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(106, 'CHIEFTAINCY ACT, 1971 (ACT 370)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1375" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY ACT, 1971 (ACT 370)</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                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1982 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 25)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) DECREE, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 166)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) (NO.2) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1973 (NRCD 226)3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1993 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 307)4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. National House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Functions and committees of \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Matters for consideration and \r\n                                              advice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Standing Orders of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Meetings of the National House \r\n                                              of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGIONAL HOUSES OF CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Regional Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Election of President of \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Existing Regional Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs to continue.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Functions and committees of \r\n                                              Regional Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Regional House of Chiefs to \r\n                                              make Standing Orders.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Meetings of Regional Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;TRADITIONAL COUNCILS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. President of Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Membership.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Jurisdiction in chieftaincy \r\n                                              disputes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Duty of persons to assist \r\n                                              Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;DIVISIONAL COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Division.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Divisional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Functions of Divisional \r\n                                              Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING \r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Judicial functions of National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs. Article 154 (3) \r\n                                              (a) of Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Original and appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction of Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs. Article 155 (1).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Evidence, etc. before judicial \r\n                                              committees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Security for costs, etc. in \r\n                                              proceedings before judicial \r\n                                              committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. General provisions relating to \r\n                                              judicial proceedings before Houses \r\n                                              of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Certain Appeals to operate as \r\n                                              stay of execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Proceedings before a \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28A. Vacancies in Judicial \r\n                                              Committees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Preservation of Stool property \r\n                                              affected by Disputes, etc</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Enforcement of judgment of \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs or Traditional \r\n                                              Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Protection of parties, counsel \r\n                                              and witnesses.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Obstruction of proceedings, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Right to bring proceedings for \r\n                                              destoolment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Proceedings in chieftaincy \r\n                                              matters to be recorded in writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Applications to two tribunals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;STOOL PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. What is stool property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Alienation of stool property \r\n                                              requires consent of Traditional \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Prohibition upon execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Recovery of stool property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;CUSTOMARY LAW</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. National House of Chiefs to \r\n                                              promote development of customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Functions of Traditional \r\n                                              Councils relating to customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Declaration of customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Alteration of customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              affected by same rule of customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              45. Assimilation of customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              46. Effect of assimilation. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              47. Power to include transitional \r\n                                              provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              48. Who is a chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              49. Categories of chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50. National Register of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              51. Enstoolments, destoolments, \r\n                                              etc. of chiefs to be reported to \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              52. Prohibition of persons \r\n                                              purporting to act as chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              53. Certain offences in connection \r\n                                              with chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IX&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              54. Staff of Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              55. Functions of Registrar to a \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56. Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              57. Funds of Houses of Chiefs and \r\n                                              Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              58. Estimates of Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              59. Accounts and audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60. Power of Minister to give \r\n                                              financial instructions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              61. Actions by or against Houses \r\n                                              of Chiefs and Traditional \r\n                                              Councils, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              62. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              63. Saving of rights of allegiance \r\n                                              and rights over land, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              64. Stool Lands account for each \r\n                                              Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              65. Annual statement of accounts \r\n                                              to be submitted to stools.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              66. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              67. Repeals and savings and \r\n                                              transitional provisions.</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 SEVENTIETH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE CHIEFTAINCY ACT, 1971</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to amend the statute law on \r\n                                              chieftaincy in order to bring it \r\n                                              into conformity with the \r\n                                              provisions of the Constitution and \r\n                                              to make other provisions relating \r\n                                              to chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 17th September, \r\n                                              1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The membership of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall be composed \r\n                                              of five chiefs from each Region of \r\n                                              Ghana elected by the House of \r\n                                              Chiefs of the Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have a President who shall \r\n                                              be Head of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall be a chief \r\n                                              elected by the members of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs from \r\n                                              among their number.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) There shall also be a \r\n                                              Vice-President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs who shall be a \r\n                                              chief elected by the said House \r\n                                              from among their number and who \r\n                                              shall act as the Head of that \r\n                                              House in the absence of the \r\n                                              President and shall perform the \r\n                                              functions of the President in the \r\n                                              absence of the President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              shall supervise any election of a \r\n                                              person as President, \r\n                                              Vice-President or member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs and he or \r\n                                              any public officer nominated by \r\n                                              him in writing shall be the \r\n                                              returning officer for any such \r\n                                              election.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The body known immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act as the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be deemed to be the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Any person holding the office \r\n                                              of President or Vice-President of \r\n                                              the said House or who was a member \r\n                                              of that House immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              be deemed to have been duly \r\n                                              elected for the purposes of this \r\n                                              Act with effect from the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) A person elected President or \r\n                                              Vice-President or member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs shall \r\n                                              hold office for three years but \r\n                                              shall upon the expiration of his \r\n                                              term of office be eligible for \r\n                                              re-election, so however that no \r\n                                              person shall be eligible to hold \r\n                                              office as President for more than \r\n                                              two terms in succession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be President or Vice- President \r\n                                              of the National House of Chiefs&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if he has been sentenced to \r\n                                              death or to a term of imprisonment \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months without \r\n                                              option of a fine or has been \r\n                                              convicted of an offence involving \r\n                                              dishonesty or moral turpitude and \r\n                                              in each case has not been granted \r\n                                              a free pardon; 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) if he is adjudged to be a \r\n                                              person of unsound mind; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if having been declared as an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law for the time being in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country he \r\n                                              is an undischarged insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) if being a person possessed of \r\n                                              professional qualifications, he is \r\n                                              disqualified from practising his \r\n                                              profession by the order of any \r\n                                              competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally, not \r\n                                              being an order made at his own \r\n                                              request or within five years \r\n                                              previously: </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that a person shall not \r\n                                              be deemed to be disqualified under \r\n                                              paragraph (a) of this subsection \r\n                                              if 5 years or more have elapsed \r\n                                              since the date of the conviction \r\n                                              or the end of the sentence \r\n                                              whichever is the later.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (11) Where a vacancy occurs in the \r\n                                              office of the President, \r\n                                              Vice-President or a member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs the \r\n                                              Registrar of that House shall \r\n                                              notify the Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              in writing of the occurrence of \r\n                                              that vacancy within 14 days of \r\n                                              such occurrence and the Electoral \r\n                                              Commissioner shall, by notice \r\n                                              published in the Local Government \r\n                                              Bulletin and in such other manner \r\n                                              as the Electoral Commissioner may \r\n                                              think fit summon a meeting of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs or the \r\n                                              respective Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs as the case may be, within \r\n                                              twenty-one days after being \r\n                                              notified of the vacancy for the \r\n                                              election of a President, \r\n                                              Vice-President or a member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs as the \r\n                                              case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (12) The Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              may by legislative instrument make \r\n                                              such rules as he may think \r\n                                              appropriate for regulating the \r\n                                              conduct of elections of the \r\n                                              President, Vice-President and \r\n                                              members of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Functions and Committees \r\n                                              of National House of Chiefs.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have the functions conferred \r\n                                              on it by article 154 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and also such other \r\n                                              functions as are conferred on it \r\n                                              by this Act or as may be conferred \r\n                                              on it from time to time by any \r\n                                              other enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs may appoint such committees \r\n                                              comprising such persons as it may \r\n                                              determine to assist it in the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions and \r\n                                              subject as aforesaid may delegate \r\n                                              to any such committee such of its \r\n                                              functions as it may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Standing Orders made under \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act may regulate \r\n                                              the composition, tenure of office \r\n                                              and procedure of such committees \r\n                                              and may also make such other \r\n                                              provision in relation to such \r\n                                              committees as may appear to the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs to be \r\n                                              expedient.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Matters for \r\n                                              Consideration and Advice.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National House of Chiefs shall \r\n                                              be responsible for advising any \r\n                                              person or authority charged by the \r\n                                              Constitution or any other \r\n                                              enactment with any responsibility \r\n                                              for any matter relating to \r\n                                              chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Standing Orders of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              make Standing Orders for the \r\n                                              regulation and orderly conduct of \r\n                                              its business.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall meet for the dispatch of its \r\n                                              business at such place and time as \r\n                                              that House may determine but shall \r\n                                              meet not less than twice in any \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall also call a \r\n                                              special meeting of the House upon \r\n                                              a request made in writing in that \r\n                                              behalf and signed by the President \r\n                                              of that House or not less than \r\n                                              one-half of the total number of \r\n                                              members of the House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted at \r\n                                              any meeting of the National House \r\n                                              of Chiefs at which there are \r\n                                              present less than one-half of the \r\n                                              total number of members of the \r\n                                              House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall, if present \r\n                                              at any meeting of the House, \r\n                                              preside at that meeting and in his \r\n                                              absence the Vice-President shall \r\n                                              preside and in the absence of the \r\n                                              Vice-President a member of the \r\n                                              House elected by the members \r\n                                              present from among their number \r\n                                              shall preside at that meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any question arising for \r\n                                              decision by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be determined by the \r\n                                              votes of the majority of the \r\n                                              members present and voting, and in \r\n                                              the event of an equality of votes \r\n                                              the President or other person \r\n                                              presiding at that meeting shall \r\n                                              have a second or casting vote:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that standing orders of \r\n                                              the National House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              provide for the participation in \r\n                                              the proceedings of the said House \r\n                                              by a member through a \r\n                                              representative and the casting of \r\n                                              votes by proxy or by any other \r\n                                              means of representation permitted \r\n                                              by customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The validity of the \r\n                                              proceedings at any meeting of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy in the \r\n                                              office of the President or \r\n                                              Vice-President or in the \r\n                                              membership of that House or by any \r\n                                              defect in the appointment or \r\n                                              election of any person holding \r\n                                              such office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGIONAL HOUSES OF CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Regional Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established \r\n                                              for each Region of Ghana a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall consist of such members as \r\n                                              may be specified in relation \r\n                                              thereto by legislative instrument \r\n                                              made by the President acting in \r\n                                              consultation with the Prime \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) There shall be a President of \r\n                                              each Regional House of Chiefs who \r\n                                              shall,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) be the Head of that House,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of the Ashanti \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs, be the \r\n                                              Asantehene, 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) in the case of any other \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs, be a \r\n                                              chief elected in the manner \r\n                                              specified by an instrument made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) There shall also be a \r\n                                              Vice-President of each such House \r\n                                              who shall be a chief elected by \r\n                                              the members of that House from \r\n                                              their number and shall act as Head \r\n                                              of that House in the absence of \r\n                                              the President and shall perform \r\n                                              the functions of the President in \r\n                                              the absence of the President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A President other than the \r\n                                              President of the Ashanti Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and a \r\n                                              Vice-President shall hold office \r\n                                              for three years and shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-election so \r\n                                              however that no person shall be \r\n                                              eligible for election as President \r\n                                              for more than two terms in \r\n                                              succession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where the seat of a member of \r\n                                              a Regional House of Chiefs becomes \r\n                                              vacant and his successor is \r\n                                              required by an instrument made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section to be drawn from a \r\n                                              specified group of Chiefs&#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 Registrar of the said \r\n                                              House shall notify the Electoral \r\n                                              Commissioner in writing of the \r\n                                              occurrence of the vacancy within \r\n                                              fourteen days of such occurrence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a meeting of the group shall \r\n                                              be convened by the Electoral \r\n                                              Commissioner by a notice published \r\n                                              in the Local Government Bulletin;</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) subject to the following \r\n                                              subsection, the meeting shall \r\n                                              proceed to the election of a new \r\n                                              member, who shall be taken to be \r\n                                              elected if he secures a simple \r\n                                              majority of the votes cast;</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 Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              shall cause to be published in the \r\n                                              Local Government Bulletin notice \r\n                                              of the result of the election \r\n                                              which notice shall be signed by \r\n                                              him or any public officer \r\n                                              authorised by him in writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) An election shall not be held \r\n                                              under subsection (6) of this \r\n                                              section if less than one-half of \r\n                                              the chiefs in the group are \r\n                                              present and where&#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) an insufficient number of \r\n                                              chiefs is present, 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) no chief obtains a majority of \r\n                                              votes cast,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the new member shall be nominated \r\n                                              by the Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              from among the chiefs in the group \r\n                                              to which the election relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) A new member elected or \r\n                                              nominated under subsection (6) or \r\n                                              (7) of this section shall hold \r\n                                              office for two years and shall \r\n                                              then vacate his seat and any such \r\n                                              member vacating his seat shall be \r\n                                              eligible to fill the vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Election of President of \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the office of the President \r\n                                              of a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              becomes vacant and his successor \r\n                                              is required by an instrument made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of section 6 \r\n                                              of this Act to be elected from \r\n                                              among the members or a specified \r\n                                              group of members&#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 Registrar of the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall notify the \r\n                                              Electoral Commissioner in writing \r\n                                              of the occurrence of the vacancy \r\n                                              within fourteen days after the \r\n                                              said occurrence,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a meeting of the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall be convened \r\n                                              by the Electoral Commissioner by \r\n                                              notice published in the Local \r\n                                              Government Bulletin,</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) subject to subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 11 of this Act the meeting \r\n                                              shall proceed to the election \r\n                                              under the supervision of the \r\n                                              Electoral Commissioner or any \r\n                                              public officer authorised by him \r\n                                              in writing, by secret ballot of \r\n                                              the President, who shall be taken \r\n                                              to be elected if he secures a \r\n                                              simple majority of the votes cast,</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 Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              shall publish the result of the \r\n                                              election in the Local Government \r\n                                              Bulletin giving the total number \r\n                                              of votes cast and the number cast \r\n                                              in favour of the successful \r\n                                              candidate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Existing Regional Houses \r\n                                              of Chiefs to Continue.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Regional Houses of Chiefs \r\n                                              in existence immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be the Regional \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs for the purposes \r\n                                              of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Until an instrument is made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of section 6 \r\n                                              of this Act prescribing the \r\n                                              membership of any Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs, the membership of that \r\n                                              House shall be as it was \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person holding the office \r\n                                              of Head or Deputy Head (howsoever \r\n                                              called) or member of any such \r\n                                              House of Chiefs immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act, \r\n                                              shall continue to hold such office \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act so however that any such \r\n                                              person holding office as Head or \r\n                                              Deputy Head shall after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act be \r\n                                              referred to as the President or \r\n                                              Vice-President respectively of \r\n                                              that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a person to whom \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              applies is required by this Act to \r\n                                              be elected he shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been duly elected with effect \r\n                                              from the commencement of this Act.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Functions and Committees \r\n                                              of Regional Houses of Chiefs.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The authority of a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall apply within \r\n                                              its Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have in relation to its \r\n                                              Region the functions conferred on \r\n                                              it by article 155 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and also such other \r\n                                              functions as are conferred on it \r\n                                              by this Act or as may be conferred \r\n                                              on it from time to time by any \r\n                                              other enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If any matter is referred to \r\n                                              it by the National Assembly or the \r\n                                              Minister or any authority charged \r\n                                              by any enactment with \r\n                                              responsibility for any matter \r\n                                              relating to chieftaincy a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall give \r\n                                              consideration to the matter and \r\n                                              report on it as may be required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs may appoint such committees \r\n                                              comprising such persons as it may \r\n                                              determine to assist it in the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions, and \r\n                                              subject as aforesaid may delegate \r\n                                              to any such committee such of its \r\n                                              functions as it may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Standing Orders made under \r\n                                              section 10 of this Act may \r\n                                              regulate the composition, tenure \r\n                                              of office and procedure of such \r\n                                              committees and may also make such \r\n                                              other provision in relation to \r\n                                              such committees as may appear to \r\n                                              the House of Chiefs making the \r\n                                              Standing Orders to be expedient.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs to Make Standing Orders.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Each Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              make Standing Orders for the \r\n                                              regulation and orderly conduct of \r\n                                              its business.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Meetings of Regional \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall meet for the dispatch of its \r\n                                              business at such place and time as \r\n                                              that House may determine but shall \r\n                                              meet not less than twice in any \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar of each Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall also call a \r\n                                              special meeting of the House upon \r\n                                              a request made in that behalf and \r\n                                              signed by the President of that \r\n                                              House or not less than one-half of \r\n                                              the total number of members of \r\n                                              that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted at \r\n                                              any meeting of a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs at which there are present \r\n                                              less than one-half of the total \r\n                                              number of members of that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President of each Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall, if present \r\n                                              at any meeting of the House, \r\n                                              preside at that meeting and in his \r\n                                              absence the Vice-President or in \r\n                                              the absence of the Vice-President \r\n                                              a member of the House elected by \r\n                                              the members present from among \r\n                                              their number shall preside at that \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any question arising for \r\n                                              decision by any Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be determined by the \r\n                                              votes of the majority of persons \r\n                                              present and voting and in the \r\n                                              event of an equality of votes the \r\n                                              President or other person \r\n                                              presiding at that meeting shall \r\n                                              have a second or casting vote:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that Standing Orders of \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              provide for participation in the \r\n                                              proceedings of the said House by a \r\n                                              member through a representative \r\n                                              and the casting of votes by proxy \r\n                                              or by any other means of \r\n                                              representation permitted by \r\n                                              customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The validity of the \r\n                                              proceedings at any meeting of a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy in the \r\n                                              office of President or \r\n                                              Vice-President of or in the \r\n                                              membership of the House or by any \r\n                                              defect in the appointment or \r\n                                              election of any person holding \r\n                                              such office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Traditional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a Traditional \r\n                                              Council for each traditional area \r\n                                              and the Traditional Councils in \r\n                                              existence immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in existence for the \r\n                                              traditional areas in respect of \r\n                                              which they existed immediately \r\n                                              before the said commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The name of every Traditional \r\n                                              Council shall be shown in the \r\n                                              National Register of Chiefs \r\n                                              maintained under section 50 of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;President of Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in the case of a joint \r\n                                              Council, the Paramount Chief of a \r\n                                              traditional area or, in the case \r\n                                              of the Kumasi traditional area, \r\n                                              the Asantehene shall be the \r\n                                              President of the Traditional \r\n                                              Council.</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 a joint \r\n                                              Council, the President shall be \r\n                                              such of the Paramount Chiefs \r\n                                              exercising jurisdiction in the \r\n                                              traditional area in question as \r\n                                              the Minister may acting on the \r\n                                              advice of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs by notice published in the \r\n                                              Local Government Bulletin direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Membership.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section, a Traditional \r\n                                              Council shall consist, in addition \r\n                                              to the President, of the persons \r\n                                              shown in the National Register of \r\n                                              Chiefs as the members thereof.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to subsection (4) of \r\n                                              this section, the membership of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in the first \r\n                                              instance shall be the same as the \r\n                                              membership of that Council \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) As soon as practicable after \r\n                                              any change occurs in the \r\n                                              membership of a Traditional \r\n                                              Council the Council shall notify \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              thereof which shall in turn notify \r\n                                              the National House of Chiefs and, \r\n                                              subject to the following \r\n                                              subsection, the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall cause the said \r\n                                              Register to be altered \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs is satisfied after \r\n                                              consultation with the appropriate \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs that any \r\n                                              person should, or that any person \r\n                                              should not, be a member of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council, the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs may amend the \r\n                                              Register accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Jurisdiction in \r\n                                              Chieftaincy Disputes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and to any appeal \r\n                                              therefrom, a Traditional Council \r\n                                              shall have exclusive jurisdiction \r\n                                              to hear and determine any cause or \r\n                                              matter affecting chieftaincy which \r\n                                              arises within its area, not being \r\n                                              one to which the Asantehene or a \r\n                                              Paramount Chief is a party.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The jurisdiction conferred by \r\n                                              this section shall be exercised in \r\n                                              accordance with Part V of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Meetings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Meetings of a Traditional \r\n                                              Council shall be held at such \r\n                                              times and places as the President \r\n                                              of the Council may appoint, or in \r\n                                              his absence, inability, or refusal \r\n                                              to act, as may be demanded by not \r\n                                              less than one-half of the members \r\n                                              of the Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the President is from \r\n                                              any cause unable to attend a \r\n                                              meeting the Chief next in \r\n                                              seniority on the Council shall \r\n                                              preside over the meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted if \r\n                                              less than one-half of the total \r\n                                              number of members are present.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Duty of Persons to \r\n                                              Assist Traditional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of every \r\n                                              person who, under customary law, \r\n                                              is required to perform any \r\n                                              specific duty when so required by \r\n                                              the appropriate Traditional \r\n                                              Council, to assist in carrying out \r\n                                              the functions imposed upon the \r\n                                              Council at customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person who fails without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse to comply with a \r\n                                              requirement under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢100.00. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;DIVISIONAL COUNCILS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Division.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              division is any area which is \r\n                                              specified in the National Register \r\n                                              of Chiefs as a division.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Divisional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a division falls within \r\n                                              a traditional area the Traditional \r\n                                              Council concerned may create in \r\n                                              respect of that division a \r\n                                              Divisional Council which shall \r\n                                              comprise such members as that \r\n                                              Traditional Council may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a Division does not fall \r\n                                              within a traditional area the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs of the \r\n                                              Region in which the division falls \r\n                                              may create a Divisional Council in \r\n                                              respect of that division, \r\n                                              comprising such members as the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Meetings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a President of \r\n                                              a Divisional Council who shall be \r\n                                              such person as may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of a Divisional \r\n                                              Council created under subsection \r\n                                              (1) of section 19, be determined \r\n                                              by the Traditional Council \r\n                                              concerned, or </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of a Council \r\n                                              created under subsection (2) of \r\n                                              section 19, be determined by the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Meetings of Divisional Council \r\n                                              shall be held at such times and \r\n                                              places as the President may \r\n                                              appoint or as may be demanded by \r\n                                              not less than one-half of the \r\n                                              members of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the President is from \r\n                                              any cause unable to attend a \r\n                                              meeting a member of the Council \r\n                                              elected by the members present \r\n                                              from among their number shall \r\n                                              preside at that meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted if \r\n                                              less than one-half of the total \r\n                                              number of members are present.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Functions of Divisional \r\n                                              Councils.</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, acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              Traditional Council concerned or \r\n                                              where there is no Traditional \r\n                                              Council for the area, acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs assign \r\n                                              functions to a Divisional Council \r\n                                              including functions with respect \r\n                                              to any cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the function of hearing \r\n                                              and determining any cause or \r\n                                              matter affecting chieftaincy has \r\n                                              been conferred on a Divisional \r\n                                              Council under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act relating to the exercise \r\n                                              by a Traditional Council of that \r\n                                              function shall, with the necessary \r\n                                              modifications, apply to the \r\n                                              Divisional Council as they apply \r\n                                              to a Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING \r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Judicial Functions of \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs. Article \r\n                                              154 (3) (a) of Constitution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have appellate jurisdiction \r\n                                              in any matter relating to \r\n                                              chieftaincy which has been \r\n                                              determined by the House of Chiefs \r\n                                              in a Region from which appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction there shall be an \r\n                                              appeal with the leave of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court or the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs to the Supreme \r\n                                              Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person aggrieved by any \r\n                                              judgment or order of a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs in the exercise of \r\n                                              its original or appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction may appeal to the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs as of \r\n                                              right, against such judgment or \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The appellate jurisdiction \r\n                                              conferred on the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be exercised by a \r\n                                              judicial committee of that House \r\n                                              comprising five persons appointed \r\n                                              by that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A judicial committee shall be \r\n                                              assisted by counsel who shall&nbsp; be \r\n                                              a lawyer of not less than seven \r\n                                              years'' standing as a lawyer \r\n                                              appointed by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs on the recommendation&nbsp; of \r\n                                              the Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) An appeal to the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs against a judgment \r\n                                              or order of a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be lodged within \r\n                                              thirty days after the decision \r\n                                              appealed against:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs or the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs may if it appears to it \r\n                                              just so to do extend such period \r\n                                              for a further period expiring not \r\n                                              later than two months from the \r\n                                              date of the decision appealed \r\n                                              against.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Upon any such appeal the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              section, confirm, reverse or vary \r\n                                              the decision appealed against, or \r\n                                              remit the matter or any part \r\n                                              thereof for reconsideration by the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs from \r\n                                              whose decision the appeal is \r\n                                              brought and in each case subject \r\n                                              to such&nbsp; conditions or directions \r\n                                              as the National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              may consider fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Original and Appellate \r\n                                              Jurisdiction of Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs. Article 155(1).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have the following original \r\n                                              and appellate jurisdiction:&#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) original jurisdiction in all \r\n                                              matters relating to a paramount \r\n                                              stool or the occupant of a \r\n                                              paramount stool, 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) appellate jurisdiction to hear \r\n                                              and determine subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of clause (3) of \r\n                                              article 105 of the Constitution \r\n                                              appeals from the highest \r\n                                              Traditional Councils within the \r\n                                              area of authority of the \r\n                                              Traditional Authority within which \r\n                                              they are established, in respect \r\n                                              of the nomination, election, \r\n                                              appointment, installation or \r\n                                              deposition of any person as a \r\n                                              Chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each such House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall also have jurisdiction to \r\n                                              hear and determine appeals against \r\n                                              any judgment or order given or \r\n                                              made by any Traditional Council in \r\n                                              any other cause or matter \r\n                                              affecting chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person aggrieved by any \r\n                                              judgment or order made by a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in any cause \r\n                                              or matter affecting chieftaincy \r\n                                              may appeal to the House of Chiefs \r\n                                              of the Region as of right against \r\n                                              the judgment or order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The original and appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction conferred on each \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs shall be \r\n                                              exercised by a judicial committee \r\n                                              of that House comprising three \r\n                                              persons appointed by that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A judicial committee appointed \r\n                                              under this section shall be \r\n                                              assisted by Counsel who shall be a \r\n                                              lawyer of not less than five \r\n                                              years'' standing as a lawyer \r\n                                              appointed by the Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs on the recommendation of \r\n                                              the Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any appeal to a Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs against a judgment or \r\n                                              order of a Traditional Council \r\n                                              shall be lodged within thirty days \r\n                                              after the judgment or order \r\n                                              appealed against unless the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs upon \r\n                                              application made to it within \r\n                                              thirty days after the expiration \r\n                                              of the period within hich an \r\n                                              appeal may be lodged under this \r\n                                              subsection, grants an extension of \r\n                                              time within which to lodge an \r\n                                              appeal.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Chieftaincy (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 166), s.1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Upon any such appeal a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              section confirm, reverse or vary \r\n                                              the decision appealed against or \r\n                                              remit the matter or any part \r\n                                              thereof for reconsideration to the \r\n                                              Traditional Council from which the \r\n                                              appeal is brought and in each case \r\n                                              subject to such conditions or \r\n                                              directions as the Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs may consider fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Evidence, Etc. Before \r\n                                              Judicial Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A judicial committee may \r\n                                              receive in evidence any matter \r\n                                              (including hearsay) which tends to \r\n                                              prove or disprove any fact \r\n                                              relevant to the subject matter \r\n                                              before the committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any such committee may in \r\n                                              connection with any such matter do \r\n                                              all or any of the following acts \r\n                                              as may be done by the High Court \r\n                                              in proceedings before the High \r\n                                              Court:&#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) make presumptions of law or \r\n                                              fact,</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) take cognisance of matters \r\n                                              which are so notorious or clearly \r\n                                              established that evidence of their \r\n                                              existence is deemed unnecessary,</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) draw inferences from facts \r\n                                              already in evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              this section a judicial committee \r\n                                              shall not make any finding of fact \r\n                                              or draw any inference from any \r\n                                              fact based solely on hearsay \r\n                                              evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any party to proceedings \r\n                                              before a judicial committee may \r\n                                              appear in person or by counsel and \r\n                                              any other person required or \r\n                                              entitled to appear may appear \r\n                                              either in person or with leave of \r\n                                              the committee by counsel.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The following provisions of \r\n                                              this section shall apply for the \r\n                                              purpose of ascertainment of \r\n                                              customary law in proceedings \r\n                                              before a judicial committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any question as to the \r\n                                              existence or content of a rule of \r\n                                              customary law is a question of law \r\n                                              for the committee and not a \r\n                                              question of fact.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) If the committee entertains \r\n                                              any doubt as to the existence or \r\n                                              content of a rule of customary law \r\n                                              relevant in any proceedings after \r\n                                              considering such submissions \r\n                                              thereon as may be made by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the parties and \r\n                                              consulting such reported cases, \r\n                                              textbooks and other sources as may \r\n                                              be appropriate, the committee \r\n                                              shall adjourn the proceedings to \r\n                                              enable an enquiry to take place \r\n                                              under the next subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The inquiry shall be held as \r\n                                              part of the proceedings in such \r\n                                              manner as the committee considers \r\n                                              expedient, and the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act relating to the \r\n                                              attendance and testimony of \r\n                                              witnesses shall apply for the \r\n                                              purpose of the tendering of \r\n                                              opinions to the committee at the \r\n                                              inquiry, but shall apply subject \r\n                                              to such modifications as may \r\n                                              appear to the committee to be \r\n                                              necessary: </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the decision as to the persons \r\n                                              who are to be heard at the inquiry \r\n                                              shall be one for the committee, \r\n                                              after hearing such submissions \r\n                                              thereon as may be made by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the parties;</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 committee may request any \r\n                                              authority or body possessing \r\n                                              knowledge of the customary law in \r\n                                              question to state its opinion \r\n                                              which may be laid before the \r\n                                              inquiry in written form.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Security for Costs, \r\n                                              Etc. in Proceedings Before \r\n                                              Judicial Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A judicial committee may \r\n                                              require the applicant in \r\n                                              proceedings before it to give \r\n                                              security for costs of the \r\n                                              application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In every case determined by a \r\n                                              judicial committee the costs shall \r\n                                              be in the discretion of the \r\n                                              committee.</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 the \r\n                                              recovery of costs, a certificate \r\n                                              of the committee setting forth the \r\n                                              particulars may be filed without \r\n                                              payment of any fee with the High \r\n                                              Court and when so filed shall be \r\n                                              accepted by that Court as \r\n                                              sufficient evidence of the facts \r\n                                              so certified and costs imposed \r\n                                              under this section may be taxed as \r\n                                              if imposed by the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;General Provisions \r\n                                              Relating to Judicial Proceedings \r\n                                              Before Houses&nbsp;&nbsp; of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              or a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have in relation to any \r\n                                              appeal coming before it all the \r\n                                              powers of the tribunal from which \r\n                                              the appeal is brought. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the exercise of the \r\n                                              judicial power of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs, each such house \r\n                                              shall have such powers, rights and \r\n                                              privileges as are vested in the \r\n                                              High Court of Justice or a Judge \r\n                                              thereof at a trial in respect of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) enforcing the attendance of \r\n                                              witnesses and examining them on \r\n                                              oath, affirmation or otherwise,</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) compelling the production of \r\n                                              documents, and the issue of a \r\n                                              commission or request to examine \r\n                                              witnesses abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act the practice and \r\n                                              procedure of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs and of a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs in the exercise of their \r\n                                              judicial functions shall be \r\n                                              regulated by rules made in \r\n                                              consultation with the respective \r\n                                              House by the Rules of Court \r\n                                              Committee established by Article \r\n                                              121 of the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A member of any judicial \r\n                                              committee appointed under this Act \r\n                                              or the Counsel thereto shall not \r\n                                              be liable to any action or suit in \r\n                                              respect of any matter or thing \r\n                                              done by him in the performance of \r\n                                              his functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any member of such Committee \r\n                                              or the Counsel thereto shall in \r\n                                              relation to the exercise of any \r\n                                              function under this Act be deemed \r\n                                              to be a public officer for the \r\n                                              purposes of the Criminal Code, \r\n                                              1960 (Act 29). </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) A person who does anything in \r\n                                              relation to the exercise of the \r\n                                              judicial functions of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs or a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs which if done in \r\n                                              relation to the High Court will \r\n                                              constitute a contempt of that \r\n                                              court shall be guilty of contempt \r\n                                              of that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where it appears to a judicial \r\n                                              committee that any person has \r\n                                              committed contempt of the House of \r\n                                              Chiefs by which that committee was \r\n                                              appointed it shall certify that \r\n                                              fact to the High Court and the \r\n                                              High Court shall after inquiring \r\n                                              into the matter take steps for the \r\n                                              punishment of the person in \r\n                                              question if it is satisfied that \r\n                                              he is guilty of contempt, and \r\n                                              shall otherwise acquit that \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The functions of any counsel \r\n                                              appointed to assist any judicial \r\n                                              committee under section 22 or 23 \r\n                                              of this Act shall be to advise the \r\n                                              committee on all matters of law, \r\n                                              including in particular, evidence, \r\n                                              procedure and interpretation of \r\n                                              documents and statutes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Certain Appeals to \r\n                                              Operate as Stay of Execution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An appeal to the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs or a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs against a final judgment or \r\n                                              order shall operate as a stay of \r\n                                              execution of the judgment or order \r\n                                              appealed against, and any other \r\n                                              order made consequentially upon it \r\n                                              unless the appellate tribunal \r\n                                              otherwise directs.[As substituted \r\n                                              by Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No.2) \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD 226)]. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Proceedings Before a \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the exercise of the \r\n                                              jurisdiction conferred upon it by \r\n                                              section 15 of this Act, a \r\n                                              Traditional Council shall, subject \r\n                                              to the provisions of this section \r\n                                              conduct its proceedings according \r\n                                              to customary law, but for the \r\n                                              purpose of compelling the \r\n                                              attendance of parties and \r\n                                              witnesses and the production of \r\n                                              documents, a Traditional Council \r\n                                              shall have the like powers as are \r\n                                              possessed by a District Court in \r\n                                              the exercise of its civil \r\n                                              jurisdiction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The said jurisdiction shall be \r\n                                              exercised by a judicial committee \r\n                                              of the Traditional Council \r\n                                              comprising three or five persons \r\n                                              appointed by that Council; and \r\n                                              accordingly the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act relating to proceedings and \r\n                                              functions of a judicial committee \r\n                                              of a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall, with such modifications as \r\n                                              may be prescribed by the Minister \r\n                                              by regulations made under section \r\n                                              62 of this Act apply to \r\n                                              proceedings and functions of a \r\n                                              judicial committee of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A Traditional Council may in \r\n                                              respect of any cause or matter \r\n                                              affecting chieftaincy determined \r\n                                              by it make any award of a civil \r\n                                              nature including any award of \r\n                                              amends to an injured person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              be deemed to authorise a \r\n                                              Traditional Council to punish any \r\n                                              person by imposing a fine or \r\n                                              awarding a term of imprisonment, \r\n                                              and, subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Part VI of this Act, and except in \r\n                                              the case of stool property, no \r\n                                              award shall be made which would \r\n                                              involve the delivery or disposal \r\n                                              of property or the payment of \r\n                                              money exceeding N¢400.00 in value.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A Traditional Council shall, \r\n                                              within thirty days after deciding \r\n                                              any cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy report its decision to \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs in \r\n                                              the Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28A&#8212;Vacancies in Judicial \r\n                                              Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except as provided in \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              where a vacancy occurs in the \r\n                                              membership of a judicial committee \r\n                                              of the National House of Chiefs, \r\n                                              or a Regional House of Chiefs, or \r\n                                              a Traditional Council, otherwise \r\n                                              than as a result of the expiration \r\n                                              of the term of office of its \r\n                                              members, the appropriate House or \r\n                                              Council may fill the vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the proceedings of a \r\n                                              judicial committee have not been \r\n                                              completed before the filling of a \r\n                                              vacancy under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section the judicial \r\n                                              committee as reconstituted after \r\n                                              the filling of the vacancy shall \r\n                                              adopt the proceedings of the \r\n                                              judicial committee as previously \r\n                                              constituted in the cause or matter \r\n                                              in question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where at the time of the \r\n                                              expiration of the term of office \r\n                                              of members of the National House \r\n                                              of Chiefs or a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs or a Traditional Council \r\n                                              under this Act, there is pending \r\n                                              before the judicial committee of \r\n                                              the appropriate House or Council \r\n                                              of which they are members any \r\n                                              part-heard appeal or any cause or \r\n                                              matter relating to chieftaincy \r\n                                              such members shall for the purpose \r\n                                              of completing the hearing and \r\n                                              determination of the appeal or \r\n                                              cause or matter continue to hold \r\n                                              office for a further period of not \r\n                                              more than three months after their \r\n                                              term of office has expired. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Chieftaincy \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1982 (PNDCL 25)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Preservation of Stool \r\n                                              Property Affected by Disputes, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Commissioner responsible \r\n                                              for chieftaincy matters may in \r\n                                              consultation with the Traditional \r\n                                              Council of the area, by executive \r\n                                              instrument, published in the \r\n                                              Gazette, order any person to take \r\n                                              possession of any stool property \r\n                                              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 stool property is \r\n                                              affected by pending proceedings in \r\n                                              respect of a cause or matter \r\n                                              affecting chieftaincy;</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) where the Commissioner is \r\n                                              satisfied on reasonable grounds \r\n                                              that there is a pending dispute \r\n                                              affecting the stool property and \r\n                                              that it is in the interest of \r\n                                              public order or it is necessary \r\n                                              for the preservation of the stool \r\n                                              property to take possession of the \r\n                                              stool 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                                              (c) where a chief has abdicated or \r\n                                              has in pursuance of any \r\n                                              proceedings in respect of any \r\n                                              cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy been destooled and he \r\n                                              has failed to hand over the stool \r\n                                              property to the person who under \r\n                                              customary law is entitled to \r\n                                              recieve such stool property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who takes \r\n                                              possession of stool property under \r\n                                              this section shall, as soon as \r\n                                              practicable prepare an inventory \r\n                                              of such stool property and \r\n                                              transmit a copy of the inventory \r\n                                              to the said Commissioner together \r\n                                              with a signed certificate of its \r\n                                              correctness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the need for the \r\n                                              retention of any property taken \r\n                                              possession of under this section \r\n                                              has passed, the Commissioner \r\n                                              shall, order the restoration of \r\n                                              the property to the stool \r\n                                              concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any person who wilfully \r\n                                              obstructs a person ordered under \r\n                                              this section to take possession of \r\n                                              any stool property or who wilfully \r\n                                              obstructs the restoration of stool \r\n                                              property ordered by the \r\n                                              Commissioner under subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section shall be guilty of \r\n                                              a misdemeanour.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Chieftaincy (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD 166), s.2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Enforcement of Judgment \r\n                                              of Houses of Chiefs or Traditional \r\n                                              Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Upon an application made by a \r\n                                              party to any proceedings before a \r\n                                              judicial committee of a House of \r\n                                              Chiefs in whose favour a judgment \r\n                                              or order was made by that \r\n                                              committee, that committee shall \r\n                                              forward a copy of the judgment or \r\n                                              order to the High Court with a \r\n                                              request for execution and upon the \r\n                                              payment by the applicant of the \r\n                                              necessary fees the High Court \r\n                                              shall take such steps and issue \r\n                                              such process as may be necessary \r\n                                              for the purpose of the execution \r\n                                              of the said judgment or order as \r\n                                              it would take or issue if it were \r\n                                              a judgment or order of that court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Upon an application made by a \r\n                                              party to the proceedings before a \r\n                                              judicial committee of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in whose \r\n                                              favour a judgment or order was \r\n                                              made by the Council, that Council \r\n                                              shall forward a copy of the \r\n                                              judgment or order of the Council \r\n                                              in those proceedings, to the \r\n                                              Circuit Court having jurisdiction \r\n                                              in the traditional area in \r\n                                              question with a request for \r\n                                              execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Upon the payment by the \r\n                                              applicant of the necessary fees \r\n                                              the said Circuit Court shall take \r\n                                              such steps and issue such process \r\n                                              as may be necessary for the \r\n                                              purpose of the execution of the \r\n                                              judgment or order as it would take \r\n                                              or issue if it were a judgment or \r\n                                              order of that court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Protection of Parties, \r\n                                              Counsel and Witnesses.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any party, counsel or witness \r\n                                              before a judicial committee shall \r\n                                              enjoy the same protection in \r\n                                              respect of statements made by him \r\n                                              in the course of and for the \r\n                                              purposes of the proceedings of the \r\n                                              said tribunal as he would have \r\n                                              enjoyed before the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any witness before a judicial \r\n                                              committee shall have the same \r\n                                              privileges as he would have had \r\n                                              before the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Obstruction of \r\n                                              Proceedings, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to section 31 of this Act, \r\n                                              any person who in proceedings \r\n                                              before a judicial committee and \r\n                                              without lawful excuse (proof of \r\n                                              which shall be on him)&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) fails when required by the \r\n                                              said committee to produce or \r\n                                              deliver up any document, answer \r\n                                              any question or sign any document, \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) wilfully obstructs the \r\n                                              proceedings of the said committee \r\n                                              at any stage thereof,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              shall, on summary conviction be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢200.00 or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Right to bring \r\n                                              Proceedings for Destoolment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              entitled by this Act to institute \r\n                                              proceedings for the destoolment of \r\n                                              a Chief unless he is entitled to \r\n                                              do so under customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Proceedings in \r\n                                              Chieftaincy Matters to be Recorded \r\n                                              in Writing.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The proceedings of a National or \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs and a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in any cause \r\n                                              or matter affecting chieftaincy \r\n                                              shall be recorded in writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Applications to Two \r\n                                              Tribunals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where under this Act an \r\n                                              application is required to be made \r\n                                              either to one tribunal or another, \r\n                                              the application shall first be \r\n                                              made to the lower tribunal but if \r\n                                              that tribunal refuses the \r\n                                              application the applicant shall \r\n                                              then be entitled to have the \r\n                                              application determined by the \r\n                                              higher tribunal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;STOOL PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;What is Stool Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Stool property consists of the \r\n                                              following&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the stool itself and all the \r\n                                              insignia of the stool;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) such other movable property \r\n                                              and land as was handed over or \r\n                                              declared as stool property to the \r\n                                              Chief on his installation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any property movable or \r\n                                              immovable acquired as stool \r\n                                              property after the installation of \r\n                                              the Chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Alienation of Stool \r\n                                              Property Requires Consent of \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In addition to the consent and \r\n                                              concurrence of the Lands \r\n                                              Commission required by clause (3) \r\n                                              of article 164 of the \r\n                                              Constitution, any transaction \r\n                                              purporting to alienate or pledge \r\n                                              any stool property whether movable \r\n                                              or immovable shall be voidable \r\n                                              unless made or entered into with \r\n                                              the consent of the Traditional \r\n                                              Council concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212;Prohibition Upon \r\n                                              Execution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No stool property whether movable \r\n                                              or immovable shall be seized in \r\n                                              execution at the suit of any \r\n                                              person except with the written \r\n                                              consent of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;Recovery of Stool \r\n                                              Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a judicial committee makes \r\n                                              any order for the delivery up of \r\n                                              stool property any person who \r\n                                              fails to comply with that order \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding N¢200.00 or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months or to both \r\n                                              and also to a further fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢10.00 for each day for \r\n                                              which the offence continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;CUSTOMARY LAW</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs to Promote the Development \r\n                                              of Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall, subject to clause (2) of \r\n                                              article 126 of the Constitution, \r\n                                              undertake the progressive study, \r\n                                              interpretation and codification of \r\n                                              customary law with a view to \r\n                                              evolving, in appropriate cases a \r\n                                              unified system of rules of \r\n                                              customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Functions of \r\n                                              Traditional Councils Relating to \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If a Traditional Council considers \r\n                                              the customary law which is in \r\n                                              force within its area to be \r\n                                              uncertain or considers it \r\n                                              desirable that it should be \r\n                                              modified or assimilated by the \r\n                                              common law the Council shall make \r\n                                              representations on the matter to \r\n                                              the House of Chiefs in the region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Declaration of \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              may, either after receiving \r\n                                              representations from a Traditional \r\n                                              Council or on its own initiative, \r\n                                              and shall if so requested in \r\n                                              writing by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs draft a declaration of what \r\n                                              in its opinion is the customary \r\n                                              law rule relating to any subject \r\n                                              in force in its region or any part \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A draft prepared under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and if the said \r\n                                              House after considering it and \r\n                                              after consultation with the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs concerned \r\n                                              is satisfied that the draft either \r\n                                              as submitted or with such \r\n                                              modifications as it considers \r\n                                              necessary is a correct statement \r\n                                              of the customary rule in question, \r\n                                              it shall submit a request in \r\n                                              writing to the President to the \r\n                                              effect that that statement of the \r\n                                              customary law rule be given effect \r\n                                              to in the area in question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The President may upon \r\n                                              receiving a request made by the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              after consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument giving effect to the \r\n                                              recommendations submitted to him \r\n                                              by the said House, and providing \r\n                                              that the rule in question shall \r\n                                              have effect within the area in \r\n                                              question in the form set out in \r\n                                              the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Alteration of Customary \r\n                                              Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              either after receiving \r\n                                              representations from a Traditional \r\n                                              Council or on its own initiative, \r\n                                              and shall if so requested in \r\n                                              writing by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs, draft a statement of \r\n                                              alterations it thinks desirable in \r\n                                              any customary law rule in force in \r\n                                              its region or any part thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A draft prepared under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and if the said \r\n                                              House is satisfied after \r\n                                              consultation with the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs concerned, that \r\n                                              effect should be given to the \r\n                                              draft, either as submitted or with \r\n                                              such modifications as it considers \r\n                                              necessary, it shall submit a \r\n                                              request in writing to the \r\n                                              President to the effect that that \r\n                                              statement of the rule as modified \r\n                                              by the draft be given effect in \r\n                                              the area in question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The President may, upon \r\n                                              receiving a request made by the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              after consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument giving effect to the \r\n                                              recommendations submitted to him \r\n                                              by the said House under the said \r\n                                              subsection (2) and providing that \r\n                                              the rule shall have effect within \r\n                                              the area in question in the form \r\n                                              set out therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs Affected by Same Rule of \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a question affecting the \r\n                                              customary law is common to more \r\n                                              than one Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              there shall be a joint committee \r\n                                              of the Houses of Chiefs affected \r\n                                              to consider that question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The joint committee mentioned \r\n                                              in subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be made up of a committee of \r\n                                              each House set up for the purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The joint committee under this \r\n                                              section shall have the same \r\n                                              authority as if the question \r\n                                              before it were before a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs, and the \r\n                                              provisions of this Part shall \r\n                                              apply accordingly. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 45&#8212;Assimilation of \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              may on its own initiative and \r\n                                              shall, upon request so to do, made \r\n                                              to it in writing by the President \r\n                                              or by a joint committee referred \r\n                                              to in section 44 of this Act \r\n                                              comprising representatives of all \r\n                                              the Regional Houses of Chiefs, \r\n                                              consider whether a rule of \r\n                                              customary law should be \r\n                                              assimilated by the common law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If after considering such \r\n                                              evidence and representations as \r\n                                              may be submitted to it and \r\n                                              carrying out such investigations \r\n                                              as it may think fit the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs is of the opinion \r\n                                              that the rule should be \r\n                                              assimilated by the common law, it \r\n                                              shall draft a declaration \r\n                                              describing the rule, with such \r\n                                              modifications as it may consider \r\n                                              desirable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A draft prepared under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the \r\n                                              President who may after \r\n                                              consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument giving effect to the \r\n                                              recommendations of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and declaring the \r\n                                              rule to be assimilated in the form \r\n                                              specified in the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 46&#8212;Effect of Assimilation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a rule is declared to be \r\n                                              assimilated under subsection (3) \r\n                                              of section 45 of this Act, it may \r\n                                              be referred to as a common law \r\n                                              rule of customary origin.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A common law rule of customary \r\n                                              origin shall apply to every issue \r\n                                              within its scope whether or not \r\n                                              that issue would if assimilation \r\n                                              had not taken place, have been \r\n                                              determined according to the common \r\n                                              law or any system of customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where an issue falls to be \r\n                                              determined by a combination of two \r\n                                              or more rules, nothing in this \r\n                                              Part shall prevent any rule of \r\n                                              common law or customary law which \r\n                                              is not within the scope of a \r\n                                              relevant common law rule of \r\n                                              customary origin from being \r\n                                              applied, in accordance with \r\n                                              paragraph 64 of the Courts Decree, \r\n                                              1966 (N.L.C.D. 84) in combination \r\n                                              with the said rule of customary \r\n                                              origin.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Part, in applying a common \r\n                                              law rule of customary origin the \r\n                                              court may have regard to such \r\n                                              textbooks and other sources \r\n                                              indicating the content of the rule \r\n                                              as would be available if it had \r\n                                              not been assimilated, and shall \r\n                                              treat the rule in the same way as \r\n                                              any other common law rule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              be taken to modify the provisions \r\n                                              of sections 17 and 18 of the \r\n                                              Interpretation Act, 1960 (C.A. 4) \r\n                                              (which explain the meaning of the \r\n                                              expression &quot;the common law&quot; and \r\n                                              &quot;customary law&quot;).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 47&#8212;Power to Include \r\n                                              Transitional Provisions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              legislative instrument made under \r\n                                              this Part of this Act may contain \r\n                                              such transitional provisions as \r\n                                              the President acting on the advice \r\n                                              of the National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              and in consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice may consider necessary in \r\n                                              relation to cases pending at the \r\n                                              date when the instrument is made \r\n                                              or otherwise. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 48&#8212;Who is a Chief. </span>\r\n                                              </b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A Chief is an individual who \r\n                                              has, in accordance with customary \r\n                                              law, been nominated, elected and \r\n                                              installed as a Chief or as the \r\n                                              case may be appointed and \r\n                                              installed as such and whose name \r\n                                              for the time being appears as a \r\n                                              Chief on the National Register of \r\n                                              Chiefs:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no person shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be a Chief for the \r\n                                              purposes of the exercise by him of \r\n                                              any function under this Act or \r\n                                              under any other enactment, unless \r\n                                              he has been recognised as such by \r\n                                              the Minister by notice published \r\n                                              in the Local Government Bulletin.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the foregoing \r\n                                              subsection (1) the name of any \r\n                                              person who has been installed as a \r\n                                              Chief shall be entered by the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs in the \r\n                                              National Register of Chiefs not \r\n                                              later than one month from the date \r\n                                              of the receipt of the notification \r\n                                              of such installation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall be granted \r\n                                              recognition as a chief under this \r\n                                              section if he has been convicted \r\n                                              of an offence involving fraud, \r\n                                              dishonesty or moral turpitude. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Chieftaincy \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1993 (PNDCL 307) \r\n                                              s. 1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) For the avoidance of doubt, a \r\n                                              withdrawal of recognition made in \r\n                                              respect of any chief who has been \r\n                                              found to have been convicted of an \r\n                                              offence involving fraud, \r\n                                              dishonesty or moral turpitude by \r\n                                              the Provisional National Defence \r\n                                              Council, shall be deemed to have \r\n                                              been made in compliance with \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section. \r\n                                              [As inserted by Chieftancy \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1993 (PNDCL 307) \r\n                                              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 49&#8212;Categories of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The following are the categories \r\n                                              of Chiefs&#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 Asantehene and Paramount \r\n                                              Chiefs;</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) Divisional Chiefs;</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) Sub-divisional Chiefs;</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) Adikrofo; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) such other Chiefs not falling \r\n                                              within any of the preceding \r\n                                              categories as are recognised by \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 50&#8212;National Register of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall maintain a register to be \r\n                                              known as &quot;the National Register of \r\n                                              Chiefs&quot;, in this Part referred to \r\n                                              as &quot;the Register&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall cause to be recorded on the \r\n                                              Register such particulars relating \r\n                                              to chieftaincy as it may think fit \r\n                                              or as may be required by this Act \r\n                                              or any other enactment to be \r\n                                              recorded thereon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister or any person \r\n                                              authorised by him in writing may \r\n                                              request to be supplied with a copy \r\n                                              of the Register or an extract \r\n                                              thereof and upon such request the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs shall \r\n                                              cause to be supplied accordingly a \r\n                                              copy of the Register or an extract \r\n                                              thereof, in each case duly \r\n                                              certified to be true by the \r\n                                              Registrar or a public officer \r\n                                              authorised in writing by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister may also request \r\n                                              such other information in \r\n                                              connection with the maintenance of \r\n                                              the Register as may be necessary \r\n                                              for the due administration of this \r\n                                              Act and the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall comply with such \r\n                                              request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Minister or any public \r\n                                              officer authorised by him in \r\n                                              writing may at any reasonable \r\n                                              time, enter the premises where the \r\n                                              Register is kept and take extracts \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any other person shall, upon \r\n                                              the payment of the fee prescribed \r\n                                              in that behalf by regulations made \r\n                                              under section 62 of this Act, be \r\n                                              entitled&#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) at any reasonable time, to \r\n                                              enter the premises where the \r\n                                              Register is kept and inspect the \r\n                                              Register,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to have supplied to him an \r\n                                              extract of the contents of the \r\n                                              Register or any part thereof duly \r\n                                              certified by the Registrar or by \r\n                                              any public officer authorised by \r\n                                              him in writing to be true.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7)&nbsp; Any person aggrieved by the \r\n                                              refusal by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs to register him as a Chief \r\n                                              may within thirty days after the \r\n                                              decision appeal against the \r\n                                              decision to the Supreme Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8)&nbsp; The contents of the Register \r\n                                              shall be prima facie evidence of \r\n                                              the existence of any facts or \r\n                                              particulars stated therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) In any legal proceedings the \r\n                                              contents of the Register or any \r\n                                              part thereof may be proved by a \r\n                                              copy thereof duly certified under \r\n                                              the hand of the Registrar to the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs or any \r\n                                              public officer authorised by him \r\n                                              in writing to be a true copy of \r\n                                              the contents or of that part.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 51&#8212;Enstoolments, \r\n                                              Destoolments, Etc. of Chiefs to be \r\n                                              Reported to Minister.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All enstoolments, destoolments, \r\n                                              abdications and deaths of Chiefs \r\n                                              in any Region as well as all such \r\n                                              other changes in the status of \r\n                                              Chiefs as may be prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations made under section 62 \r\n                                              of this Act shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable after their \r\n                                              occurrence, be reported in writing \r\n                                              to the Minister by the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs of the Region \r\n                                              through the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to section 48 of this \r\n                                              Act, the Minister shall upon \r\n                                              receipt of any such report cause \r\n                                              its contents to be published in \r\n                                              the Local Government Bulletin for \r\n                                              the information of the general \r\n                                              public.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 52&#8212;Prohibition of Persons \r\n                                              Purporting to Act as Chief.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If it appears to him to be \r\n                                              necessary so to do in the \r\n                                              interests of public order the \r\n                                              Minister may by executive \r\n                                              instrument&#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) prohibit any person who is not \r\n                                              a Chief (whether or not he was \r\n                                              formerly, a Chief) from purporting \r\n                                              to exercise any of the functions \r\n                                              of a Chief,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) require that no person shall \r\n                                              treat as a Chief a person subject \r\n                                              to such prohibition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister may also in the \r\n                                              interests of public order direct \r\n                                              in writing any person described in \r\n                                              subsection (1) (a) of this section \r\n                                              to reside outside or not to enter \r\n                                              or remain in an area specified by \r\n                                              the Minister being an area which \r\n                                              is or includes any place in \r\n                                              relation to which that person \r\n                                              wrongfully claims to be a Chief or \r\n                                              in relation to which any other \r\n                                              person wrongfully treats him as a \r\n                                              Chief:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that any direction given \r\n                                              under this subsection shall be \r\n                                              reviewed by the Minister at \r\n                                              monthly intervals and unless \r\n                                              renewed shall cease to have effect \r\n                                              after three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who without lawful \r\n                                              excuse (proof of which shall be on \r\n                                              him) fails to comply with an \r\n                                              executive instrument or direction \r\n                                              made or given under this section \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              shall be liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢400.00 or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 53&#8212;Certain Offences in \r\n                                              Connection with Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) knowingly uses disrespectful \r\n                                              or insulting language or offers \r\n                                              any insult whether by word or \r\n                                              conduct to a Chief, 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) being a person in possession \r\n                                              of stool property fails upon being \r\n                                              requested so to do and without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse (proof of which \r\n                                              shall be on him) to surrender the \r\n                                              said property to the person who \r\n                                              for the time being is entitled to \r\n                                              possession thereof according to \r\n                                              customary law,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              shall, upon summary conviction be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢100.00 or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding six \r\n                                              months or to both; and in the case \r\n                                              of a continuing offence to a \r\n                                              further fine not exceeding N¢5.00 \r\n                                              for each day on which the offence \r\n                                              continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IX&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Staff</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 54&#8212;Staff of Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs, \r\n                                              and each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have a Registrar to that \r\n                                              House as well as such other staff \r\n                                              as the President acting on the \r\n                                              advice of the Public Services \r\n                                              Commission may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to articles 120 and \r\n                                              122 of the Constitution, the \r\n                                              members of the staff of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs and of \r\n                                              each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall hold office upon such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as the President \r\n                                              after consultation with the Public \r\n                                              Services Commission may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All appointments to and \r\n                                              changes in the appointments to the \r\n                                              office of Registrar to the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs and each \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs, shall be \r\n                                              published in the Local Government \r\n                                              Bulletin and the same shall, if \r\n                                              the National House of Chiefs so \r\n                                              directs, apply in respect of the \r\n                                              offices of all or any of the other \r\n                                              members of staff of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and each Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 55&#8212;Functions of Registrar \r\n                                              to a House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and of each \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs shall be \r\n                                              the chief administrative officer \r\n                                              of the House of Chiefs concerned \r\n                                              and shall have control over the \r\n                                              other members of staff of that \r\n                                              House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall perform \r\n                                              such duties in relation to the \r\n                                              functions of the House of Chiefs \r\n                                              to which he is the Registrar as \r\n                                              that House may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Registrar shall, without \r\n                                              prejudice to the generality of the \r\n                                              foregoing provisions of this \r\n                                              section, cause to be kept minutes \r\n                                              of the proceedings of the said \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and shall have \r\n                                              custody of all records and other \r\n                                              documents of that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 56&#8212;Traditional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              Traditional Council shall have \r\n                                              such staff as the President on the \r\n                                              advice of the Public Services \r\n                                              Commission may determine. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Finance</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 57&#8212;Funds of Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs and Traditional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Part, The National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs, a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              and a Traditional Council shall \r\n                                              each have such funds for the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions as \r\n                                              Parliament may from time to time \r\n                                              provide.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 58&#8212;Estimates of Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              and each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall in each year and by such \r\n                                              date as the Minister may direct, \r\n                                              submit to the Minister for the \r\n                                              approval of the Government \r\n                                              estimates of revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure in respect of the \r\n                                              succeeding year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The estimates when approved by \r\n                                              the Government shall be submitted \r\n                                              to the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All expenses incurred by the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs or a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs in \r\n                                              respect of the exercise of its \r\n                                              judicial functions are hereby \r\n                                              charged on the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 59&#8212;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs, \r\n                                              a Regional House of Chiefs and a \r\n                                              Traditional Council shall keep \r\n                                              proper books of account and proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto and \r\n                                              the said accounts shall be kept in \r\n                                              such form as the Auditor-General \r\n                                              may approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The said accounts shall be \r\n                                              audited by the Auditor-General and \r\n                                              accordingly the provisions of \r\n                                              Article 135 of the Constitution \r\n                                              shall apply in relation thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 60&#8212;Power of Minister to \r\n                                              Give Financial Instructions.</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 after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance and the \r\n                                              Auditor-General, issue in writing \r\n                                              instructions, not inconsistent \r\n                                              with this Act, for the better \r\n                                              control and management of the \r\n                                              financial affairs of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs or the Regional \r\n                                              Houses or Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The instructions may be of a \r\n                                              general or special nature and each \r\n                                              such House or Council shall be \r\n                                              bound to comply with such \r\n                                              instructions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 61&#8212;Actions by or Against \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs and Traditional \r\n                                              Councils, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs or a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs or of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council may represent \r\n                                              that House or Council in any \r\n                                              action brought by or against that \r\n                                              House or Council but actions may \r\n                                              otherwise be brought by or against \r\n                                              that House or Council as if it \r\n                                              were a person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 62&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make such regulations \r\n                                              as may appear to him to be \r\n                                              necessary or expedient for giving \r\n                                              full effect to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act including, without \r\n                                              prejudice to the generality of the \r\n                                              foregoing, the making of \r\n                                              regulations prescribing fees in \r\n                                              respect of anything done under \r\n                                              this Act or under regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 63&#8212;Saving of Rights of \r\n                                              Allegiance and Rights Over Land, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nothing in this Act shall be \r\n                                              deemed to prejudice any right of \r\n                                              allegiance to which a chief in one \r\n                                              Region is entitled from a chief in \r\n                                              another Region or any right of a \r\n                                              stool in one Region to any \r\n                                              property movable or immovable, \r\n                                              situate or existing in another \r\n                                              Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 64&#8212;Stool Lands Account for \r\n                                              Each Region.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to clause (2) of article \r\n                                              164 of the Constitution, (which \r\n                                              provides for the establishment of \r\n                                              a Stool Lands Account for each \r\n                                              stool) there shall be established \r\n                                              for each Region a Regional Stool \r\n                                              Lands Account representing the \r\n                                              total of the Stool Lands Accounts \r\n                                              of all the stools within the \r\n                                              Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 65&#8212;Annual Statement of \r\n                                              Accounts to be Submitted to \r\n                                              Stools.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The person or authority for the \r\n                                              time being charged with \r\n                                              responsibility for keeping Stool \r\n                                              Lands Accounts shall, once in each \r\n                                              year, submit to each stool whose \r\n                                              account is kept by him a statement \r\n                                              of revenue and expenditure in \r\n                                              respect of that account, in such \r\n                                              form as the Minister may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 66&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Asantehene&quot; \r\n                                              means the occupant of the Golden \r\n                                              Stool of Ashanti;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy&quot; means any cause, \r\n                                              matter, question or dispute \r\n                                              relating to any of the following&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the nomination, election, \r\n                                              appointment or installation of any \r\n                                              person as a Chief or the claim of \r\n                                              any person to be nominated, \r\n                                              elected, appointed or installed as \r\n                                              a Chief;</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 destoolment or abdication \r\n                                              of any Chief;</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 right of any person to \r\n                                              take part in the nomination, \r\n                                              election, appointment or \r\n                                              installation of any person as a \r\n                                              Chief or in the destoolment of any \r\n                                              Chief;</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 recovery or delivery of \r\n                                              stool property in connection with \r\n                                              any such nomination, election, \r\n                                              appointment, installation, \r\n                                              destoolment or abdication;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the constitutional relations \r\n                                              under customary law between \r\n                                              Chiefs,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Divisional Chief&quot; means a Chief \r\n                                              whose name for the time being \r\n                                              appears as a Divisional Chief on \r\n                                              the National Register of Chiefs;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;judicial committee&quot; means a \r\n                                              committee appointed under section \r\n                                              22, 23, or 28 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Chieftaincy \r\n                                              matters;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Paramount Chief&quot; means a person \r\n                                              who has been nominated, elected or \r\n                                              appointed and installed as such in \r\n                                              accordance with customary law and \r\n                                              usage;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Stool&quot; includes a Skin.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 67&#8212;Repeals and Savings and \r\n                                              Transitional Provisions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The enactments specified in \r\n                                              the Schedule to this Act are \r\n                                              hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any action pending immediately \r\n                                              before the coming into force of \r\n                                              the Constitution before a \r\n                                              chieftaincy committee appointed \r\n                                              under the Chieftaincy Act, 1961 \r\n                                              (Act 81) shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              pending before the House of Chiefs \r\n                                              within whose Region the subject \r\n                                              matter of the proceedings arose \r\n                                              and shall be proceeded with and \r\n                                              determined by that House in \r\n                                              accordance with this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any matter pending before a \r\n                                              Traditional Council immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act shall after the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act be deemed to be \r\n                                              pending before that Council and \r\n                                              shall be proceeded with and \r\n                                              determined by that Council in \r\n                                              accordance with this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any judgment or order given or \r\n                                              made by a Traditional Council \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act may be enforced in the same \r\n                                              manner as a judgment or order \r\n                                              given or made by a Traditional \r\n                                              Council after the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act may be enforced.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any appeal pending on or after \r\n                                              the 22nd day of August, 1969 \r\n                                              before a Chieftaincy Committee \r\n                                              appointed under the Chieftaincy \r\n                                              Act, 1961 (Act 81) shall \r\n                                              thereafter be deemed to be an \r\n                                              appeal pending before the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs within whose \r\n                                              region the subject matter of the \r\n                                              proceedings arose and shall be \r\n                                              proceeded with and determined by \r\n                                              that House in accordance with this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any application for leave to \r\n                                              appeal pending before the Minister \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of section 48 \r\n                                              of the Chieftaincy Act, 1961 (Act \r\n                                              81) immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be an appeal pending \r\n                                              before the appropriate Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and shall be \r\n                                              proceeded with and determined by \r\n                                              that House in accordance with this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Any application for extension \r\n                                              of time within which to appeal \r\n                                              pending before the Minister \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              thereafter be deemed to be an \r\n                                              application pending before the \r\n                                              appropriate Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs, and shall be dealt with in \r\n                                              accordance with this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) A certificate issued in \r\n                                              writing under the hand of the \r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for \r\n                                              chieftaincy matters or under the \r\n                                              hand of any public officer \r\n                                              authorised by him to the effect \r\n                                              that&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) an application for leave to \r\n                                              appeal was pending before the \r\n                                              Minister under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              section 48 of the Chieftaincy Act, \r\n                                              1961 (Act 81) immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act, 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) an application for extension \r\n                                              of time within which to appeal was \r\n                                              pending before the Minister \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be conclusive evidence for \r\n                                              the purposes of subsections (6) \r\n                                              and (7) respectively.[As inserted \r\n                                              by the Chieftaincy (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD 166), s.3].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 67)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              REPEALS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy Act, 1961 (Act 81)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) Act, \r\n                                              1963 (Act 185)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) Act, \r\n                                              1963 (Act 216)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) Act, \r\n                                              1964 (Act 243)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. 112)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. 128)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No. \r\n                                              2) Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. 136)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No. \r\n                                              3) Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. 203)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No. \r\n                                              4) Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. 205)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No. \r\n                                              5) Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. 208)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. 227)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No. \r\n                                              2) Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. 287)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No. \r\n                                              3) Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. 312)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1982 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 25)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) DECREE, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 166)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) (NO.2) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1973 (NRCD 226)3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1993 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 307)4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              </td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center"></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 370');
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(107, 'FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS ACT, 1970 (ACT 328)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="728" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS ACT, \r\n                                              1970 (ACT 328)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As Amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS ACT \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1983 (PNDCL 66).1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1991 (PNDCL \r\n                                              275).2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GHANA NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE ACT, \r\n                                              1997 (ACT 537).3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 1&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FACTORIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Register of factories</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Registration of existing \r\n                                              factories</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Registration of new factories</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Alterations and building of new \r\n                                              factories</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 2&#8212;REGISTERS AND PRESCRIBED \r\n                                              ABSTRACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. General registers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Preservation of registers and \r\n                                              records</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Prescribed abstract, \r\n                                              regulations and notices</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 3&#8212;PARTICULARS OF OFFICES AND \r\n                                              SHOPS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Particulars to be given on \r\n                                              request</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 4&#8212;NOTIFICATION OF ACCIDENTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Notification of accidents</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Notification of dangerous \r\n                                              occurrences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Notification of industrial \r\n                                              diseases</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 5&#8212;HEALTH AND WELFARE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Cleanliness</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Overcrowding</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Ventilation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Washing facilities</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Lighting</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Drainage of floors</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Sanitary conveniences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Drinking water</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Accommodation for clothing</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Sitting facilities</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Removal of dust or fumes</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Taking of meals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Protective clothing and \r\n                                              appliances</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Noise and vibrations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Prohibition of lifting \r\n                                              excessive weights</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. First aid</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Power to require medical \r\n                                              supervision</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Health and wealth regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 6&#8212;SAFETY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Prevention of fire</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Fire alarms</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Safety provisions in case of \r\n                                              fire</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Safe means of access and safe \r\n                                              place of employment</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Floors, passages and stairs</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Training and supervision</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Cleaning of machinery</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Fencing of dangerous machinery</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Safeguards for transmission \r\n                                              machinery</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Construction and maintenance \r\n                                              of fencing</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Construction and sale of \r\n                                              machinery</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Vessels containing dangerous \r\n                                              liquids</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Self-acting machines</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Hoists and lifts</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              45. Chains, ropes and lifting \r\n                                              tackle</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              46. Cranes and other lifting \r\n                                              machines</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              47. Register of chains, ropes, \r\n                                              lifting tackle and machines</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              48. Dangerous fumes and lack of \r\n                                              oxygen</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              49. Explosive or inflammable \r\n                                              substances</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50. Steam boilers, receivers and \r\n                                              containers, and air receivers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              51. Safety regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 7&#8212;DANGEROUS CONDITIONS AND \r\n                                              PRACTICES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              52. Dangerous conditions and \r\n                                              practices</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              53. Dangerous premises</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              54. Appeal to High Court</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 8&#8212;SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND \r\n                                              EXTENSIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              55. Part of building as separate \r\n                                              factory or shop</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56. Docks, wharves, quays and \r\n                                              warehouses</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              57. Building operations and works \r\n                                              of engineering construction</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              58. Premises in which steam \r\n                                              boilers are used</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              59. Institutions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 9&#8212;OFFENCES AND LEGAL \r\n                                              PROCEEDINGS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60. Liability for contravention</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              61. Liability of actual offender</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              62. Liability of owner of machine</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              63. General penalty</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              64. Offences continued after \r\n                                              conviction</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              65. Court order to remedy \r\n                                              contravention</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              66. Penalty for death or injury</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              67. Forgery, uttering and \r\n                                              personation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              68. Prosecution of offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              69. Special provisions as to \r\n                                              evidence</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              70. Service of documents, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              71. Power to modify agreement</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              72. Power to apportion expenses</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              73. Inspector may conduct court \r\n                                              proceedings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 10&#8212;ADMINISTRATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              74. Appointment of Inspectors</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              75. Powers of Inspectors</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              76. Obstruction of Inspector</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              77. Power to take samples</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 11&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              78. Duties of persons employed</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              79. Notices and certificates</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              80. Deductions from wages \r\n                                              prohibited</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              81. Exemption</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              82. Application</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              83. Definition of factory</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              84. Definition of an office</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              85. Definition of a shop</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              86. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              87. Repeal and savings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              88. Commencement</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              88A. Commencement</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Third Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fourth Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              TWENTY-EIGHTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS \r\n                                              ACT, 1970.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              registration of factories, the \r\n                                              health, welfare and safety of \r\n                                              persons employed in factories, \r\n                                              offices, shops and other places, \r\n                                              and matters connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 12th May, 1970</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Presidential \r\n                                              Commission and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 1&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FACTORIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Register of Factories.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chief Inspector shall keep a \r\n                                              register of factories in which he \r\n                                              shall cause to be entered such \r\n                                              particulars in relation to every \r\n                                              factory required to be registered \r\n                                              under this Act as he may consider \r\n                                              necessary or desirable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Registration of Existing \r\n                                              Factories.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every person who occupies a \r\n                                              factory shall within one month \r\n                                              after the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              apply for its registration by \r\n                                              sending to the Chief Inspector a \r\n                                              notice containing the particulars \r\n                                              set out in the First Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On receipt of such notice the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector shall register the \r\n                                              factory and shall issue to the \r\n                                              occupier a Certificate of \r\n                                              Registration upon the payment by \r\n                                              the occupier of the prescribed \r\n                                              fee. [As amended by Factories, \r\n                                              Offices and Shops (Amendment) Law, \r\n                                              1983 (PNDCL 66) s. 1(a)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every certificate of \r\n                                              registration issued under this \r\n                                              section shall be an annual \r\n                                              certificate and shall expire on \r\n                                              the 31st day of December of the \r\n                                              year in which it is issued. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Factories, Offices and \r\n                                              Shops (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL \r\n                                              66) s. 1(b)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Registration of New \r\n                                              Factories.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who intends to \r\n                                              occupy or use any premises as a \r\n                                              factory after the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act shall, not less than one \r\n                                              month before he begins to occupy \r\n                                              or use the premises as a factory, \r\n                                              apply for the registration of the \r\n                                              premises by sending to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector a notice containing the \r\n                                              particulars set out in the First \r\n                                              Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On receipt of such notice the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector shall, within \r\n                                              three months, register the factory \r\n                                              and shall issue to the occupier a \r\n                                              Certificate of Registration upon \r\n                                              the payment by the occupier of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee. [As amended by \r\n                                              Factories, Offices and Shops \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 66) \r\n                                              s. 1(c)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every certificate of \r\n                                              registration issued under this \r\n                                              section shall be an annual \r\n                                              certificate and shall expire on \r\n                                              the 31st day of December of the \r\n                                              year in which it is issued. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Factories, Offices and \r\n                                              Shops (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL \r\n                                              66) s. 1(d)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3A&#8212;Renewal of Certificate \r\n                                              of Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of this part which \r\n                                              relate to the issue of a \r\n                                              certificate of registration shall \r\n                                              apply to any application for the \r\n                                              renewal of a certificate of \r\n                                              registration and to such renewal. \r\n                                              [As inserted by Factories, Offices \r\n                                              and Shops (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL \r\n                                              66) s. 1(e)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Alterations and Building \r\n                                              of New Factories.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall commence or \r\n                                              permit or cause to be commenced&#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 building of any premises \r\n                                              intended to be used as a factory; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any works to alter or add to \r\n                                              any factory or premises intended \r\n                                              to be used as a factory,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              unless he has first submitted to \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector or to the \r\n                                              Inspector for the district not \r\n                                              less than one month before such \r\n                                              commencement proper plans of such \r\n                                              building works, alterations or \r\n                                              additions accompanied by the \r\n                                              particulars set out in the Second \r\n                                              Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chief Inspector may \r\n                                              require such changes to be made in \r\n                                              the building plans as are \r\n                                              reasonably necessary to ensure \r\n                                              compliance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act relating to health, \r\n                                              welfare and safety, and may, in \r\n                                              the case of the building of a new \r\n                                              factory, refuse to register the \r\n                                              factory under section 3 until his \r\n                                              requirements have been complied \r\n                                              with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of section 2(1), 3(1) or \r\n                                              4(1) shall be guilty of an offence \r\n                                              and liable on conviction to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding two hundred thousand \r\n                                              cedis. [As amended by the \r\n                                              Factories, Offices and Shops \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275) \r\n                                              s.1(a)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 2&#8212;REGISTERS AND PRESCRIBED \r\n                                              ABSTRACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;General Registers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be kept in every \r\n                                              factory a general register in the \r\n                                              prescribed form, and there shall \r\n                                              be entered in or attached to that \r\n                                              register&#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 Certificate of \r\n                                              Registration of the factory;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) every other certificate issued \r\n                                              in respect of the factory by the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector;</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 prescribed particulars \r\n                                              relating to the cleanliness of the \r\n                                              factory;</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 prescribed particulars of \r\n                                              every accident and case of \r\n                                              occupational disease occurring in \r\n                                              the factory;</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) all reports and particulars \r\n                                              required by this Act to be entered \r\n                                              in or attached to the general \r\n                                              register;</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) such other matters as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The occupier of a factory \r\n                                              shall send to an Inspector such \r\n                                              extracts from the general register \r\n                                              as he may require for the \r\n                                              execution of his duties under this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Preservation of \r\n                                              Registers and Records.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The general register and every \r\n                                              other register or record kept in \r\n                                              pursuance of this Act shall be \r\n                                              preserved and kept available for \r\n                                              inspection by any Inspector for \r\n                                              two years after the date of the \r\n                                              last entry therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Prescribed Abstract, \r\n                                              Regulations and Notices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be kept posted in \r\n                                              a prominent position in every \r\n                                              factory&#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 prescribed abstract of \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a notice of the address of the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector and of the nearest \r\n                                              Inspector and labour officer;</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) printed copies of any \r\n                                              regulations made under this Act \r\n                                              which are in force in the factory, \r\n                                              or the prescribed abstracts \r\n                                              thereof; 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) every other notice or document \r\n                                              required by this Act to be posted \r\n                                              in the factory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prescribing the abstracts of \r\n                                              this Act which shall be kept \r\n                                              posted in pursuance of this \r\n                                              section;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) prescribing any regulations or \r\n                                              abstracts thereof made under this \r\n                                              Act which are in force in the \r\n                                              factory, and which shall be kept \r\n                                              posted in pursuance of this \r\n                                              section;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) prescribing fees in respect of \r\n                                              certificates of registration and \r\n                                              their renewal;</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 otherwise giving effect to \r\n                                              the principles and purposes of the \r\n                                              Act. [As substituted by the \r\n                                              Factories, Offices and Shops \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1983, (PNDCL 66), \r\n                                              s.1(g)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 3&#8212;PARTICULARS OF OFFICES AND \r\n                                              SHOPS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Particulars to be given \r\n                                              on Request.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every person who occupies any \r\n                                              office or shop to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall, if so requested by \r\n                                              an Inspector, within one month \r\n                                              serve on the Chief Inspector a \r\n                                              notice containing the particulars \r\n                                              set out in the Third Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 4&#8212;NOTIFICATION OF ACCIDENTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Notification of \r\n                                              Accidents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an accident in any \r\n                                              factory, office or shop&#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) causes the death of a person \r\n                                              employed therein; 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) disables any such person for \r\n                                              more than three days from earning \r\n                                              full wages at work at which he was \r\n                                              employed,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the occupier shall forthwith send \r\n                                              written notice of the accident, in \r\n                                              the prescribed form and containing \r\n                                              the prescribed particulars, to the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector or the Inspector \r\n                                              for the district.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an accident causing \r\n                                              disablement is notified under this \r\n                                              section, and after notification \r\n                                              results in the death of the person \r\n                                              disabled, the occupier shall, as \r\n                                              soon as the death comes to his \r\n                                              notice, send written notice of the \r\n                                              death to the Chief Inspector or \r\n                                              the Inspector for the district.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any accident to which \r\n                                              this section applies occurs to a \r\n                                              person employed to work in any \r\n                                              factory, office or shop and the \r\n                                              occupier of the premises is not \r\n                                              the actual employer of the person \r\n                                              killed or injured, the actual \r\n                                              employer shall, if he fails to \r\n                                              report the accident to the \r\n                                              occupier immediately, be guilty of \r\n                                              an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred thousand cedis. [As \r\n                                              amended by the Factories, Offices \r\n                                              and Shops (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL \r\n                                              275), s.1(b)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Notification of \r\n                                              Dangerous Occurrences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Written notice of every \r\n                                              dangerous occurrence to which this \r\n                                              section applies occurring in any \r\n                                              factory, office or shop shall, \r\n                                              whether death or disablement is \r\n                                              caused or not, forthwith be sent \r\n                                              by the occupier in the prescribed \r\n                                              form containing the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars to the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              or the Inspector for the district.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The dangerous occurrences to \r\n                                              which this section applies are&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) all cases of explosion, fire \r\n                                              and collapse of buildings;</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) accidents to machinery or \r\n                                              plant likely to cause risk of \r\n                                              serious bodily injury to persons \r\n                                              employed;</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) collapse, overturning or \r\n                                              failure of a crane, derrick, \r\n                                              winch, hoist or other appliance \r\n                                              used in raising or lowering \r\n                                              persons or goods;</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) bursting of a revolving \r\n                                              vessel, wheel, grindstone or \r\n                                              grinding wheel moved by mechanical \r\n                                              power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Notification of \r\n                                              Industrial Diseases.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Written notice of every case \r\n                                              of industrial disease to which \r\n                                              this section applies occurring in \r\n                                              a factory or shop shall forthwith \r\n                                              be sent by the occupier in the \r\n                                              prescribed form and containing the \r\n                                              prescribed particulars to the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector or the Inspector \r\n                                              for the district.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The industrial diseases to \r\n                                              which this section applies are \r\n                                              lead, phosphorus, manganese, \r\n                                              arsenical and mercurial poisoning, \r\n                                              toxic anaemia, toxic jaundice, \r\n                                              anthrax, ulceration and any other \r\n                                              prescribed illness or disease.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 5&#8212;HEALTH AND WELFARE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Cleanliness.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every factory, office and shop \r\n                                              and all furniture, furnishing and \r\n                                              fittings therein shall be kept in \r\n                                              a clean state.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Accumulations of dirt and \r\n                                              refuse shall be removed daily from \r\n                                              the floors and benches of \r\n                                              workrooms, and from staircases and \r\n                                              passages.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The floor of every office, \r\n                                              shop and workroom shall be cleaned \r\n                                              at least once a week by washing, \r\n                                              sweeping or some other suitable \r\n                                              and effective method.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) In every factory, all inside \r\n                                              walls and partitions, and all \r\n                                              ceilings or tops of rooms, and all \r\n                                              walls, sides and tops of passages \r\n                                              and staircases shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where they have a smooth \r\n                                              impervious surface, be washed with \r\n                                              hot water and soap or otherwise \r\n                                              suitably cleaned at least once in \r\n                                              every twelve months;</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) where they are varnished or \r\n                                              painted with oil paint, be \r\n                                              revarnished or repainted at least \r\n                                              once in every five years, and at \r\n                                              least once in every twelve months \r\n                                              be washed with hot water and soap \r\n                                              or otherwise suitably cleaned; 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) in other cases, be whitewashed \r\n                                              or colour-washed at least once in \r\n                                              every twelve months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the Chief Inspector is \r\n                                              satisfied that any provision of \r\n                                              this section is inappropriate in \r\n                                              relation to any premises, he may \r\n                                              by certificate in writing exempt \r\n                                              those premises from such \r\n                                              provision.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Overcrowding.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No room comprised in or \r\n                                              constituting a factory, office or \r\n                                              shop shall, while work is carried \r\n                                              on therein, be so overcrowded as \r\n                                              to cause risk of injury to the \r\n                                              health of persons working therein; \r\n                                              and in determining whether any \r\n                                              such room is overcrowded or not, \r\n                                              account shall be taken not only of \r\n                                              the number of persons who may be \r\n                                              expected to be working in the room \r\n                                              at any time but also of the space \r\n                                              in the room occupied by furniture, \r\n                                              furnishings, fittings, machinery, \r\n                                              plant, equipment and appliances.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The floor area (in square \r\n                                              feet) or capacity (in cubic feet) \r\n                                              for each person habitually \r\n                                              employed to work in any room to \r\n                                              which this section applies shall \r\n                                              not be less than 40 square feet or \r\n                                              400 cubic feet respectively.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every workroom shall be not \r\n                                              less than nine feet in height, \r\n                                              measured from the floor to the \r\n                                              lowest point of the ceiling or, \r\n                                              where there is no ceiling to the \r\n                                              lowest point of the roofing \r\n                                              material.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the Chief Inspector is \r\n                                              satisfied that the special \r\n                                              conditions under which work is \r\n                                              carried on in any workroom render \r\n                                              the application of subsection (2) \r\n                                              or (3) inappropriate or \r\n                                              unnecessary, he may by certificate \r\n                                              in writing exempt the workroom \r\n                                              from those provisions subject to \r\n                                              any conditions specified in the \r\n                                              certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) In calculating for the \r\n                                              purposes of this section the cubic \r\n                                              space in any room, no space more \r\n                                              than fourteen feet from the floor \r\n                                              shall be taken into account.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Ventilation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Effective and suitable provision \r\n                                              shall be made in all factories, \r\n                                              offices and shops to secure and \r\n                                              maintain by the circulation of \r\n                                              fresh air in each workroom the \r\n                                              adequate ventilation of the room.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Washing Facilities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Adequate and suitable washing \r\n                                              facilities, conveniently \r\n                                              accessible for the use of all \r\n                                              persons employed, shall be \r\n                                              provided and maintained in a clean \r\n                                              and orderly condition in every \r\n                                              factory, office and shop.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the Chief Inspector is \r\n                                              satisfied that, by reason of the \r\n                                              difficulty of obtaining an \r\n                                              adequate supply of water or any \r\n                                              other special circumstances, the \r\n                                              application of this section to any \r\n                                              premises would be unreasonable, he \r\n                                              may by certificate in writing \r\n                                              exempt those premises from the \r\n                                              requirements of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Lighting.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Effective provision shall be \r\n                                              made to secure and maintain \r\n                                              sufficient and suitable lighting, \r\n                                              whether natural or artificial, in \r\n                                              every part of any factory, office \r\n                                              or shop in which persons are \r\n                                              working or passing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All apparatus installed for \r\n                                              producing artificial lighting \r\n                                              where lighting is required&nbsp; by \r\n                                              this section shall be properly \r\n                                              maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All glazed windows and \r\n                                              skylights used for the lighting of \r\n                                              any part of a factory, office or \r\n                                              shop shall, so far as practicable, \r\n                                              be kept clean on both the inner \r\n                                              and outer surfaces and free from \r\n                                              obstruction; but this subsection \r\n                                              shall not affect the whitewashing \r\n                                              or shading of windows or skylights \r\n                                              to mitigate heat or glare.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Drainage of Floors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where any process is carried on in \r\n                                              any factory or shop which renders \r\n                                              a floor liable to be wet to such \r\n                                              an extent that the water is \r\n                                              capable of being removed by \r\n                                              drainage, effective means shall be \r\n                                              provided and maintained to drain \r\n                                              off the water.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Sanitary Conveniences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Adequate and suitable sanitary \r\n                                              conveniences conveniently \r\n                                              accessible to persons employed \r\n                                              shall be provided, maintained and \r\n                                              kept clean in every factory, \r\n                                              office and shop, and effective \r\n                                              provision shall be made for their \r\n                                              lighting and ventilation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where persons of both sexes \r\n                                              are employed (except where the \r\n                                              only persons employed are members \r\n                                              of the same family, or where less \r\n                                              than five persons are employed), \r\n                                              separate conveniences shall be \r\n                                              provided for males and females.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister may by executive \r\n                                              instrument direct that the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall, \r\n                                              in any area, be enforced by the \r\n                                              local authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where an Inspector finds any \r\n                                              act or default in relation to any \r\n                                              drain, sanitary convenience or \r\n                                              water supply, or any nuisance or \r\n                                              other matter in any premises to \r\n                                              which this Act applies, which \r\n                                              appears to him to be the concern \r\n                                              of the local authority under this \r\n                                              section or under any other \r\n                                              enactment, he shall give notice \r\n                                              thereof in writing to the local \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Drinking Water.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An adequate supply of \r\n                                              wholesome drinking water shall be \r\n                                              provided and maintained at \r\n                                              suitable points conveniently \r\n                                              accessible to all persons employed \r\n                                              in every factory, office or shop.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a supply of drinking \r\n                                              water is not piped, it shall be \r\n                                              contained in suitable vessels and \r\n                                              shall be renewed at least daily; \r\n                                              and all practicable steps shall be \r\n                                              taken to preserve the water and \r\n                                              vessels from contamination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A drinking water supply, \r\n                                              whether piped or not, shall in \r\n                                              such cases as an Inspector may \r\n                                              direct be clearly marked &quot;Drinking \r\n                                              Water&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Accommodation for \r\n                                              Clothing.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Adequate and suitable \r\n                                              accommodation for clothing not \r\n                                              worn during working hours shall be \r\n                                              provided and maintained at \r\n                                              suitable places for the use of all \r\n                                              persons employed in any factory, \r\n                                              office or shop.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Sitting Facilities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where persons employed in any \r\n                                              factory, office or shop have in \r\n                                              the course of their work \r\n                                              reasonable opportunities for \r\n                                              sitting without detriment to their \r\n                                              work, there shall be provided and \r\n                                              maintained for their use, at \r\n                                              suitable places conveniently \r\n                                              accessible to them, suitable \r\n                                              facilities for sitting sufficient \r\n                                              to enable them to take advantage \r\n                                              of those opportunities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a substantial proportion \r\n                                              of such work can properly be done \r\n                                              sitting&#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) there shall be provided and \r\n                                              maintained for any employed person \r\n                                              doing that work a seat of a design \r\n                                              construction and size suitable for \r\n                                              him and the work, together with a \r\n                                              footrest on which he can readily \r\n                                              and comfortably support his feet \r\n                                              if he cannot do so without one;</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 arrangements shall be such \r\n                                              that the seat is adequately and \r\n                                              properly supported while in use \r\n                                              for the purpose for which it is \r\n                                              provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Removal of Dust or \r\n                                              Fumes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where in any factory process \r\n                                              there is given off dust, fumes or \r\n                                              other impurities of such a \r\n                                              character or to such an extent as \r\n                                              to be likely to be injurious or \r\n                                              offensive to the persons employed, \r\n                                              or any substantial quantity of \r\n                                              dust of any kind, all practicable \r\n                                              measures shall be taken to protect \r\n                                              the persons employed against \r\n                                              inhalation of the dust, fumes or \r\n                                              other impurities and to prevent \r\n                                              them accumulating in any workroom, \r\n                                              and in particular, where the \r\n                                              nature of the process makes it \r\n                                              practicable, exhaust appliances \r\n                                              shall be provided and maintained, \r\n                                              as near as possible to the point \r\n                                              of origin of the dust, fumes or \r\n                                              other impurities, so as to prevent \r\n                                              them entering the air of any \r\n                                              workroom.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No stationary internal \r\n                                              combustion engine shall be used in \r\n                                              any factory unless provision is \r\n                                              made to conduct the exhaust gases \r\n                                              from the engine into the open air.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Taking of Meals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where in any room of a factory \r\n                                              or shop any poisonous or otherwise \r\n                                              injurious substance is so used as \r\n                                              to give rise to dust or fumes, no \r\n                                              person shall be allowed to take \r\n                                              food to drink in that room.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Suitable provision shall be \r\n                                              made to enable persons employed in \r\n                                              any such room to take their meals \r\n                                              elsewhere in the premises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Protective Clothing and \r\n                                              Appliances.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where in any factory or shop \r\n                                              workers are employed in any \r\n                                              process involving excessive \r\n                                              exposure to wet or to any \r\n                                              injurious or offensive substance, \r\n                                              suitable protective clothing and \r\n                                              appliances, including, where \r\n                                              necessary, suitable gloves, \r\n                                              footwear, goggles and head \r\n                                              coverings, shall be provided and \r\n                                              maintained for their use.</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 any of the \r\n                                              processes specified in the Fourth \r\n                                              Schedule, suitable goggles or \r\n                                              effective screens shall be \r\n                                              provided to protect the eyes of \r\n                                              persons employed in the process.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where in any factory electric \r\n                                              arc welding is carried on, \r\n                                              effective provision shall be made, \r\n                                              by screening or otherwise, to \r\n                                              prevent persons employed (other \r\n                                              than persons employed in the \r\n                                              welding process) being exposed to \r\n                                              the electric arc flash.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Noise and Vibrations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Noise and vibrations likely to \r\n                                              affect the health of persons \r\n                                              employed in any factory, office or \r\n                                              shop shall be reduced as far as \r\n                                              possible by appropriate and \r\n                                              practicable measures.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Prohibition of lifting \r\n                                              Excessive Weights.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall in the course of \r\n                                              his work be required to lift, \r\n                                              carry or move any load so heavy as \r\n                                              to be likely to cause injury to \r\n                                              him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;First Aid.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A first aid box or cupboard of \r\n                                              the prescribed standard shall be \r\n                                              provided and maintained in every \r\n                                              factory, office and shop so as to \r\n                                              be readily accessible, and where \r\n                                              more than 150 persons are employed \r\n                                              an additional box or cupboard \r\n                                              shall be provided for each \r\n                                              additional 150 persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing except appliances or \r\n                                              requisites for first aid shall be \r\n                                              kept in a first aid box or \r\n                                              cupboard.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Each first aid box or cupboard \r\n                                              shall be placed under the charge \r\n                                              of a responsible person, who shall \r\n                                              if possible be a person with \r\n                                              knowledge of first aid and who \r\n                                              shall always be readily available \r\n                                              during working hours.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) There shall be displayed in \r\n                                              the premises so as to be easily \r\n                                              seen and read by the persons \r\n                                              employed to work therein a notice \r\n                                              stating the name of the person in \r\n                                              charge of the box or cupboard.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Power to require \r\n                                              Medical Supervision.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where it appears to the Minister \r\n                                              that in any factory, shop, or \r\n                                              class of factory or shop&#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) cases of illness have occurred \r\n                                              which he has reason to believe may \r\n                                              be due to the nature of a process \r\n                                              or other conditions of work; 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) by reason of alteration of any \r\n                                              process, or the introduction of \r\n                                              any new process or new substance \r\n                                              for use in a process, there may be \r\n                                              risk of injury to the health of \r\n                                              persons employed in that process; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) young persons are or are about \r\n                                              to be employed in work which may \r\n                                              cause risk of injury to their \r\n                                              health; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) there may be risk of injury to \r\n                                              the health of persons employed \r\n                                              from any substance or material \r\n                                              brought to the factory or shop to \r\n                                              be used or handled therein, or \r\n                                              from any change in the conditions \r\n                                              of work or other conditions in the \r\n                                              factory or shop,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              he may by written notice require \r\n                                              such reasonable arrangements to be \r\n                                              made for the medical supervision \r\n                                              of persons employed therein as he \r\n                                              may specify.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Health and Welfare \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) modifying or extending for any \r\n                                              class of factory, office or shop \r\n                                              any provision of this Act imposing \r\n                                              requirements as to health or \r\n                                              welfare, where he is satisfied \r\n                                              that such modification or \r\n                                              extension is necessary to secure \r\n                                              the health or welfare of persons \r\n                                              employed;</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) regulating the preparing and \r\n                                              taking of meals, ambulance and \r\n                                              first aid arrangements, rest \r\n                                              rooms, supply of protective \r\n                                              clothing, and the supply and use \r\n                                              of seats in workrooms;</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) increasing the number of cubic \r\n                                              feet which must be allowed for \r\n                                              each person under section 14;</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) prescribing standards of \r\n                                              adequate and suitable ventilation, \r\n                                              washing facilities, lighting and \r\n                                              sanitary conveniences;</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) providing for the control of \r\n                                              noise and vibrations and \r\n                                              safeguarding the health of persons \r\n                                              subjected to noise and vibrations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) prescribing the maximum \r\n                                              weights which may be lifted, \r\n                                              carried or moved by any person, \r\n                                              either generally or in relation to \r\n                                              particular circumstances;</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) providing for the protection \r\n                                              of persons or any class of persons \r\n                                              working in any factory, office or \r\n                                              shop against risk of bodily injury \r\n                                              or injury to health arising out of \r\n                                              the use of any machinery, plant, \r\n                                              equipment, appliance or substance, \r\n                                              the carrying on of any operation \r\n                                              or the use of any process;</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) otherwise for carrying out the \r\n                                              principles and purposes of this \r\n                                              Part.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section may impose duties on \r\n                                              owners, employed persons and other \r\n                                              persons, as well as on occupiers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 6&#8212;SAFETY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Prevention of Fire</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Ghana National \r\n                                              Fire Service Act, 1997 (Act 537), \r\n                                              s.33(b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Fire Alarms</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Ghana National \r\n                                              Fire Service Act, 1997 (Act 537), \r\n                                              s.33(b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Safety Provisions in \r\n                                              Case of Fire.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Ghana National \r\n                                              Fire Service Act, 1997 (Act 537), \r\n                                              s.33(b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Safe Means of Access \r\n                                              and Safe Place of Employment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall, so far as is \r\n                                              reasonably practicable, be \r\n                                              provided and maintained safe means \r\n                                              of access to every place at which \r\n                                              any person has at any time to \r\n                                              work, and every such place shall, \r\n                                              so far as is reasonably \r\n                                              practicable, be made and kept safe \r\n                                              for any person working there.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where any person has to work \r\n                                              at a place from which he will be \r\n                                              liable to fall a distance more \r\n                                              than eight feet, means shall be \r\n                                              provided, so far as is reasonably \r\n                                              practicable, by fencing or \r\n                                              otherwise, to ensure his safety, \r\n                                              unless the place is one which \r\n                                              affords secure foot-hold and, \r\n                                              where necessary, secure hand-hold.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; Sufficient clear and \r\n                                              unobstructed space shall be \r\n                                              maintained at every machine while \r\n                                              in motion to enable the work to be \r\n                                              carried on without unnecessary \r\n                                              risk.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every teagle opening or \r\n                                              similar doorway used for hoisting \r\n                                              or lowering goods or materials, \r\n                                              whether by mechanical power or \r\n                                              otherwise, shall be securely \r\n                                              fenced, and shall be provided with \r\n                                              a secure hand-hold on each side of \r\n                                              the opening or doorway.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The fencing referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (4) shall be properly \r\n                                              maintained and shall, except where \r\n                                              the hoisting or lowering of goods \r\n                                              or materials is being carried on \r\n                                              at the opening or doorway, be kept \r\n                                              in position.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Floors, Passages and \r\n                                              Stairs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All floors, steps, stairs, \r\n                                              passages and gangways shall be of \r\n                                              sound construction and properly \r\n                                              maintained and shall, so far as is \r\n                                              reasonably practicable, be kept \r\n                                              free from any obstruction and from \r\n                                              any substance likely to cause \r\n                                              persons to slip.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For every staircase in a \r\n                                              building or affording a means of \r\n                                              exit from a building, a \r\n                                              substantial hand-rail shall be \r\n                                              provided and maintained, which, if \r\n                                              the staircase has an open side, \r\n                                              shall be on that side, and, in the \r\n                                              case of a staircase having two \r\n                                              open sides or of a staircase \r\n                                              which, owing to the nature of its \r\n                                              construction or the condition of \r\n                                              the surface of the steps or other \r\n                                              special circumstances, is \r\n                                              specially liable to cause \r\n                                              accidents, such a hand-rail shall \r\n                                              be provided and maintained on both \r\n                                              sides.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) An open side of a staircase \r\n                                              shall also be guarded by the \r\n                                              provision and maintenance of a \r\n                                              lower rail or other effective \r\n                                              means to prevent any person from \r\n                                              accidentally falling through the \r\n                                              space between the hand-rail or \r\n                                              hand-hold and the steps of the \r\n                                              staircase.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) All openings in floors shall \r\n                                              be securely fenced, except insofar \r\n                                              as the nature of the work renders \r\n                                              such fencing impracticable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) All ladders shall be soundly \r\n                                              constructed and properly \r\n                                              maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Training and \r\n                                              Supervision.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall be employed at any \r\n                                              machine or in any process liable \r\n                                              to cause bodily injury, unless&#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 has been fully instructed \r\n                                              as to the dangers likely to arise \r\n                                              in connection therewith and the \r\n                                              precautions to be observed; 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) he has received sufficient \r\n                                              training in work at the machine or \r\n                                              in the process, or is under \r\n                                              adequate supervision by a person \r\n                                              who has a thorough knowledge and \r\n                                              experience of the machine or \r\n                                              process.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Cleaning of Machinery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No woman or young person shall \r\n                                              clean any part of a machine if \r\n                                              such cleaning would expose the \r\n                                              woman or young person to risk of \r\n                                              injury from any moving part of \r\n                                              that or any adjacent machinery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No woman or young person shall \r\n                                              clean any part of a prime mover or \r\n                                              of any transmission machinery \r\n                                              while the prime mover or \r\n                                              transmission machinery is in \r\n                                              motion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212;Fencing of Dangerous \r\n                                              Machinery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every dangerous part of any \r\n                                              machinery shall be securely fenced \r\n                                              unless it is in such a position or \r\n                                              of such construction as to be as \r\n                                              safe to every person employed or \r\n                                              working in the premises as it \r\n                                              would be if securely fenced.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In so far as the safety of a \r\n                                              dangerous part of any machinery \r\n                                              cannot by reason of the nature of \r\n                                              the operation be secured by means \r\n                                              of a fixed guard, the requirements \r\n                                              of this section shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been complied with if a \r\n                                              device is provided which in the \r\n                                              opinion of an Inspector \r\n                                              satisfactorily prevents the \r\n                                              operator from coming into contact \r\n                                              with that part.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1), \r\n                                              &quot;dangerous part&quot; includes every \r\n                                              moving part of a prime mover, \r\n                                              every flywheel directly connected \r\n                                              to a prime mover, any part of a \r\n                                              stock-bar which projects beyond \r\n                                              the headstock of a lathe, every \r\n                                              part of any electric generator, \r\n                                              motor or rotary converter, and \r\n                                              every part of transmission \r\n                                              machinery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;Safeguards for \r\n                                              Transmission Machinery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Efficient devices or \r\n                                              appliances shall be provided and \r\n                                              maintained in every room or place \r\n                                              where work is carried on by which \r\n                                              the power can promptly be cut off \r\n                                              from the transmission machinery in \r\n                                              that room or place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every machine intended to be \r\n                                              driven by mechanical power shall \r\n                                              be provided with an efficient \r\n                                              starting and stopping appliance, \r\n                                              the control of which shall be in \r\n                                              such a position as to be readily \r\n                                              and conveniently operated by the \r\n                                              person operating the machine.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No driving belt when not in \r\n                                              use shall be allowed to rest or \r\n                                              ride upon a revolving shaft which \r\n                                              forms part of the transmission \r\n                                              machinery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Suitable striking gear or \r\n                                              other efficient mechanical \r\n                                              appliances shall be provided and \r\n                                              maintained and used to move \r\n                                              driving belts to and from fast and \r\n                                              loose pulleys which form part of \r\n                                              the transmission machinery, and \r\n                                              any such gear or appliances shall \r\n                                              be so constructed, placed and \r\n                                              maintained as to prevent the \r\n                                              driving belt from creeping back on \r\n                                              to the fast pulley.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Chief Inspector may by \r\n                                              certificate in writing grant, \r\n                                              subject to any conditions \r\n                                              specified in the certificate, \r\n                                              exemption from compliance with any \r\n                                              requirements of this section&nbsp; in \r\n                                              any case where he is satisfied \r\n                                              that compliance with the \r\n                                              requirement is unnecessary or \r\n                                              impracticable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;Construction and \r\n                                              Maintenance of Fencing.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All fencing and other safeguards \r\n                                              provided in pursuance of sections \r\n                                              38 and 39 shall be of substantial \r\n                                              construction, and constantly \r\n                                              maintained and kept in position \r\n                                              while the parts required to be \r\n                                              fenced or safeguarded are in \r\n                                              motion or in use, except when any \r\n                                              such parts are necessarily exposed \r\n                                              for examination and for any \r\n                                              lubrication or adjustment shown by \r\n                                              such examination to be immediately \r\n                                              necessary, and all the conditions \r\n                                              specified in the relevant safety \r\n                                              regulations made under section 51 \r\n                                              are complied with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Construction and Sale \r\n                                              of Machinery.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the case of any machine in \r\n                                              a factory which is intended to be \r\n                                              driven by mechanical power&#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) every set-screw, bolt or key \r\n                                              on any revolving shaft, spindle, \r\n                                              wheel or opinion shall be so sunk, \r\n                                              encased, or otherwise effectively \r\n                                              guarded as to prevent danger; 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) all spur and other toothed or \r\n                                              friction gearing, which does not \r\n                                              require frequent adjustment while \r\n                                              in motion, shall be completely \r\n                                              encased unless it is so situated \r\n                                              as to be as safe as it would be if \r\n                                              completely encased.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who sells or lets \r\n                                              on hire, or as agent of the seller \r\n                                              or hirer causes or procures to be \r\n                                              sold or let on hire, knowing it to \r\n                                              be for use in a factory in Ghana, \r\n                                              any machine intended to be driven \r\n                                              by mechanical power which does not \r\n                                              comply with the requirements of \r\n                                              this section shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding two \r\n                                              hundred thousand cedis. [As \r\n                                              amended by the Factories and \r\n                                              Offices and Shops (Amendment) Law, \r\n                                              1991 (PNDCL 275), s.1(c)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Vessels Containing \r\n                                              Dangerous Liquids.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every fixed vessel, structure, \r\n                                              sump or pit of which the edge is \r\n                                              level with or less than three feet \r\n                                              above the adjoining ground or \r\n                                              platform shall, if it contains any \r\n                                              scalding, corrosive or poisonous \r\n                                              liquid, either be securely covered \r\n                                              or be securely fenced to at least \r\n                                              three feet above that ground or \r\n                                              platform, or where by reason of \r\n                                              the nature of the work neither \r\n                                              secure covering nor secure fencing \r\n                                              to that height is practicable, all \r\n                                              practicable steps shall be taken \r\n                                              by covering, fencing or other \r\n                                              means to prevent any person from \r\n                                              falling into the vessel, \r\n                                              structure, sump or pit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A warning notice, indicating \r\n                                              the nature of the danger and in a \r\n                                              form readily understood by the \r\n                                              persons employed, shall be marked \r\n                                              on or attached to any plant to \r\n                                              which this section applies or, if \r\n                                              this is not reasonably \r\n                                              practicable, be posted nearby.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Self-acting Machines.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No traversing part of any \r\n                                              self-acting machine and no \r\n                                              material carried thereon shall, if \r\n                                              the space over which it runs is a \r\n                                              space over which any person is \r\n                                              liable to pass, whether in the \r\n                                              course of his employment or \r\n                                              otherwise, be allowed on its \r\n                                              outward traverse to run within a \r\n                                              distance of eighteen inches from \r\n                                              any fixed structure not being part \r\n                                              of the machine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Hoists and Lifts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every hoist or lift shall be \r\n                                              of good mechanical construction, \r\n                                              sound material and adequate \r\n                                              strength, and shall be properly \r\n                                              maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every hoistway or liftway \r\n                                              shall be completely enclosed with \r\n                                              fire-resisting materials, and all \r\n                                              means of access to the hoist or \r\n                                              lift shall be fitted with doors of \r\n                                              fire-resisting materials:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that any such hoistway or \r\n                                              liftway shall be enclosed at the \r\n                                              top only by some material easily \r\n                                              broken by fire, or be provided \r\n                                              with a vent at the top.</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 no lifting machine or \r\n                                              appliance shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              hoist or lift unless it has a \r\n                                              platform or cage whose direction \r\n                                              of movement is restricted by a \r\n                                              guide or guides.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 45&#8212;Chains, Ropes and \r\n                                              Lifting Tackle.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No chain, rope or lifting tackle \r\n                                              used to raise or lower persons, \r\n                                              goods or materials shall be used \r\n                                              unless it is of good construction, \r\n                                              sound material, adequate strength \r\n                                              and free from patent defect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 46&#8212;Cranes and Other \r\n                                              Lifting Machines.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All parts and working gear \r\n                                              whether fixed or movable, \r\n                                              including and anchoring and fixing \r\n                                              appliances, of every lifting \r\n                                              machine shall be of good \r\n                                              construction, sound material, \r\n                                              adequate strength and free from \r\n                                              patent defect, and shall be \r\n                                              properly maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All rails on which a \r\n                                              travelling crane moves and every \r\n                                              track on which the carriage of a \r\n                                              transporter or runway moves shall \r\n                                              be of proper size and adequate \r\n                                              strength, and have an even running \r\n                                              surface, and any such rails or \r\n                                              track shall be properly laid, \r\n                                              adequately supported or suspended, \r\n                                              and properly maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) There shall be plainly marked \r\n                                              on every lifting machine the safe \r\n                                              working load or loads thereof, \r\n                                              except that in the case of a jib \r\n                                              crane so constructed that the safe \r\n                                              working load may be varied by the \r\n                                              raising or lowering of the jib, \r\n                                              there shall be attached thereto \r\n                                              either an automatic indicator of \r\n                                              safe working loads or a table \r\n                                              indicating the safe working loads \r\n                                              at corresponding inclinations of \r\n                                              the jib or corresponding radii of \r\n                                              the load.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No lifting machine shall, \r\n                                              except for the purpose of a test, \r\n                                              be loaded beyond the safe working \r\n                                              load as marked or indicated under \r\n                                              subsection (3).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) If any person is employed or \r\n                                              working on or near the wheel track \r\n                                              of an overhead travelling crane in \r\n                                              any place where he would be liable \r\n                                              to be struck by the crane, \r\n                                              effective measures shall be taken \r\n                                              to ensure that the crane does not \r\n                                              approach within twenty feet of \r\n                                              that place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) If any person is employed or \r\n                                              working otherwise than as \r\n                                              mentioned in subsection (5) but in \r\n                                              a place above floor level where he \r\n                                              would be liable to be struck by an \r\n                                              overhead travelling crane, or by \r\n                                              any load carried by such a crane, \r\n                                              effective measures shall be taken \r\n                                              to warn him&nbsp; of the approach&nbsp; of \r\n                                              the crane, unless his work is so \r\n                                              connected with or dependent on the \r\n                                              movements of the crane as to make \r\n                                              a warning unnecessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) A lifting machine shall not be \r\n                                              operated except by a person \r\n                                              trained and competent to operate \r\n                                              that machine, except that it shall \r\n                                              be permissible for such machine to \r\n                                              be operated by a person who is \r\n                                              under the direct supervision of a \r\n                                              qualified person for the purpose \r\n                                              of training; and no person under \r\n                                              the age of eighteen shall be \r\n                                              employed to operate any lifting \r\n                                              machine driven by mechanical power \r\n                                              or to give signals to its \r\n                                              operator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 47&#8212;Register of Chains, \r\n                                              Ropes, Lifting Tackle and \r\n                                              Machines.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              register containing all prescribed \r\n                                              particulars shall be kept in every \r\n                                              factory in respect of all chains, \r\n                                              ropes, or lifting tackle (except \r\n                                              fibre rope slings) to which \r\n                                              section 45 applies, and all \r\n                                              lifting machines to which section \r\n                                              46 applies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 48&#8212;Dangerous Fumes and \r\n                                              Lack of Oxygen.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall enter or remain in \r\n                                              any chamber, tank, vat, pit, pipe, \r\n                                              flue or other confined space, or \r\n                                              in any confined space in which \r\n                                              dangerous fumes are likely to be \r\n                                              present or the proportion of \r\n                                              oxygen in the air is liable to \r\n                                              have been substantially reduced, \r\n                                              for any purpose unless he has been \r\n                                              authorised to enter by a \r\n                                              responsible person and either he \r\n                                              is wearing a suitable breathing \r\n                                              apparatus, or he is ensured of a \r\n                                              supply of air adequate for \r\n                                              respiration and to render harmless \r\n                                              any fumes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 49&#8212;Explosive or \r\n                                              Inflammable Substances.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where, in connection with any \r\n                                              process giving rise to dust, gas, \r\n                                              or vapour, there may escape into \r\n                                              any workroom dust, gas or vapour \r\n                                              of such a character and to such an \r\n                                              extent as to be liable to explode \r\n                                              on ignition, all practicable steps \r\n                                              shall be taken to prevent such an \r\n                                              explosion by the enclosure of the \r\n                                              plant used in the process, and by \r\n                                              removal or prevention of \r\n                                              accumulation of the dust, gas or \r\n                                              vapour, and by exclusion or \r\n                                              effective enclosure of possible \r\n                                              sources of ignition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is present in any \r\n                                              plant used in any such process \r\n                                              dust, gas or vapour of such a \r\n                                              character and to such an extent as \r\n                                              to be liable to explode on \r\n                                              ignition, all practicable steps \r\n                                              shall be taken to restrict the \r\n                                              spread and effects of such an \r\n                                              explosion by the provision, in \r\n                                              connection with the plant, of \r\n                                              chokes, baffles and vents or other \r\n                                              equally effective appliances, \r\n                                              unless the plant is so constructed \r\n                                              as to withstand the pressure \r\n                                              likely to be produced by any such \r\n                                              explosion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No plant, tank or vessel which \r\n                                              contains or has contained any \r\n                                              explosive or inflammable substance \r\n                                              shall be subjected to any welding, \r\n                                              brazing or soldering operation or \r\n                                              to any cutting or other operation \r\n                                              which involves the application of \r\n                                              heat, until all practicable steps \r\n                                              have been taken to remove the \r\n                                              substance and any fumes arising \r\n                                              from it or to render them \r\n                                              non-explosive or non-inflammable; \r\n                                              and if any plant, tank or vessel \r\n                                              has been subjected to any such \r\n                                              operation, no explosive or \r\n                                              inflammable substance shall be \r\n                                              allowed to enter the plant, tank \r\n                                              or vessel until the metal has \r\n                                              cooled sufficiently to prevent any \r\n                                              risk of igniting the substance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Chief Inspector may by \r\n                                              certificate in writing, subject to \r\n                                              any conditions specified in the \r\n                                              certificate, grant exemption from \r\n                                              compliance with any of the \r\n                                              requirements of subsection (3) in \r\n                                              any case where he is satisfied \r\n                                              that compliance with the \r\n                                              requirement is unnecessary or \r\n                                              impracticable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 50&#8212;Steam Boilers, \r\n                                              Receivers and Containers, and Air \r\n                                              Receivers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every steam boiler or steam \r\n                                              receiver and all its fittings and \r\n                                              attachments shall be of good \r\n                                              construction, sound material, \r\n                                              adequate strength and free from \r\n                                              patent defect, and shall be \r\n                                              properly maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every steam boiler attendant \r\n                                              shall be properly instructed as to \r\n                                              his duties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No work shall be permitted in \r\n                                              any boiler-furnace or boiler-flue \r\n                                              until it has been sufficiently \r\n                                              cooled by ventilation or otherwise \r\n                                              to make work safe for the persons \r\n                                              employed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every steam container shall be \r\n                                              so maintained as to ensure that \r\n                                              the outlet is at all times kept \r\n                                              open and free from obstruction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Every air receiver and its \r\n                                              fittings shall be of sound \r\n                                              construction and properly \r\n                                              maintained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 51&#8212;Safety Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) providing for the supervision \r\n                                              of persons employed;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) prescribing particular means \r\n                                              for fighting fire in respect of \r\n                                              any class or description of \r\n                                              premises to which this Act \r\n                                              applies;</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) providing for the testing and \r\n                                              examination of any means provided \r\n                                              for fighting fire, and for the \r\n                                              recording of particulars of the \r\n                                              tests and examinations and of any \r\n                                              defects found and action taken to \r\n                                              remedy the defects;</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) prescribing the means of \r\n                                              escape in case of fire to be \r\n                                              provided in premises to which this \r\n                                              Act applies;</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) providing for the fencing of \r\n                                              and safety requirements to be \r\n                                              observed in relation to any \r\n                                              particular machinery;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) prescribing conditions to be \r\n                                              observed in the examination, \r\n                                              lubrication or operation of any \r\n                                              dangerous part of any machinery;</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) prescribing matters not to be \r\n                                              taken into account in determining \r\n                                              whether any part of machinery is \r\n                                              as safe as it would be if securely \r\n                                              fenced;</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) prohibiting the sale or hire \r\n                                              of any machinery or plant which \r\n                                              does not comply with any safety \r\n                                              requirements specified in the \r\n                                              regulations;</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                                              providing for the regular \r\n                                              examination, testing and repair of \r\n                                              hoists and lifts, and prescribing \r\n                                              safety measures to be observed in \r\n                                              relation to hoists and lifts;</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) providing in respect of all \r\n                                              kinds of chains, ropes and lifting \r\n                                              tackle for tables of safe working \r\n                                              loads, testing, examination and \r\n                                              annealing;</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) providing for the regular \r\n                                              examination, testing and repair of \r\n                                              all lifting machines, and \r\n                                              prescribing safety measures to be \r\n                                              observed in relation to lifting \r\n                                              machines;</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) prescribing safety measures to \r\n                                              be observed when work has to be \r\n                                              done inside any confined space in \r\n                                              which dangerous fumes are likely \r\n                                              to be present;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (m) providing for the examination \r\n                                              and testing of steam boilers and \r\n                                              steam receivers and all their \r\n                                              fittings and attachments;</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) providing for the cleaning, \r\n                                              examination and testing of air \r\n                                              receivers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (o) prescribing standards of \r\n                                              construction, specifications, \r\n                                              safety requirements and safety \r\n                                              measures to be observed in \r\n                                              relation to steam boilers, \r\n                                              receivers and containers and air \r\n                                              containers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (p) prescribing the conditions \r\n                                              under which steam boilers and \r\n                                              steam receivers, whether new or \r\n                                              previously used, may be taken into \r\n                                              use;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (q) prohibiting the employment of, \r\n                                              or modifying or limiting the hours \r\n                                              of employment of, all persons or \r\n                                              any class of persons in connection \r\n                                              with any manufacture, machinery, \r\n                                              plant, equipment, appliance, \r\n                                              process or description of manual \r\n                                              labour which in his opinion is of \r\n                                              such a nature as to cause risk of \r\n                                              bodily injury or to be offensive \r\n                                              to any persons employed in a \r\n                                              factory, office or shop;</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) prohibiting, limiting or \r\n                                              controlling the use of any \r\n                                              material or process in any \r\n                                              factory, office or shop, in the \r\n                                              interest of the welfare or persons \r\n                                              employed therein, or where in his \r\n                                              opinion the use of such material \r\n                                              or process may cause risk of \r\n                                              bodily injury or be offensive to \r\n                                              any persons employed therein;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (s) modifying or extending with \r\n                                              respect to any class of factory, \r\n                                              office or shop any provision of \r\n                                              this Act imposing safety \r\n                                              requirements, where he is \r\n                                              satisfied that such modification \r\n                                              or extension is necessary to \r\n                                              prevent risk of bodily injury to \r\n                                              persons employed therein:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (t) otherwise for carrying out the \r\n                                              principles and purposes of this \r\n                                              Part.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section may impose duties on \r\n                                              owners, employed persons and other \r\n                                              persons, as well as on occupiers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 7&#8212;DANGEROUS CONDITIONS AND \r\n                                              PRACTICES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 52&#8212;Dangerous Conditions \r\n                                              and Practices</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An Inspector may complain to a \r\n                                              District Court in relation to any \r\n                                              factory, office or shop&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that any part of the ways, \r\n                                              works, machinery or plant used \r\n                                              therein is in such a condition or \r\n                                              is so constructed or placed that \r\n                                              it cannot be used without risk of \r\n                                              bodily injury or injury to health; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that any process or work is \r\n                                              carried on or anything is or has \r\n                                              been done therein in such a manner \r\n                                              as to cause risk of bodily injury \r\n                                              or injury to health; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) that the conditions in regard \r\n                                              to escape in case of fire are so \r\n                                              dangerous that the premises or any \r\n                                              part thereof ought not to be used, \r\n                                              or ought not to be used for a \r\n                                              particular process or work, until \r\n                                              steps have been taken to remedy \r\n                                              the danger.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the court is satisfied that \r\n                                              the complaint is justified in \r\n                                              respect of any of the above \r\n                                              matters, the court shall, as the \r\n                                              case may require, by order&#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) prohibit the use of that part \r\n                                              of the ways, works, machinery or \r\n                                              plant or, if it is capable of \r\n                                              repair or alteration, prohibit its \r\n                                              use until duly repaired or \r\n                                              altered; 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) require the occupier of the \r\n                                              premises to take such steps as may \r\n                                              be specified in the order to \r\n                                              remedy the danger complained of; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) prohibit the use of the \r\n                                              premises or part thereof, or its \r\n                                              use for the particular process or \r\n                                              work, until such works as may be \r\n                                              specified in the order have been \r\n                                              executed to remedy the danger.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a complaint is or has \r\n                                              been made under this section, the \r\n                                              court may, on application ex parte \r\n                                              by the Inspector, and on receiving \r\n                                              evidence that the use of any such \r\n                                              part of the ways, works machinery \r\n                                              or plant, or, as the case may be, \r\n                                              the using of the premises or \r\n                                              carrying on of any process or work \r\n                                              or the doing of anything in such a \r\n                                              manner as aforesaid, involves \r\n                                              imminent risk of serious bodily \r\n                                              injury or injury to health, make \r\n                                              an interim order prohibiting \r\n                                              either absolutely or subject to \r\n                                              conditions the use, carrying on or \r\n                                              doing thereof until the earliest \r\n                                              opportunity to hear and determine \r\n                                              the complaint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where any order of the court \r\n                                              made under this section is \r\n                                              contravened, the occupier of the \r\n                                              premises shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding two \r\n                                              hundred thousand cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding three \r\n                                              months, or to both. [As amended by \r\n                                              the Factories, Offices and Shop \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), \r\n                                              s.1(d)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 53&#8212;Dangerous Premises.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where on complaint by an \r\n                                              Inspector a court is satisfied \r\n                                              that any factory, office or shop \r\n                                              or any part thereof is in such a \r\n                                              condition, or is so constructed or \r\n                                              placed, that any process or work \r\n                                              carried on or intended to be \r\n                                              carried on therein cannot be so \r\n                                              carried on with due regard to the \r\n                                              safety and health of the persons \r\n                                              employed, the court may by order \r\n                                              prohibit the use thereof for the \r\n                                              purpose of that process or work.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An order made by a court under \r\n                                              this section may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prohibit the carrying on of \r\n                                              any process or work either \r\n                                              indefinitely or until such steps \r\n                                              have been taken as may be \r\n                                              specified in the order to enable \r\n                                              the process or work to be carried \r\n                                              on with due regard to the safety \r\n                                              and health of the persons \r\n                                              employed, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) be revoked or varied on the \r\n                                              application by way of complaint of \r\n                                              the occupier or owner of the \r\n                                              premises:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that on any such \r\n                                              application an Inspector shall be \r\n                                              entitled to be heard.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If any process or work is \r\n                                              carried on in any factory, office \r\n                                              or shop or any part thereof in \r\n                                              contravention of an order of the \r\n                                              court made under this section, the \r\n                                              occupier of the premises shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              two hundred thousand cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding nine \r\n                                              months, or to both. [As amended by \r\n                                              the Factories, Offices and Shop \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), \r\n                                              s.1(e)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 54&#8212;Appeal to High Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person, including an \r\n                                              Inspector, aggrieved by an order \r\n                                              made by a court on determining a \r\n                                              complaint under section 52 or 53 \r\n                                              may appeal therefrom to a judge of \r\n                                              the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 8&#8212;SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND \r\n                                              EXTENSIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 55&#8212;Part of Building as \r\n                                              Separate Factory or Shop.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where part of a building is \r\n                                              let off as a separate factory or \r\n                                              shop, the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              relating to factories or shops \r\n                                              shall apply to any part of the \r\n                                              building used for the purposes of \r\n                                              the factory or shop, but the owner \r\n                                              of the building shall, instead of \r\n                                              the occupier, be responsible for \r\n                                              any contravention of sections 19, \r\n                                              31 to 34, 44 to 47 and 52 to 54 \r\n                                              insofar as those sections relate \r\n                                              to matters which are within his \r\n                                              control or which are his \r\n                                              responsibility.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, references in sections 52 \r\n                                              to 54 to the occupier shall be \r\n                                              taken as references to the \r\n                                              occupier or to the owner of the \r\n                                              building, according to which of \r\n                                              them is responsible in respect of \r\n                                              the matters complained of.</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 the \r\n                                              provisions applied by this \r\n                                              section, lifting machines attached \r\n                                              to the outside of the building, \r\n                                              and chains, ropes and lifting \r\n                                              tackle used in connection with \r\n                                              those machines, shall be treated \r\n                                              as being in the building. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where in any provision applied \r\n                                              by this section, or in any \r\n                                              regulations made thereunder, there \r\n                                              is contained in respect of a \r\n                                              factory any reference to the \r\n                                              general register, that reference \r\n                                              shall be taken,in relation to \r\n                                              matters in respect of which the \r\n                                              owner of the building is \r\n                                              responsible, as a reference to a \r\n                                              register to be kept by him, and \r\n                                              section 69(2) shall apply in \r\n                                              relation to any such register as \r\n                                              if the owner were the occupier of \r\n                                              the factory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 56&#8212;Docks, Wharves, Quays \r\n                                              and Warehouses.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Sections 6, 7, 10 to 54 and 60 \r\n                                              to 87 shall apply, so far as \r\n                                              applicable, to every dock, wharf \r\n                                              or quay and every warehouse not \r\n                                              forming part of a factory, in or \r\n                                              for the purposes of which \r\n                                              mechanical power is used, as if it \r\n                                              were a factory and as if the \r\n                                              person having the actual use or \r\n                                              occupation of it were the occupier \r\n                                              of a factory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The provisions applied by this \r\n                                              section shall apply to the \r\n                                              processes of loading, unloading or \r\n                                              coaling of any ship in any dock or \r\n                                              harbour, and to all machinery or \r\n                                              plant used in those processes, as \r\n                                              if the processes were carried on \r\n                                              in a factory and the machinery or \r\n                                              plant were in a factory and the \r\n                                              person who carries on those \r\n                                              processes were the occupier of a \r\n                                              factory:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that sections 50 and 52 \r\n                                              shall not apply in relation to any \r\n                                              such machinery or plant which is \r\n                                              on board a ship and is the \r\n                                              property of the shipowner.</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;plant&quot; includes any \r\n                                              gangway or ladder used by any \r\n                                              person employed to load, unload or \r\n                                              coal a ship.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 57&#8212;Building Operations and \r\n                                              Works of Engineering Construction.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Sections 6 to 8, 10 to 12, 19, \r\n                                              20, 25 to 31, 33 to 40, 43 to 54 \r\n                                              and 60 to 87 shall apply, so far \r\n                                              as applicable, to all building \r\n                                              operations and works of \r\n                                              engineering construction \r\n                                              undertaken by way of trade or \r\n                                              business, or for the purpose of \r\n                                              any industrial or commercial \r\n                                              undertaking, and to any line or \r\n                                              siding which is used in connection \r\n                                              therewith and for the purposes \r\n                                              thereof and is not part of a \r\n                                              railway.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No order made under section 52 \r\n                                              shall operate so as to interfere \r\n                                              with the design of any works of \r\n                                              engineering construction or with \r\n                                              the adoption in the execution of \r\n                                              those works of any method not \r\n                                              inconsistent with the safety of \r\n                                              the works or of the persons \r\n                                              employed which is prescribed in \r\n                                              the specification or in any signed \r\n                                              plans issued, or written \r\n                                              directions given, by the \r\n                                              consulting engineer or the \r\n                                              engineer in charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of this Act in \r\n                                              their application to building \r\n                                              operations or to works of \r\n                                              engineering construction shall \r\n                                              have effect as if any place where \r\n                                              such operations or works are \r\n                                              carried on were a factory and any \r\n                                              person undertaking any such \r\n                                              operations or works to which this \r\n                                              Act applies were the occupier of \r\n                                              the factory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Sections 6 and 7 shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be complied with as \r\n                                              respects building operations or \r\n                                              works of engineering construction \r\n                                              if the register is kept at an \r\n                                              office of the person undertaking \r\n                                              the operations or works and copies \r\n                                              of the abstract and regulations \r\n                                              are kept posted up at each office, \r\n                                              yard or shop of the person \r\n                                              undertaking the operations or \r\n                                              works at which persons employed by \r\n                                              him on the operations or works \r\n                                              attend, and in a position where \r\n                                              they can be easily read by those \r\n                                              persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Subject to subsection (6), any \r\n                                              person undertaking any building \r\n                                              operations or works of engineering \r\n                                              construction to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall, not later than \r\n                                              seven days after the beginning \r\n                                              thereof, serve on the Inspector \r\n                                              for the district a written notice \r\n                                              stating the name and postal \r\n                                              address of that person, the place \r\n                                              and nature of the operations or \r\n                                              works, whether any mechanical \r\n                                              power is used and if so its \r\n                                              nature, and such other particulars \r\n                                              as may be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subsection (5) shall not apply \r\n                                              to any operations or works which \r\n                                              the person undertaking them has \r\n                                              reasonable grounds to believe will \r\n                                              be completed in a period of less \r\n                                              than six weeks, except in such \r\n                                              cases as the Chief Inspector may \r\n                                              direct; and where a person \r\n                                              undertakes any building operations \r\n                                              or works of engineering \r\n                                              construction in a place where such \r\n                                              operations or works are in \r\n                                              progress, he shall not be required \r\n                                              to give a notice under that \r\n                                              subsection if such a notice was \r\n                                              given in respect of the operations \r\n                                              or works in progress.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The application of this Act to \r\n                                              any building operations or works \r\n                                              of engineering construction by \r\n                                              virtue of this section shall not \r\n                                              be excluded by reason of the fact \r\n                                              that they are undertaken on \r\n                                              premises to which this Act \r\n                                              otherwise applies; and nothing in \r\n                                              this section shall be taken as \r\n                                              prejudicing the application of \r\n                                              this Act to those premises apart \r\n                                              from this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The Minister may in respect of \r\n                                              building operations and works of \r\n                                              engineering construction by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) adapting or modifying any of \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act in \r\n                                              their application to building \r\n                                              operations and works of \r\n                                              engineering construction;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) prescribing standards for \r\n                                              scaffolding;</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) regulating the control of \r\n                                              lifting machinery and tackle, the \r\n                                              timbering of excavations, and site \r\n                                              supervision;</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) making special provision for \r\n                                              the health and welfare of workers \r\n                                              engaged on construction sites; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) imposing duties on any person \r\n                                              for any of the above purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 58&#8212;Premises in which Steam \r\n                                              Boilers are Used.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Sections 10, 11, 30, 33, 38, \r\n                                              44 to 57, 60 to 76, 78 and 79 \r\n                                              shall apply to any premises (not \r\n                                              being premises forming part of a \r\n                                              factory, or premises to which the \r\n                                              application of this Act is \r\n                                              otherwise extended by this Part) \r\n                                              in which a steam boiler is used, \r\n                                              as if the premises were a factory \r\n                                              and as if the person having the \r\n                                              actual use or occupation of the \r\n                                              premises were the occupier of a \r\n                                              factory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The owner of the boiler, \r\n                                              receiver or container shall, \r\n                                              instead of the person deemed to be \r\n                                              the occupier, be responsible for \r\n                                              any contravention of sections 44, \r\n                                              45 and 47 as applied by this \r\n                                              section in so far as they relate \r\n                                              to matters within his control.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations modifying the \r\n                                              provisions of sections 71 (so far \r\n                                              as applicable) and 72 in their \r\n                                              application by this section to \r\n                                              premises in which a steam boiler \r\n                                              is used.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The occupier of any premises \r\n                                              (not being premises forming part \r\n                                              of a factory) in which a steam \r\n                                              boiler is used shall, within one \r\n                                              month after the date upon which \r\n                                              the boiler is first used in those \r\n                                              premises, send to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector a written notice \r\n                                              containing his name, the address \r\n                                              and location of the premises, the \r\n                                              nature of the work carried on in \r\n                                              the premises, and the following \r\n                                              particulars in respect of each \r\n                                              steam boiler in use:&#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 type, description and \r\n                                              distinctive number;</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 country and year of \r\n                                              manufacture;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the date of the last thorough \r\n                                              examination and the name of the \r\n                                              person by whom the examination was \r\n                                              made;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the maximum permissible \r\n                                              working pressure in pounds per \r\n                                              square inch.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 59&#8212;Institutions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where, in any premises forming \r\n                                              part of an institution carried on \r\n                                              for charitable or reformatory \r\n                                              purposes, any manual labour is \r\n                                              exercised in or incidental to the \r\n                                              making, altering, repairing, \r\n                                              ornamenting, finishing, filling, \r\n     