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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              IN exercise of the powers 
                                              conferred on the Supreme Military 
                                              Council by section 2 of the 
                                              Emergency Powers Decree, 1978 (S.M.C.D. 
                                              197) these Regulations are made 
                                              this 16th day of November, 1978.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 1—Publication of 
                                              Disturbing Reports.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Any person who publishes any 
                                              report or statement which is 
                                              likely to cause alarm or 
                                              despondency or be prejudicial to 
                                              the public safety or maintenance 
                                              of public order commits an 
                                              offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 2—Acts Prejudicial to 
                                              Public Safety, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) It is an offence for any 
                                              person to do any act or publish 
                                              anything likely:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) to be prejudicial to the 
                                              public safety or the maintenance 
                                              of public order;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) to bring into hatred or 
                                              contempt, or to excite 
                                              disaffection against, the 
                                              Government;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) to undermine the authority of, 
                                              or the public confidence in, the 
                                              Government;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) to raise discontent or 
                                              disaffection among the people of 
                                              Ghana;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) to promote feelings of 
                                              ill-will or hostility between 
                                              different classes of the 
                                              population of Ghana.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) For the purposes of this 
                                              regulation, the word “publish” 
                                              includes publication by means of 
                                              words spoken or written, pictorial 
                                              representations, gramophone 
                                              records, cinema films and the 
                                              sound tracks thereof.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 3—Causing Disaffection.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              It is an offence for any person—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) to seduce or endeavour to 
                                              seduce any member of the Armed 
                                              Forces or Police Force from duty 
                                              or in the performance of any 
                                              functions in connection with the 
                                              preservation of public safety or 
                                              the maintenance of public order or 
                                              in the maintenance of supplies or 
                                              services essential to the life of 
                                              the community; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) to induce any member of the 
                                              Armed Forces or the Police Force 
                                              or any other person to do or omit 
                                              to do anything in breach of his 
                                              duty in connection with the 
                                              preservation of public safety or 
                                              the maintenance of public order or 
                                              in the maintenance of supplies or 
                                              services essential to the life of 
                                              the community.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 4—Prohibition of Public 
                                              Meetings, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              It is an offence for any person or 
                                              group of persons to hold any 
                                              public meeting for political 
                                              purposes or any public procession 
                                              or meeting likely to promote 
                                              disaffection or to be prejudicial 
                                              to the public safety or the 
                                              maintenance of public order.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 5—Sabotage.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who does any act 
                                              with intent to impair the 
                                              efficiency or impede the operation 
                                              or movement of any vessel, 
                                              aircraft, vehicle, machinery, 
                                              apparatus installation or any 
                                              other thing used or intended to be 
                                              used in the service of the, 
                                              Republic or in the performance of 
                                              essential services or for the 
                                              maintenance of supplies essential 
                                              to the life of the community or to 
                                              impair the usefulness of any 
                                              installations, works, structures 
                                              or premises intended to be used as 
                                              aforesaid commits an offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Sub-regulation (1) of this 
                                              regulation shall apply in relation 
                                              to any omission on the part of a 
                                              person to do anything which he is 
                                              under duty either to the public or 
                                              to any person, to do.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 6—Firearms, Ammunition and 
                                              Explosives.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) It is an offence for any 
                                              person to carry or possess any 
                                              firearms, ammunition or 
                                              explosives.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Sub-regulation (1) of this 
                                              regulation shall not apply to any 
                                              member of the Armed Forces or the 
                                              Police Force or to any person 
                                              authorised by the Commissioner 
                                              responsible for Internal Affairs 
                                              to carry or possess firearms, 
                                              ammunition or explosives.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 7—Offensive Weapons.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              It is an offence for any person to 
                                              carry, possess or have under his 
                                              control any offensive weapon, or 
                                              any instrument capable of being 
                                              used as an offensive weapon, not 
                                              being a firearm, in circumstances 
                                              which raise a reasonable 
                                              presumption that he has used or 
                                              intends or is about to use such 
                                              weapon or instrument for any 
                                              unlawful purpose.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 8—Protected Places.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where it appears to the 
                                              Commissioner responsible for 
                                              Internal Affairs to be necessary 
                                              or expedient in the interests of 
                                              the maintenance of public order or 
                                              for maintaining supplies and 
                                              services essential to the life of 
                                              the community, that special 
                                              precautions should be taken to 
                                              prevent the entry of unauthorised 
                                              person into any premises, the 
                                              Commissioner may by executive 
                                              instrument made under section 3 of 
                                              the Emergency Powers Decree, 1978 
                                              (S.M.C.D. 197) declare such 
                                              premises to be a protected place 
                                              for the purposes of these 
                                              Regulations, and so long as the 
                                              executive instrument remains in 
                                              force, no person shall unless 
                                              directed by the Commissioner, 
                                              enter such premises without the 
                                              permission of such authority or 
                                              person as may be specified in the 
                                              instrument.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where in pursuance of this 
                                              regulation any person is granted 
                                              permission to be in a protected 
                                              place, that person shall while 
                                              acting under such authority as may 
                                              be given by the Commissioner or by 
                                              the authority or the person 
                                              granting the permission, and an 
                                              authorised officer or any person 
                                              authorised in that behalf by the 
                                              occupier of the premises, may 
                                              search any person who enters or 
                                              seeks to enter a protected place 
                                              and may detain any such person for 
                                              the purpose of searching him.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Any person who enters a 
                                              protected place in contravention 
                                              of this regulation or while in 
                                              such place fails to comply with 
                                              any directions given under this 
                                              regulation commits an offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 9—Trespassing and 
                                              Loitering.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              It is an offence for any person to 
                                              trespass on—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) premises in the vicinity of 
                                              any protected place; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) premises used or appropriated 
                                              for the performance of any 
                                              essential services.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 10—Prohibition of Strikes 
                                              and Lockouts.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) During the period of the 
                                              emergency all strikes and lockouts 
                                              are illegal and a person shall be 
                                              guilty of an offence who—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; 
                                              instigates or encourages or 
                                              conspires with any other person to 
                                              go on strike or to declare a 
                                              lock-out;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii)&nbsp; participates in any strike 
                                              or lock-out.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In this regulation strike or 
                                              lockout shall respectively have 
                                              the meanings assigned to them by 
                                              sections 23 and 24 of the 
                                              Industrial Relations Act, 1965 
                                              (Act 299).</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 11—Power to Arrest without 
                                              Warrant.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A 
                                              police officer not below the rank 
                                              of Inspector of Police or any 
                                              police officer acting under the 
                                              instructions of a police officer 
                                              not below the rank of Inspector of 
                                              Police and any member of the Armed 
                                              Forces not below the rank of 
                                              sergeant or any member of the 
                                              Armed forces acting under the 
                                              instructions of a member of the 
                                              Armed Forces not below the rank of 
                                              sergeant may arrest without 
                                              warrant any person whom he has 
                                              reasonable grounds for suspecting 
                                              to have committed an offence under 
                                              these Regulations.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 12—Power to Detain 
                                              Suspected Persons.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) If any such officer as 
                                              mentioned in regulation 11 of 
                                              these Regulations has reasonable 
                                              grounds for suspecting that any 
                                              person has recently been acting or 
                                              is about to act in any manner 
                                              likely to have been or to be, 
                                              prejudicial to the public safety, 
                                              the public tranquillity, or to the 
                                              maintenance of public order, such 
                                              officer may arrest that person 
                                              without warrant and may detain him 
                                              pending inquiries for a period-not 
                                              exceeding seventy-two hours.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where any person is detained 
                                              as provided under subregulation 
                                              (1) of this regulation and a 
                                              police officer not below the rank 
                                              of Superintendent of Police or a 
                                              member of the Armed Forces not 
                                              below the rank of Major is 
                                              satisfied that the necessary 
                                              inquiries cannot be completed 
                                              within the period of seventy-two 
                                              hours, the said Police Officer or 
                                              Member of the Armed Forces may 
                                              authorise the continued detention 
                                              of such person for a further 
                                              period or for further periods, so 
                                              however that the total period of 
                                              detention shall not exceed ten 
                                              days excluding the day on which 
                                              the person so detained was 
                                              arrested, so however that he shall 
                                              report each extension of 
                                              seventy-two hours beyond the 
                                              original period of detention to 
                                              the Commissioner responsible for 
                                              Internal Affairs.</span></p>
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                                              &nbsp;</p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 13—Powers to Enter and 
                                              Search Premises.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any commissioned officer of 
                                              the Armed Forces or any police 
                                              officer not below the rank of 
                                              Assistant Superintendent duly 
                                              authorised in that behalf, may 
                                              enter or board any premises, 
                                              place, vehicle, vessel or 
                                              aircraft, being premises, or 
                                              place, vehicle, vessel or aircraft 
                                              which he may have reason to 
                                              suspect of being used or of having 
                                              recently been used, for any 
                                              purpose of or in connection with 
                                              mutiny, rebellion, or riot or in 
                                              which he may suspect that there is 
                                              any person who has committed any 
                                              offence against these Regulations 
                                              or any goods, article, document or 
                                              thing which may have been used in 
                                              connection with an offence under 
                                              these Regulations and may search 
                                              any such premises, place, vehicle, 
                                              vessel or aircraft and any person 
                                              found therein or whom he has 
                                              reasonable grounds to believe to 
                                              have recently left or to be about 
                                              to enter such premises, place, 
                                              vehicle, vessel or aircraft.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any commissioned officer of 
                                              the Armed Forces or any Police 
                                              Officer not below the rank of 
                                              Assistant Superintendent may 
                                              detain and search any person whom 
                                              he has reason to suspect of using 
                                              or carrying any article for the 
                                              purpose of or in connection with 
                                              the commission of an offence under 
                                              these Regulations.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Any person authorised under 
                                              this regulation to enter or board 
                                              any vehicle, vessel or aircraft 
                                              may stop or detain such vessel, 
                                              vehicle or aircraft using force if 
                                              need be.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Any person who obstructs any 
                                              person in the discharge of any 
                                              function under this Regulation is 
                                              guilty of an offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 14—Penalties.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who commits on 
                                              offence under any provision of 
                                              these regulations shall be liable 
                                              upon summary conviction to a term 
                                              of imprisonment not exceeding 5 
                                              years or a fine not exceeding 
                                              ¢50,000.00 or to both.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The court convicting the 
                                              offender may forfeit to the State 
                                              anything which appears to the 
                                              Court to have been used for or in 
                                              connection with the offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 15—Interpretation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In these Regulations unless the 
                                              context otherwise requires,—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              “ammunition” means ammunition for 
                                              any firearm as hereafter defined 
                                              and includes grenades, bombs and 
                                              other like missiles whether 
                                              capable of use with such a firearm 
                                              or not, and any ammunition 
                                              containing or designed or adapted 
                                              to contain any noxious liquid, gas 
                                              or other thing;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              “explosive” (a) means gunpowder, 
                                              nitroglycerine, dynamite, 
                                              gun-cotton blasting powder, 
                                              fulminate of mercury or of other 
                                              metals, coloured fires and every 
                                              other substance, whether similar 
                                              to those above-mentioned or not, 
                                              used or manufactured with a view 
                                              to producing a practical effect by 
                                              explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; 
                                              and</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) includes fog signals, 
                                              fireworks, fuses, rockets, 
                                              percussion caps, detonators, 
                                              cartridges, ammunition of all 
                                              descriptions and every adaptation 
                                              or preparation of an explosive as 
                                              defined above.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              “firearm” means any lethal 
                                              barrelled weapon of any 
                                              description from which any shot, 
                                              bullet or other missile can be 
                                              discharged or which can be adapted 
                                              for the discharge of any such 
                                              shot, bullet or other missile and 
                                              any weapon of whatever description 
                                              designed or adapted for the 
                                              discharge of any noxious liquid, 
                                              gas Or other thing and includes 
                                              any component part of any such 
                                              weapon as aforesaid;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              “vehicle” includes carriage, 
                                              wagons, carts, motor vehicles, 
                                              bicycles tricycles, vans, 
                                              handcart, trucks, barrows and 
                                              another machines for the carriage 
                                              of goods or persons.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              LT.-GENERAL F. W. K. AKUFFO</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Chairman of the Supreme Military 
                                              Council</span></p>