Power to grant representation to a trust corporation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#78>78. Discretion of court as to persons to whom administration\r\n        is to be granted.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#79>79. Administration pendente lite.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#80>80. Grant of special administration where personal\r\n        representative is abroad.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#81>81. Administration during minority of executor.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#82>82. Administration with will annexed.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Recognition of Probate and Letters of Administration\r\n        Granted in Commonwealth and Other Countries</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#83>83. Sealing of probate and letters of administration\r\n        from other countries.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#84>84. Duplicate may be sealed in lieu of original.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#85>85. Rules.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#86>86. Interpretation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate Exemption</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#87>87. &quot;Proper Officer&quot;&nbsp; and &quot;Public\r\n        Officer&quot;.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#88>88. Distribution without probate of sums not exceeding\r\n        £G200.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#89>89. Decision of questions arising under sections 88\r\n        to 91.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#90>90. Regulations.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART V&#8212;ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS</span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#91>91. Movable and immovable property of deceased are\r\n        assets for payment of debts.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#92>92. Realisation of assets.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#93>93. Administration of assets.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#94>94. Charges on property of deceased to be paid primarily\r\n        out of the property charged.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#95>95. Effect of assent or conveyance by personal representative.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#96>96. Validity of conveyance not affected by revocation\r\n        of representation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#97>97. Right to follow property and powers of the court\r\n        in relation thereto.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#98>98. Powers of management.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#99>99. Powers of personal representative for raising\r\n        money, etc.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#100>100. Powers of personal representative as to appropriation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#101>101. Power to appoint trustees of infants'' property.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#102>102. Obligations of personal representatives as to\r\n        giving possession of land and powers of the court.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#103>103. Estate to be Distributed within Specified Period.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS<</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#104>104. Distribution of residuary estate.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#105>105. Savings.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#106>106. Application of Act.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#107>107. Interpretation.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#108>108. Statutes ceasing to apply.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#109>109. Repeals.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#110>110. Commencement.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#111>First Schedule&#8212;Form of petition for a grant of\r\n        letters of administration. (s. 16)</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#112>Second Schedule&#8212;Order of application of assets\r\n        where the estate is solvent. (s.94)</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#113>Third Schedule&#8212;Form of a vesting assent. (s.\r\n        96)</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#114>Fourth Schedule&#8212;Statutes ceasing to apply.&nbsp;\r\n        (s.109)</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#115>Fifth Schedule&#8212;Repeals.</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">THE SIXTY-THIRD</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">THE ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT, 1961</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">>AN ACT to consolidate with amendments enactments providing\r\n        for the administration of estates.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">DATE OF ASSENT: 7th June, 1961</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">BE IT ENACTED by the President and the National Assembly\r\n        in this present Parliament assembled, as follows&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <a name=1> </a>\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>PART I&#8212;DEVOLUTION OF MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 1&#8212;Devolution on Personal Representatives.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The movable and immovable property of a deceased\r\n        person shall devolve on his personal representatives with effect from his death.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In the absence of an executor the estate shall,\r\n        until a&nbsp; personal representative is appointed, vest as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) if the entire estate devolves under customary law&#8212;in\r\n        the successor;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) in any other case&#8212;in the Chief Justice.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n<a name=2> </a>\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 2&#8212;Status of Personal Representatives.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The personal representatives shall be the representative\r\n        of the deceased in regard to his movable and immovable property.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The personal representatives for the time being\r\n        of a deceased person are deemed in law his heirs and assigns within the meaning\r\n        of all trusts and powers.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#3></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 3&#8212;Property of the Deceased.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An interest in property which cannot by law be\r\n        disposed of&nbsp; by testamentary disposition is not property for the purpose of\r\n        this Act.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Immovable property passing under any gift contained\r\n        in a&nbsp; will which operates as an appointment under a general power to appoint\r\n        by will shall be deemed to be property of the testator.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The interest of a deceased person under a joint\r\n        tenancy where another tenant survives the deceased is not property of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) On the death of a corporator sole his interest\r\n        in the corporation''s movable and immovable property is not property of the deceased\r\n        and shall devolve on his successor.</p>\r\n<a name=#4></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 4&#8212;Property Devolving Under Customary\r\n        Law.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The interest of an intestate in any property, movable\r\n        or immovable, of which by customary law he could have disposed by testamentary disposition\r\n        shall be deemed to be his property.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART II&#8212;THE ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL</span></p>\r\n<a name=#5></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 5&#8212;Application.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This Part applies to any estate in respect of which\r\n        a grant of&nbsp; probate or letters of administration may be granted by the court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Appointment and Functions</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#6></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 6&#8212;Appointment and Incorporation of\r\n        Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The President shall appoint a suitable person to\r\n        be the&nbsp; Administrator-General for the purposes of this Act and as many assistant\r\n        administrators-general as may be required.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall be a corporation\r\n        sole by the name of the Administrator-General of the Republic of Ghana and shall\r\n        have perpetual succession and an official seal and may sue and be sued in his corporate\r\n        name, but any instrument sealed by him shall not by reason of his using a seal be\r\n        rendered liable to a higher stamp duty than if he were an individual.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Administrator-General shall be entitled to\r\n        appear in court either in person or by counsel in any proceeding to which he is\r\n        a party.</span></p>\r\n  <a name=#7></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 7&#8212;Liability of the Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Neither the Administrator-General nor any agent\r\n        shall be personally liable to any person in respect of assets which are in the possession,\r\n        at the time of his death, of any person whose estate is being administered by the\r\n        Administrator-General, and are dealt with by the Administrator-General or agent,\r\n        unless the Administrator-General or his agent, respectively, knows, or has actual\r\n        notice, before the assets are dealt with that they were not in fact the property\r\n        of the person whose estate is being administered by the&nbsp; Administrator-General,\r\n        and generally neither the Administrator-General nor any agent shall be liable for\r\n        any act done by him bona fide in the supposed and intended performance of his duties,\r\n        unless it is shown that the act was done not only illegally but wilfully or with\r\n        gross negligence.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Nothing in this section shall affect section 19\r\n        of&nbsp; this Act.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#8></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 8&#8212;Liability of the Government.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The revenue of the Republic shall be liable to make\r\n        good all sums required to discharge any liability which the Administrator-General,\r\n        if he were a private administrator, would be personally liable to discharge except\r\n        when the liability is one to which neither the Administrator-General nor any of\r\n        his agents has in any way contributed, or which neither he nor any of his agents\r\n        could, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, have averted and in either of those\r\n        cases the Administrator-General shall not, nor shall the revenue of the Republic,\r\n        be subject to any liability.</span></p>\r\n <a name=#9></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 9&#8212;Non Liability of Administrator-General\r\n        and Government.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">When death is proved to the satisfaction of the Administrator-General:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) by a certified copy of a register of deaths; or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) by a certificate of a local authority in an area\r\n        where there is no compulsory registration of deaths; or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) by a certificate of, in the case of a public officer,\r\n        the official head of the department in which he was employed,</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">>neither the Administrator-General personally nor the\r\n        Government shall be liable for any loss incurred through a fraudulent or innocent\r\n        misrepresentation concerning the death in question.</span></p>\r\n  <a name=#10></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 10&#8212;Sale of Goods of Third Party.</a></span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If during the administration of an estate by the Administrator-General\r\n        there is sold by the Administrator-General or any agent on his behalf any goods\r\n        or chattels belonging to a third party, the amount realised by the sale shall be\r\n        paid over to the owner upon proof by him of ownership unless the proceeds have already\r\n        been applied in payment of the debts of the deceased or have been distributed in\r\n        the ordinary course of administration whilst the Administrator-General or his agent\r\n        was in ignorance or without actual notice of the claim of that person to the goods\r\n        or chattels sold.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#11></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 11&#8212;No Security or Oath Required from\r\n        Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General shall not be required\r\n        to verify otherwise than by his signature, any petition presented by him under the\r\n        provisions of this Act, and if the facts stated in any such petition are not within\r\n        the Administrator-General''s own personal knowledge, the petition may be subscribed\r\n        and verified by any person competent to make the verification.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The facts stated in the reports of administrative\r\n        officers to the Administrator-General shall, for the purposes of this section, be\r\n        deemed to be within the personal knowledge of the Administrator-General.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Administrator-General shall not be required\r\n        to enter into any administration bond, or to give other security to the court on\r\n        the grant of any letters of administration to him by that name.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#12></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 12&#8212;Administrator-General may be Appointed\r\n        Executor.</a></span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may be appointed the executor\r\n        of any will.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#13></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 13&#8212;Grants to be made to Administrator-General\r\n        by that Name.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">All probates and letters of administration granted\r\n        to the Administrator-General shall be granted to him by that name,&nbsp; and shall\r\n        be deemed to include his successors in office and shall authorise the Administrator-General\r\n        to act as executor or administrator, as&nbsp; the case may be, of the estate to\r\n        which such probate or letters relate.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#14></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 14&#8212;Effect of Grant to Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>Probate or letters of administration granted by the\r\n        court to the Administrator-General shall be conclusive as to his representative\r\n        title against all debtors of the deceased and all persons holding assets, and shall\r\n        afford full indemnity to all debtors paying their debts, and all persons delivering\r\n        up such assets, to the Administrator-General, or to his agents duly appointed in\r\n        accordance with the provisions of this Act.</a></span></p>\r\n        <a name=#15></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 15&#8212;Entry of Name of Administrator-General\r\n        on Company''s Books not to Constitute Notice of a Trust.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The entry of the name of the Administrator-General\r\n        in the books of a company shall not constitute notice of a trust, and a&nbsp; company\r\n        shall not be entitled to object to enter the name of&nbsp; the Administrator-General\r\n        on its register by reason only that the Administrator-General is a corporation,\r\n        and in dealing with assets the fact that the person dealt with is the Administrator-General\r\n        shall not of itself constitute notice of a trust.</span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall not be personally\r\n        liable for any claim as a contributory.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Grant of Probate or of Letters of Administration.</span></i></p>\r\n  <a name=#16></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 16&#8212;Power of Administrator-General\r\n        to Petition Court.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General may, whenever he becomes\r\n        aware of any&nbsp; estate which he considers unrepresented, present a&nbsp; petition\r\n        to the court in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Act, praying for\r\n        the grant of probate or of letters of administration of the estate and the court\r\n        may, upon being satisfied that the estate is unrepresented, make an order accordingly,\r\n        and thereupon the Administrator-General shall forthwith cause an inventory to be\r\n        made of the estate and filed in the court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall not petition the\r\n        court in respect of any estate for the administration of which other special provision\r\n        is made by any enactment.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#17></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 17&#8212;Entering upon Estate before Court\r\n        Order.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may, if he thinks fit, immediately\r\n        on becoming aware of any unrepresented estate and before obtaining a grant of probate\r\n        or of letters of administration of the same, enter upon the estate for the purpose\r\n        of sealing up or making such other dispositions for the security of the estate as\r\n        he may deem necessary.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#18></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 18&#8212;Time of Application.</a></span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Nothing in any enactment shall preclude the Administrator-General\r\n        from applying to the court for a grant of probate or of letters of administration\r\n        at any time after the death of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#19></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 19&#8212;Uncertainty as to Succession.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Whenever:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) any person dies leaving assets in Ghana and the\r\n        court is not satisfied that there is any person immediately available who is legally\r\n        entitled to succession to the assets, or that&nbsp; danger is to be apprehended\r\n        of misappropriation, deterioration, or waste of the assets before the succession\r\n        thereto can be determined, or whether the Administrator-General is entitled to a\r\n        grant of probate or of letters of administration of the estate of the deceased in\r\n        respect thereof, or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b)&nbsp; the agent in charge of any assets in Ghana\r\n        belonging to any person not residing in Ghana or belonging to a company not incorporated\r\n        in Ghana dies without leaving any responsible person in charge thereof,</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">the court may, upon the application of the Administrator-General\r\n        or any person interested in the assets or in the due administration thereof, direct\r\n        the Administrator-General to collect and take possession of the assets and to hold,&nbsp;\r\n        posses, realise, and dispose of them according to the direction of the court, and\r\n        in default of any such directions, to the provisions of this Act so far as applicable\r\n        to the assets.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Any order of the court made under this section\r\n        shall entitle the Administrator-General&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) to maintain any suit or proceedings for the recovery\r\n        of the assets; and</a></span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>(b) if he thinks fit to apply for a grant of probate\r\n        or of letters of administration of the estate of the deceased; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) Subject to section 54 of this Act, to retain out\r\n        of the assets of the estate any fees chargeable under rules made under this Act\r\n        and to reimburse himself for all payment made by him in respect of the assets which\r\n        a private administrator might lawfully have made. [As Substituted by Administration\r\n        of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 1].</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#20></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 20&#8212;Grant to Persons Appearing.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If in the course of proceedings to obtain a grant of\r\n        probate or of letters of administration under section 16, section 18 or section\r\n        19 of this Act any person appears and establishes his claim&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) to probate of the will of the deceased; or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) to letters of administration as next-of-kin of\r\n        the deceased, and gives such security as may be required of him by law,</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">the court may grant probate of the will or letters\r\n        of administration accordingly, and shall award the Administrator-General the costs\r\n        of any proceedings taken by him, under those sections, to be paid out of the estate\r\n        as part of the testamentary or intestate expenses thereof.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#21></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 21&#8212;Grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If in the course of the proceedings to obtain a grant\r\n        of probate or of letters of administration under section 16, section 18 or section\r\n        19 of this Act, no person establishes his claim to probate of a will, or to a grant\r\n        of letters of administration as next-of-kin of the deceased within such period as\r\n        to the court seems reasonable, or if a person who has established his claim to a\r\n        grant of letters of administration as next-of-kin of the deceased fails to give\r\n        such security as may be required of him by law, the court may grant probate or letters\r\n        of administration to the Administrator-General.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#22></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 22&#8212;Transfer by Private Executor or\r\n        Administrator to Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any private executor or administrator may, with\r\n        the previous consent of the Administrator-General by instrument in writing under\r\n        his hand, notified in the Gazette, transfer the assets of the estate vested in him\r\n        by virtue of the probate or letters to the&nbsp; Administrator-General by that name.\r\n    </a></span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) As from the date of transfer, the transferor shall\r\n        be exempt from all liability as executor or administrator, as the case may be, except\r\n        in respect of acts or omissions done, or committed, before the date of transfer,\r\n        and the Administrator-General shall have the same rights and be subject to the same\r\n        liabilities as if probate or letters of administration, as the case may be, had\r\n        been granted to him by that name at the date of transfer.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Revocation of Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration</span></i></p>\r\n    <a name=#23></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 23&#8212;Revocation of Grant to Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If an executor or next-of-kin of the deceased who\r\n        has not&nbsp; been personally served with a citation or who has not had actual notice\r\n        thereof in time to appear pursuant thereto, establishes to the satisfaction of the\r\n        court a claim to probate of a will or to letters of administration in preference\r\n        to the Administrator-General, any probate or letters of administration granted to\r\n        the Administrator-General may be revoked, and probate or letters of administration\r\n        may be granted to the executor or next-of-kin, as the case may be.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Probate or letters of administration granted to\r\n        the Administrator-General shall not be revoked under this section upon the application\r\n        of the next-of-kin of the deceased, unless the application be made within six months\r\n        after the grant to the Administrator-General and the court is satisfied that there\r\n        has been no unreasonable delay in making the application or in transmitting the\r\n        authority under which the application is made.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#24></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 24&#8212;Costs of Administrator-General\r\n        on Revocation to Grant.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any grant of probate or letters of administration\r\n        to the Administrator-General is revoked, the court may order the costs of obtaining\r\n        the letters of administration and the whole or any part of the fees which would\r\n        otherwise have been payable under this Act together with the costs of the Administrator-General\r\n        in any proceedings taken to obtain revocation, to be paid to or retained by the\r\n        Administrator-General out of the estate.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section shall not affect section 19 (2) (c)\r\n        of this Act.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#25></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 25&#8212;On Revocation Previous Acts of\r\n        Administrator-General Deemed Valid.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any grant of probate or letters of administration\r\n        to the Administrator-General is revoked, it shall so far as regards the Administrator-General\r\n        and all persons acting under his authority in pursuance thereof, be deemed to have\r\n        been valid, except as to any act done by the Administrator-General, or any such\r\n        person, after notice of a will or of any other fact which would render the probate\r\n        or letters void.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) No notice of a will or of any other fact which\r\n        would render any grant void shall affect the Administrator-General or any person\r\n        acting under his authority in pursuance of the grant unless within the period of\r\n        one month from the time of giving the notice proceedings are commenced to prove\r\n        the will or to cause the letters to be revoked and the proceedings are prosecuted\r\n        without unreasonable delay.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#26></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span sont-family: Arial">Section 26&#8212;Payments made by Administrator-General\r\n        Prior to Revocation of Grant.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If any grant of probate or letters of administration\r\n        to the Administrator-General is revoked upon the grant of probate of a will or upon\r\n        the grant of letters of administration with copy of the will annexed, all payments\r\n        made or acts done by or under the authority of the Administrator-General in pursuance\r\n        of the grant to him prior to revocation, which would have been valid if the grant\r\n        had not been revoked shall be deemed valid notwithstanding revocation.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Administration</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#27></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 27&#8212;Movable and Immovable Property\r\n        to be Realised.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General may, convert into money\r\n        all movable property except household chattels of an intestate to which section\r\n        3 of the Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111) applies and with the consent\r\n        of the Court the immovable property of an intestate which he administers.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section\r\n        if in the opinion of the Administrator-General the claims of creditors of the intestate\r\n        cannot be met without converting those household chattels of the intestate into\r\n        money he shall apply to the Court for an order to sell and convert such household\r\n        chattels into money.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Court shall, in making an order under subsection\r\n        (2) of this section consider all the circumstances of the case, including the wishes\r\n        of those beneficiaries entitled to such household chattels under the Intestate Succession\r\n        Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111).</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section\r\n        if all parties interested in the immovable property consent in writing to the conversion\r\n        into money by the Administrator-General or if the value of the immovable property\r\n        does not exceed fifty thousand cedis and the Administrator-General is satisfied\r\n        that the conversion of the immovable property into money would be to the advantage\r\n        of the estate, the consent of the Court shall not be necessary. [As Substituted\r\n        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 2].</span></p>\r\n<a name=#28></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 28&#8212;Payment of Debts and Distribution\r\n        of Assets.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General shall cause advertisements\r\n        to be published in the Gazette, and in such other manner as he thinks fit, calling\r\n        upon the creditors of a person whose estate he administers and other persons beneficially\r\n        entitled thereto to come in and prove their claims before him within such period\r\n        as he may specify. Subject to section 42 of this Act he shall after the expiration\r\n        of that period pay the debts proved, and if the whole thereof cannot be paid he\r\n        shall pay a dividend thereon-if he collects any further assets after making payment\r\n        he shall, in case any part of the debts proved remains unpaid, pay them and any\r\n        debts subsequently proved before him or a dividend thereon; but such debts as are\r\n        subsequently proved shall first be paid a dividend in proportion to their amount\r\n        equal to the dividend paid to creditors having previously proved their debts.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General may require that any\r\n        claim filed by a creditor or a claimant shall express the name and place of abode\r\n        of the creditor or claimant, the origin of the debt or claim, the degree or class\r\n        of the debt and the particulars and exact amount thereof, verified by affidavit,\r\n        and there shall also be annexed to every claim the documents purporting to be evidence\r\n        thereof; he may also require any claimants to make an affidavit in the prescribed\r\n        form setting forth particulars concerning the person beneficially entitled to the\r\n        estate according to the best of their knowledge and belief.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#29></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 29&#8212;Disposal of Assets Received from\r\n        Abroad.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where the Administrator-General is administering an\r\n        estate and he receives assets which at the time of the death of the deceased&nbsp;\r\n        were situated outside Ghana those assets shall be treated in the same manner as\r\n        assets in Ghana at the time of death.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#30></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 30&#8212;Barring of Claims.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) When the Administrator-General has given the prescribed&nbsp;\r\n        notice for creditors and others to send in their claims against the estate of the\r\n        deceased, he shall, at the expiration of the time therein named for sending in claims,\r\n        be at liberty to distribute the assets or any part thereof in discharge of such\r\n        lawful claims as he has notice of.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) He shall not be liable, for the assets so distributed,\r\n        to any person of whose claim he had not notice at the time of the distribution.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) No notice of any claim which has been sent in and\r\n        has been rejected, or disallowed in part by the Administrator-General shall affect\r\n        him unless proceedings to enforce the claim are commenced within two months after\r\n        notice of rejection or disallowance of the claim has been given and unless proceedings\r\n        are prosecuted without unreasonable delay.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) This section shall not prejudice the right of any\r\n        creditor or other claimant to follow the assets or any part thereof in the hands\r\n        of the persons who may have received them.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) In computing the period of limitation, if any,\r\n        for any suit, appeal or application under the provisions of any law for the time\r\n        being in force, the period between the date of submission of the claim of a creditor\r\n        to the Administrator-General and the date of the final decision of the Administrator-General\r\n        on the claim shall be excluded.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#31></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 31&#8212;Costs in Suit Against Administrator&#8211;General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any suit is brought by a creditor against the\r\n        Administrator-General, the creditor shall be liable to pay the costs of the suit\r\n        unless he proves that not less than one month previous to the institution of the\r\n        suit he had applied in writing to the Administrator-General stating the amount and\r\n        other particulars of his claim, and had given such evidence in support thereof as,\r\n        in the circumstances of the case, the Administrator-General was reasonably entitled\r\n        to require.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) If the suit is decreed in favour of the creditor,\r\n        he shall, nevertheless, unless he is a secured creditor, be only entitled to payment\r\n        out of the assets of the deceased equally and rateably with the other creditors.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#32></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 32&#8212;Disposal of Jewellery, etc.</span></b></p>\r\n<a name=#33></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 33&#8212;Power of Administrator-General\r\n        to Pay for Improvements.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may, in addition to and not\r\n        in derogation of any other powers of expenditure lawfully exercisable by him, incur\r\n        expenditure:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) on such acts as may be necessary for the proper\r\n        care and management of any property belonging to any estate in his charge; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b)&nbsp; with the sanction of the court on such improvements\r\n        as may be reasonable and proper in the case of such property.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#34></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 34&#8212;Power to Apply to Court for Directions\r\n        or Information.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The court, on the application of the Administrator-General\r\n        or of any person interested in the assets of an estate or in the due administration\r\n        thereof, may give to the Administrator-General directions as to any estate in his\r\n        charge or in regard to the administration of any such estate.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where any property of a deceased person devolves\r\n        in accordance with customary law the Administrator-General may apply to a court\r\n        of competent jurisdiction for information as to how that property should be distributed\r\n        and the property distributed in&nbsp; accordance with such information shall, so\r\n        far as concerns the liability of the Administrator-General or the Government, be\r\n        deemed to be well administered.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#35></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 35&#8212;Administrator-General to keep Accounts.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General shall make a complete\r\n        inventory of every estate which he administers and shall keep an account of all\r\n        receipts, payments and dealings with the estate; he shall retain all letters received,\r\n        and copies of all letters written by him, and all deeds, writings, and papers of\r\n        or relating to the estate.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General may destroy any private\r\n        papers, bills, receipts, memoranda and other similar documents of no value, which\r\n        he has received along with the estate and which are not claimed by the beneficiaries,\r\n        or other persons entitled thereto.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#36></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 36&#8212;Right of Interested Person to Inspect\r\n        Accounts Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Any creditor or beneficiary of an estate which is in\r\n        the charge of the Administrator-General shall upon payment of the prescribed fee\r\n        and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed, be entitled\r\n        at all reasonable times to inspect the accounts relating to the estate and the reports\r\n        and certificates of the auditor, and on payment of the prescribed fee, to copies\r\n        thereof and extracts therefrom.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#37></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 37&#8212;Payment of Money into the Prescribed\r\n        Bank and Investment of Surplus Funds.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An Administrator-General''s account shall be kept\r\n        by the Administrator-General with such bank as may be prescribed, and all moneys\r\n        received by the Administrator-General in respect of proceedings under this Act shall\r\n        be paid into that account.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Whenever the cash balance standing to the credit of\r\n        the Administrator-General''s account is in excess of the amount which in the opinion\r\n        of the Administrator-General is required for the time being to answer demands in\r\n        respect of the estate being administered by him, the Administrator-General may deposit\r\n        the cash balance or any part thereof with the Accountant-General or in a Government\r\n        savings bank or invest the whole or any part thereof in any funds or securities\r\n        in which trustees are by the law for the time being in force authorised to invest\r\n        trust funds.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Whenever any money so placed on deposit or invested\r\n        is, in the opinion of the Administrator-General, required to answer any demands\r\n        in respect of estates administered by him, the Administrator-General shall thereupon\r\n        withdraw the money deposited or realise the investment, as the case may be, and\r\n        place the amount received to the credit of the cash balance of the Administrator-General''s\r\n        account.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) When the realised assets of an estate are so small\r\n        in value that the estate is practically indivisible amongst the beneficiaries or\r\n        creditors entitled thereto or when after division of the estate a balance remains\r\n        which by reason of the number of the beneficiaries or creditors and the small amount\r\n        of the balance is practically indivisible amongst the beneficiaries or creditors,\r\n        the assets or balances shall be paid or transferred on the closing of the estate\r\n        account into the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#38></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 38&#8212;Administrator-General to File Final\r\n        Account.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) On the completion of the administration of an estate\r\n        the Administrator-General shall file in court his accounts and vouchers&nbsp; relating\r\n        thereto, together with an affidavit in verification, and after fourteen days'' notice\r\n        has been given in the prescribed manner by the Administrator-General to all persons\r\n        interested, who are resident in Ghana, setting forth the day and the hour to be\r\n        appointed by the taxing officer for the passing of the accounts, the accounts may\r\n        be examined and taxed by the taxing officer in the presence of any person who may\r\n        attend upon the notice, and objection may be taken to the account, or to any item\r\n        or part thereof, and the taxation may be brought under review by the court in the\r\n        same manner, as near as may be, as in the case of any proceeding in court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) A certificate under the hand of the taxing officer\r\n        or of a judge of the court, to the effect that the accounts have been examined and\r\n        found correct, shall be a valid and effectual discharge in favour of the Administrator-General,\r\n        as against all persons whatsoever.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#39></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 39&#8212;Power to File Interim Account.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may, on giving the notice\r\n        referred to in section 38 of this Act, pass interim accounts prior to the completion\r\n        of the administration.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#40></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 40&#8212;Administrator-General to File Interim\r\n        Account.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where the administration of an estate by the Administrator-General\r\n        is not completed within eighteen months after the grant of letters of administration,\r\n        the Administrator-General shall, unless otherwise ordered by the court, file in\r\n        the court an interim statement of accounts which may be examined in accordance with\r\n        the rules of court.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#41></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 41&#8212;Power to Transfer Share of Minor\r\n        to Relative.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">When any person entitled to a share under the will\r\n        or in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person, whose estate is being\r\n        administered by the Administrator-General, is a minor, the court may, upon the application\r\n        of the Administrator-General, appoint the father or mother of the minor, or some\r\n        other suitable person, to receive the share of the minor on his behalf, and upon\r\n        the appointment being made, the Administrator-General may pay the share of the minor\r\n        to that person on behalf of the minor, and the receipt of that person shall be a\r\n        full and complete discharge to the Administrator-General so far as regards that\r\n        share.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Distribution of Residue</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#42></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 42&#8212;Distribution of Proceeds of Estate.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">As soon as may be after the expiration of the time\r\n        limited for the submission of claims in the last of the notices published in pursuance\r\n        of section 28 of this Act, or after the settlement of any disputed claim, the Administrator-General\r\n        shall dispose of the property of the estate in the manner following&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) he shall reimburse himself of all such costs and\r\n        charges as he may reasonably have incurred in collecting the estate;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) he shall pay to the credit of the Consolidated\r\n        Fund out of the gross amount of moneys arising from the realisation of the estate\r\n        such percentage thereof as may be prescribed;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c)&nbsp; he shall pay the creditors of the estate\r\n        in the order and manner provided by law; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) he shall pay or distribute the balance (if any)\r\n        which remains after such payments aforesaid to the persons legally entitled thereto,\r\n        if known or, if unknown, to the Accountant-General in trust for the persons entitled\r\n        thereto, in accordance with section 45 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#43></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 43&#8212;Disposal of Immovable Property.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">When after winding up an estate any immovable property\r\n        remains undisposed of, the Administrator-General shall forthwith, and before closing\r\n        the accounts of the estate, apply to the court for directions as to the disposal\r\n        of the immovable property, and the court may order it to be sold, or may appoint\r\n        a receiver or make such other order as the court thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#44></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 44&#8212;Assets of persons not Domiciled\r\n        in Ghana Payable to Executor Abroad.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) When a person, not having his domicile in Ghana,\r\n        has died leaving assets in Ghana, the Administrator-General, after having given\r\n        the prescribed notice for creditors and others to send&nbsp; in to him their claims\r\n        against the estate of the deceased, and after having discharged at the expiration\r\n        of the time therein named such lawful claims as he may have notice of, may, instead\r\n        of distributing any surplus or residue of the deceased''s assets to persons residing\r\n        in another country who are entitled thereto, transfer, with the consent of the executor\r\n        or administrator, if any, as the case may be, in the country of the domicile of\r\n        the deceased, the surplus or residue to that executor or administrator for distribution\r\n        to those persons; or to a consular officer of that country or other authority competent\r\n        to receive it, whose receipt shall be a full and complete discharge to the Administrator-General.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General may transfer the residue\r\n        through the Accountant-General in any such case and a written acknowledgement by\r\n        the Accountant-General that he has received the surplus for such a purpose shall\r\n        be a full and complete discharge to the Administrator-General.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Minister may prescribe the fees payable to\r\n        a consular officer or authority mentioned in this section.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#45></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 45&#8212;Disposal of Proceeds of Intestate\r\n        Estates.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) When the Administrator-General has completed the\r\n        administration of the estate of any person who has died intestate and without known\r\n        next-of-kin by paying all debts, fees, expenses and liabilities incident to the\r\n        collection, management and administration of the estate and, after the passing of\r\n        the accounts of the estate by the taxing officer or a judge, any sum of money remains\r\n        to the credit of the estate in the hands of the Accountant-General, the Administrator-General\r\n        shall inform the Attorney-General who shall forthwith publish a notice in the Gazette,\r\n        announcing the completion of the administration of the estate and the passing of\r\n        the accounts and the amount of the residue of the estate remaining and calling upon\r\n        all persons claiming to be interested in such estate on legal, equitable or moral\r\n        grounds to present their petitions to the court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) A petition may be presented at any time within\r\n        two years from the date of the notice, unless the court, under subsection (3) of\r\n        this section, fixes a lesser period within which the petition may be presented,\r\n        and no claim shall be entertained after the expiration of two years or such lesser\r\n        period of time as may be fixed by the court, and the hearing of the petition shall\r\n        not take place until two months have elapsed after the expiration of the period\r\n        of two years or lesser period and until the petitioner has given two months'' notice\r\n        in the Gazette of the presentation of the petition or intention to present it, and\r\n        if the petition has been presented and no such notice given, until after the day\r\n        appointed by the court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) Where the court\r\n        is satisfied upon application, either by the Attorney-General or by a person who\r\n        has presented a petition as provided for in subsection (1) of this section, that\r\n        it is unlikely that there will be any further petitions presented or that a lesser\r\n        period of time will be sufficient for the presentation of petitions, the court may\r\n        order that instead of the period of two years mentioned in subsection (2) there\r\n        shall be substituted for that period such lesser period, not being less than six\r\n        months, as the court may consider sufficient.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) Notice of any order made by the court under this\r\n        subsection shall be published in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Every petition shall state the place of residence\r\n        of the claimant and the grounds upon which, and the description of the estate in\r\n        respect of which, the claim is made.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) A copy of the petition shall be served upon the\r\n        Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) Any person claiming to be interested in the estate\r\n        may appear personally or by a legal practitioner, and the respective claims of different\r\n        petitioners may be heard and dealt with at the hearing.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) The equitable or moral claims in this section referred\r\n        to shall include those of dependants, whether kindred or not, of the deceased or\r\n        other persons for whom the deceased might reasonably have been expected to make\r\n        provision.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#46></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 46&#8212;Order on Petition.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any petitioner verifies his claim by evidence\r\n        to the satisfaction of the court, the court shall make such order in the&nbsp; matter,\r\n        including any award of costs, as it thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The order may contain a direction to the Accountant-General\r\n        to pay from the sum standing to the credit of the estate in his hands the sum awarded\r\n        to any claimant or petitioner by the order or any debt appearing to the court to\r\n        be then outstanding and due from the estate.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#47></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 47&#8212;Rival Claims to Residue.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where two or more persons lay claim to any estate or\r\n        residue, the Administrator-General may pay into court and notify the claimants and\r\n        the court may with the consent of the parties, dispose of their claims by determining\r\n        them in a summary manner, and may make such order therein with regard to costs and\r\n        all other matters as the circumstances may require.&nbsp; Where the parties do not\r\n        consent, they may proceed to obtain a decision of their claims according to the\r\n        ordinary course of law.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#48></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 48&#8212;Assets Unclaimed for Five Years\r\n        to be Transferred to Consolidated Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) All assets deposited by the Administrator-General\r\n        with the Accountant-General in accordance with section 42, or paid into court in\r\n        accordance with section 47, of this Act, which&nbsp; have remained with the Accountant-General\r\n        or court for a period of&nbsp; five years or upwards, without any application for\r\n        payment thereof having been made and granted by the court, shall be transferred,\r\n        in the prescribed manner, to the account and credit of the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The assets shall not be so transferred if any suit\r\n        or proceeding is pending in respect thereof in any court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If before the end of the period of five years it\r\n        is claimed and proved on behalf of the Republic to the satisfaction of the court\r\n        that any assets deposited with the Accountant-General are bona vacantia, then those\r\n        assets shall at once become the absolute property of the Republic, but shall be\r\n        subject to the power of disposal conferred on the Minister by section 49 of this\r\n        Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#49></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 49&#8212;Power of Minister to Dispose of\r\n        Unclaimed Assets.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Minister may dispose of or distribute either the&nbsp;\r\n        whole or any part of any assets transferred under the provisions of section 48 of\r\n        this Act, or otherwise, to or among any kindred of the deceased or any other such\r\n        persons in such shares or manner as he thinks fit, regard being had to any equitable\r\n        or moral claims.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#50></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Fees, Expenses and Costs</span></i></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 50&#8212;Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">There shall be charged in respect of the duties of\r\n        the Administrator-General such fees as may be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#51></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 51&#8212;Expenses.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any expenses which might be retained or paid out\r\n        of any estate in the charge of the Administrator-General, if he were a private administrator\r\n        of the estate, shall be so retained and paid&nbsp; and the fees prescribed under\r\n        section 50 of this Act shall be retained and paid&nbsp; in like manner as an addition\r\n        to the expenses. </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Fees of court payable under any enactment or rule\r\n        of court shall not be charged, paid or collected in respect of estates administered\r\n        by the Administrator-General under section 59 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Fees, charges and reimbursements to be retained\r\n        or paid by the Administrator-General shall have priority over all debts of the deceased\r\n        and may be deducted from any moneys received by the Administrator-General in the\r\n        course of the administration.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#52></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 52&#8212;Right of Administrator-General\r\n        to Costs.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">When the court orders the costs of the proceedings,\r\n        to which the Administrator-General is a party, to be paid otherwise than out of\r\n        the estate of a deceased person which is being administered by the Administrator-General,\r\n        the Administrator-General shall be entitled to charge ordinary costs, whether he\r\n        has appeared in person or not; and those costs shall be credited to the Consolidated\r\n        Fund.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Administration of Small Estates</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#53></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 53&#8212;Power to Administer where Assets\r\n        do not Exceed ¢100.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Subject to the provisions of the Intestate Succession\r\n        Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111), whenever any person dies intestate leaving property or assets\r\n        in Ghana, the gross value of which does not exceed fifty thousand cedis the Administrator-General\r\n        may by notice in the Gazette (which may be combined with a notice to creditors and\r\n        others) advertise his intention to administer the estate and at the expiration of\r\n        the time limited by the notice he may apply to the Court for leave to administer\r\n        the estate.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall not under the power\r\n        conferred by this section undertake the administration of an estate if there has\r\n        been any previous appointment of an administrator under any other provision relating\r\n        to small estates, or if there has been any previous grant of probate of the will\r\n        of the deceased or of letters of administration of his estate, unless and until\r\n        that appointment or grant has been revoked.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) It shall not be obligatory on the Administrator-General\r\n        to file in Court his accounts or vouchers in respect of an estate administered under\r\n        this section unless he is required to do so by a beneficiary or creditor of the\r\n        administration, and receives payment of such sum as the Administrator-General may\r\n        reasonably require to cover the costs of preparing, filing and passing the accounts.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) The Administrator-General shall give notice in\r\n        the prescribed manner to all persons interested that he has completed the administration\r\n        of the estate. A beneficiary or creditor must call on the Administrator-General\r\n        to file an account under subsection (3) of this section within one month of the\r\n        notice being given.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) The Administrator-General shall have full power\r\n        to settle finally and without appeal all disputes and questions which may arise\r\n        in the course of an administration by him under this section, including claims by\r\n        creditors, but may allow an appeal to the Court or may himself apply to the Court\r\n        for directions.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) In settling disputes or questions, the Administrator-General\r\n        may, if he thinks it&nbsp; expedient in the interests of justice or with a view\r\n        to saving expense, act on information which appears to him to be credible though\r\n        it is not legal evidence. [As Substituted by Administration of Estates (Amendment)\r\n        Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 4].</span></p>\r\n<a name=#54></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 54&#8212;Power to Remit Fees in Estates\r\n        not Exceeding £G100.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an estate is administered by the Administrator-General\r\n        under section 53 of this Act the Administrator-General may remit all fees and costs\r\n        usually payable upon an administration by the Administrator-General, and substitute\r\n        therefor a fee calculated in accordance with rules made under section 56 of this\r\n        Act.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In calculating the amount of the fee payable a\r\n        fraction of a shilling shall be taken as a shilling.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Miscellaneous</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#55></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 55&#8212;Power to make Rules.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Minister by legislative instrument may make\r\n        rules for carrying into effect the objects of this Part and for regulating the proceedings\r\n        of the Administrator-General.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality\r\n        of the foregoing power the rules may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) provide for the accounts to be kept by the Administrator-General;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) provide for the notices to be given by the Administrator-General\r\n        and the method of service;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) prescribe forms, scales of fees and any matter\r\n        in this Act directed to be prescribed;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) define the powers and liabilities of agents, provide\r\n        for the appointment of such persons as may be thought advisable to be agents, fix\r\n        the amount of security to be given by agents and the remuneration to be allowed\r\n        to them, whether by way of fees or salary, and generally regulate their duties.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n<a name=#56></a>\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 56&#8212;Power to Administrator-General\r\n        to Appoint Agents.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General may appoint such person\r\n        or persons, as he thinks fit, to act as his agent or agents for the preservation\r\n        of the assets under section 19 of this Act or in the managing, collection, and getting\r\n        in of the assets and in payment of the liabilities and the distribution of the assets\r\n        of a deceased person whose estate is in the course of administration by him. The\r\n        agent or agents shall in all respects act under the direction of the Administrator-General,\r\n        who shall not be answerable for any act or omission of any agent not in conformity\r\n        with his direction, or which would not have happened by the Administrator-General''s\r\n        own fault or neglect.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Every agent shall find security, to the satisfaction\r\n        of the Administrator-General, for the performance of his duty.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Agents may be remunerated either by salary or such\r\n        fees as the Administrator-General with the approval of the Minister may decide.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#57></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 57&#8212;Power to Administer Oath.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may administer oaths, and\r\n        whenever he desires, for the purposes of this Act, to satisfy himself regarding\r\n        any question-of-fact, examine upon oath any person who is willing to be so examined\r\n        by him regarding the question.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#58></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 58&#8212;False Evidence.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Whoever in any matter affecting the administration\r\n        of an estate makes upon oath a statement which is false, and which he either knows\r\n        or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be deemed to have\r\n        intentionally given false evidence in a judicial proceeding.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#59></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 59&#8212;Agent may Take Charge of Assets.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">In the case of deceased persons, having assets in Ghana,\r\n        the agent of the Administrator-General of the area in which the assets are situated\r\n        may, when he thinks it advisable for the protection of the estate, take possession\r\n        thereof, and in such case he shall forthwith report his action to the Administrator-General,\r\n        who shall give such directions and take such proceedings in the matter as he thinks\r\n        fit.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#60></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 60&#8212;Annual Report of Administrator-General.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General shall furnish to the Minister\r\n        responsible for Finance as early as possible in each year, a statement showing the\r\n        amount of money received, paid and expended in each case, of the estates being administered\r\n        by him during the previous year.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART III&#8212;EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">General Provisions</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#61></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 61&#8212;Necessity for Probate.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">A grant of probate is necessary to entitle an executor\r\n        to administer the property, whether movable or immovable, of the testator.&nbsp;\r\n        Before probate, the executor may, for the benefit of the estate, exercise the functions\r\n        which pertain to his office but he shall not be entitled to make a disposition of\r\n        any property.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#62></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 62&#8212;Cesser of Rights of Executor to\r\n        Prove.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where a person appointed executor by a will:&#8212;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) survives the testator but dies without having taken\r\n        out probate of the will; or </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) is cited to take out probate of the will and does\r\n        not appear to the citation; or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) renounces probate of the will;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">his rights in respect of the executorship shall wholly\r\n        cease, and the representation to the testator and the administration of his estate\r\n        shall devolve and be committed in like manner as if that person had not been appointed\r\n        executor.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#63></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 63&#8212;Withdrawal of Renunciation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an executor who has renounced probate has\r\n        been permitted, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, to withdraw\r\n        the renunciation and prove the will, the probate shall take effect and be deemed\r\n        always to have taken effect without prejudice to the previous acts and dealings\r\n        of and notices to any other personal representative who has previously proved the\r\n        will or taken out letters of administration, and a memorandum of the subsequent\r\n        probate shall be endorsed on the original probate or letters of administration.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section applies whether the testator died\r\n        before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#64></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 64&#8212;Executor of Executor Represents\r\n        Original Testator.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An executor of a sole or last surviving executor\r\n        of a testator is the executor of that testator.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This provision shall not apply to an executor who does\r\n        not prove the will of his testator, and, in the case of an executor who on his death\r\n        leaves surviving him some other executor of his testator who afterwards proves the\r\n        will of that testator, it shall cease to apply on the probate being granted.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) So long as the chain of the representation is unbroken,\r\n        the last executor in the chain is the executor of every preceding testator.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The chain of the representation is broken by&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) an intestacy; or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) the failure of a testator to appoint an executor;\r\n        or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) the failure to obtain probate of a will;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">but is not broken by a temporary grant of administration\r\n        if probate is subsequently granted.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Every person in the chain of representation to\r\n        a testator&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) has the same rights in respect of the estate of\r\n        that testator as the original executor would have had if living; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b)&nbsp; is, to the extent to which the estate of\r\n        that testator has come to his hands, answerable as if he were an original executor.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#65></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 65&#8212;Right of Proving Executors to Exercise\r\n        Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where probate is granted to one or some of two\r\n        or more&nbsp; persons named as executors, whether or not power is reserved to the\r\n        others or other to prove, all the powers which are by law&nbsp; conferred on the\r\n        personal representative may be exercised by the proving executor or executors for\r\n        the time being and shall be as effectual as if all the persons named as executors\r\n        had concurred therein.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section applies whether the testator died\r\n        before or after the commencement of this Act. </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<a name=#66></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 66&#8212;Liability of Acting Executor Failing\r\n        to Apply for Probate.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If a person appointed executor by will takes possession\r\n        of and administers or otherwise deals with any property of the deceased and does\r\n        not apply for probate within one month after the death, or after the termination\r\n        of any suit or dispute respecting probate or administration, he may, independently\r\n        of any other liability, be punished for contempt of court.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#67></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 67&#8212;Executor Not to Act While Administration\r\n        is in Force.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where administration has been granted in respect of\r\n        any estate of a deceased person, no person shall have power to bring any action\r\n        or otherwise act as executor of the deceased person in&nbsp; respect of the estate\r\n        comprised in or affected by the grant until the grant has been recalled or revoked.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#68></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 68&#8212;Continuance of Legal Proceedings\r\n        After Revocation of Temporary Administration.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If, while any legal proceeding is pending in any court\r\n        by or&nbsp; against an administrator to whom a temporary administration has been\r\n        granted, that administration is revoked, that court may order that&nbsp; the proceeding\r\n        be continued by or against the new personal representative in like manner as if\r\n        it had been originally commenced by or against him, but subject to such conditions\r\n        and variations, if any, as that court directs.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#69></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 69&#8212;Rights and Liabilities of Administrator.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Every person to whom administration of the estate of\r\n        a deceased person is granted shall, subject to the limitations contained in the\r\n        grant, have the same rights and liabilities and be accountable in like manner as\r\n        if he were the executor of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Duties, Rights and Obligations</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#70></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 70&#8212;Duty of Personal Representative\r\n        as to Inventory.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The personal representative of a deceased person shall,\r\n        when lawfully required so to do, exhibit on oath in the court a true and perfect\r\n        inventory and account of the estate of the deceased, and the court shall have power\r\n        as heretofore to require personal representatives to bring in inventories.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#71></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 71&#8212;Distress for Rent.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A personal representative may distrain upon land\r\n        for arrears of rent due or accruing to the deceased in like manner as the deceased\r\n        might have done had he been living.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The arrears may be distrained for after the termination\r\n        of the lease or tenancy as if the term or interest had not determined, if the distress\r\n        is made&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) within six months after the termination of the\r\n        lease or tenancy; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) during the continuance of the possession of the\r\n        lessee or tenant from whom the arrears were due.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Any enactments relating to distress for rent apply\r\n        to any distress made pursuant to this section.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#72></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 72&#8212;Protection of Persons Acting on\r\n        Probate or Administration.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Every person making or permitting to be made any&nbsp;\r\n        payment or disposition in good faith under a representation shall be indemnified\r\n        and protected in so doing, notwithstanding any defect or circumstance whatsoever\r\n        affecting the validity of the representation.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where a representation is revoked, all payments\r\n        and dispositions made in good faith to a personal representative under the representation\r\n        before the revocation thereof are a valid discharge to the person making them; and\r\n        the personal representative who acted under the revoked representation may retain\r\n        and reimburse himself in respect of any payments or dispositions made by him which\r\n        the person to whom representation is afterwards granted might have properly made.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#73></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 73&#8212;Liability of Person Fraudulently\r\n        Obtaining or Retaining Estate of Deceased.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If any person, to the defrauding of creditors or without\r\n        full valuable consideration, obtains, receives or holds any estate of a deceased\r\n        person or effects the release of any debt or liability due to the estate of the\r\n        deceased, he shall be charged as executor in his own wrong to the extent of the\r\n        estate received or coming to his hands, or the debt or liability released, after\r\n        deducting :&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) any debt for valuable consideration and without\r\n        fraud due to him from the deceased person at the time of his death; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) any payment made by him which might properly be\r\n        made by a personal representative.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#74></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 74&#8212;Liability of Estate of Personal\r\n        Representative.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where a&nbsp; person as personal representative of\r\n        a deceased person (including an executor in his own wrong) wastes or converts to\r\n        his own use any part of the estate of the deceased, and he dies, his personal representative\r\n        shall to the extent of the available assets of the defaulter be liable and chargeable\r\n        in respect of the waste or conversion in the same manner as the defaulter would\r\n        have been if living.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART IV&#8212;GRANTS OF PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION</span></p>\r\n<a name=#75></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 75&#8212;Power to Grant Representation of\r\n        Movable and Immovable Property Separately or Together.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate or administration in respect of the immovable\r\n        property of a deceased person, or any part thereof, may be granted either separately\r\n        or together with probate or administration of his movable property, and may also\r\n        be granted in respect of immovable property&nbsp; only where there is no movable\r\n        property, or in respect of a trust estate only, and a grant of administration to\r\n        immovable property&nbsp; may be limited in any way the court thinks proper.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#76></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 76&#8212;Grant in Case of Insolvency.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where the estate of the deceased is known to be insolvent,\r\n        the grant of representation to the estate shall not be several except as regards\r\n        a trust estate.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#77></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 77&#8212;Provisions as to the Number of\r\n        Personal Representatives.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Probate or administration shall not be granted\r\n        to more than four persons in respect of the same property, and administration shall,\r\n        if there is any beneficiary who is an infant or if a life interest arises under\r\n        the will or intestacy, be granted either to a trust corporation, with or without\r\n        an individual, or to not less than two individuals.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court in granting administration may act on\r\n        such prima facie evidence, furnished by the applicant or any other person, as to\r\n        whether or not there is a minority or life interest, as the court thinks sufficient.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If there is only one personal representative (not\r\n        being a trust corporation) then during the minority of a beneficiary or the subsistence\r\n        of a life interest and until the estate is fully administered, the court may, on\r\n        the application of any person interested or of the guardian, committee or receiver\r\n        of any such person, appoint one or more personal representatives in addition to\r\n        the original personal representative.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) This section shall apply to grants made after the\r\n        commencement of this Act, whether the testator or intestate died before or after\r\n        such commencement.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#78></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 78&#8212;Power to Grant Representation to\r\n        a Trust Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The court may:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) where a trust corporation is named in a will as\r\n        executor, whether alone or jointly with another person, grant probate to the corporation,\r\n        either solely or jointly with another person, as the case may require; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) grant administration to a trust corporation, either\r\n        solely or jointly with another person,</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">and the corporation may act accordingly as executor\r\n        or administrator, as the case may be.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Probate or administration shall not be granted\r\n        to a syndic or nominee on behalf of a trust corporation.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Any officer authorised for the purpose by a trust\r\n        corporation or the directors or governing body thereof may, on behalf of the corporation,\r\n        swear affidavits, give security and do any other act or thing which the court may\r\n        require with a view to the grant to the corporation of probate or administration,\r\n        and the acts of an officer so authorised shall be binding on the corporation.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Where, at the commencement of this Act, any interest\r\n        in any estate is vested in a syndic on behalf of a trust corporation acting as the\r\n        personal representatives of a deceased person, the said interest shall, by virtue\r\n        of this Act, vest in the corporation, and the syndic shall be kept indemnified by\r\n        the corporation in respect of the said interest.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This subsection shall not apply to securities registered\r\n        or inscribed in the name of a syndic or to an instrument affecting land registered\r\n        under any enactment in the name of a syndic, but any such securities, land or charge,\r\n        shall be transferred by the syndic to the corporation or as the corporation may\r\n        direct.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) This section shall have effect whether the testator\r\n        or the intestate died before or after the commencement of this Act, and no such\r\n        vesting or transfer shall operate as a breach of a covenant or condition against\r\n        alienation or give rise to a forfeiture.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#79></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 79&#8212;Discretion of Court as to Persons\r\n        to whom Administration is to be Granted.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Subject to the provisions of this section the selection\r\n        of a personal representative is within the discretion of the court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In granting administration the Court shall have\r\n        regard to the right of all persons interested in the estate, and in particular,\r\n        administration with the will annexed may be granted to a&nbsp; devisee or legatee\r\n        and the administration may be limited in any way the Court thinks fit. [As Substituted\r\n        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 5].</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The court may:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) where the deceased died wholly intestate, grant\r\n        administration to some one or more persons interested in the residuary estate of\r\n        the deceased, if they make an application for the purpose;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(ii) if by reason of the insolvency of the estate of\r\n        the deceased or of any other special circumstances, it appears to the court to be\r\n        necessary or expedient to appoint as administrator some person other than the person\r\n        who, but for this provision, would by law have been entitled to the grant of administration,\r\n        notwithstanding anything in this Act, appoint as administrator such person as it\r\n        thinks expedient, and any administration granted under this provision may be limited\r\n        in any way the court thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Where it appears to the court that an estate vested\r\n        in the successor of the deceased under customary law is being duly dealt with, the\r\n        court may refuse to grant an application for administration not made by or with\r\n        the concurrence of the successor.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#80></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 80&#8212;Administration Pendente Lite.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where any legal proceedings touching the validity\r\n        of the will of a deceased person, or&nbsp; for obtaining, recalling or revoking\r\n        any grant, are pending, the court may grant administration of the estate of the\r\n        deceased to an administrator, who shall have all the rights and powers of a general\r\n        administrator, other than the right of distributing the residue of the estate, and\r\n        the administrator shall be subject to the immediate control of the court and act\r\n        under its direction.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court may, out of the estate of the deceased,\r\n        assign to an administrator appointed under this section such reasonable remuneration\r\n        as the court thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#81></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 81&#8212;Grant of Special Administration\r\n        Where Personal Representative is Abroad.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If at the expiration of twelve months from the\r\n        death of a person any personal representative of the deceased to whom a grant has\r\n        been made is residing out of the&nbsp; jurisdiction of the court, the court may,\r\n        on the application of any creditor or person interested in the estate of the deceased,\r\n        grant to him special administration of the estate of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court may, for the purpose of any legal proceedings\r\n        to which the administrator under the special administration is a party, order the\r\n        transfer into court of any money or securities belonging to the estate of the deceased\r\n        person, and all persons shall obey the order.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If the personal representative capable of acting\r\n        returns to and resides within the jurisdiction of the court while any legal proceedings\r\n        to which a special administrator is a party are pending, that personal representative\r\n        shall be made a party to the legal proceedings, and the costs of and incidental\r\n        to the special administration and the legal proceedings shall be paid by that person\r\n        and out of such fund as the court in which the proceedings are pending may direct.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#82></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 82&#8212;Administration During Minority\r\n        of Executor.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an infant is sole executor of a will, administration&nbsp;\r\n        with the will annexed shall be granted to his guardian, or to such other person\r\n        as the court thinks fit, until the infant attains the age of twenty-one years, and\r\n        on his attaining that age, and not before, probate of the will may be granted to\r\n        him.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where a testator by his will appoints an infant\r\n        to be an executor, the appointment shall not operate to transfer any interest in\r\n        the property of the deceased to the infant or to constitute him a personal representative\r\n        for any purpose unless and until probate is granted to him under this section.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#83></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 83&#8212;Administration with Will Annexed.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration with the will annexed shall continue\r\n        to be granted in every case where a grant was customary before the&nbsp; commencement\r\n        of this Act, and in such case the will of the deceased shall be performed and observed\r\n        in like manner as if probate thereof had been granted.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Recognition of Probate and Letters of Administration\r\n        Granted in Commonwealth and Other Countries</span></i></p>\r\n<a name=#84></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 84&#8212;Sealing of Probate and Letters\r\n        of Administration from Other Countries.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where a Court of Probate in a Commonwealth country\r\n        or in any country to which this section is applied has granted probate or letters\r\n        of administration in respect of the estate of a deceased person, the probate or\r\n        letters so granted may, on being produced to and a copy thereof deposited with the\r\n        court, be&nbsp; sealed with the other seal of the court, and thereupon shall be\r\n        of the like force and effect,&nbsp; and have the same operation in Ghana as if granted\r\n        by the court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court shall, before sealing a probate or letters\r\n        of administration under this Part, be satisfied:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) that probate duty has been paid in respect of so\r\n        much, if any, of the estate as is liable to probate duty in Ghana; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) in the case of letters of administration, that\r\n        security has been given in a sum sufficient to cover the property, if any, in Ghana\r\n        to which the letters of administration relate.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The court may also on the application of any creditor\r\n        require before sealing that adequate security be given for the payment of debts\r\n        due from the estate to creditors residing in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) The President by legislative instrument may apply\r\n        this section to a specified country on such conditions, if any, as may be prescribed\r\n        in the order.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#85></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 85&#8212;Duplicate may be Sealed in Lieu\r\n        of Original.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">For the purposes of section 84 of this Act, a duplicate\r\n        of any&nbsp; probate or letters of administration sealed with the seal of a Court&nbsp;\r\n        of Probate or a copy thereof certified as correct by or under the&nbsp; authority\r\n        of the court shall have the same effect as the original.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#86></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 86&#8212;Rules.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Until provision is otherwise made by rules of court,\r\n        the fees and probate duty prescribed in relation to probate and administration shall\r\n        apply and be payable as if the person who applied for sealing under&nbsp; section\r\n        84 of this Act were a person applying for probate or letters of administration.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#87></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 87&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">In sections 84 to 86:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Court of Probate&quot;&nbsp; means any court\r\n        or authority, by whatever name designated, having jurisdiction in matters of probate;\r\n        &#8220;Probate duty&#8221; includes any duty payable on the value of the estate\r\n        for which probate or letters of administration is or are granted.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate Exemption</span></p>\r\n    <a name=#88></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 88&#8212;&quot;Proper Officer&quot; and &quot;Public\r\n        Officer.&quot;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">For the purposes of sections 89 to 91 of this Act :&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;the proper officer&quot; means the Administrator-General\r\n        or his agent or a public officer appointed by the Minister to be the proper officer\r\n        in relation to a specified category of persons;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Public officer&quot; includes a pensioner.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#89></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 89&#8212;Distribution without Probate of\r\n        Sums not Exceeding £G200.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) On the death of any public officer to whom or to\r\n        whose estate any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds is due or payable by the Government\r\n        in respect of any pay, allowance, pension, or gratuity (excluding a death gratuity),\r\n        then, if the proper officer in his discretion so directs, but subject always to\r\n        the provisions of any regulations made under section 91 and for the time being in\r\n        force, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representative of deceased\r\n        public officer may, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, be\r\n        dispensed with; and the said sum may be paid to or distributed among the person\r\n        or persons appearing to the proper officer to be entitled to the estate of the deceased\r\n        public officer or a distributive share thereof, or may be paid to or distributed\r\n        among any one or more of such persons, or, if he is unable to discover any such\r\n        person, may be paid to or distributed among such person or persons as such proper\r\n        officer thinks fit, and in such proportions as he thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Upon any such payment or distribution being made,\r\n        the Government and the proper officer shall thereupon be discharged from all liability\r\n        in respect of that payment or distribution.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#90></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 90&#8212;Decision of Questions Arising under\r\n        Sections 88 to 91.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The decision of the Minister on any question which\r\n        arises as to the application of sections 88 to 91 of this Act to any person, or\r\n        as to the amount of any pay, allowance, pension, or gratuity, or&nbsp; as to the\r\n        reckoning of any service for such pay, allowance, pension, or gratuity, shall be\r\n        final and conclusive.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#91></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 91&#8212;Regulations</span></b><span\r\n        style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Minister by legislative instrument may make regulations\r\n        for any of the purposes of sections 89 and 90 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART V&#8212;ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS</span></p>\r\n<a name=#92></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 92&#8212;Movable and Immovable Property\r\n        of Deceased are Assets for Payment of Debts.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The movable and immovable property of a deceased&nbsp;\r\n        person, to the extent of his beneficial interest therein, and the movable or immovable\r\n        property of which a deceased person in pursuance of any general power disposes by\r\n        his will, are assets for payment of his debts (whether by specialty or simple contract)\r\n        and liabilities, and any disposition by will inconsistent with this enactment is\r\n        void as against the creditors, and the court shall, if necessary, administer the\r\n        property for the purpose of the payment of the debts and liabilities. </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This subsection&nbsp; takes effect without prejudice\r\n        to the rights of incumbrancers.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) If any person to whom any beneficial interest devolves\r\n        or is given, or in whom any interest vests, disposes thereof in good faith before\r\n        an action is brought against him, he shall be personally liable for the value of\r\n        the interest so disposed of by him, but that interest shall not be liable to be\r\n        taken in execution in the action.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#93></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 93&#8212;Realisation of Assets.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section the personal\r\n        representative may, so far as required for the purposes of administration sell and\r\n        convert into money any movable and immovable property of the deceased other than&nbsp;\r\n        those household chattels and immovable property to which sections 3 and 4 of the\r\n        Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111) apply.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section\r\n        if the personal representative is of the opinion that the conversion into money\r\n        of those household chattels and the immovable property referred to in that subsection\r\n        is necessary for the purposes of administration he shall apply to the Court for\r\n        an order to sell and convert into money those household&nbsp; chattels and immovable\r\n        property.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Court shall, in making an order under subsection\r\n        (2) of this section, consider all the circumstances of the case, including the wishes\r\n        of those beneficiaries entitled to the household chattels and the immovable property.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Out of the money arising from sale and conversion\r\n        and any ready money of the deceased, the personal representative shall pay all testamentary\r\n        and administration expenses, debts and other liabilities properly payable therefrom\r\n        having regard to the rules of administration contained in this Part, and shall provide\r\n        for any pecuniary legacies bequeathed by the will (if any) of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) Pending the distribution of the whole or any part\r\n        of the estate of the deceased, the personal representatives may invest any money\r\n        in their hands in any investments for the time being authorised by any enactment\r\n        for the investment of trust money, with power, at the discretion of the personal\r\n        representatives, to change the investments for others of a like nature.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) The income (including net rents and profits of\r\n        immovable property after payment of rates, taxes, rents, costs of insurance, repairs\r\n        and other outgoing properly attributable to&nbsp; income) of so much of the deceased\r\n        as may not be disposed of by his will, if any, or may not be required for the administration\r\n        purposes under subsection (1) of this section, may, however the estate is invested,\r\n        as from the death of the deceased, be treated and applied as income.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) Nothing in this section affects the rights of any\r\n        creditor of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) Where the deceased leaves a will, this section\r\n        shall have effect subject to the provisions contained in the will. [As Substituted\r\n        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 6].</span></p>\r\n<a name=#94></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 94&#8212;Administration of Assets.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where the estate of a deceased is solvent, his\r\n        movable and immovable property shall, subject to the rules of Court and the provisions\r\n        of this Act relating to charges on property of the deceased, and to the provisions,\r\n        if any, contained in his will, be applicable towards the discharge of the testamentary\r\n        and administration expenses, debts and liabilities payable therefrom in the order\r\n        specified in the Second Schedule to this Act. [As Substituted by Administration\r\n        of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 7].</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where the estate of a deceased person is insolvent,\r\n        his estate shall be administered as provided by law.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The right of retainer of a personal representative\r\n        and his right to prefer creditors may be exercised in respect of all assets of the\r\n        deceased, but the right of retainer shall only apply to debts owing to the personal\r\n        representative in his own right whether solely or jointly with another person.&nbsp;\r\n        The right of retainer shall not apply to the Administrator-General. </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Subject as aforesaid, nothing in this Act affects the\r\n        right of retainer of a personal representative, or his right to prefer creditors.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Where administration is granted of an estate which\r\n        was previously being dealt with in accordance with customary law the grant shall\r\n        not affect the validity of any act duly done in accordance with that law prior to\r\n        the grant.</span></p>\r\n        <a name=#95></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 95&#8212;Charges on Property of Deceased\r\n        to be Paid Primarily Out of the Property Charged.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where a person dies possessed of, or entitled to,\r\n        or, under a general power of appointment by his will disposes of, an interest in\r\n        property, which at the time of his death is charged with the payment of money, whether\r\n        by way of legal mortgage, equitable charge or otherwise (including a lien for unpaid\r\n        purchase money), and the deceased has not by will, deed or other document signified\r\n        a contrary or other intention, the interest so charged shall, as between the different\r\n        persons claiming through the deceased, be primarily liable for the payment of the\r\n        charge; and every part of the said interest, according to its value, shall bear\r\n        a proportionate part of the charge on the whole thereof.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Such contrary or other intention shall not be deemed\r\n        to be signified:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) by a general direction for the payment of debts\r\n        or of all the debts of the testator out of his movable property, or his residuary\r\n        movable and immovable property, or his residuary immovable property; or</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) by a charge of debts upon any such property;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">unless such intention is further signified by words\r\n        expressly or by necessary implication referring to all or some part of the charge.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Nothing in this section affects the right of a\r\n        person entitled to the charge to obtain payment or satisfaction thereof either out\r\n        of the other assets of the deceased or otherwise.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#96></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 96&#8212;Effect of Assent or Conveyance\r\n        by Personal Representative.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A personal representative may assent to the vesting,\r\n        in the form set out in the Third Schedule to this Act, in any person who (whether\r\n        by devise, bequest, devolution, appropriation or otherwise) may be entitled thereto,\r\n        either beneficially or as a trustee or personal representative, of any estate or\r\n        interest in immovable property to which the testator or intestate was entitled or\r\n        over which he exercised a general power of appointment by his will, and which devolved\r\n        upon the personal representative.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The assent shall operate to vest in that person\r\n        the estate or interest to which the assent relates, and, unless a contrary intention\r\n        appears, the assent shall relate back to the death of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The covenants implied by a person being expressed\r\n        to convey as personal representative may be implied in an assent in like manner\r\n        as in a conveyance by deed.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Any person in whose favour an assent or conveyance\r\n        of the property is made by a personal representative may require that notice of\r\n        the assent or conveyance be written or endorsed on or permanently annexed to the\r\n        probate or letters of administration, at the cost of the estate of the deceased,\r\n        and that the probate or letters of administration be produced, at the like cost,\r\n        to prove that the notice has been placed thereon and annexed thereto.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) A statement in writing by a personal representative\r\n        that he has not given or made an assent or conveyance in respect of an immovable\r\n        property, shall, in favour of a purchaser, but without prejudice to any previous\r\n        disposition made in favour of another purchaser deriving title immediately or immediately\r\n        under the personal representative, be sufficient evidence that an assent or conveyance\r\n        has not been given or made in respect of the property to which the statement relates,\r\n        unless notice of a conveyance affecting that property has been placed on or annexed\r\n        to the probate or administration.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">A conveyance by a personal representative to a purchaser\r\n        accepted on the faith of such a statement shall (without prejudice as aforesaid\r\n        and unless notice of a previous assent or conveyance affecting the property has\r\n        been placed on or annexed to the probate or administration) operate to transfer\r\n        or create the property expressed to be conveyed in like manner as if no previous\r\n        assent or conveyance had been made by the personal representative.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">A personal representative making a false statement,\r\n        in regard to any such matter, shall be liable in like manner as if the statement\r\n        had been contained in a statutory declaration.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) An assent or conveyance by a personal representative\r\n        shall, in favour of a purchaser, unless notice of a previous assent or conveyance\r\n        affecting the property has been placed on or annexed to the probate or administration,\r\n        be taken as sufficient evidence that the person in whose favour the assent or conveyance\r\n        is given or made is the person entitled to have the property conveyed to him, and\r\n        upon the proper trusts, if any, but shall not otherwise prejudicially affect the\r\n        claim of any person rightfully entitled to the estate vested or conveyed or any\r\n        charge thereon.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) A conveyance by a personal representative to a\r\n        purchaser shall not be invalidated by reason only that the purchaser may have notice\r\n        that all the debts, liabilities and testamentary or administration expenses, duties\r\n        and legacies of the deceased have been discharged or provided for. [As Substituted\r\n        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 8].</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) An assent or conveyance given or made by a personal\r\n        representative shall not, except in favour of a purchaser, prejudice the right of\r\n        the personal representative or any other person to recover the estate or interest\r\n        to which the assent or conveyance relates, or to be indemnified out of that estate\r\n        or interest against any debt or liability to which that estate or interest would\r\n        have been subject if there had not been any assent or conveyance.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(9) A personal representative may, as a condition of\r\n        giving an assent or making a conveyance, require security for the discharge of any\r\n        debt or liability, but shall not be entitled to postpone the giving of an assent\r\n        merely by reason of the subsistence of debt or liability if reasonable arrangements\r\n        have been made for discharging it; and an assent may be given subject to any charge\r\n        by way of mortgage.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(10) This section shall not operate to impose any stamp\r\n        duty in respect of an assent, and in this section &#8220;purchaser&#8221; means\r\n        a purchaser for money or money''s worth.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(11) This section applies to assents and conveyances\r\n        made after the commencement of this Act, whether the testator or intestate died\r\n        before or after such commencement.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#97></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 97&#8212;Validity of Conveyance not Affected\r\n        by Revocation of Representation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) All conveyances of any interest in movable or immovable&nbsp;\r\n        property made to a purchaser either before or after the commencement of this Act\r\n        by a person to whom probate or letters of administration have been granted are valid,\r\n        notwithstanding any subsequent revocation or variation, either before or after the\r\n        commencement of this Act, of the probate or administration.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section takes effect without prejudice to\r\n        any order of the court made before the commencement of this Act, and applies whether\r\n        the testator or intestate died before or after such commencement.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#98></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 98&#8212;Right to Follow Property and Powers\r\n        of the Court in Relation Thereto.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An assent or conveyance by a personal representative\r\n        to a person other than a purchaser does not prejudice the rights of&nbsp; any person\r\n        to follow the property to which the assent or conveyance relates, or any property\r\n        representing it, to the hands of the person in whom it is vested by the assent or\r\n        conveyance, or of any other&nbsp; person (not being a purchaser) who may have received\r\n        it or in whom it may be vested.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Notwithstanding any such assent or conveyance the\r\n        court may, on the application of any creditor or other person interested:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) order a sale, exchange, mortgage, charge, lease,\r\n        payment, transfer or other transaction to be carried out which the court considers\r\n        requisite for the purpose of giving effect to the rights of the persons interested;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) declare that the person, not being a purchaser,\r\n        in whom the property is vested is a trustee for those purposes;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) give directions respecting the preparation and\r\n        execution of any conveyance or other instrument or as to any other matter required\r\n        for giving effect to the order;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) make any vesting order, or appoint a person to\r\n        convey the property.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section does not prejudice the rights of a\r\n        purchaser or a person deriving title under him, but applies whether the testator\r\n        or intestate died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#99></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 99&#8212;Powers of Management.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) In dealing with the movable and immovable property\r\n        of the deceased his personal representatives shall, for purposes of administration,\r\n        or during a minority of any beneficiary or the subsistence of any life interest,\r\n        or until the period of distribution arrives, have:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) the same powers and discretions, including power\r\n        to raise money by mortgage or charge (whether or not by deposit of documents), as\r\n        a personal representative had before the commencement of this Act, with respect\r\n        to any property vested in him, and the power of raising money by mortgage may in\r\n        the case of land be exercised by way of legal mortgage; and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) all the powers, discretions and duties conferred\r\n        or imposed by law on trustees holding land upon an effectual trust for sale (including\r\n        power to overreach equitable interests and powers as if the same affected the proceeds\r\n        of sale); and</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) all the powers conferred by law on trustees for\r\n        sale, and so that every contract entered into by a personal representative shall\r\n        be binding on and be enforceable against and by the personal representative for\r\n        the time being of the deceased, and may be carried into effect, or be varied or\r\n        rescinded by him, and, in the case of a contract entered into by a predecessor,\r\n        as if it had been entered into by himself.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the right\r\n        of any person to require an assent or conveyance to be made.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section applies whether the testator or intestate\r\n        died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#100></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 100&#8212;Powers of Personal Representative\r\n        for Raising Money, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) For giving effect to beneficial interests the personal\r\n        representative may limit or demise land for a term of years absolute, to trustees\r\n        on usual trusts for raising or securing any principal sum&nbsp; and the interests\r\n        thereon for which the land, or any part thereof, is liable, and may limit or grant\r\n        a rent charge for giving effect to any annual or periodical sum for which the land\r\n        or the income thereof or any part thereof is liable.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section applies whether the testator or intestate\r\n        died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#101></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 101&#8212;Powers of Personal Representative\r\n        as to Appropriation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The personal representative may appropriate any\r\n        part of the movable or immovable property, including things in action, of the deceased\r\n        in the actual condition or state of investment thereof&nbsp; at the time of appropriation\r\n        in or towards satisfaction of any legacy bequeathed by the deceased, or of any other\r\n        interest or share in his property, as to the personal representative may seem just\r\n        and reasonable, according to the respective rights of the persons interested in\r\n        the property of the deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) An appropriation shall not be made under this section\r\n        so as to affect prejudicially any specific devise or bequest.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) An appropriation of property, whether or not being\r\n        an investment authorised by law or by the will, if any, of the deceased for the\r\n        investment of money subject to the trust, shall not (save as hereinafter mentioned)\r\n        be made under this section except with the following consents:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) when made for the benefit of a person absolutely\r\n        and beneficially entitled in possession, the consent of that person;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) when made in respect of any settled legacy, share\r\n        or interest, the consent of either the trustee thereof, if any (not being also the\r\n        personal representative), or the person who may for the time being be entitled to\r\n        the income.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">If the person whose consent is so required as aforesaid\r\n        is an infant or a lunatic or defective the consent shall be given on his behalf\r\n        by his parents or parent, testamentary or other guardian, committee or receiver,\r\n        or if, in the case of an infant, there is no such parent or guardian, by the court\r\n        on the application of his next friend.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) No consent (save of such trustee as aforesaid)\r\n        shall be required on behalf of a person who may come into existence after the time\r\n        of appropriation, or who cannot be found or ascertained at that time.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) If no committee or receiver of a lunatic or defective\r\n        has been appointed, then, if the appropriation is of an investment authorised by\r\n        law or by the will, if any, of the deceased for the investment of money subject\r\n        to the trust, no consent shall be required on behalf of the lunatic or defective.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) If, independently of the personal representative,\r\n        there is no trustee of a settled legacy, share or interest, and no person of full\r\n        age and capacity entitled to the income thereof, no consent shall be required to\r\n        an appropriation in respect of the legacy, share or interest, provided that the\r\n        appropriation is an authorised investment.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) Any property duly appropriated under the powers\r\n        conferred by this section shall thereafter be treated as an authorised investment,\r\n        and may be retained or dealt with accordingly.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) For the purposes of the appropriation, the personal\r\n        representative may ascertain and fix the value of the respective parts of the movable\r\n        and immovable property and the liabilities of the deceased as he thinks fit, and\r\n        may make any conveyance (including an assent) which may be requisite for giving\r\n        effect to the appropriation.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(9) An appropriation made pursuant to this section\r\n        shall bind all persons interested in the property of the deceased whose consent\r\n        is not hereby made requisite.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(10) The personal representative shall, in making the\r\n        appropriation, have regard to the rights of any person who may thereafter come into\r\n        existence, or who cannot be found or ascertained at the time of appropriation, and\r\n        of any other person whose consent is not required by this section.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(11) This section does not prejudice any other power\r\n        of appropriation conferred by law or by the will (if any) of the deceased, and takes\r\n        effect with any extended powers conferred by the will (if any) of the deceased,\r\n        and where an appropriation is made under this section, in respect of a settled legacy,\r\n        share or interest, the property appropriated shall remain subject to all trusts\r\n        for sale and powers of leasing, disposition, and management or varying investments\r\n        which would have been applicable thereto or to the legacy, share or interest in\r\n        respect of which the appropriation is made, if no such appropriation had been made.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(12) If after any immovable property has been appropriated\r\n        in purported exercise of the powers conferred by this section, the person to whom\r\n        it was conveyed disposes of it or any interest therein, then, in favour of a purchaser\r\n        the appropriation shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with the requirements\r\n        of this section and after all requisite consents, if any, had been given.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(13) In this section, a settled legacy, share or interest\r\n        includes any legacy, share or interest to which a person is not absolutely entitled\r\n        in possession at the date of the appropriation, and an annuity, and &#8220;purchaser&#8221;\r\n        means a purchaser for money or money''s worth.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(14) This section applies whether the deceased died\r\n        intestate or not, and whether before or after the commencement of this Act, and\r\n        extends to property over which a testator exercises a general power of appointment,\r\n        and authorises the setting apart of a fund to answer an annuity by means of the\r\n        income of that fund or otherwise.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#102></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 102&#8212;Power to Appoint Trustees of Infants''\r\n        Property.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an infant is absolutely entitled under the\r\n        will or on the intestacy of a person dying before or after the commencement of this\r\n        Act (in this subsection called &quot; the deceased &quot;) to a devise or legacy,\r\n        or to the residue of the estate of the deceased,&nbsp; or any share therein, and\r\n        such devise, legacy,&nbsp; residue or share is not under the will, if any, of the\r\n        deceased, devised or bequeathed to trustees for the infant, the personal representatives\r\n        of the deceased may appoint the Public Trustee or a trust corporation or two or\r\n        more individuals not exceeding four (whether or not including the personal representatives\r\n        or one or more of the personal representatives), to be the trustee or trustees of\r\n        the devise, legacy, residue or share for the infant, and may execute or do any assurance\r\n        or thing requisite for vesting the devise, legacy, residue or share in the trustee\r\n        or trustees so appointed.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">On the appointment the personal representatives, as\r\n        such, shall be discharged from all further liability in respect of the devise, legacy,\r\n        residue, or share, and the same may be retained in its existing condition or state\r\n        of investment, or may be converted into money, and the money may be invested in\r\n        any authorised investment.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where a personal representative has before the\r\n        commencement of this Act retained or sold any such devise, legacy, residue or share,\r\n        and invested it or the proceeds thereof in any investments in which he was authorised\r\n        to invest money subject to the trust, then, subject to any order of the court made\r\n        before such commencement, he shall not be deemed to have incurred any liability\r\n        on that account, or by reason of not having paid or transferred the money or property\r\n        into court.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Nothing in this section shall prejudice any right\r\n        of the Public Trustee under the provisions of the&nbsp; Public Trustee Ordinance,\r\n        1952 (No. 24).</span></p>\r\n<a name=#103></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 103&#8212;Obligations of Personal Representative\r\n        as to giving Possession of Land and Powers of the Court.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A personal representative, before giving an assent\r\n        or making a conveyance of immovable property, may permit that person to take possession\r\n        of the property, and that possession shall not prejudicially affect the right of\r\n        the personal representative to take or resume possession nor his power to convey\r\n        the property&nbsp; as if he were in possession thereof, but subject to the interest\r\n        of any lessee, tenant or occupier in possession or in actual occupation. </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Any person who as against the personal representative\r\n        claims possession of immovable property, or the appointment of a receiver thereof,\r\n        or a conveyance thereof, or an assent to the vesting thereof, may apply to the court\r\n        for directions with reference thereto, and the court may make such vesting or other\r\n        order as may be deemed proper.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section applies whether the testator or intestate\r\n        died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#104></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 104&#8212;Estate to be Distributed within\r\n        Specified Period.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Subject to the provisions of this Act or any other\r\n        enactment a personal representative shall distribute the estate of a deceased person\r\n        within one year after he has been granted probate or letters of administration.\r\n        [As Substituted by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s.\r\n        9].</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n<a name=#105></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 105&#8212;Distribution for Residuary Estate.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The residuary estate shall be disposed of by the\r\n        personal representative in accordance with the will of the deceased or, in the case\r\n        of intestacy, in accordance with the provisions of the Intestate Succession Law,\r\n        1985 (PNDCL 111). [As Substituted by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law,\r\n        1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 10].</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where the common law applies, the rules relating\r\n        to the distribution of movable property shall apply likewise to immovable property.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#106></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 106&#8212;Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where, before the commencement of this Act, the\r\n        administration of any estate has been commenced under the provisions of any other\r\n        enactment the estate shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, be carried\r\n        out in accordance with the provisions of the other enactment.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This Act shall not affect the estate of a seaman\r\n        to whom the Merchant Shipping (Transitory Provisions) Act, 1957 (No. 23) applies.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#107></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 107&#8212;Application of Act.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Save as otherwise expressly provided, this Act does\r\n        not apply in any case where the death occurred before the commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#108></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 108&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Administrator-General&quot; includes an Assistant\r\n        Administrator-General;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;administration&quot; means, with reference to\r\n        the movable and immovable property of a deceased person, letters of administration,\r\n        whether general or limited, or with the will annexed or otherwise; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;administrator&quot; means a person to whom administration\r\n        is granted; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;agent&quot; means an agent of the Administrator-General\r\n        duly appointed as provided in section 56 of this Act; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;assets&quot; means all property, movable and\r\n        immovable, of a deceased person which is chargeable with and applicable to the payment\r\n        of his debts and legacies or available for distribution amongst those entitled to\r\n        share; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;conveyance&quot; includes a mortgage, charge\r\n        by way of legal mortgage, lease, assent, vesting, declaration, vesting instrument,\r\n        disclaimer, release and every other assurance of property or of an interest therein\r\n        by any instrument, except a will; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;court&quot; means the High Court; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;disposition&quot; includes a conveyance and also\r\n        a devise, bequest and an appointment of property contained in a will; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;estate&quot; means all property, movable and\r\n        immovable;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;income&quot; includes rents and profits;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;intestate&quot; includes a person who leaves\r\n        a will but dies intestate as to some beneficial interest in his movable or immovable\r\n        property;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;lunatic&quot; includes every person so found\r\n        under any enactment and every person with regard to whom it is proved to the satisfaction\r\n        of the court that such person is through mental infirmity arising from disease or\r\n        age incapable of managing his affairs;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;the Minister&quot; means the Minister to whom\r\n        functions under this Act are for the time being assigned by the President;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;minority&quot; means, according to the context,\r\n        the state of being an infant or the interest of an infant beneficiary under a will\r\n        or intestacy;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;pecuniary legacy&quot; includes an annuity, a\r\n        general legacy, a demonstrative legacy so far as it is not discharged out of the\r\n        designated property, and any other general direction by a testator for the payment\r\n        of money;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;personal representative&quot; means the executor,\r\n        original or by representation, or administrator for the time being of a deceased\r\n        person; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;possession&quot; includes the receipt of rents\r\n        and profits or the right to receive them, if any; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by rules of\r\n        court or rules made by the Minister pursuant to this Act; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;probate&quot; means the probate of a will;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;probate rules&quot; mean rules and orders made\r\n        for regulating the procedure and practice of the court in regard to non-contentious\r\n        or common-form probate business; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;property&quot; includes a thing in action;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;purchaser&quot; means a lessee, mortgagee or\r\n        other person who in good faith acquires an interest in property for valuable consideration,\r\n        and an intending purchaser; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;rent&quot; includes any annual or periodical\r\n        payment in money or money''s worth, issuing out of or charged upon land, but does\r\n        not include mortgage interest; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;representation&quot; means the probate of a will\r\n        and administration, and &quot;taking out representation&quot; refers to the obtaining\r\n        of the probate of a will or of the grant of administration;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;residuary estate&quot; means residue as defined\r\n        in section 18 of the Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111) [As Substituted\r\n        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 11].</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;rules of court&quot; include, in relation to\r\n        non-contentious or common-form probate business, probate rules;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;securities&quot; include stocks, funds, or shares;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;syndic&quot; means a person deputed to represent,\r\n        and transact the affairs of, a corporation;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;taxing officer&quot; means any Registrar of the\r\n        court or any officer duly appointed to act for such officer;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;trust corporation&quot; means the Public Trustee\r\n        or a corporation appointed by the court in any particular case to be a trustee;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;unrepresented estate&quot; means:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) the estate of every person who dies intestate and\r\n        whose next of kin (or where such next of kin is an infant, his guardian) is unknown\r\n        or is absent from Ghana without having an attorney therein or, if in Ghana and known,\r\n        has refused or neglected for a period of one month after the death of the deceased\r\n        to apply to the court for letters of administration;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) the estate of every person who has died having\r\n        made a will, when owing to any cause it is necessary to appoint an administrator\r\n        cum testamento annexo or de bonis non of such estate and the person entitled to\r\n        such letters of administration is unknown or has, if in Ghana and known, refused\r\n        or neglected for one month after the death of the testator to apply to the court\r\n        for such letters of administration or is absent from Ghana without having any attorney\r\n        therein;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) every estate whereof the executors or administrator\r\n        are absent from Ghana without having an attorney therein;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) every estate where the deceased has named the Administrator-General\r\n        as the sole executor of his will;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;valuable consideration&quot; includes marriage,\r\n        but does not include a nominal consideration in money; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;will&quot; includes codicil.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) References to a child or issue living at the death\r\n        of any person include a child or issue en ventre sa mere at the death.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) References to the property of a deceased person\r\n        include property over which the deceased exercises a general power of appointment\r\n        by his will.</span></p>\r\n<a name=#109></a>        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 109&#8212;Statutes Ceasing to Apply.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Each statute, or provision of a statute, indicated\r\n        in the&nbsp; Fourth Schedule to this Act shall, insofar as it ever applied in&nbsp;\r\n        Ghana, cease to apply.</span></p>\r\n        \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 110&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Each enactment indicated in the Fifth Schedule\r\n        to this Act is repealed.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) An instrument made under any repealed enactment\r\n        and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue in force\r\n        as if made under the corresponding provision of this Act.</span></p>\r\n   <a name=#110></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 111&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">This Act shall come into operation on such day as the\r\n        President by legislative instrument may appoint.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<a name=#111></a>    \r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM OF PETITION FOR A GRANT OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">To:&nbsp; THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF GHANA:</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">The petition of the Administrator-General humbly showeth:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">That your petitioner has been informed and believes\r\n        that A.B., late of,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        , (state why the property of the deceased is &quot;unrepresented estate&quot;).\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">And the said A.B. died possessed of property in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Your petitioner therefore prays the High Court will\r\n        be pleased to order that a Grant of Probate be made or Letters of Administration\r\n        do issue (as the case may be) to him to administer the estate of the said A.B. deceased.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Dated this...........................................................................................day\r\n        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ,19</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administrator-General. </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n    <a name=#112></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 94</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">ORDER OF APPLICATION OF ASSETS WHERE THE ESTATE IS\r\n        SOLVENT</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">1. The general or residuary movable property, not exonerated\r\n        or exempted.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">2. Immovable property specifically appropriated to\r\n        or devised in trust for payment of debts.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">3. Immovable property devised, charged with payment\r\n        of debts.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">4. General pecuniary legacies, rateably.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">5. Movable property specifically bequeathed, rateably.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">6. Other immovable property of the deceased, whether\r\n        devised or not.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">7. Property expressly appointed by will in exercise\r\n        of a general power of appointment.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n    <a name=#113></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 96</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM OF A VESTING ASSENT</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">I .............................................................................................\r\n        of ...............................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Name]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        etc.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">as the personal representative of ..................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Testator or intestate]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">late of ..............................................................................................\r\n        deceased do this ........................................ day of&nbsp; .....................................................................................................................................\r\n        hereby assent to the vesting in .......................................................................................\r\n        of .................................................... of All </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Beneficiary]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        etc. [Parcels]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">for all the interest of the said .....................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Testator or intestate]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">at the time of his death and I hereby acknowledge the\r\n        right of the said ..........................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">to production of the probate&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        [Beneficiary]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">of the will of the said ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Testator]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[letters of administration of the said .........................................................................................\r\n        deceased]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Intestate]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">and to delivery of copies thereof.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">As Witness ...............................................................................................................................................................\r\n        etc.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">...................................................................</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Signature of personal Representative]</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n    <a name=#114></a>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 109</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">STATUTES CEASING TO APPLY</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Session and Chapter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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        Subject-Matter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n    </i>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">13 Edw. 1 (Stat. Westm. sec.) c.19 (1285)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Payment of debts\r\n        of intestate&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">13 Edw. 1. (Stat. Westm. sec.) c.23 (1285)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Writ of account for executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">13 Edw. 1 (Stat.&nbsp; Westm. sec.) c.34 (1285)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dower.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">25 Edw. 1. c.7 (1297)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Widow; her marriage\r\n        estate re-marriage.&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">25 Edw. 1. c. 1 8. (1297) ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; The King''s tenant, his debtor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">4 Edw. 3 c.7 (1330)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Executor''s action of\r\n        trespass.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">25 Edw. 3 st.5 c.5. (1350)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp; Executors of executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">31 Edw. 3. st. 1. c. 11. (1357)&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. Administration on intestacy.\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">21 Hen. 8. c.4 (1529)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">2 Hen. 8. c.37 (1540), sections by 1, 2 and 3&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery of arrears by Executors\r\n        and Administrators.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">1 Edw. 6. c. 12 (1547)&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Treason, etc.&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">5 and 6 Edw. 6. c.11 (1551)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        .. Treason, etc.&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">43 Eliz. c.8 (1601)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fraudulent administration.&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">12 Chas. 2. c.24 (1660) ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp; Abolition of old tenures.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">29 Chas. 2 c.3 (1677), sections 10, 11, 23 and 24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\r\n        Statute of Frauds.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">30 Chas. 2. C.7 (1678)&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp; Executors in their own wrong</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">1. Jas. 2. c.17. (1685)&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Administration of intestates''</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">4&nbsp; Will and Mar. c.24 (1692). section 12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Personal representatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">38 Geo. 3. c.87. (1798)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Administration of Estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will.&nbsp; 4. c.40 (1830)&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will. 4. c.47.(1830)&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Debts Recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">3 and 4 Will. 4. c.42. (1833), sections 2, 37 and 38&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        Civil Procedure.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">3 and 4 Will. 4. c.104 (1833)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. Administration of Estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">2 and 3 Vict. c.60. (1839)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp; Debts Recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">11 and 12 Vict. c.87. (1848)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Debts Recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">17 and 18 Vict. c. 113. (1854) ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Real Estate Charges.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">20 and 21 Vict. c.77. (1857), sections 70 to 80&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        Court of Probate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">21 and 22 Vict. c.95. (1858), sections 16, 18, 19,\r\n        21 and 22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Court of Probate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">22 and 23 Vict. c.35. (1859), sections 14 to 18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        Law of Property Amendment&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">30 and 31 Vict. c.69. (1867)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Real Estate Charges.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">32 and 33 Vict. c.46. (1869)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Administration of Estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span>\r\n</p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 110</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Repeals.</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probates (British and Colonial) Ordinance (Cap. 21).</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration of Estates by Consular Officers Ordinance\r\n        (Cap. 22).</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration (Foreign Employment) Ordinance (Cap.\r\n        23).</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate Exemption Ordinance (Cap. 25).</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administrator-General Ordinance, 1952 (No.37).</span></p>\r\n<p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n', 'FIRST', 'Yes', 'ACT 63');
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(3, 'AFRICA DEFENCE (GHANA) ACT, 1965 (ACT 313)', '  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AFRICA DEFENCE (GHANA) ACT, 1965 \r\n                                              (ACT 313)</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\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              \r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1> 1. Declaration of a situation \r\n                                              which threatens peace</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#2>2. National assembly to be \r\n                                              informed</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#3>3. Power to make regulations</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              \r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              AFRICA DEFENCE (GHANA) ACT, 1965</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to confer on the President \r\n                                              certain powers to be exercised \r\n                                              whenever the peace and security of \r\n                                              Africa is being threatened.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 26th November, \r\n                                              1965.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS the Defence Commission of \r\n                                              the Organisation of African Unity \r\n                                              has made certain recommendations \r\n                                              for the creation of an African \r\n                                              Peace Keeping Defence Organisation \r\n                                              to ensure and to maintain peace \r\n                                              and security on the African \r\n                                              Continent:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS by reason of recent \r\n                                              threats to peace in Africa it is \r\n                                              necessary to give immediately full \r\n                                              force and effect to these \r\n                                              recommendations and to make other \r\n                                              provision for the defence of Ghana \r\n                                              and of such African States as may \r\n                                              request the assistance of the \r\n                                              Republic:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED by the \r\n                                              President and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Declaration of a \r\n                                              Situation which Threatens Peace.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              provisions of the Emergency Powers \r\n                                              Act, 1961 (Act 56), if the \r\n                                              President is satisfied that a \r\n                                              situation has arisen in any State \r\n                                              or territory of Africa which is \r\n                                              likely to prejudice the peace and \r\n                                              security of Africa, the President \r\n                                              may, with the approval of the \r\n                                              Cabinet, by legislative instrument \r\n                                              declare that there exists a \r\n                                              situation which threatens peace.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=2></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;National Assembly to be \r\n                                              Informed.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              When a declaration has been made \r\n                                              under section 1 of this Act \r\n                                              declaring that a situation exists \r\n                                              which threatens peace, it shall be \r\n                                              communicated to the National \r\n                                              Assembly at once if it is sitting \r\n                                              or, if not, as soon as it meets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=3></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#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\r\n                                              (1) On the declaration of the \r\n                                              existence of a situation which \r\n                                              threatens peace the President may, \r\n                                              with the approval of the Cabinet, \r\n                                              by legislative instrument, make \r\n                                              regulations providing for the \r\n                                              manner and form necessary to meet \r\n                                              the situation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, regulations may be \r\n                                              made under this section for any of \r\n                                              the following purposes&#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 requisitioning of Ghanaian \r\n                                              aircraft, ships, vehicles and \r\n                                              other property necessary for \r\n                                              transporting the Armed Forces, \r\n                                              arms and ammunition and such other \r\n                                              things as may be considered \r\n                                              necessary to be transported or \r\n                                              shipped out of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the closing of such sea ports, \r\n                                              airports, roads and railways as \r\n                                              may be considered necessary to \r\n                                              facilitate the movements of troops \r\n                                              and materials;</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 mobilisation of \r\n                                              ex-servicemen and such other \r\n                                              persons as may be considered \r\n                                              suitable to serve with the Armed \r\n                                              Forces outside Ghana; 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\r\n                                              (d) the conditions for the \r\n                                              recruitment of volunteers who are \r\n                                              not citizens of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, &quot;the Armed Forces&quot; has \r\n                                              the meaning assigned to it by \r\n                                              section 98 of the Armed Forces \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 105).</span>', 'SECOND', 'Yes', 'ACT 313');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(16, 'ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS ACT, 1962, (ACT 123)', '<p style="text-align: center"> \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS ACT, 1962, \r\n                                              (ACT 123)</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              As amended</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ADMINISTRATION</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Land</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              1. Management.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              2. Proceedings relating to Stool \r\n                                              land.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              3. Determination of questions on \r\n                                              extent of a traditional area.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              4. Declaration of interest in \r\n                                              lands.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Kumasi Town Lands</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              5. Grant of lease of land in \r\n                                              Kumasi.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              6. Rent to be charged.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Lands Generally</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              7. Vesting of land in President in \r\n                                              trust.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              8. Disposal of lands.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              9. Appeal Tribunal.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              10. Use of land for public \r\n                                              purposes.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              11. Disposition of Stool lands.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Limitation period for mining, \r\n                                              timber, farming rights, etc.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              13. Duty to give information \r\n                                              relating to land.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Custody of documents, seals \r\n                                              and stamps.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Layout plans, etc.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Unlawful occupation of land.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Revenue</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              17.&nbsp; Collection of revenue.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Stool Lands Accounts.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Payment to local authorities.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              20. Payments to traditional \r\n                                              authorities and others.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              21. Scheme for application of \r\n                                              Stool revenue.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              22. Payments to be made in \r\n                                              accordance with scheme.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              23. Capital payments.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              PART II &#8212; MISCELLANEOUS</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              24.&nbsp; Delegation of functions.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              25.&nbsp; Accounts.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              26.&nbsp; Boundary Books.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              27.&nbsp; Offences.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              28.&nbsp; Expenses.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              29.&nbsp; Regulations.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              30.&nbsp; Transitional provisions.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              31.&nbsp; Interpretation.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              32.&nbsp; Repeals.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              SCHEDULE &#8212; Boundaries of Kumasi \r\n                                              town lands.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Schedule</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: center"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: center"></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: center"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              THE ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS ACT, \r\n                                              1962</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \r\n                                              amendments the enactments relating \r\n                                              to the administration of Stool and \r\n                                              other lands.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 14th June, 1962</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \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  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ADMINISTRATION</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <i> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Land</span></i></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Management</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              The management of Stool lands \r\n                                              shall be exercised by the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Proceedings Relating to \r\n                                              Stool Land.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              The President may direct the \r\n                                              institution or defence of, or \r\n                                              intervention in, any proceedings \r\n                                              relating to any Stool land in the \r\n                                              name of the Republic, on behalf, \r\n                                              and to the exclusion, of any Stool \r\n                                              concerned, and may compromise or \r\n                                              settle any such proceedings.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  >&nbsp;</p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Determination of \r\n                                              Questions on Extent of a \r\n                                              Traditional Area.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Any question arising under \r\n                                              this Act as to whether any lands \r\n                                              are in a particular traditional \r\n                                              area shall be referred to the \r\n                                              Minister who shall, after \r\n                                              consulting the Traditional \r\n                                              Council, determine the question \r\n                                              for the purposes of this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; A decision of the Minister \r\n                                              under this section shall be final.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Declaration of Interest \r\n                                              in Lands.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The President may at any time \r\n                                              require a Stool to declare his \r\n                                              interest in any land and the Stool \r\n                                              shall, within three months of \r\n                                              being notified in writing of such \r\n                                              requirement, send full particulars \r\n                                              thereof to the Minister.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; In the event of any failure \r\n                                              to declare an interest in any land \r\n                                              within the period prescribed by \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section or \r\n                                              of any question arising as to the \r\n                                              existence or extent of any \r\n                                              interest of the Stool in any land, \r\n                                              the Minister may determine the \r\n                                              existence or extent of any \r\n                                              interest of the Stool in the land.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; A decision of the Minister \r\n                                              under this section shall be final.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <i> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Kumasi Town Lands</span></i></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Grant of Lease of Land \r\n                                              in Kumasi.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The President may, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, grant \r\n                                              to any person owing allegiance to \r\n                                              the Asantehene one lease, at a \r\n                                              nominal rent of one shilling per \r\n                                              annum, of one vacant plot of land \r\n                                              for residential purposes only, in \r\n                                              any area within the boundaries of \r\n                                              the Kumasi town lands described in \r\n                                              the Schedule to this Act, and \r\n                                              comprising land held in trust for \r\n                                              the Golden Stool and the Kumasi \r\n                                              traditional area. Any such plot, \r\n                                              including a plot granted under an \r\n                                              enactment repealed by this Act, is \r\n                                              called a &quot;free plot&quot;.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) The lessee may, with the \r\n                                              previous consent in writing of the \r\n                                              Minister, assign his free plot to \r\n                                              any other person owing such \r\n                                              allegiance but shall not, except \r\n                                              as provided in subsection (3) of \r\n                                              this section assign it to any \r\n                                              other person.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) The lessee may, with the \r\n                                              previous consent in writing of the \r\n                                              Minister, mortgage or sub-let his \r\n                                              free plot to any person.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) The lessee shall not assign or \r\n                                              mortgage a part only of his free \r\n                                              plot.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (5) Any assignment, transfer, \r\n                                              sub-letting or mortgage made in \r\n                                              contravention of subsections (2), \r\n                                              (3) or (4) of this section shall \r\n                                              be void.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (6) Any contravention of this \r\n                                              section by the holder of a free \r\n                                              plot or any unauthorised dealing \r\n                                              with the same shall entail its \r\n                                              forfeiture, and thereupon the \r\n                                              holder''s right to the plot may be \r\n                                              determined by the Minister by a \r\n                                              notice in writing.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (7) The number of free plots held \r\n                                              under the provisions of this \r\n                                              section shall not exceed ten per \r\n                                              centum of the plots available in \r\n                                              any approved lay-out.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (8) For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              a person shall be regarded as \r\n                                              owing allegiance to the Asantehene \r\n                                              if he owes such allegiance by \r\n                                              customary law, either directly or \r\n                                              through the Chief of one of the \r\n                                              Kumasi clans, including a \r\n                                              Divisional Chief of Ashanti and a \r\n                                              Kumasi Subordinate Stool, but not \r\n                                              any person serving or owing \r\n                                              allegiance to such Divisional \r\n                                              Chief.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (9) A certificate under the hand \r\n                                              of the Asantehene or of some \r\n                                              person nominated by him in writing \r\n                                              in that behalf certifying either \r\n                                              that a specified person does or \r\n                                              does not owe allegiance to the \r\n                                              Asantehene shall be conclusive \r\n                                              evidence of the fact so certified.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (10) The President may, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, grant \r\n                                              a lease to any person other than a \r\n                                              person owing allegiance to the \r\n                                              Asantehene.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Rent to be Charged.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The rent to be charged in \r\n                                              respect of any lease shall, \r\n                                              subject to section 5 of this Act \r\n                                              and to this section, be in \r\n                                              accordance with a prescribed \r\n                                              scale.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) The President may grant a \r\n                                              lease of any Kumasi town land for \r\n                                              any religious, educational, \r\n                                              recreational or charitable purpose \r\n                                              either free of rent or at a rent \r\n                                              lower than the appropriate rent \r\n                                              according to the prescribed scale.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Where the lease of a free plot \r\n                                              becomes vested in a person not \r\n                                              owing allegiance to the Asantehene \r\n                                              or in a person who already holds a \r\n                                              free plot the lease shall \r\n                                              thereupon become subject to the \r\n                                              payment of rent in accordance with \r\n                                              a prescribed scale.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <i> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Lands Generally</span></i></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Vesting of Land in \r\n                                              President in Trust.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Where it appears to the \r\n                                              President that it is in the public \r\n                                              interest so to do he may, by \r\n                                              executive instrument, declare any \r\n                                              Stool land to be vested in him in \r\n                                              trust and accordingly it shall be \r\n                                              lawful for the President, on the \r\n                                              publication of the instrument, to \r\n                                              execute any deed or do any act as \r\n                                              a trustee in respect of the land \r\n                                              specified in the instrument.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Any moneys accruing as a \r\n                                              result of any deed executed or act \r\n                                              done by the President under \r\n                                              subsection (1) shall be paid into \r\n                                              the appropriate account for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Disposal of Lands.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Any disposal of any land which \r\n                                              involves the payment of any \r\n                                              valuable consideration or which \r\n                                              would, by reason of its being to a \r\n                                              person not entitled by customary \r\n                                              law to the free use of land, \r\n                                              involve the payment of any such \r\n                                              consideration, and which is made,</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (a) by a Stool;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (b) by any person who, by reason \r\n                                              of his being so entitled under \r\n                                              customary law, has acquired \r\n                                              possession of such land either \r\n                                              without payment of any \r\n                                              consideration or in exchange for a \r\n                                              nominal consideration, </span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              shall be subject to the \r\n                                              concurrence of the Minister and \r\n                                              shall be of no effect unless such \r\n                                              concurrence is granted.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Any person aggrieved by the \r\n                                              refusal of the Minister to approve \r\n                                              the disposal of any land under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section or \r\n                                              by the failure of the Minister to \r\n                                              notify his decision regarding such \r\n                                              disposal within three months of \r\n                                              the date on which the application \r\n                                              for concurrence was made, may \r\n                                              appeal to an appeal tribunal which \r\n                                              may, if it thinks fit, approve \r\n                                              such disposal in writing, and such \r\n                                              approval shall have the same \r\n                                              effect as the concurrence of the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              confer upon any person any right \r\n                                              to dispose of any land which such \r\n                                              person is not entitled to exercise \r\n                                              by virtue of customary law or any \r\n                                              other law for the time being in \r\n                                              force.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) An appeal under subsection (2) \r\n                                              of this section shall be lodged \r\n                                              with the Minister for transmission \r\n                                              to the tribunal within three \r\n                                              months of the refusal or, in the \r\n                                              case of a failure to notify a \r\n                                              decision, within six months after \r\n                                              the date on which the application \r\n                                              for concurrence was made.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (5) It shall not be lawful without \r\n                                              the concurrence of the Minister to \r\n                                              make any transaction affecting \r\n                                              land which is a Stool property as \r\n                                              defined in section 52 of the \r\n                                              Chieftaincy Act, 1961 (Act 81).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (6) Any transaction entered into \r\n                                              in contravention of the provisions \r\n                                              of this section shall be void.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Appeal Tribunal.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The President may, after \r\n                                              consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice, by executive instrument \r\n                                              appoint a tribunal to hear appeals \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The tribunal shall consist of \r\n                                              three members, one of whom shall \r\n                                              be appointed as chairman and each \r\n                                              of whom shall be a Judge of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court, the High Court or \r\n                                              the Circuit Court or a lawyer of \r\n                                              at least five years'' standing \r\n                                              within the meaning of section 8 of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Act, 1960 (CA \r\n                                              10).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; The decision of the tribunal \r\n                                              on any appeal shall be final as to \r\n                                              fact but the tribunal may reserve \r\n                                              for the consideration of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court any question of law \r\n                                              and section 11 of the Courts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (CA 9) shall apply \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Use of Land for Public \r\n                                              Purposes.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The President may authorise \r\n                                              the occupation and use of any land \r\n                                              to which this Act applies for any \r\n                                              purpose which, in his opinion, is \r\n                                              conducive to the public welfare or \r\n                                              the interests of the State, and \r\n                                              may pay into the appropriate \r\n                                              account out of moneys granted by \r\n                                              vote of the National Assembly such \r\n                                              annual sums as appear to him, \r\n                                              having regard on the one hand to \r\n                                              the value of the land and, on the \r\n                                              other hand, to the benefits \r\n                                              derived by the people of the area \r\n                                              in which the land is situated from \r\n                                              the use of the land, to be proper \r\n                                              payments to be made for the land; \r\n                                              and the money so paid into the \r\n                                              account shall be applied in the \r\n                                              same way as other revenues \r\n                                              collected under this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Where the President authorises \r\n                                              the occupation and use of any land \r\n                                              under this section, he shall \r\n                                              publish a notice in the Gazette \r\n                                              giving particulars of the land, of \r\n                                              the use to which it is intended to \r\n                                              be put, and of any payments which \r\n                                              it is intended to make under this \r\n                                              section in respect of that use of \r\n                                              the land.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Where any person suffers \r\n                                              special loss by reason of \r\n                                              disturbance as the result of an \r\n                                              authorisation under this section \r\n                                              he shall, out of moneys granted by \r\n                                              the National Assembly, be paid \r\n                                              such compensation as the Minister \r\n                                              or, on appeal, an appeal tribunal, \r\n                                              may determine.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) Any person dissatisfied with \r\n                                              the failure of the Minister to \r\n                                              grant compensation or with the \r\n                                              amount of such compensation may \r\n                                              appeal to the appeal tribunal.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (5) An appeal shall be lodged with \r\n                                              the Minister for transmission to \r\n                                              the tribunal within three months \r\n                                              of publication of the notice \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Disposition of Stool \r\n                                              Lands.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              No instrument executed before or \r\n                                              after the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              shall have the effect of granting \r\n                                              or demising any right, title or \r\n                                              interest in or to land in respect \r\n                                              of minerals, timber, rubber or \r\n                                              other products of the soil in or \r\n                                              growing on that land or option of \r\n                                              acquiring any such right, title or \r\n                                              interest except in so far as such \r\n                                              grant or demise shall contain \r\n                                              express words granting or demising \r\n                                              such right, title or interest or \r\n                                              option thereon.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Limitation Period for \r\n                                              Mining, Timber, Farming Rights, \r\n                                              etc.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Except as provided in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section a \r\n                                              grant of any mining or timber \r\n                                              rights in any land subject to this \r\n                                              Act shall not exceed a term of \r\n                                              sixty years for mining and thirty \r\n                                              years for timber notwithstanding \r\n                                              anything to the contrary contained \r\n                                              in any other enactment.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Except as provided in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section and \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything to the \r\n                                              contrary in any other enactment a \r\n                                              grant of any farming right to any \r\n                                              land subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act shall not exceed</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (a) in the case of land for \r\n                                              poultry rearing or the cultivation \r\n                                              of cereals, a term of ten years; \r\n                                              or</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (b) in the case of ranching or the \r\n                                              cultivation of mixed or permanent \r\n                                              crops, a term of fifty years.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Except as provided in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section no \r\n                                              grant of any stool land to any one \r\n                                              person and no aggregate of such \r\n                                              grants shall exceed the following \r\n                                              limits, that is to say,</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (a) mining rights, 51.80 square \r\n                                              kilometres for any grant or, in \r\n                                              the aggregate, 155.40 square \r\n                                              kilometres;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (b) timber rights, 103.40 square \r\n                                              kilometres for any grant or, in \r\n                                              the aggregate 621.60 square \r\n                                              kilometres; and</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (c) right to collect rubber, to \r\n                                              cultivate products of the soil \r\n                                              (other than timber) or relating to \r\n                                              the pursuit of animal husbandry:</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span>(i) \r\n                                              for an individual, 2.59 square \r\n                                              kilometres or in the aggregate \r\n                                              7.77 square kilometres;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (ii) for a body&nbsp; corporate or \r\n                                              unincorporated body of persons \r\n                                              established or registered in Ghana \r\n                                              12.95 square kilometres or in the \r\n                                              aggregate 25.90 square kilometres.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) The Armed Forces Revolutionary \r\n                                              Council may, in the case of any \r\n                                              particular land where it is \r\n                                              satisfied that special \r\n                                              circumstances exist such as to \r\n                                              render compliance with the limits \r\n                                              prescribed by this section \r\n                                              prejudicial to the national \r\n                                              interest or to the interest of any \r\n                                              stool, direct that the grant of \r\n                                              such land or any other interest in \r\n                                              that land shall exceed the said \r\n                                              limits and thereupon the said land \r\n                                              or any interest in that land may \r\n                                              be granted notwithstanding that \r\n                                              the said limits are exceeded&quot;. [As \r\n                                              Substituted by Administration of \r\n                                              Lands (Amendment) Decree, 1979 (AFRCD \r\n                                              61), s.1].</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Duty to Give \r\n                                              Information Relating to Land.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of,</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (a) every public officer; and</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (b) all officers of local \r\n                                              authorities which formerly \r\n                                              collected revenue of any land to \r\n                                              which any provision of this Act \r\n                                              applies; and</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (c) all present and past members \r\n                                              of a Traditional Council and all \r\n                                              present or past officers of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council; and</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (d) all persons who are or have \r\n                                              been concerned with or responsible \r\n                                              for the administration of any such \r\n                                              land; and</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (e) all persons who hold or have \r\n                                              held any such land, </span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              to afford to the Minister all \r\n                                              information at their disposal \r\n                                              respecting the land and its \r\n                                              revenues and all reasonable \r\n                                              facilities for inspecting and \r\n                                              taking copies of records and other \r\n                                              documents relating to the land or \r\n                                              revenues.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) If any person fails or refuses \r\n                                              to give to the Minister any \r\n                                              information at his disposal which \r\n                                              it is his duty to give under this \r\n                                              section, or gives information \r\n                                              which he knows to be false, he \r\n                                              shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Custody of Documents, \r\n                                              Seals and Stamps.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The Minister shall keep in his \r\n                                              custody all deeds, records, \r\n                                              registers, accounts and other \r\n                                              documents and all seals and stamps \r\n                                              relating to any land to which any \r\n                                              provision of this Act applies.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) All documents, seals and \r\n                                              stamps in the custody of the \r\n                                              Minister under this section shall \r\n                                              be made available by the Minister \r\n                                              as and when required for the \r\n                                              purposes of the management and \r\n                                              disposition of the land concerned.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) It shall be the duty of every \r\n                                              person having the custody or \r\n                                              control of any document, seal or \r\n                                              stamp to which subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section applies to take all \r\n                                              necessary steps to deliver them to \r\n                                              the Minister.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) A person who destroys or \r\n                                              conceals any document, seal or \r\n                                              stamp which it is his duty to \r\n                                              deliver under this section, or who \r\n                                              fails to comply with subsection \r\n                                              (3) of this section shall be \r\n                                              guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Lay-Out Plans, Etc.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Plans of all approved lay-outs of \r\n                                              land to which this Act applies \r\n                                              showing lay-out of plots and \r\n                                              specifying any zonal restrictions \r\n                                              of user shall be deposited with \r\n                                              the Minister.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Unlawful Occupation of \r\n                                              Land.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) If any person is found in \r\n                                              unlawful occupation of land to \r\n                                              which this Act applies the \r\n                                              Minister may order him to \r\n                                              surrender the land within such \r\n                                              period and upon such terms, if \r\n                                              any, as to the removal of \r\n                                              buildings, the reaping of growing \r\n                                              produce, and other matters, as the \r\n                                              Minister thinks proper.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Any person who continues in \r\n                                              occupation of any land after the \r\n                                              date on which he is to surrender \r\n                                              it under this section, or who, \r\n                                              having surrendered it, renews his \r\n                                              unlawful occupation thereof, shall \r\n                                              be guilty of a misdemeanour and, \r\n                                              in the case of a continuing \r\n                                              offence, shall be liable in \r\n                                              addition to any fine imposed for \r\n                                              the original offence, to an \r\n                                              additional fine not exceeding ten \r\n                                              pounds for every day during which \r\n                                              the offence is continued.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) In proceedings against any \r\n                                              person under this section, the \r\n                                              proof that his occupation was \r\n                                              lawful shall lie upon the \r\n                                              defendant; and the averment that \r\n                                              any land is land to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall be sufficient \r\n                                              without proof of such fact, unless \r\n                                              the defendant proves the contrary.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <i> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Revenue</span></i></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Collection of Revenue.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) All revenue from lands subject \r\n                                              to this Act shall be collected by \r\n                                              the Minister and for that purpose \r\n                                              all rights to receive and all \r\n                                              remedies to recover that revenue \r\n                                              shall vest in him and, subject to \r\n                                              the exercise of any power of \r\n                                              delegation conferred by this Act, \r\n                                              no other person shall have power \r\n                                              to give a good discharge for any \r\n                                              liability in respect of the \r\n                                              revenue or to exercise any such \r\n                                              right or remedy.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Revenue for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act includes all rents, dues, \r\n                                              fees, royalties, revenues, levies, \r\n                                              tributes and other payments, \r\n                                              whether in the nature of income or \r\n                                              capital, from or in connection \r\n                                              with lands subject to this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              does not apply to revenue from \r\n                                              forest produce, within the meaning \r\n                                              of section 2 (excluding subsection \r\n                                              (5)) of the Forests Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 157), which shall continue \r\n                                              to be collected by the Chief \r\n                                              Conservator of Forests.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) Any moneys in the Forests \r\n                                              Improvement Fund in excess of \r\n                                              authorised expenses in connection \r\n                                              with exploitation and \r\n                                              silvicultural work shall be \r\n                                              transferred from that Fund to the \r\n                                              Stool Lands Account.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Stool Lands Accounts.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              All sums collected by or \r\n                                              transferred to the Minister under \r\n                                              this Act shall, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, be paid \r\n                                              into a Stool Lands Account.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Payment to Local \r\n                                              Authorities.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Out of the moneys standing to \r\n                                              the credit of the Stool Lands \r\n                                              Account there shall, subject to \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section be \r\n                                              paid to the local authorities in \r\n                                              whose areas the lands are situated \r\n                                              from which those moneys are \r\n                                              derived such amounts as the \r\n                                              Minister may by order determine.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) There shall be paid to the \r\n                                              Kumasi City Council out of the \r\n                                              Stool Lands Account annually in \r\n                                              half-yearly instalments on or \r\n                                              before the 30th day of September \r\n                                              and the 31st day of March a sum \r\n                                              representing one-third of the net \r\n                                              rents derived from land within the \r\n                                              boundaries defined in the Schedule \r\n                                              to this Act, or the sum of six \r\n                                              thousand pounds, whichever is the \r\n                                              greater.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) In making an order under this \r\n                                              section the Minister shall have \r\n                                              regard to the purpose for which \r\n                                              the money standing to the credit \r\n                                              of the Stool Lands Account which \r\n                                              is not paid out under this section \r\n                                              will be applied.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) An order under this section \r\n                                              may fix the amounts to be paid \r\n                                              under this section to the \r\n                                              respective local authorities, or \r\n                                              may determine those amounts as \r\n                                              proportions of the total amount of \r\n                                              money standing to the credit of \r\n                                              the Stool Lands Account or by any \r\n                                              other method.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Payments to Traditional \r\n                                              Authorities and Others.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Moneys in any Stool Lands Account \r\n                                              remaining after payment of the \r\n                                              sums due under section 19 of this \r\n                                              Act shall be applied in accordance \r\n                                              with this Act for the benefit of \r\n                                              the people in the areas in which \r\n                                              the particular lands are situated \r\n                                              and in particular,</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (a) in the maintenance of the \r\n                                              Stool or other traditional \r\n                                              authority including a Traditional \r\n                                              Council; and</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (b) in the making of grants for \r\n                                              projects (including scholarships) \r\n                                              for the benefit of the people of \r\n                                              the area.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Scheme for Application \r\n                                              of Stool Revenue.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The Minister shall, for each \r\n                                              prescribed accounting period, and \r\n                                              after consultation with the \r\n                                              appropriate Traditional Council, \r\n                                              prepare a scheme for the \r\n                                              application of revenue in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Part of this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) A scheme under this section \r\n                                              shall include estimates of the \r\n                                              expenses of the Traditional \r\n                                              Council, prepared by the \r\n                                              Traditional Council after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) A scheme under this section \r\n                                              shall be based on estimates of the \r\n                                              moneys available, and shall \r\n                                              provide for the adjustments which \r\n                                              are to be made if the money \r\n                                              available falls short of or \r\n                                              exceeds the amount so estimated.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) A scheme under this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted for the \r\n                                              approval of the President and \r\n                                              shall be published in the Gazette.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Payments to be Made in \r\n                                              Accordance with Scheme.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section, no money shall be \r\n                                              applied under this Act except in \r\n                                              accordance with a scheme prepared \r\n                                              and approved under section 21 of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) In the period of two years \r\n                                              from the commencement of this Act, \r\n                                              the Minister may make payments \r\n                                              under this Part before the \r\n                                              approval of the relevant scheme if \r\n                                              it appears to him that it is \r\n                                              required immediately.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Capital Payments.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Any part of the moneys received by \r\n                                              the Minister under this Act which, \r\n                                              in his opinion, is of a capital \r\n                                              nature shall not be applied under \r\n                                              this Part of this Act except to \r\n                                              defray expenditure which is \r\n                                              designated by the Minister in a \r\n                                              scheme under this Part of this Act \r\n                                              as being of a capital nature, and \r\n                                              in case there is no such \r\n                                              expenditure or in any other case \r\n                                              the money may be invested in such \r\n                                              manner as the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for finance may direct.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              PART II&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Delegation of \r\n                                              Functions.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The Minister may delegate to a \r\n                                              local authority or public officer \r\n                                              the duty of collecting any revenue \r\n                                              or any other of the functions \r\n                                              conferred on him by this Act or \r\n                                              delegated to him under this \r\n                                              section.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Any delegation under this \r\n                                              section may be made either with or \r\n                                              without any conditions or \r\n                                              limitations.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Accounts.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Accounts of all moneys \r\n                                              received by the President under \r\n                                              this Act shall be kept in a \r\n                                              prescribed form.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) The accounts shall be audited \r\n                                              by the Auditor-General not less \r\n                                              than once a year and the Minister \r\n                                              shall present a copy of all \r\n                                              accounts so audited, together with \r\n                                              any report of the Auditor-General \r\n                                              on the accounts, to the National \r\n                                              Assembly and shall also cause \r\n                                              those accounts together with any \r\n                                              report thereon to be published in \r\n                                              the Gazette.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Boundary Books.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The Boundary Books kept under \r\n                                              the Boundary, Land, Tribute, and \r\n                                              Fishery Disputes Ordinance (Cap. \r\n                                              144), repealed by this Act, shall \r\n                                              be transferred to and kept by the \r\n                                              Chief Registrar of Lands appointed \r\n                                              under the Land Registry Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 122).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) The Chief Registrar of Lands \r\n                                              shall give reasonable facilities \r\n                                              for the search and inspection of \r\n                                              any Boundary Book and for the \r\n                                              issue of certified copies of \r\n                                              executive decisions officially \r\n                                              recorded therein.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Fees may be prescribed for the \r\n                                              purposes of this section.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (4) A certified copy of an entry \r\n                                              in a Boundary Book issued by a \r\n                                              registrar shall be conclusive \r\n                                              evidence of the executive decision \r\n                                              to which it relates.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>A \r\n                                              person who is a party to any \r\n                                              transaction entered into in \r\n                                              contravention of any provision of \r\n                                              this Act shall be guilty of a \r\n                                              misdemeanour.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Expenses.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              All expenses incurred by the \r\n                                              Minister in the exercise of his \r\n                                              functions under this Act shall be \r\n                                              defrayed from moneys granted by \r\n                                              vote of the National Assembly but \r\n                                              there shall from time to time be \r\n                                              paid to the Consolidated Fund out \r\n                                              of revenue collected under this \r\n                                              Act such sums as in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Minister represent the costs \r\n                                              of the exercise of his functions; \r\n                                              provided that such payments shall \r\n                                              for each prescribed accounting \r\n                                              period, be in the case of lands \r\n                                              vested in the President in trust, \r\n                                              not less than seven and one-half \r\n                                              per centum of the gross revenue \r\n                                              derived from the lands for that \r\n                                              year, and, in the case of other \r\n                                              lands subject to this Act, not \r\n                                              less than two and one-half per \r\n                                              centum of the gross revenue \r\n                                              derived from the lands for that \r\n                                              year.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) The President may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, make \r\n                                              Regulations&#8212;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (a) for any matter (including \r\n                                              fees) which is to be prescribed;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (b) defining the boundaries of, or \r\n                                              otherwise describing, any land to \r\n                                              which this Act applies, or \r\n                                              altering or amending any such \r\n                                              boundary or description;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; for giving full effect to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Every statutory instrument \r\n                                              made under an enactment repealed \r\n                                              by this Act and in force \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force and forms in use \r\n                                              under the repealed enactment may, \r\n                                              with necessary modifications, \r\n                                              continue to be used until \r\n                                              provision is otherwise made by \r\n                                              regulations under this Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Subject to the terms of any \r\n                                              instrument under subsection (1), \r\n                                              the descriptions and boundaries \r\n                                              set out in the schedule to the \r\n                                              Kumasi Lands Ordinance (Cap. 145), \r\n                                              shall be conclusive as to the \r\n                                              extent and limits of the lands to \r\n                                              which they refer, notwithstanding \r\n                                              the repeal of that Ordinance.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Transitional \r\n                                              Provisions.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) A right of occupancy granted \r\n                                              under any enactment repealed by \r\n                                              this Act and in force immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act shall be deemed to be a lease \r\n                                              determinable by six months notice \r\n                                              by either party and shall be \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) A title to land in the \r\n                                              Northern and Upper Regions other \r\n                                              than land vested in the President \r\n                                              acquired between the first day of \r\n                                              July, 1960, and the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act by any person shall be \r\n                                              void if it is not proved to the \r\n                                              satisfaction of the President \r\n                                              within one year from such \r\n                                              commencement.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires:&#8212;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              &quot;appeal tribunal&quot; means a tribunal \r\n                                              under section 18 of this Act;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              &quot;minerals&quot; means minerals of all \r\n                                              kinds including mineral oil;\r\n                                              </span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \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  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              &quot;Stool land&quot; includes land \r\n                                              controlled by any person for the \r\n                                              benefit of the subjects or members \r\n                                              of a Stool, clan, company or \r\n                                              community, as the case may be and \r\n                                              all land in the Upper and Northern \r\n                                              Regions other than land vested in \r\n                                              the President and accordingly \r\n                                              &quot;Stool&quot; means the person \r\n                                              exercising such control;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              &quot;traditional area&quot; has the meaning \r\n                                              given to it by the Chieftaincy \r\n                                              Act, 1961 (Act 81).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <b> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Repeals and Savings.</span></b></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (1) Each of the following \r\n                                              enactments is repealed:&#8212;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Accra Town (Lands) Ordinance (Cap. \r\n                                              87).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Lands Boundaries Settlement \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 139).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Takoradi Harbour and Town \r\n                                              (Acquisition of Lands) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 140).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Boundaries Ascertainment Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 142).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Boundary, Land, Tribute, and \r\n                                              Fishery Disputes Ordinance (Cap. \r\n                                              144).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Kumasi Lands Ordinance (Cap. 145).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Lands Boundaries Settlement \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1957 (No. 26).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Akim Abuakwa (Stool Revenue) Act, \r\n                                              1958 (No. 8).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Ashanti Stool Lands Act, 1958 (No. \r\n                                              28).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Lands (Validation of \r\n                                              Legislation) Act, 1959 (No. 30).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Lands Control Act, 1959 (No. \r\n                                              79).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Forests Improvement Fund Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (No. 12), section 8.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Stool Lands Act, 1960 (Act 27).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <i> \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></i></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <i> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Amendment of CA 6 s. 19</span></i></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (2) Section 19 of the State \r\n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (CA 6) is amended by the deletion \r\n                                              of &quot;and in particular for &quot; and \r\n                                              paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d).</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Saving</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding the repeal of \r\n                                              the Stool Lands Boundaries \r\n                                              Settlement Ordinance (Cap. 139), \r\n                                              the Minister may by executive \r\n                                              instrument revoke or amend any \r\n                                              order or declaration made under \r\n                                              the repealed Ordinance.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              (Section 5)</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Commencing at a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G.B.M.1 situated on an \r\n                                              approximate bearing of three \r\n                                              hundred and fifteen degrees nought \r\n                                              minutes twenty-three seconds and \r\n                                              distant on the said bearing \r\n                                              approximately eleven thousand two \r\n                                              hundred and eighty-eight decimal \r\n                                              seven-seven feet from G.C.S. \r\n                                              pillar marked C.T.S. 884 which is \r\n                                              situated in the centre of the Fort \r\n                                              at Kumasi; thence on a bearing of \r\n                                              ninety-one degrees thirty-two \r\n                                              minutes seventeen seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of one thousand six \r\n                                              hundred and sixty-two decimal \r\n                                              seven one feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G. B.M. 2; thence on a bearing \r\n                                              of ninety degrees two minutes \r\n                                              twenty-one seconds for a distance \r\n                                              of five thousand one hundred and \r\n                                              thirteen decimal nought seven feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 3 \r\n                                              situated approximately thirteen \r\n                                              feet West from the centre of the \r\n                                              main Kumasi-Ofinso motor road; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of ninety \r\n                                              degrees fourteen minutes forty-one \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of six \r\n                                              hundred and thirty-nine decimal \r\n                                              five three feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G. B.M. 4 situated \r\n                                              approximately twenty-six feet \r\n                                              South-east from the centre of the \r\n                                              Kumasi-Mampong motor road; thence \r\n                                              on a bearing of ninety degrees \r\n                                              fourteen minutes nineteen seconds \r\n                                              for a distance of one thousand two \r\n                                              hundred and sixty-five decimal two \r\n                                              nought feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G. B.M. 5 situated \r\n                                              approximately seventeen feet \r\n                                              North-west from a footpath leading \r\n                                              from Kumasi to Tafo; thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of eighty-six degrees \r\n                                              fifty-seven minutes fifty-two \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of five \r\n                                              thousand four hundred and \r\n                                              eighty-seven decimal two one feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 6 \r\n                                              situated approximately thirteen \r\n                                              feet West from a footpath leading \r\n                                              from Tafo to Dichemso; thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of eighty-nine degrees \r\n                                              twenty-one minutes twenty-two \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of five \r\n                                              hundred and eighty-five decimal \r\n                                              five seven feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G. B.M. 7 situated \r\n                                              approximately three feet \r\n                                              South-east from a footpath leading \r\n                                              from Dichemso to Apamprem; thence \r\n                                              on a bearing of ninety degrees \r\n                                              eleven minutes thirty-two seconds \r\n                                              for a distance of one thousand \r\n                                              three hundred and nineteen decimal \r\n                                              seven eight feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked G.C.G. B.M. 8; thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of one hundred and \r\n                                              seventy-eight degrees thirty \r\n                                              minutes twenty seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of two thousand and \r\n                                              eighty-five decimal six seven feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 9 \r\n                                              situated approximately one hundred \r\n                                              and thirty feet South from the \r\n                                              centre of the Kumasi-Juaben motor \r\n                                              road; thence on a bearing of one \r\n                                              hundred and eighty-one degrees \r\n                                              forty-eight minutes fifty-two \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of three \r\n                                              thousand six hundred and eight \r\n                                              decimal nought three feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 10 \r\n                                              situated approximately six hundred \r\n                                              feet North from the Kumasi-Accra \r\n                                              Railway Line; thence on a bearing \r\n                                              of one hundred and eighty-seven \r\n                                              degrees fifty-seven minutes \r\n                                              seventeen seconds for a distance \r\n                                              of three thousand six hundred and \r\n                                              twenty-five decimal one nine feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 11 \r\n                                              situated approximately twenty-two \r\n                                              feet from the centre of the \r\n                                              Kumasi-Ejisu motor road; thence on \r\n                                              a bearing of one hundred and \r\n                                              eighty degrees thirty-seven \r\n                                              minutes thirty-one seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of two thousand four \r\n                                              hundred and sixty-five decimal \r\n                                              one&nbsp; four feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G. B.M. 12 situated \r\n                                              approximately eight feet \r\n                                              South-West from a footpath leading \r\n                                              from Kumasi to Ahinsai Village; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of one hundred \r\n                                              and seventy-five degrees \r\n                                              fifty-three minutes four seconds \r\n                                              for a distance of four thousand \r\n                                              four hundred and seventy-seven \r\n                                              decimal nine nought feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 13; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of two hundred \r\n                                              and seventy degrees twenty-two \r\n                                              minutes thirty seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of one thousand two \r\n                                              hundred and five decimal nine four \r\n                                              feet to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. \r\n                                              14 situated approximately thirteen \r\n                                              feet West from the centre of the \r\n                                              Kumasi-Lake Bosumtwi motor road; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of two hundred \r\n                                              and seventy degrees twenty-nine \r\n                                              minutes five seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of two thousand and one \r\n                                              decimal seven one feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked G.C.G. B.M. 15 situated \r\n                                              approximately twenty feet West \r\n                                              from the centre of the \r\n                                              Kumasi-Sekondi Railway Line; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of two hundred \r\n                                              and seventy degrees twenty-seven \r\n                                              minutes twenty-one seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of one thousand eight \r\n                                              hundred and one decimal five eight \r\n                                              feet to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. \r\n                                              16 situated approximately one \r\n                                              hundred and fifty-eight feet East \r\n                                              from the centre of the old Kumasi-Cape \r\n                                              Coast road; thence on a bearing of \r\n                                              two hundred and seventy-one \r\n                                              degrees thirty minutes seventeen \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of five \r\n                                              hundred and eighty-eight decimal \r\n                                              five two feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              G.C.G. B.M. 25 situated \r\n                                              approximately seventeen feet \r\n                                              South-east from the centre of the \r\n                                              main Kumasi-Bekwai motor road; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of two hundred \r\n                                              and seventy degrees twenty-nine \r\n                                              minutes twenty-nine seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of two thousand seven \r\n                                              hundred and fifty-two decimal \r\n                                              nought five feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked G.C.G. B.M. 17; thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of two hundred and \r\n                                              seventy-one degrees twenty-seven \r\n                                              minutes one second for a distance \r\n                                              of four thousand three hundred and \r\n                                              thirty-four decimal one two feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 18; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of two hundred \r\n                                              and sixty-eight degrees \r\n                                              twenty-eight minutes thirteen \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of one \r\n                                              thousand one hundred and \r\n                                              ninety-six decimal seven feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 19; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of two hundred \r\n                                              and seventy-one degrees \r\n                                              twenty-nine minutes four seconds \r\n                                              for a distance of one thousand \r\n                                              nine hundred and fifty-eight \r\n                                              decimal three three feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 20; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of nought \r\n                                              degrees fifty minutes twenty-nine \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of two \r\n                                              thousand two hundred and \r\n                                              seventy-eight nought four feet to \r\n                                              a pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 21 \r\n                                              situated approximately eleven feet \r\n                                              North from the centre of the \r\n                                              Nkwanta-Kumasi road; thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of nought degrees \r\n                                              fifty-nine minutes thirty-two \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of three \r\n                                              thousand and ninety-two decimal \r\n                                              five nought feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked G.C.G. B.M. 22; thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of nought degrees \r\n                                              twenty-five minutes forty-seven \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of three \r\n                                              thousand eight hundred and six \r\n                                              decimal seven nine feet to a&nbsp; \r\n                                              pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 23; \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of nought \r\n                                              degrees thirteen minutes twelve \r\n                                              seconds for a distance of two \r\n                                              thousand one hundred and forty-one \r\n                                              decimal nought three feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked G.C.G. B.M. 24 \r\n                                              situated approximately \r\n                                              seventy-nine feet North from the \r\n                                              centre of the Nkawe-Kumasi main \r\n                                              motor road; and thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of three hundred and \r\n                                              fifty-eight degrees fifty-four \r\n                                              minutes seven seconds for a \r\n                                              distance of four thousand four \r\n                                              hundred and fifty-two decimal \r\n                                              nought feet to the point of \r\n                                              commencement, the same being more \r\n                                              particularly delineated on a plan \r\n                                              numbered X 599 signed by the \r\n                                              Officer-in-Charge, Cadastral \r\n                                              Branch, Gold Coast Survey, on the \r\n                                              2nd day of February, 1928, and \r\n                                              thereon edged with pink colour.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              All the above bearings are \r\n                                              referred to Meridian one degree \r\n                                              West.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Enactment.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt"> \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              Dated this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day \r\n                                              of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp; .</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              amended by</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span> \r\n                                              ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1979 (AFRCD \r\n                                              61)1.</span></p> \r\n                                              <p  > \r\n                                              <span>&nbsp;</span>', 'FIRST', 'Yes', 'ACT 123');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(4, 'AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CREDIT AND CO-OPERATIVE BANK ACT, 1965 (ACT 286)', '  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CREDIT \r\n                                              AND CO-OPERATIVE BANK ACT, 1965 \r\n                                              (ACT 286)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT INCORPORATION \r\n                                              AND SHARE CAPITAL OF BANK</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1>1. Establishment of Bank, etc.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#2>2. Share capital and its issue.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#3>3. Increase of share capital.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#4>4. Share register.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;MANAGEMENT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#5>5. Head office and branches.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#6>6. Direction and control.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#7>7. Board of Directors.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#8>8. Managing Director.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#9>9. Casual vacancy.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#10>10. Executive Committee.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#11>11. Disqualification of Directors.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#12>12. Meetings of Board and \r\n                                              Executive Committee.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;BUSINESS AND FUNCTIONS OF \r\n                                              THE BANK, ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1>13. Functions of Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#14>14. Government guarantees.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#15>15. Research and training.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#6>16. Preference to institutions \r\n                                              having Government investment, etc.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#17>17. Repayment of loans in full in \r\n                                              certain circumstances.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#18>18. Recovery of debts.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#19>19. Borrowing powers of Bank.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#20>20. Guarantees and loans repayable \r\n                                              by Government.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#21>21. Management of special funds.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;REVERSES, AUDIT, RETURNS, \r\n                                              ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#22>22. General Reserve Fund.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#23>23. Dividends.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#24>24. Audit.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#25>25. Duties and powers of auditors, \r\n                                              etc.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#26>26. Internal auditor.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#27>27. Accounts.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING \r\n                                              TO FARMERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#28>28. Notification of loans by \r\n                                              farmers to Bank.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#29>29. Provision for repayment of \r\n                                              principal borrowed.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#30>30. Certain prohibitions.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#31>31. Liquidation of Bank.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#32>32. Service of documents.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#33>33. Offences.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#34>34. Officers and advisers.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#35>35. Protection of Directors, etc.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#36>36. Disclosure of information, \r\n                                              etc.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#37>37. Regulations.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#37A>37A&amp;B By-laws</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#38>38. Interpretation.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#39>39. Vesting of assets, etc.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#40>40. Member of Council.</a></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                                              <b>THE TWO HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              EIGHTY-SIXTH</b></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b><img border="0" src="coatofarms_small.jpg" width="108" height="89"></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT \r\n                                              CREDIT AND CO-OPERATIVE BANK ACT, \r\n                                              1965</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish an \r\n                                              Agricultural Credit and \r\n                                              Co-operative Bank for providing \r\n                                              credit facilities to \r\n                                              agriculturists and persons engaged \r\n                                              in cottage industries, and to make \r\n                                              provision for connected purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 9th April, 1965.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT, \r\n                                              INCORPORATION AND SHARE CAPITAL OF \r\n                                              BANK</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of Bank, \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) A bank called the Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank is hereby \r\n                                              established to carry out the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act. [As amended \r\n                                              by Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 2].</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Bank shall have perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal and \r\n                                              may sue or be sued in its \r\n                                              corporate name; and for and in \r\n                                              connection with the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act, may, subject to the \r\n                                              limitations contained in this Act \r\n                                              relating to the business which may \r\n                                              be carried on by the Bank, \r\n                                              purchase, hold, manage or dispose \r\n                                              of movable or immovable property, \r\n                                              and may enter into such contracts \r\n                                              as may be expedient.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) [Repealed by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n												<a name=2></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Share Capital and its \r\n                                              Issue.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The authorised share capital of \r\n                                              the Bank shall be thirty million \r\n                                              New Cedis divided into one hundred \r\n                                              and fifty thousand shares of a \r\n                                              nominal value of two hundred New \r\n                                              Cedis each to be issued on the \r\n                                              authority of the Board of \r\n                                              Directors.[As substituted by \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 3].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) Not less than fifty-one per \r\n                                              centum of the shares issued at any \r\n                                              time shall be subscribed by the \r\n                                              Government and the remaining \r\n                                              shares, if any, shall be offered \r\n                                              to the Bank of Ghana, Commercial \r\n                                              Banks, Councils established under \r\n                                              the Local Government Act, 1961 \r\n                                              (Act 54), co-operative societies, \r\n                                              and other institutions approved by \r\n                                              the Minister, in such proportion \r\n                                              and on such terms and conditions \r\n                                              as the Minister may determine at \r\n                                              the time of each issue.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=3></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Increase of Share \r\n                                              Capital.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Subject to the prior approval of \r\n                                              the Minister, the authorised share \r\n                                              capital may be increased from time \r\n                                              to time by the Bank. [As amended \r\n                                              by Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 4].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=4></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Share Register.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Bank shall maintain at its \r\n                                              Head Office a register to be \r\n                                              called the Share Register and \r\n                                              shall enter therein such \r\n                                              particulars as may be prescribed \r\n                                              by regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;MANAGEMENT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n												<a name=5></a>\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Head Office and \r\n                                              Branches.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Head Office of the Bank \r\n                                              shall be in Accra or such other \r\n                                              place as the Minister may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Bank may open branches in \r\n                                              Ghana in accordance with decisions \r\n                                              of the Board in that behalf.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=6></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Direction and Control.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The general direction and \r\n                                              control of the affairs and \r\n                                              business of the Bank shall be \r\n                                              vested in a Board of Directors to \r\n                                              be constituted in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of section 7 and \r\n                                              the Board so constituted may \r\n                                              exercise all such powers and do \r\n                                              all such acts and things as may be \r\n                                              exercised or done by the Bank in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In discharging its functions, \r\n                                              the Board shall act on commercial \r\n                                              considerations, but with due \r\n                                              regard to Government''s policy on \r\n                                              agriculture and cottage \r\n                                              industries.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=7></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Board of Directors.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board of Directors, \r\n                                              hereafter referred to as the \r\n                                              Board, shall consist of the \r\n                                              following persons:&#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 Managing Director;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) an Executive Director to be \r\n                                              appointed from the Management''s \r\n                                              staff of the Bank by the Member of \r\n                                              the Council responsible for \r\n                                              Finance;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a representative of the Bank \r\n                                              of 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) a representative from the \r\n                                              Ministry of Finance;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) two Directors appointed, by \r\n                                              the Member of the Council \r\n                                              responsible for Finance, one of \r\n                                              whom shall be conversant with \r\n                                              agricultural matters and the other \r\n                                              in co-operative matters; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) a representative nominated by \r\n                                              shareholders.&quot;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the aforesaid Member \r\n                                              from amongst them. [As substituted \r\n                                              by Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 5].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=8></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Managing Director.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Managing Director shall be \r\n                                              a person of recognised financial \r\n                                              or banking experience and shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the Member of the \r\n                                              Council responsible for Finance; \r\n                                              he shall be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment for a period not \r\n                                              exceeding five years on such \r\n                                              salary and terms and conditions of \r\n                                              service as may be specified in his \r\n                                              letter of appointment. [As amended \r\n                                              by the Agricultural Development \r\n                                              Bank Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1967 (NLCD 182) s. 6]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Managing Director shall be \r\n                                              the Chief Executive Officer of the \r\n                                              Bank and shall on behalf of the \r\n                                              Board direct and control the day \r\n                                              to day affairs of the Bank subject \r\n                                              to such regulations as the Board \r\n                                              may make under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) Except as otherwise directed \r\n                                              by the Minister, the Managing \r\n                                              Director shall devote his whole \r\n                                              time to the affairs of the Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=9></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Casual Vacancy.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              In the event of a casual vacancy \r\n                                              occurring in the office of a \r\n                                              Director, a new Director shall, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, be appointed in the same \r\n                                              manner as his predecessor for the \r\n                                              remainder of the term of such \r\n                                              predecessor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=10></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Executive Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              [Repealed by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              172) s. 7].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=11></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Disqualification of \r\n                                              Directors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be appointed a Director of the \r\n                                              Bank who, having been declared an \r\n                                              insolvent or a bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law in force in Ghana or in any \r\n                                              other country, is an insolvent, or \r\n                                              bankrupt, who has not been \r\n                                              discharged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A Director of the Bank shall \r\n                                              cease to hold office if:&#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) he becomes a person of unsound \r\n                                              mind or incapable of carrying out \r\n                                              his duties;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) he is declared an insolvent or \r\n                                              a bankrupt under any law in force \r\n                                              in Ghana or in any other country \r\n                                              or compounds with his creditors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) he is convicted of a felony or \r\n                                              any offence involving fraud or \r\n                                              dishonesty;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) he is guilty of serious \r\n                                              misconduct in relation to his \r\n                                              duties;</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) in the case of a person \r\n                                              possessed of professional \r\n                                              qualifications, he is disqualified \r\n                                              or suspended, otherwise than at \r\n                                              his own request, from practising \r\n                                              his profession in Ghana or in any \r\n                                              other country by order of any \r\n                                              competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) he absents himself from three \r\n                                              consecutive meetings of the Board \r\n                                              without leave of absence from the \r\n                                              Chairman, or in the case of the \r\n                                              Chairman, from the Member of the \r\n                                              Council responsible for Finance. \r\n                                              [As substituted by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 8].</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=12></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Meetings of Board and \r\n                                              Executive Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall meet as often \r\n                                              as the business of the Bank \r\n                                              requires but not less frequently \r\n                                              than once in each month.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No business of the Board shall \r\n                                              be transacted except at a meeting \r\n                                              at which a quorum of four \r\n                                              Directors are present. [As \r\n                                              substituted by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 9(1)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The meetings of the Board \r\n                                              shall be held at such time and \r\n                                              place as may be determined by the \r\n                                              Chairman. [As amended by \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 9(2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Provided that until regulations \r\n                                              are made in this behalf under this \r\n                                              Act such meetings shall be \r\n                                              convened by the Chairman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any meeting of the Board shall \r\n                                              be presided over by the Chairman \r\n                                              and in his absence, by the \r\n                                              Managing Director or in the \r\n                                              absence of the Managing Director, \r\n                                              by a member chosen for that \r\n                                              purpose by the Directors from \r\n                                              amongst their number present at \r\n                                              such meeting. [As amended by \r\n                                              Agricultural &nbsp;Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 9(3)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) At every meeting of the Board, \r\n                                              each Director shall have one vote, \r\n                                              and in the event of an equality of \r\n                                              votes, the person presiding shall \r\n                                              have a second or casting vote. [As \r\n                                              amended by Agricultural \r\n                                              Denvelopment Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 9(4)].</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) No act or proceedings of the \r\n                                              Board shall be invalidated by \r\n                                              reason only of the existence of a \r\n                                              vacancy among the members thereof. \r\n                                              [As amended by Agricultural Credit \r\n                                              and Co-operative Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s. 9(5)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;BUSINESS AND FUNCTIONS OF \r\n                                              THE BANK, ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=13></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Functions of Bank.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Bank shall provide credit \r\n                                              in cash or in kind, and shall make \r\n                                              provision for credit to farmers \r\n                                              for the repayment of debts \r\n                                              incurred by them in connection \r\n                                              with the development of their \r\n                                              farms, for the hiring and renting \r\n                                              of materials, equipment and \r\n                                              services and for warehousing \r\n                                              facilities, on such terms and \r\n                                              subject to such conditions as may \r\n                                              be prescribed by regulations made \r\n                                              under this Act, to agriculturists \r\n                                              for the purposes of agriculture \r\n                                              and to persons engaged in cottage \r\n                                              industries.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the functions \r\n                                              specified in subsection (1), the \r\n                                              Bank shall discharge all or any of \r\n                                              the following functions:&#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 acceptance of money for \r\n                                              savings and current accounts and \r\n                                              for specified periods;</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 borrowing of money for the \r\n                                              purposes of the Bank''s business \r\n                                              against the security of its assets \r\n                                              or otherwise;</span></p>\r\n\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 and sale of bonds \r\n                                              and debentures;</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 the purpose of securing \r\n                                              loans and advances made by the \r\n                                              Bank, the acceptance of a pledge, \r\n                                              mortgage, hypothecation or \r\n                                              assignment to the Bank of any kind \r\n                                              of movable or immovable property \r\n                                              or an unconditional guarantee of \r\n                                              another Bank, or the drawing, \r\n                                              acceptance, discounting, buying \r\n                                              and selling or rediscounting of \r\n                                              bills of exchange and promissory \r\n                                              notes bearing two or more good \r\n                                              signatures, or of other negotiable \r\n                                              instruments; [As amended by \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 10 (a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) the subscribing to the shares \r\n                                              and debentures of any body \r\n                                              corporate concerned with \r\n                                              agriculture or the financing of \r\n                                              cottage industries; [As amended by \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 10(b)].</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) the custody of securities, \r\n                                              saving certificates, title deeds \r\n                                              and other documents for collection \r\n                                              of the proceeds, whether principal \r\n                                              or interest;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) the administration of estates \r\n                                              for any purpose whether as \r\n                                              executors, trustees or otherwise;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) the paying, receiving, \r\n                                              collecting and remitting of money \r\n                                              and dealing in securities;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the acquiring, maintaining and \r\n                                              disposing of all movable and \r\n                                              immovable property;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) the taking over, with the \r\n                                              prior approval of the Minister, of \r\n                                              the business including the \r\n                                              capital, assets and liabilities, \r\n                                              of any other Bank or financial \r\n                                              institution;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) the opening of accounts or the \r\n                                              making of any agency arrangement \r\n                                              with, and the acting as agent or \r\n                                              correspondent of, any Bank or \r\n                                              financial institution both within \r\n                                              and outside 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                                              (l) the investing of its funds in \r\n                                              such securities and in such manner \r\n                                              as may from time to time be \r\n                                              determined by the Board;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (m) the sale and realisation of \r\n                                              all property, whether movable or \r\n                                              immovable, which may in any way \r\n                                              come into the possession of the \r\n                                              Bank in full or part satisfaction \r\n                                              of any of its claims, and the \r\n                                              acquisition and the holding of, \r\n                                              and generally the dealing with, \r\n                                              any right title or interest in any \r\n                                              property, movable or immovable, \r\n                                              which may be the Bank''s security \r\n                                              for any advance or loan or which \r\n                                              may be connected with any such \r\n                                              security; 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                                              (n) generally the doing of all \r\n                                              such other acts and things as may \r\n                                              be necessary, incidental or \r\n                                              conducive to the attainment of the \r\n                                              aforesaid functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding anything \r\n                                              contained in any law for the time \r\n                                              being in force, it shall be lawful \r\n                                              for any agriculturist or person \r\n                                              engaged in cottage industries to \r\n                                              pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or \r\n                                              assign any kind or quantity of \r\n                                              movable or immovable property to \r\n                                              the Bank, or otherwise to create a \r\n                                              charge on any such property, in \r\n                                              order to secure the repayment of a \r\n                                              loan, and the Bank shall, in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, be competent to deal \r\n                                              with and recover debts owed to the \r\n                                              Bank in respect of any property so \r\n                                              pledged, mortgaged, hypothecated \r\n                                              or assigned.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Notwithstanding anything \r\n                                              contained in any other law for the \r\n                                              time being in force, any charge \r\n                                              created on any property to secure \r\n                                              the repayment of a loan granted by \r\n                                              the Bank, or to secure the \r\n                                              performance of the stipulations of \r\n                                              any bond executed in favour of the \r\n                                              Bank, shall be enforceable against \r\n                                              such property in the hands of any \r\n                                              person to whom it may have been \r\n                                              transferred; including the person \r\n                                              who has acquired the property for \r\n                                              consideration and without notice \r\n                                              of the charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) [Repealed by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s. 10 (2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n												<a name=14></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Government Guarantees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s.11 ].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n												<a name=15></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Research and Training.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Bank may undertake, if \r\n                                              necessary, in collaboration or \r\n                                              consultation with official or \r\n                                              non-official authorities, both or \r\n                                              either of the following \r\n                                              functions:&#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\r\n                                              (a) any research on agricultural \r\n                                              credit, marketing of agricultural \r\n                                              produce, agricultural credit \r\n                                              co-operative societies, cottage \r\n                                              industries and other similar \r\n                                              subjects; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the provision of training \r\n                                              facilities, including the \r\n                                              establishment of training \r\n                                              institutes, for the benefit of its \r\n                                              personnel and those of \r\n                                              co-operative societies and other \r\n                                              bodies corporate which may have \r\n                                              financial relations with the Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              	<a name=16></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Preference to \r\n                                              Institutions having Government \r\n                                              Investment, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s.12].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=17></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Repayment of Loans in \r\n                                              Full in Certain Circumstances.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding any agreement to \r\n                                              the contrary, the Bank may by \r\n                                              giving notice, require any loan to \r\n                                              be paid in full forthwith to the \r\n                                              Bank in any of the following \r\n                                              circumstances:&#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) where the borrower has failed \r\n                                              to comply with any term of the \r\n                                              agreement under which the relevant \r\n                                              loan, advance or credit has been \r\n                                              granted;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) where in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Bank false or misleading \r\n                                              information on any material \r\n                                              particular has been given in the \r\n                                              application for the relevant loan, \r\n                                              advance or credit or in any other \r\n                                              statement or communication made in \r\n                                              connection with any loan, advance \r\n                                              or credit granted;</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) where the property mortgaged, \r\n                                              hypothecated or assigned to the \r\n                                              Bank as security for the advance, \r\n                                              loan or credit is not maintained, \r\n                                              in proper condition, to the \r\n                                              satisfaction of the Bank or its \r\n                                              value as estimated by the Bank has \r\n                                              depreciated by more than twenty \r\n                                              per centum, and further security \r\n                                              to the satisfaction of the Bank \r\n                                              has not been given within the time \r\n                                              specified by the Bank;</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) where without the permission \r\n                                              of the Bank, any property pledged, \r\n                                              mortgaged, hypothecated or \r\n                                              assigned to the Bank is leased or \r\n                                              rented to a third party or is in \r\n                                              any way charged, disposed of or \r\n                                              removed from the place where it \r\n                                              was at the time the loan, advance, \r\n                                              or credit was granted;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) where the loan is not used for \r\n                                              the purpose for which it was \r\n                                              granted, or for any other reason \r\n                                              it is necessary in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Bank to protect its interests.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=18></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Recovery of Debts.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where any borrower who is, by \r\n                                              the terms of an agreement under \r\n                                              any liability to the Bank, makes \r\n                                              default in repayment or otherwise \r\n                                              fails to comply with such terms, \r\n                                              the default or failure not being \r\n                                              due to natural calamity, the Bank \r\n                                              may, subject to any regulations \r\n                                              made in this behalf under this \r\n                                              Act, take over the management of \r\n                                              the business of the borrower and \r\n                                              sell or realise any property \r\n                                              pledged, mortgaged, hypothecated \r\n                                              or assigned by the borrower to \r\n                                              secure his liability to the Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to any prior claim of \r\n                                              the Government and to any claim in \r\n                                              respect of rent, any debt or \r\n                                              liability owed to the Bank by any \r\n                                              borrower as specified in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be a first charge:&#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\r\n                                              (a) upon any crops or other \r\n                                              agricultural produce raised in \r\n                                              whole or in part by means of the \r\n                                              loan obtained from the Bank by the \r\n                                              borrower, 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) upon any cattle, fodder for \r\n                                              cattle, agricultural or industrial \r\n                                              implements, or raw materials for \r\n                                              manufacture, or upon workshops, \r\n                                              stores or places of business \r\n                                              purchased by such borrower in \r\n                                              whole or in part with the proceeds \r\n                                              of any loan.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Sums due from a co-operative \r\n                                              society and recoverable under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section may \r\n                                              be recovered in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of law for the time \r\n                                              being in force relating to the \r\n                                              recovery of such sums.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=19></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Borrowing Powers of \r\n                                              Bank.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Bank may with the approval of \r\n                                              the Minister, borrow, raise or \r\n                                              guarantee any sum of money from \r\n                                              any source whether in or outside \r\n                                              Ghana, upon such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as it may deem fit; and \r\n                                              for the purpose of securing the \r\n                                              same and interest thereon create, \r\n                                              issue, make or give any bonds or \r\n                                              debentures, or create a mortgage \r\n                                              or charge on the whole or part of \r\n                                              the property, rights, present or \r\n                                              future of the Bank.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=20></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Guarantees and Loans \r\n                                              Repayable by Government.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may in writing, \r\n                                              in the name and on behalf of the \r\n                                              Government or any agent thereof, \r\n                                              on such terms and conditions as \r\n                                              may be determined by the Minister;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) guarantee, 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) agree to repay,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              loans raised by the Bank from any \r\n                                              international financial \r\n                                              organisation or from any foreign \r\n                                              financial institution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Loans guaranteed or agreed to \r\n                                              be repaid under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section may be denominated in \r\n                                              foreign currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All moneys payable under any \r\n                                              guarantee or agreement under this \r\n                                              section shall be charged on the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=21></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Management of Special \r\n                                              Funds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Bank may establish, or be \r\n                                              entrusted with the administration \r\n                                              of special funds which are \r\n                                              designed to serve a particular \r\n                                              purpose.&nbsp; It may receive, hold, \r\n                                              use, commit or otherwise dispose \r\n                                              of resources appertaining to such \r\n                                              special funds.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Bank shall whenever \r\n                                              requested to manage any funds \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section maintain separate records \r\n                                              or accounts for such funds and \r\n                                              shall specify them separately on \r\n                                              the balance sheets and other \r\n                                              financial records of the Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;RESERVES, AUDIT, RETURNS, \r\n                                              ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=22></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;General Reserve Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Bank shall establish a \r\n                                              fund to be called the General \r\n                                              Reserve Fund and create from time \r\n                                              to time such other reserves as the \r\n                                              Board may determine with the prior \r\n                                              approval of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) After making adequate \r\n                                              provisions for bad and doubtful \r\n                                              debts, depreciation of assets, \r\n                                              contribution to staff and \r\n                                              superannuation funds and other \r\n                                              contingencies and for any other \r\n                                              purpose to which the profits of \r\n                                              the Bank may properly be applied, \r\n                                              there shall be transferred to the \r\n                                              General Reserve Fund:&#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 whole of the net profits \r\n                                              of the Bank, if the amount of \r\n                                              moneys in such fund is less than \r\n                                              one-quarter of the paid up capital \r\n                                              of the Bank; [As amended \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 13].</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) three-quarter of the net \r\n                                              profits of the Bank, if the amount \r\n                                              of moneys in such Fund is less \r\n                                              than one-half of the paid up \r\n                                              capital of the Bank; [As amended \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 13].</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) one-half of the net profits of \r\n                                              the Bank if the amount of moneys \r\n                                              in such Fund is less than the paid \r\n                                              up capital of the Bank; [As \r\n                                              amended Agricultural Development \r\n                                              Bank Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree \r\n                                              1967 (NLCD 182) s. 13].</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) one-quarter of the net profits \r\n                                              of the Bank if the amount of \r\n                                              moneys in such Fund is not less \r\n                                              than the paid up capital of the \r\n                                              Bank; and&nbsp; [As amended \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 13].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) any moneys thereafter \r\n                                              remaining, after the payment of \r\n                                              dividends declared by the Board.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=23></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Dividends.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Bank shall not declare nor \r\n                                              pay any dividends in excess of \r\n                                              four per centum per annum on \r\n                                              shares issued other than to the \r\n                                              Government at any time when the \r\n                                              amount of moneys in the general \r\n                                              reserve fund is less than one-half \r\n                                              of the paid up capital of the \r\n                                              Bank. [As amended Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s. 14 (1) (2) (3)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=24></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An auditor shall be elected \r\n                                              and his remuneration fixed by the \r\n                                              Board in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If any casual vacancy occurs \r\n                                              in the office of auditor, the \r\n                                              vacancy shall be filled by the \r\n                                              Board in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) An auditor shall be eligible \r\n                                              for re-election.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              foregoing provisions of this \r\n                                              section, the Minister may at any \r\n                                              time, in his absolute discretion \r\n                                              request the Auditor-General or \r\n                                              such other auditors as the \r\n                                              Minister may appoint, to examine \r\n                                              and report on the accounts of the \r\n                                              Bank and the Bank shall provide \r\n                                              all necessary and proper \r\n                                              facilities therefor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=25></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Duties and Powers of \r\n                                              Auditors, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the discharge of his \r\n                                              functions under this Act the \r\n                                              auditor of the Bank shall have \r\n                                              access at all reasonable times to \r\n                                              the books, accounts and other \r\n                                              documents of the Bank and may at \r\n                                              the expense of the Bank if \r\n                                              appointed by the Bank and at the \r\n                                              expense of the Government if \r\n                                              appointed by the Minister, employ \r\n                                              accountants or other persons to \r\n                                              assist him in investigating the \r\n                                              accounts and may in relation to \r\n                                              such accounts examine any director \r\n                                              or employee of the Bank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The auditor of the Bank shall \r\n                                              be supplied by the Bank with all \r\n                                              notices and other communications \r\n                                              relating to any general meeting \r\n                                              which any shareholder of the Bank \r\n                                              is entitled to receive and shall \r\n                                              be entitled to attend any such \r\n                                              meeting and to be heard thereat on \r\n                                              any part of the business of the \r\n                                              meeting which concerns him as \r\n                                              auditor but he shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to vote on any matter \r\n                                              before the meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) The auditor shall make a \r\n                                              report to the shareholders or to \r\n                                              the Minister, as the case may be, \r\n                                              upon the annual statements of \r\n                                              accounts and in every such report \r\n                                              he shall state whether, in his \r\n                                              opinion, the balance sheet shows a \r\n                                              full and fair view of the state of \r\n                                              the Bank''s affairs, and where he \r\n                                              has called for any explanation or \r\n                                              information from the Board, \r\n                                              whether it was given and whether \r\n                                              it is satisfactory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any such report made to the \r\n                                              shareholder shall be read together \r\n                                              with the report of the Board at \r\n                                              the annual general meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Bank shall furnish to the \r\n                                              Minister such returns and \r\n                                              statements concerning the affairs \r\n                                              of the Bank as the Minister may \r\n                                              require from time to time.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=26></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Internal Auditor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a Chief Internal \r\n                                              Auditor of the Bank who shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the Board after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=27></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#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 Board shall cause proper \r\n                                              accounts and other records in \r\n                                              relation thereto to be kept; and \r\n                                              the books of accounts of the Bank \r\n                                              shall be balanced on the \r\n                                              thirty-first day of December of \r\n                                              each year and shall be audited by \r\n                                              the auditor of the Bank.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The annual statement of \r\n                                              accounts as audited shall be \r\n                                              signed by the Chairman, two \r\n                                              directors, the Chief Accountant \r\n                                              and the Secretary and shall be \r\n                                              sent to the Minister not later \r\n                                              than three months after the close \r\n                                              of each financial year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The annual statement of \r\n                                              accounts shall as soon as may be \r\n                                              practicable, be laid by the \r\n                                              Minister before Parliament and \r\n                                              shall be published in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) The Bank shall:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              exhibit throughout the year in a \r\n                                              conspicuous position in every \r\n                                              office or branch of the Bank in \r\n                                              Ghana a copy of its last audited \r\n                                              balance-sheet;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) on or about the date of the \r\n                                              presentation of the accounts to \r\n                                              the shareholders in general \r\n                                              meeting, cause a copy thereof to \r\n                                              be published in a daily newspaper \r\n                                              circulating in Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) not later than seven days \r\n                                              prior to the date of the general \r\n                                              meeting send a copy thereof to \r\n                                              each shareholder entitled to \r\n                                              attend such meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;EXEMPTIONS, ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n												<a name=28></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Exemption from Income \r\n                                              Tax.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Bank shall be exempt from \r\n                                              income tax or duty imposed by the \r\n                                              Income Tax Decree, 1966 (NLCD 78) \r\n                                              or any statutory modifications or \r\n                                              re-enactment thereof. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n												<a name=29></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Non-application of Act \r\n                                              179.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of the Companies \r\n                                              Code, 1963 (Act 179), or any \r\n                                              statutory modifications or \r\n                                              re-enactment thereof shall not \r\n                                              apply to the Bank. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=30></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Limitation of Liability \r\n                                              of Shares.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The liability of any holder of \r\n                                              shares in the Bank shall be \r\n                                              limited to the amount, if any, \r\n                                              unpaid on the shares held by such \r\n                                              holder. [As substituted by \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank Act, \r\n                                              1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182) s. 15].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=31></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Liquidation of Bank.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Bank shall not be placed in \r\n                                              liquidation except under an Act \r\n                                              passed in that behalf and in \r\n                                              accordance with its provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=32></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Service of Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Any document may be served on the \r\n                                              Bank by leaving it at or sending \r\n                                              it by registered post to, the head \r\n                                              office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=33></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) Any person who contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, for which \r\n                                              no other penalty has been \r\n                                              expressly provided in this Act, or \r\n                                              knowingly makes an incorrect \r\n                                              statement in a document submitted \r\n                                              by him or an incorrect reply to a \r\n                                              question asked of him for the \r\n                                              purpose of this Act, or uses any \r\n                                              loan or advance for any purpose \r\n                                              other than that for which it was \r\n                                              granted by the Bank, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and shall be \r\n                                              liable, after summary trial to a \r\n                                              fine of two hundred pounds or to a \r\n                                              term of imprisonment, not \r\n                                              exceeding one year or to both such \r\n                                              fine and imprisonment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of an offence by a \r\n                                              body of persons:&#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) where the body of persons is a \r\n                                              body corporate every director and \r\n                                              officer of the body corporate \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be guilty of \r\n                                              that offence;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where the body of persons is a \r\n                                              firm, every partner of that firm \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be guilty of \r\n                                              that offence; 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) where such body is any other \r\n                                              body of persons, every individual \r\n                                              constituting such body shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be guilty of that \r\n                                              offence:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Provided that no such person shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be guilty of the \r\n                                              offence, if he proves that such \r\n                                              offence was committed without his \r\n                                              knowledge or that he exercised \r\n                                              diligence to prevent the \r\n                                              commission of the offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=34></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Officers and Advisers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Bank may appoint or employ \r\n                                              such persons, including advisers \r\n                                              as it considers necessary for the \r\n                                              efficient performance of its \r\n                                              operations on such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as may be specified in \r\n                                              regulations made under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=35></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Protection of \r\n                                              Directors, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No Director, officer or other \r\n                                              employee of the Bank shall be \r\n                                              liable for any act done by him \r\n                                              bona fide in the discharge of his \r\n                                              functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=36></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Disclosure of \r\n                                              Information, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person, of whatever \r\n                                              designation, participating in the \r\n                                              direction, administration, control \r\n                                              and the running of the Bank shall \r\n                                              disclose any written or oral \r\n                                              information which he has obtained \r\n                                              by virtue of any function of his \r\n                                              under this Act, unless he is \r\n                                              otherwise called upon to give \r\n                                              evidence in a court of competent \r\n                                              jurisdiction or to fulfil any \r\n                                              obligation imposed by law or in \r\n                                              the discharge of any such \r\n                                              function.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who contravenes \r\n                                              this section shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and shall, on summary \r\n                                              conviction, be liable to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term of five \r\n                                              (but not less than five) years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=37></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Member of the Council \r\n                                              responsible for Finance; may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, make \r\n                                              regulations for any matter in \r\n                                              respect of which regulations are \r\n                                              required to be made under this Act \r\n                                              and for carrying out the \r\n                                              principles and provisions of this \r\n                                              Act. [As amended by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s. 16 (1)].</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                                              provisions of subsection (1), such \r\n                                              regulations may provide for all or \r\n                                              any of the following matters:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) the manner in which the \r\n                                              conditions subject to which the \r\n                                              shares of the Bank may be held and \r\n                                              transferred, and generally all \r\n                                              matters relating to the rights and \r\n                                              duties of the shareholders;</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 duties and powers of the \r\n                                              Chairman;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the manner, conditions and \r\n                                              terms of issue and redemption of \r\n                                              funds and debentures;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the conditions on which \r\n                                              advances, loans and credit may be \r\n                                              granted to either or both the \r\n                                              following description of persons&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              any person discharging any \r\n                                              function under this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) the individuals, co-operative \r\n                                              societies and other bodies \r\n                                              corporate with whom such person or \r\n                                              his relatives is or are connected \r\n                                              as partners, directors, managers, \r\n                                              servants, shareholders or \r\n                                              otherwise;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the conduct of business at the \r\n                                              meetings of the Board. [As amended \r\n                                              by Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 16 (2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the procedure for the recovery \r\n                                              of loans and other debts due to \r\n                                              the Bank;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (g) the disclosure of interest, \r\n                                              direct or indirect, of a Director \r\n                                              in any application for loans;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) the recruitment of the \r\n                                              employees of the Bank, the terms \r\n                                              and conditions of their service, \r\n                                              the constitution and management of \r\n                                              Provident Funds for the employees \r\n                                              of the Bank and all other matters \r\n                                              connected with any of these \r\n                                              matters;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the duties and conduct of \r\n                                              employees and agents;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) the form of returns and \r\n                                              statements;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) preparation of annual \r\n                                              estimates of income and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Bank and their \r\n                                              submission to the Board and the \r\n                                              Minister; 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                                              (l) the registration of farmers \r\n                                              who have incurred debts to such \r\n                                              other farmers or other persons, \r\n                                              the repayment of such debts by \r\n                                              loans from the Bank and for other \r\n                                              matters connected with such \r\n                                              repayment, save as otherwise \r\n                                              expressly provided in this Act.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=37A></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37A&#8212; Bye-laws.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board may, with the prior \r\n                                              approval of the Minister make \r\n                                              bye-laws not inconsistent with the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act regulating \r\n                                              its functions under this Act \r\n                                              including the following, namely:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the operating policy, rules \r\n                                              and procedures, and conduct of the \r\n                                              general business of the Bank;</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 books and accounts to be \r\n                                              kept at the head office and \r\n                                              branches of the Bank;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) the conduct and defence of \r\n                                              legal proceedings and the manner \r\n                                              of signing pleadings; 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) the constitution and \r\n                                              management of a provident fund for \r\n                                              the employees of the Bank. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank (Amendment) Act, \r\n                                              1970 s. 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 37B&#8212; Bye-laws. </span></b>\r\n\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The remuneration of the Directors \r\n                                              shall be determined by the \r\n                                              Minister of Finance and Economic \r\n                                              Planning. [As inserted by \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1970 s. 1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=38></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;agriculture&quot; includes the raising \r\n                                              of crops, horticulture, forestry, \r\n                                              fishery, animal husbandry, poultry \r\n                                              farming, dairy farming, \r\n                                              bee-keeping and agriculture;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;agriculturist&quot; means any person \r\n                                              engaged in agriculture, farming or \r\n                                              in the development of agriculture \r\n                                              or agricultural produce, or in the \r\n                                              storage, warehousing, marketing or \r\n                                              processing of agricultural \r\n                                              produce;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Bank&quot; means the Development Bank \r\n                                              established by section 1 of this \r\n                                              Act; [As amended by Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s. 17 (1)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Chairman&quot; means Chairman of the \r\n                                              Board of Directors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;co-operative society&quot; means any \r\n                                              Co-operative Society registered in \r\n                                              Ghana under any law for the time \r\n                                              being in force relating to the \r\n                                              registration of Co-operative \r\n                                              Societies;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;cottage industry&quot; means an \r\n                                              industry which is carried on \r\n                                              wholly or mainly by the members of \r\n                                              a family either as a full-time \r\n                                              occupation or by a group of such \r\n                                              persons who have formed themselves \r\n                                              into a co-operative society; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Council&quot; means the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council [As substituted \r\n                                              by Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 17 (2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=39></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;Vesting of Assets, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All rights, assets and property \r\n                                              held for, or on behalf of, the \r\n                                              Rural Credit Department of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, and all liabilities \r\n                                              of the said Department shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have been vested, with \r\n                                              effect from August 1, 1965, in the \r\n                                              Agricultural Credit and \r\n                                              Co-operative Bank, in this Decree \r\n                                              referred to as the Agricultural \r\n                                              Development Bank. [As substituted \r\n                                              by Agricultural Development Bank \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree 1967 \r\n                                              (NLCD 182) s. 18].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=40></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;Member of Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The principal Act is hereby \r\n                                              amended by the substitution for \r\n                                              the word Minister, wherever that \r\n                                              word occurs therein, of the words \r\n                                              Member of the Council responsible \r\n                                              for Finance. [As&nbsp; inserted by \r\n                                              Agricultural Credit and \r\n                                              Co-operative Bank Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 182) \r\n                                              s. 19].</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CREDIT \r\n                                              AND CO-OPERATIVE BANK ACT, 1965 \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              182)2.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              THE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1970 (ACT 352)3.</span></p>\r\n', 'SECOND', 'Yes', 'ACT 286');
