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(57, 'THE JUDICIAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 281)', '<table>\n<tr>\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1347" height="64">\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE JUDICIAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) \n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 281)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              JUDICIAL SERVICE DECREE, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83)2</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              JUDICIAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) LAW, \n                                              1984 (PNDCL 85)3</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART I—STRUCTURE&nbsp; OF THE SERVICE</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;1.&nbsp; Members of the Judicial \n                                              Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;2. Circuit Judges.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;3. Judicial Secretary.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;4. District Magistrates.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;5. Creation of further posts.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART II—FILLING OF VACANCIES</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;6. Methods of filling vacancies.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;7. Appointing authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;8. Principles for filling \n                                              vacancies.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;9. Appointment procedure.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              9A.Past Appointments to Terminate \n                                              Unless Expressly Continued.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              9B. Provisional Appointing and \n                                              Disciplinary Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              10. Limited Engagements.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              11. Probationary and trial \n                                              periods.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              12. Acting assignments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              12A Former Judge of Superior Court \n                                              may Practise as Lawyer.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART III—CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF \n                                              JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              13. Regulation of conditions of \n                                              service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              14. Schemes of service of \n                                              executive officers.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              15. Training of executive \n                                              officers.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART IV—MISCONDUCT OF JUDICIAL AND \n                                              EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              16. General definition of \n                                              misconduct.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              17. Penalties.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              18. Disciplinary authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              19. Proceedings for misconduct.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              20. Conduct of disciplinary \n                                              proceedings.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART V—LEAVING THE SERVICE</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              21. Modes of leaving the service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              22. Compulsory retirement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              23. Voluntary retirement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              24. Retirement for medical \n                                              reasons.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              25. Transfer on approved \n                                              employment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              26. Abolition of post.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              27.&nbsp; Discharge of non-pensionable \n                                              staff.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS AND \n                                              SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              28. Official language.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              29. Annual report.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              30. Legal proceedings.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              31. Power to make regulations and \n                                              issue instructions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              32. Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              33. Transitional provisions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              33A Repeals</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              34. Commencement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              34A. Commencement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF \n                                              GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE JUDICIAL SERVICE ACT, 1960</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the creation \n                                              of Judicial Service posts, for the \n                                              appointment, promotion and \n                                              retirement of members of the \n                                              Judicial Service and for \n                                              conditions of service, \n                                              disciplinary proceedings and other \n                                              matters relating to the Judicial \n                                              Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF PASSING: 29th June, 1960</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              WHEREAS by section 2 of the \n                                              Constituent Assembly and \n                                              Plebiscite Act, 1960 (No. 1) this \n                                              Constituent Assembly is authorised \n                                              to enact such provisions for or in \n                                              connection with the establishment \n                                              of a new Constitution as it thinks \n                                              fit:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AND WHEREAS it is expedient to \n                                              enact the provisions hereinafter \n                                              appearing in consequence of the \n                                              enactment of the Constitution:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              NOW THEREFORE, be it enacted by \n                                              the Constituent Assembly as \n                                              follows:—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART I—STRUCTURE OF THE SERVICE</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1—Members of the Judicial \n                                              Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The following shall be members \n                                              of the Judicial Service:—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the Chief Justice as head of \n                                              the Judicial Service;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the other Judges of the \n                                              Supreme Court of Judicature;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c)&nbsp; other Judges and Magistrates \n                                              and the Judicial Secretary; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) persons holding posts created \n                                              under any other enactment being \n                                              designated by law as Judicial \n                                              Service posts.;[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(a)] </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2—Circuit Judges.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              There shall be a circuit Judge for \n                                              each Circuit Court established \n                                              under the Courts Act, 1960 (C.A. \n                                              9).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3—Judicial Secretary.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              There shall be a Judicial \n                                              Secretary, who shall be \n                                              responsible to the Chief Justice \n                                              for securing the general \n                                              efficiency of the Judicial \n                                              Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4—District Magistrates.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              There shall be a District \n                                              Magistrate for each District \n                                              established under section 47 of \n                                              the Courts Act, 1960 (C.A.9).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5—Creation of Further \n                                              Posts.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) In addition to the established \n                                              posts created by sections 2 to 4 \n                                              of this Act, regulations may \n                                              provide for the creation of \n                                              further established or \n                                              unestablished Judicial Service \n                                              posts, including additional posts \n                                              of Circuit Judges and District \n                                              Magistrates.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Regulations creating \n                                              established posts shall specify in \n                                              relation to each post the name of \n                                              the post, the salary or salary \n                                              scale attached to the post and the \n                                              complement, that is the number of \n                                              posts constituting the grade in \n                                              question.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Regulations creating \n                                              unestablished posts shall specify \n                                              in relation to each post the name \n                                              of the post and the salary \n                                              attached to the post.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Regulations may designate any \n                                              established or unestablished posts \n                                              in the executive grade of the \n                                              Judicial Service as Civil Service \n                                              Posts.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) Without prejudice to section 6 \n                                              of this Act posts in the Judicial \n                                              Service designated as Civil \n                                              Service Posts shall be filled by \n                                              officers from the Civil Service \n                                              seconded to the Judicial Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6) For the purposes of \n                                              discipline, an officer seconded to \n                                              the Judicial Service shall be \n                                              deemed to be a holder of a \n                                              Judicial Service Post.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART II—FILLING OF VACANCIES</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 6—Methods of Filling \n                                              Vacancies.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) A vacancy in a Judicial \n                                              Service post may be filled—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) by promotion, that is by \n                                              appointing a person who is to be \n                                              moved from another post in the \n                                              Judicial Service with an immediate \n                                              increase in his salary;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) by recruitment, that is by \n                                              appointing a person who is not a \n                                              member of the Judicial Service or \n                                              who would cease to be a member of \n                                              the Judicial Service if the \n                                              appointment were not made.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) In addition to the methods \n                                              mentioned in subsection&nbsp; (1) of \n                                              this section, a vacancy in the \n                                              post of a judicial officer or an \n                                              executive officer may be filled—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) by transfer within the \n                                              service, that is by appointing a \n                                              person who is to be moved from \n                                              another post in the Judicial \n                                              Service with no alteration in his \n                                              salary;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) on reduction in rank, that is \n                                              by appointing a person who is to \n                                              be moved from another post in the \n                                              Judicial Service with an immediate \n                                              reduction in his salary.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 7—Appointing Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The authority empowered to \n                                              fill vacancies in a Judicial \n                                              Service post shall be known as the \n                                              appointing authority for that \n                                              post.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \n                                              this section, the National \n                                              Liberation Council shall be the \n                                              appointing authority for all \n                                              Judicial Service posts:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that in the exercise of \n                                              its powers as appointing \n                                              authority, the National Liberation \n                                              Council shall act on the advice of \n                                              the Judicial Service Commission, \n                                              except in respect of the office of \n                                              Chief Justice.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Regulations may provide for \n                                              the delegation by the National \n                                              Liberation Council, subject to \n                                              such conditions as may be \n                                              prescribed, of its power to fill \n                                              vacancies in the post of any \n                                              judicial officer to the Judicial \n                                              Service Commission and in relation \n                                              to posts to which the delegation \n                                              applies the Judicial Service \n                                              Commission shall be the appointing \n                                              authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Regulations may provide for \n                                              the delegation by the National \n                                              Liberation Council subject to such \n                                              conditions as may be prescribed of \n                                              its power to fill vacancies in the \n                                              post of any executive officer to a \n                                              Board consisting of the Chief \n                                              Justice or a Justice of Appeal \n                                              nominated by the Chief Justice as \n                                              Chairman, and one High Court \n                                              Judge, one Circuit Court Judge and \n                                              the Judicial Secretary and in \n                                              relation to posts to which the \n                                              delegation applies, the Board \n                                              shall be the appointing \n                                              authority.;[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(b)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8—Principles for Filling \n                                              Vacancies.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Appointments and promotions \n                                              shall be according to merit.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Where practicable, a vacancy \n                                              in a Judicial Service post other \n                                              than a post in the Supreme Court \n                                              of Judicature, shall be filled \n                                              either by promotion or transfer \n                                              within the Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) No person shall be appointed \n                                              to a post specified in column 1 of \n                                              the following Table, unless his \n                                              standing as a legal practitioner \n                                              is at least that specified in \n                                              column II of that Table.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;I &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; II &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Justice of Appeal&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 12 \n                                              years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Judge of the High Court&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              .. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8 \n                                              years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Circuit Judge&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n                                              </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              District Magistrate (Grade I).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3 \n                                              years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              District Magistrate (Grade \n                                              II)..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. \n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; 18 \n                                              months&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The Council on the advice of \n                                              the Judicial Service Commission \n                                              may appoint—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) a legal practitioner, who does \n                                              not have the standing specified in \n                                              the aforesaid Table, for an acting \n                                              appointment to a post specified \n                                              therein; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) a person who is not qualified \n                                              as a legal practitioner, as a \n                                              District Magistrate (Grade II) \n                                              upon a limited engagement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4A) No person shall be appointed \n                                              to the post of Judicial Secretary \n                                              unless he is a legal practitioner \n                                              with considerable knowledge of and \n                                              not less than ten years'' \n                                              experience in administration.[As \n                                              substituted by Judicial Service \n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1984 (PNDCL 85) \n                                              s.1(b)] </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) A person who to the knowledge \n                                              of the appointing authority has \n                                              attained the prescribed voluntary \n                                              retiring age shall not be \n                                              appointed by recruitment to the \n                                              pensionable post of a judicial or \n                                              executive officer otherwise than \n                                              on a limited engagement:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that this sub-paragraph \n                                              shall not apply, if that person \n                                              has such accrued entitlement to \n                                              retirement benefits as may be \n                                              prescribed.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6) For the purposes of this \n                                              paragraph, the period of a \n                                              person''s standing as a legal \n                                              practitioner shall include any \n                                              period during which that person \n                                              has been qualified to practise law \n                                              in a Commonwealth country, Ireland \n                                              or in any other country having a \n                                              system of law analogous to that \n                                              prevailing in Ghana.;[As \n                                              substituted by Judicial Service \n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 83) s.1(c)]\n                                              </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9—Appointment Procedure.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Appointments to the post of a \n                                              judicial officer or executive \n                                              officer shall be made by a letter \n                                              of appointment addressed to the \n                                              person appointed and signed by or \n                                              on behalf of the appointing \n                                              authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) A person not already holding a \n                                              pensionable post shall not be&nbsp; \n                                              appointed to a pensionable post \n                                              unless he has been medically \n                                              examined and found to be fit to be \n                                              appointed to pensionable service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9A—Past Appointments to \n                                              Terminate Unless Expressly \n                                              Continued.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              All appointments made to Judicial \n                                              Service posts in any Court \n                                              constituted under the Courts Act, \n                                              1960 (C.A. 9) shall, with effect \n                                              from the date on which this \n                                              Decree, under the provisions of \n                                              paragraphs 5 or 6, comes into \n                                              force, be terminated, unless they \n                                              are expressly continued by \n                                              legislative instrument made under \n                                              this paragraph of this \n                                              Decree.[Inserted and to be cited \n                                              as Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.4]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9B—Provisional Appointing \n                                              and Disciplinary Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Until the Judicial Service \n                                              Commission referred to in this \n                                              Decree is duly constituted, every \n                                              appointment as a member of the \n                                              Judicial Service established by \n                                              the Judicial Service Act, 1960 \n                                              (C.A. 10) shall be made by the \n                                              National Liberation Council.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Until the Judicial Service \n                                              Commission referred to in this \n                                              Decree is duly constituted, the \n                                              National Liberation Council shall \n                                              be the disciplinary authority for \n                                              every member of the said Judicial \n                                              Service, and such Council shall \n                                              have the power to terminate the \n                                              appointment of any such member \n                                              from such date as may be specified \n                                              in the letter to such member \n                                              terminating his appointment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The provisions of this \n                                              paragraph shall have effect \n                                              notwithstanding anything to the \n                                              contrary in any other provision of \n                                              this Decree or any other \n                                              enactment.[Inserted and to be \n                                              cited as Judicial Service Decree, \n                                              1966 (NLCD 83) s.5]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 10—Limited Engagements.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where a vacancy in a Judicial \n                                              Service post, not being the post \n                                              of a Judge of a superior court or \n                                              a Circuit Judge, is filled by \n                                              recruitment the person recruited \n                                              may, if the appointing authority \n                                              thinks fit, be appointed on a \n                                              limited engagement. </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The letter of appointment of a \n                                              person appointed to a post on a \n                                              limited engagement—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) shall specify the period of \n                                              the engagement, that is the period \n                                              for which it is contemplated that \n                                              he will remain in the post;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) may provide that the \n                                              provisions of this Act and of any \n                                              statutory instrument made \n                                              thereunder shall apply subject to \n                                              such modifications as may be set \n                                              out in the letter of appointment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Where a person who is not a \n                                              citizen of Ghana agrees to be \n                                              appointed on a limited engagement \n                                              his letter of appointment shall, \n                                              unless it otherwise provides, \n                                              constitute a contract between the \n                                              Republic and that person, and it \n                                              shall be taken to be a term of the \n                                              contract that the provisions of \n                                              this Act and of any statutory \n                                              instrument made thereunder shall \n                                              apply in relation to that person \n                                              subject to such modifications as \n                                              may be set out in the letter of \n                                              appointment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Subject to such conditions as \n                                              may be prescribed, the period of a \n                                              limited engagement may be extended \n                                              by the consent of the person \n                                              serving under the engagement and \n                                              the appointing authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 11—Probationary and Trial \n                                              Periods.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) An appointment by recruitment \n                                              to a pensionable post, not being \n                                              the post of a Judge of a superior \n                                              court or a Circuit Judge, shall be \n                                              subject to satisfactory service in \n                                              that post for a probationary \n                                              period of three years.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) An appointment by promotion to \n                                              a pensionable post, not being the \n                                              post of a Judge of a superior \n                                              court or a Circuit Judge, shall be \n                                              subject to satisfactory service in \n                                              that post for a trial period of \n                                              such duration as may be specified \n                                              in the letter of appointment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Where a post is held by a \n                                              person on probation or on trial \n                                              and it appears to the appointing \n                                              authority at the end of the \n                                              probationary or trial period, or \n                                              at any time during that period, \n                                              that the said person is unlikely \n                                              to fulfil the requirements of the \n                                              post, the appointing authority may \n                                              provide for him to be transferred \n                                              or reduced in rank, or, if he \n                                              holds the post on probation, may \n                                              order that he shall cease to be a \n                                              member of the Judicial Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The appointing authority for a \n                                              post held by a person on probation \n                                              or on trial may if he thinks fit \n                                              reduce or extend the probationary \n                                              or trial period.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 12—Acting Assignments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where a Judicial Service post \n                                              is vacant or the holder of the \n                                              post is absent from duty for any \n                                              reason the appointing authority \n                                              for that post may assign a member \n                                              of the Judicial Service or, in the \n                                              case of the post of an executive \n                                              officer, a public officer who has \n                                              been seconded to the Judicial \n                                              Service, to carry out the duties \n                                              of the post.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) An assignment under this \n                                              section shall cease to have \n                                              effect—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) on the filling of the vacancy \n                                              or the return to duty of the \n                                              holder of the post, as the case \n                                              may be; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) if some other person is \n                                              assigned to carry out the duties \n                                              of the post; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) if the assignment is revoked \n                                              by the appointing authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 12A— Former Judge of \n                                              Superior Court may Practise as \n                                              Lawyer.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) A judge of a superior court \n                                              who ceases to be a judge of that \n                                              court by reason of his removal, \n                                              retirement or resignation under \n                                              Article 45 of the Constitution may \n                                              practise as a lawyer in&nbsp; Ghana \n                                              subject to the provisions of the \n                                              Legal Profession Act, 1960&nbsp; (Act \n                                              32) and to the other provisions of \n                                              this section.&nbsp; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Except where the President \n                                              otherwise directs in writing in \n                                              the case of any person, a judge \n                                              referred to in subsection (1) of \n                                              this section shall, in the \n                                              exercise of his functions as a \n                                              lawyer, neither appear before nor \n                                              be heard by any court, judge in \n                                              chambers or any tribunal \n                                              performing judicial functions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;(3) The President may give a \n                                              direction under subsection (2) of \n                                              this section at any time whether \n                                              before, at, or after the time when \n                                              the person in whose case the \n                                              direction is given ceases to be a \n                                              judge as described in subsection \n                                              (1) of this section.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Where the President gives a \n                                              direction under subsection (2) of \n                                              this section in the case of any \n                                              person before that person first \n                                              assumes office as a judge of a \n                                              superior court, or at the \n                                              commencement of his service as \n                                              such a judge, the direction shall \n                                              be irrevocable unless that person \n                                              ceases to be a judge of a superior \n                                              court by reason of his retirement \n                                              or resignation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART III—CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF \n                                              JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13—Regulation of \n                                              Conditions of Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              As respects a judicial officer or \n                                              an executive officer, regulations \n                                              or Judicial Service instructions \n                                              may provide—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a)&nbsp; for the determination, \n                                              subject to the salary or salary \n                                              scale attached to his post, of the \n                                              salary payable to the officer;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;(b) for regulating the award of \n                                              increments of salary, and the \n                                              payment of allowances and other \n                                              additional remuneration;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) for regulating hours of work \n                                              and the granting of leave with or \n                                              without pay or allowances;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) for making available to the \n                                              officer (with or without charge) \n                                              housing accommodation, medical \n                                              treatment or other facilities;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) for regulating the \n                                              presentation of petitions; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) for other matters relating to \n                                              his conditions of service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 14—Schemes of Service of \n                                              Executive Officers.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Chief Justice may require \n                                              the Judicial Secretary to prepare, \n                                              in relation to all or any of the \n                                              posts of executive officers, a \n                                              scheme of service giving details \n                                              of the duties assigned to the \n                                              posts, modes of entry and \n                                              qualifications required, prospects \n                                              of promotion, training facilities \n                                              and other matters relating to \n                                              service as an executive officer.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) No scheme of service made \n                                              under subsection (1) of this \n                                              section shall be promulgated \n                                              without the consent of the \n                                              National Liberation Council, given \n                                              after consultation with the Chief \n                                              Justice.;[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(c)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 15—Training of Executive \n                                              Officers.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) There shall be a branch of the \n                                              Judicial Service with the function \n                                              of supervising and co-ordinating, \n                                              under the general direction of the \n                                              Chief Justice, arrangements for \n                                              the training of executive \n                                              officers.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Subject to subsection (1) of \n                                              this section, it is the duty of \n                                              the Judicial Secretary to secure, \n                                              so far as is practicable, that \n                                              facilities exist, and are used, to \n                                              enable executive officers to \n                                              undergo such training as may be \n                                              necessary for the performance of \n                                              the duties of their posts and for \n                                              enabling them to qualify for \n                                              advancement within the service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART IV—MISCONDUCT OF JUDICIAL AND \n                                              EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 16—General Definition of \n                                              Misconduct.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Any act done without reasonable \n                                              excuse by a judicial officer&nbsp; or \n                                              executive officer which amounts to \n                                              a failure to perform in a&nbsp; proper \n                                              manner any duty imposed upon him \n                                              as such, or which contravenes any \n                                              enactment relating to the Judicial \n                                              Service, or which is otherwise \n                                              prejudicial to the efficient \n                                              conduct of the Judicial Service or \n                                              tends to bring the Judicial \n                                              Service into disrepute shall \n                                              constitute misconduct.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 17—Penalties.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The following are the \n                                              penalties that may be imposed in \n                                              disciplinary proceedings under \n                                              this Part of this Act in respect \n                                              of the misconduct or \n                                              unsatisfactory service of a \n                                              judicial officer or executive \n                                              officer—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) dismissal, that is termination \n                                              of an appointment with forfeiture \n                                              of all retirement benefits;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) removal, that is termination \n                                              of an appointment with or without \n                                              a reduction in retirement \n                                              benefits;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) reduction in rank, that is \n                                              removal to another rank with an \n                                              immediate reduction of salary;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) reduction of salary, that is \n                                              an immediate adjustment of salary \n                                              to a lower point on the salary \n                                              scale attached to the post in \n                                              question;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) deferment of increment, that \n                                              is a postponement of the date on \n                                              which the next increment&nbsp; is due, \n                                              with corresponding postponements \n                                              in subsequent years;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) stoppage of increment, that is \n                                              non-payment for a specified period \n                                              of an increment otherwise due;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) in the case of executive \n                                              officers, suspension from duty \n                                              with consequent loss of pay and \n                                              allowances for a period not \n                                              exceeding fourteen days.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this Act, \n                                              dismissal, removal and reduction \n                                              in rank shall be treated as major \n                                              penalties and all other penalties \n                                              shall be treated as minor \n                                              penalties.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 18—Disciplinary \n                                              Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \n                                              this section, the National \n                                              Liberation Council shall be the \n                                              disciplinary authority for all \n                                              judicial officers and executive \n                                              officers:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that in the exercise of \n                                              its powers as disciplinary \n                                              authority, the National Liberation \n                                              Council shall act on the advice of \n                                              the Judicial Service Commission, \n                                              except in respect of the office of \n                                              Chief Justice.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Regulations may provide, \n                                              subject to such conditions as may \n                                              be prescribed for the delegation \n                                              by the National Liberation Council \n                                              of its disciplinary powers as \n                                              respects all or any of the posts \n                                              of judicial officers to the \n                                              Judicial Service Commission, and \n                                              in relation to posts to which the \n                                              delegation applies the Judicial \n                                              Service Commission shall be the \n                                              disciplinary authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Regulations made under section \n                                              31, may provide subject to such \n                                              conditions as may be prescribed \n                                              therein, for the delegation by the \n                                              National Liberation Council of its \n                                              disciplinary powers as respects \n                                              the posts of all or any executive \n                                              officers to the Chief Justice and \n                                              in relation to posts to which the \n                                              delegation applies the Chief \n                                              Justice shall be the disciplinary \n                                              authority:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that the Chief Justice \n                                              may, subject to such conditions as \n                                              he may think fit, delegate any \n                                              disciplinary power conferred on \n                                              him under this subsection to the \n                                              Judicial Secretary;[As substituted \n                                              by Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(e)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 19—Proceedings for \n                                              Misconduct.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Disciplinary proceedings in \n                                              the case of misconduct shall be \n                                              either summary or formal. </span>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) No major penalty shall be \n                                              imposed on a pensionable officer \n                                              in summary proceedings not arising \n                                              out of a conviction.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 20—Conduct of Disciplinary \n                                              Proceedings.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Regulations shall be made \n                                              providing for the conduct of \n                                              disciplinary proceedings in cases \n                                              of misconduct or unsatisfactory \n                                              service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \n                                              section governing cases of \n                                              misconduct shall include \n                                              provision—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) requiring a written charge to \n                                              be preferred in all proceedings;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) enabling the accused in formal \n                                              proceedings to call appropriate \n                                              witnesses;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) enabling persons to be \n                                              compelled to give evidence or \n                                              produce exhibits in formal \n                                              proceedings;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) requiring that no major \n                                              penalty imposed on a judicial \n                                              officer shall take effect unless \n                                              confirmed by the National \n                                              Liberation Council acting on the \n                                              advice of the Judicial Service \n                                              Commission;[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(f)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) enabling the accused in any \n                                              proceedings to appeal against any \n                                              decision involving the imposition \n                                              of a penalty not being a decision \n                                              requiring confirmation by the \n                                              National Liberation Council under \n                                              paragraph (d) of this \n                                              subsections;[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(f)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \n                                              this Act and except as may be \n                                              otherwise provided by regulations, \n                                              the authority by whom an appeal is \n                                              decided under this section may \n                                              make such order thereon as he \n                                              thinks fit.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART V—LEAVING THE SERVICE</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 21—Modes of Leaving the \n                                              Service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) A judge of a superior court \n                                              may leave the Judicial Service on \n                                              removal, retirement or resignation \n                                              under paragraph 1 of this \n                                              Decree.;[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(g)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The modes by which a judicial \n                                              officer or executive officer may \n                                              leave the service are as follows:—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) on dismissal or removal in \n                                              consequence of disciplinary \n                                              proceedings;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) on compulsory retirement;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) on voluntary retirement;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) on retirement for medical \n                                              reasons;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) on resignation in accordance \n                                              with such conditions as may be \n                                              prescribed;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) on the expiry or other \n                                              termination of a limited \n                                              engagement;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) on transfer on approved \n                                              employment;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (h) on the abolition of his post;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \n                                              in the case of an officer on \n                                              probation, on the making of an \n                                              order under subsection (3) of \n                                              section 11 of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (j) in the case of an officer \n                                              holding a non-pensionable post, on \n                                              being discharged by his appointing \n                                              authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 22—Compulsory Retirement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) A person holding a pensionable \n                                              post otherwise than on a limited \n                                              engagement shall retire from the \n                                              service on reaching the prescribed \n                                              compulsory retiring age:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that this section shall \n                                              not prevent the appointment of any \n                                              person on a limited engagement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 23—Voluntary Retirement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \n                                              person holding, otherwise than a \n                                              limited engagement, a pensionable \n                                              post as a judicial officer or \n                                              executive officer may retire from \n                                              service at any time after he has \n                                              reached the prescribed voluntary \n                                              retiring age, or with the consent \n                                              of the Judicial Service \n                                              Commission.;[As substituted by&nbsp; \n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(h)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 24—Retirement for Medical \n                                              Reasons.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \n                                              judicial officer or executive \n                                              officer shall retire from the \n                                              service if, in accordance with the \n                                              prescribed procedure, it is found \n                                              that he is incapable by reason of \n                                              infirmity of mind or body of \n                                              discharging the duties of his post \n                                              and that the infirmity is likely \n                                              to be permanent.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 25—Transfer on Approved \n                                              Employment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Regulations may be made for the \n                                              transfer of a judicial officer or \n                                              executive officer to employment in \n                                              another Public Service or to other \n                                              approved employment:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that an officer shall not \n                                              be transferred under this section \n                                              unless he consents to the \n                                              transfer.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 26—Abolition of Post.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where a post in a grade is \n                                              abolished by the repeal or \n                                              amendment of the enactment by \n                                              which it was created, the \n                                              appointing authority shall, if two \n                                              or more persons hold posts in that \n                                              grade, determine which of those \n                                              persons is to be treated as the \n                                              person whose post is abolished.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Unless the person in respect \n                                              of whom a determination is to be \n                                              made under subsection (1) of this \n                                              section is to be promoted or \n                                              transferred, he shall be afforded \n                                              an opportunity to make \n                                              representations to the appointing \n                                              authority, who shall consider any \n                                              such representations before making \n                                              the determination.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 27—Discharge of Non-Pensionable \n                                              Staff.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The appointing authority may \n                                              discharge a person holding a non-pensionable \n                                              post—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) on the ground that he is \n                                              physically incapable of performing \n                                              the duties of the post; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) where he has not held a \n                                              Judicial Service post during the \n                                              whole of the preceding twelve \n                                              months, on the ground that he is \n                                              generally unsuitable for the post; \n                                              or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) on the ground that the post is \n                                              no longer required to be occupied.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Where a person is discharged \n                                              under this section the appointing \n                                              authority shall furnish him with a \n                                              statement in writing of the ground \n                                              on which he is discharged.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS AND \n                                              SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 28—Official Language.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The official language of the \n                                              Judicial Service is English and \n                                              accordingly all written and oral \n                                              communications, examination \n                                              questions and answers, and other \n                                              transactions of the Judicial \n                                              Service shall be expressed in that \n                                              language.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 29—Annual Report.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) As soon as may be after the \n                                              30th June in each year the&nbsp; \n                                              Judicial Secretary shall prepare a \n                                              report giving details of the&nbsp; \n                                              administration of the Judicial \n                                              Service during the previous twelve \n                                              months.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The report shall be submitted \n                                              by the Judicial Secretary to the \n                                              Chief Justice, who shall transmit \n                                              it to the National Liberation \n                                              Council. The Chief Justice, shall \n                                              also transmit a copy thereof to \n                                              the Judicial Service Commission.; \n                                              and[As substituted by Judicial \n                                              Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD 83) \n                                              s.1(i)] </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 30—Legal Proceedings.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Except in relation to contracts \n                                              subsisting by virtue of section 10 \n                                              of this Act, no proceedings shall \n                                              be brought in any Court on the \n                                              ground only that compliance has \n                                              not been made with this Act or any \n                                              statutory instrument thereunder:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that this section shall \n                                              not prevent the institution of any \n                                              criminal proceedings in respect of \n                                              any offence under such an \n                                              instrument.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 31—Power to Make \n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The National Liberation \n                                              Council acting on the advice of \n                                              the Judicial Service Commission \n                                              may by legislative instrument make \n                                              regulations providing for any \n                                              matter which under this Act is to \n                                              be provided for by regulations or \n                                              in respect of any matter which is \n                                              to be prescribed or which \n                                              otherwise relates to the \n                                              administration of the Judicial \n                                              Service.[As substituted by \n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.1(j)]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 32—Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \n                                              otherwise requires— </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;executive officer&quot;, means a \n                                              member of the Judicial Service who \n                                              is neither a Judge of a superior \n                                              court nor a judicial officer, and \n                                              is the holder of a post designated \n                                              by regulations as the post of an \n                                              executive officer;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;grade&quot; means a series of \n                                              established or unestablished posts \n                                              with the same title and salary or \n                                              salary scale;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;judicial officer&quot; means a Circuit \n                                              Judge, the Judicial Secretary, a \n                                              District Magistrate, or a holder \n                                              of a post designated by&nbsp; \n                                              regulations as the post of a \n                                              judicial officer;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;pensionable \n                                              post&quot; means a post service in \n                                              which is pensionable service under \n                                              the enactments relating to \n                                              Judicial Service pensions, and \n                                              &quot;non-Pensionable post&quot; shall be \n                                              construed accordingly;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              “prescribed” means prescribed by \n                                              regulations or instructions made \n                                              under section 31 of this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;salary&quot; includes wages;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;vacancy &quot; includes a prospective \n                                              vacancy.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 33—Transitional \n                                              Provisions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Regulations may be made—</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) for the continued application \n                                              to executive officers, subject to \n                                              such modifications as may be \n                                              prescribed, of the Public Service \n                                              Commission Regulations, 1957, \n                                              General Orders and any other \n                                              provisions applicable to such \n                                              officers immediately before the \n                                              commencement of this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) for continuing as appointments \n                                              to posts created by or under this \n                                              Act, appointments made before the \n                                              commencement thereof;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) for making such amendments in \n                                              the enactments relating to \n                                              Judicial Service pensions as may \n                                              be necessary in consequence of the \n                                              provisions of this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) for such other matters \n                                              (including the repeal or amendment \n                                              of enactments) as may need to be \n                                              provided for in consequence of the \n                                              passing of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 33A—Repeals.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Judicial Service Act, 1960 \n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. \n                                              39) and the Judicial Service Act, \n                                              1960 (Amendment) (No. 2) Decree, \n                                              1966 (N.L.C.D. 58) are hereby \n                                              revoked without prejudice to \n                                              anything done under those Decrees; \n                                              and the alterations made in the \n                                              said Act by these Decrees shall \n                                              cease to have effect.[Inserted and \n                                              to be cited as Judicial Service \n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 83) s.6]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 34—Commencement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \n                                              at the same time as the \n                                              Constitution.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 34A—Commencement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) This Decree, other than the \n                                              provisions of paragraphs 5 and 6, \n                                              shall come into force at the same \n                                              time as the Courts Decree, 1966.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Paragraphs 5 and 6 of this \n                                              Decree shall come into force on \n                                              the date the Decree is made and \n                                              signed by the Chairman of the \n                                              National Liberation \n                                              Council.[Inserted and to be cited \n                                              as Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \n                                              83) s.7]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n          </td>\n        </tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\n          <td width="777" height="50">\n            <p align="center">\n              </table>\n            </td>\n        </tr>\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 281');
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(58, 'JUDICIAL SERVICE ACT, 1960 (CA 10)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1353" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              JUDICIAL SERVICE ACT, 1960 (CA 10)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I—STRUCTURE&nbsp; OF THE SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;1.&nbsp; Members of the Judicial \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;2. Circuit Judges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;3. Judicial Secretary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;4. District Magistrates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;5. Creation of further posts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II—FILLING OF VACANCIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;6. Methods of filling vacancies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;7. Appointing authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;8. Principles for filling \r\n                                              vacancies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;9. Appointment procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9A.Past Appointments to Terminate \r\n                                              Unless Expressly Continued.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9B. Provisional Appointing and \r\n                                              Disciplinary Authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Limited Engagements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Probationary and trial \r\n                                              periods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Acting assignments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12A Former Judge of Superior Court \r\n                                              may Practise as Lawyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III—CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF \r\n                                              JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Regulation of conditions of \r\n                                              service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Schemes of service of \r\n                                              executive officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Training of executive \r\n                                              officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV—MISCONDUCT OF JUDICIAL AND \r\n                                              EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. General definition of \r\n                                              misconduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Disciplinary authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Proceedings for misconduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Conduct of disciplinary \r\n                                              proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V—LEAVING THE SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Modes of leaving the service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Compulsory retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Voluntary retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Retirement for medical \r\n                                              reasons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Transfer on approved \r\n                                              employment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Abolition of post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27.&nbsp; Discharge of non-pensionable \r\n                                              staff.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS AND \r\n                                              SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Official language.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Annual report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Legal proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Power to make regulations and \r\n                                              issue instructions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Transitional provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33A Repeals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34A. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              AN ACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF \r\n                                              GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE JUDICIAL SERVICE ACT, 1960</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the creation \r\n                                              of Judicial Service posts, for the \r\n                                              appointment, promotion and \r\n                                              retirement of members of the \r\n                                              Judicial Service and for \r\n                                              conditions of service, \r\n                                              disciplinary proceedings and other \r\n                                              matters relating to the Judicial \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF PASSING: 29th June, 1960</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS by section 2 of the \r\n                                              Constituent Assembly and \r\n                                              Plebiscite Act, 1960 (No. 1) this \r\n                                              Constituent Assembly is authorised \r\n                                              to enact such provisions for or in \r\n                                              connection with the establishment \r\n                                              of a new Constitution as it thinks \r\n                                              fit:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS it is expedient to \r\n                                              enact the provisions hereinafter \r\n                                              appearing in consequence of the \r\n                                              enactment of the Constitution:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NOW THEREFORE, be it enacted by \r\n                                              the Constituent Assembly as \r\n                                              follows:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I—STRUCTURE OF THE SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1—Members of the Judicial \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following shall be members \r\n                                              of the Judicial Service:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the Chief Justice as head of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the other Judges of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court of Judicature;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; other Judges and Magistrates \r\n                                              and the Judicial Secretary; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) persons holding posts created \r\n                                              under any other enactment being \r\n                                              designated by law as Judicial \r\n                                              Service posts.;[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(a)] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2—Circuit Judges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a circuit Judge for \r\n                                              each Circuit Court established \r\n                                              under the Courts Act, 1960 (C.A. \r\n                                              9).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3—Judicial Secretary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a Judicial \r\n                                              Secretary, who shall be \r\n                                              responsible to the Chief Justice \r\n                                              for securing the general \r\n                                              efficiency of the Judicial \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4—District Magistrates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a District \r\n                                              Magistrate for each District \r\n                                              established under section 47 of \r\n                                              the Courts Act, 1960 (C.A.9).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5—Creation of Further \r\n                                              Posts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In addition to the established \r\n                                              posts created by sections 2 to 4 \r\n                                              of this Act, regulations may \r\n                                              provide for the creation of \r\n                                              further established or \r\n                                              unestablished Judicial Service \r\n                                              posts, including additional posts \r\n                                              of Circuit Judges and District \r\n                                              Magistrates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations creating \r\n                                              established posts shall specify in \r\n                                              relation to each post the name of \r\n                                              the post, the salary or salary \r\n                                              scale attached to the post and the \r\n                                              complement, that is the number of \r\n                                              posts constituting the grade in \r\n                                              question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Regulations creating \r\n                                              unestablished posts shall specify \r\n                                              in relation to each post the name \r\n                                              of the post and the salary \r\n                                              attached to the post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Regulations may designate any \r\n                                              established or unestablished posts \r\n                                              in the executive grade of the \r\n                                              Judicial Service as Civil Service \r\n                                              Posts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Without prejudice to section 6 \r\n                                              of this Act posts in the Judicial \r\n                                              Service designated as Civil \r\n                                              Service Posts shall be filled by \r\n                                              officers from the Civil Service \r\n                                              seconded to the Judicial Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the purposes of \r\n                                              discipline, an officer seconded to \r\n                                              the Judicial Service shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be a holder of a \r\n                                              Judicial Service Post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II—FILLING OF VACANCIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6—Methods of Filling \r\n                                              Vacancies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A vacancy in a Judicial \r\n                                              Service post may be filled—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) by promotion, that is by \r\n                                              appointing a person who is to be \r\n                                              moved from another post in the \r\n                                              Judicial Service with an immediate \r\n                                              increase in his salary;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) by recruitment, that is by \r\n                                              appointing a person who is not a \r\n                                              member of the Judicial Service or \r\n                                              who would cease to be a member of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service if the \r\n                                              appointment were not made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In addition to the methods \r\n                                              mentioned in subsection&nbsp; (1) of \r\n                                              this section, a vacancy in the \r\n                                              post of a judicial officer or an \r\n                                              executive officer may be filled—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) by transfer within the \r\n                                              service, that is by appointing a \r\n                                              person who is to be moved from \r\n                                              another post in the Judicial \r\n                                              Service with no alteration in his \r\n                                              salary;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) on reduction in rank, that is \r\n                                              by appointing a person who is to \r\n                                              be moved from another post in the \r\n                                              Judicial Service with an immediate \r\n                                              reduction in his salary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7—Appointing Authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The authority empowered to \r\n                                              fill vacancies in a Judicial \r\n                                              Service post shall be known as the \r\n                                              appointing authority for that \r\n                                              post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section, the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council shall be the \r\n                                              appointing authority for all \r\n                                              Judicial Service posts:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that in the exercise of \r\n                                              its powers as appointing \r\n                                              authority, the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council shall act on the advice of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Commission, \r\n                                              except in respect of the office of \r\n                                              Chief Justice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Regulations may provide for \r\n                                              the delegation by the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council, subject to \r\n                                              such conditions as may be \r\n                                              prescribed, of its power to fill \r\n                                              vacancies in the post of any \r\n                                              judicial officer to the Judicial \r\n                                              Service Commission and in relation \r\n                                              to posts to which the delegation \r\n                                              applies the Judicial Service \r\n                                              Commission shall be the appointing \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Regulations may provide for \r\n                                              the delegation by the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council subject to such \r\n                                              conditions as may be prescribed of \r\n                                              its power to fill vacancies in the \r\n                                              post of any executive officer to a \r\n                                              Board consisting of the Chief \r\n                                              Justice or a Justice of Appeal \r\n                                              nominated by the Chief Justice as \r\n                                              Chairman, and one High Court \r\n                                              Judge, one Circuit Court Judge and \r\n                                              the Judicial Secretary and in \r\n                                              relation to posts to which the \r\n                                              delegation applies, the Board \r\n                                              shall be the appointing \r\n                                              authority.;[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(b)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8—Principles for Filling \r\n                                              Vacancies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Appointments and promotions \r\n                                              shall be according to merit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where practicable, a vacancy \r\n                                              in a Judicial Service post other \r\n                                              than a post in the Supreme Court \r\n                                              of Judicature, shall be filled \r\n                                              either by promotion or transfer \r\n                                              within the Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall be appointed \r\n                                              to a post specified in column 1 of \r\n                                              the following Table, unless his \r\n                                              standing as a legal practitioner \r\n                                              is at least that specified in \r\n                                              column II of that Table.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;I &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; II &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Justice of Appeal&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 12 \r\n                                              years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Judge of the High Court&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              .. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8 \r\n                                              years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              District Magistrate (Grade I).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3 \r\n                                              years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              District Magistrate (Grade \r\n                                              II)..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; 18 \r\n                                              months&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Council on the advice of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Commission \r\n                                              may appoint—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a legal practitioner, who does \r\n                                              not have the standing specified in \r\n                                              the aforesaid Table, for an acting \r\n                                              appointment to a post specified \r\n                                              therein; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person who is not qualified \r\n                                              as a legal practitioner, as a \r\n                                              District Magistrate (Grade II) \r\n                                              upon a limited engagement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4A) No person shall be appointed \r\n                                              to the post of Judicial Secretary \r\n                                              unless he is a legal practitioner \r\n                                              with considerable knowledge of and \r\n                                              not less than ten years'' \r\n                                              experience in administration.[As \r\n                                              substituted by Judicial Service \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1984 (PNDCL 85) \r\n                                              s.1(b)] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A person who to the knowledge \r\n                                              of the appointing authority has \r\n                                              attained the prescribed voluntary \r\n                                              retiring age shall not be \r\n                                              appointed by recruitment to the \r\n                                              pensionable post of a judicial or \r\n                                              executive officer otherwise than \r\n                                              on a limited engagement:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this sub-paragraph \r\n                                              shall not apply, if that person \r\n                                              has such accrued entitlement to \r\n                                              retirement benefits as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              paragraph, the period of a \r\n                                              person''s standing as a legal \r\n                                              practitioner shall include any \r\n                                              period during which that person \r\n                                              has been qualified to practise law \r\n                                              in a Commonwealth country, Ireland \r\n                                              or in any other country having a \r\n                                              system of law analogous to that \r\n                                              prevailing in Ghana.;[As \r\n                                              substituted by Judicial Service \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 83) s.1(c)]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9—Appointment Procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Appointments to the post of a \r\n                                              judicial officer or executive \r\n                                              officer shall be made by a letter \r\n                                              of appointment addressed to the \r\n                                              person appointed and signed by or \r\n                                              on behalf of the appointing \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person not already holding a \r\n                                              pensionable post shall not be&nbsp; \r\n                                              appointed to a pensionable post \r\n                                              unless he has been medically \r\n                                              examined and found to be fit to be \r\n                                              appointed to pensionable service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9A—Past Appointments to \r\n                                              Terminate Unless Expressly \r\n                                              Continued.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All appointments made to Judicial \r\n                                              Service posts in any Court \r\n                                              constituted under the Courts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (C.A. 9) shall, with effect \r\n                                              from the date on which this \r\n                                              Decree, under the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraphs 5 or 6, comes into \r\n                                              force, be terminated, unless they \r\n                                              are expressly continued by \r\n                                              legislative instrument made under \r\n                                              this paragraph of this \r\n                                              Decree.[Inserted and to be cited \r\n                                              as Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.4]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9B—Provisional Appointing \r\n                                              and Disciplinary Authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Until the Judicial Service \r\n                                              Commission referred to in this \r\n                                              Decree is duly constituted, every \r\n                                              appointment as a member of the \r\n                                              Judicial Service established by \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (C.A. 10) shall be made by the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Until the Judicial Service \r\n                                              Commission referred to in this \r\n                                              Decree is duly constituted, the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council shall \r\n                                              be the disciplinary authority for \r\n                                              every member of the said Judicial \r\n                                              Service, and such Council shall \r\n                                              have the power to terminate the \r\n                                              appointment of any such member \r\n                                              from such date as may be specified \r\n                                              in the letter to such member \r\n                                              terminating his appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of this \r\n                                              paragraph shall have effect \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything to the \r\n                                              contrary in any other provision of \r\n                                              this Decree or any other \r\n                                              enactment.[Inserted and to be \r\n                                              cited as Judicial Service Decree, \r\n                                              1966 (NLCD 83) s.5]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10—Limited Engagements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a vacancy in a Judicial \r\n                                              Service post, not being the post \r\n                                              of a Judge of a superior court or \r\n                                              a Circuit Judge, is filled by \r\n                                              recruitment the person recruited \r\n                                              may, if the appointing authority \r\n                                              thinks fit, be appointed on a \r\n                                              limited engagement. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The letter of appointment of a \r\n                                              person appointed to a post on a \r\n                                              limited engagement—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) shall specify the period of \r\n                                              the engagement, that is the period \r\n                                              for which it is contemplated that \r\n                                              he will remain in the post;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) may provide that the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act and of any \r\n                                              statutory instrument made \r\n                                              thereunder shall apply subject to \r\n                                              such modifications as may be set \r\n                                              out in the letter of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a person who is not a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana agrees to be \r\n                                              appointed on a limited engagement \r\n                                              his letter of appointment shall, \r\n                                              unless it otherwise provides, \r\n                                              constitute a contract between the \r\n                                              Republic and that person, and it \r\n                                              shall be taken to be a term of the \r\n                                              contract that the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and of any statutory \r\n                                              instrument made thereunder shall \r\n                                              apply in relation to that person \r\n                                              subject to such modifications as \r\n                                              may be set out in the letter of \r\n                                              appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to such conditions as \r\n                                              may be prescribed, the period of a \r\n                                              limited engagement may be extended \r\n                                              by the consent of the person \r\n                                              serving under the engagement and \r\n                                              the appointing authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11—Probationary and Trial \r\n                                              Periods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An appointment by recruitment \r\n                                              to a pensionable post, not being \r\n                                              the post of a Judge of a superior \r\n                                              court or a Circuit Judge, shall be \r\n                                              subject to satisfactory service in \r\n                                              that post for a probationary \r\n                                              period of three years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An appointment by promotion to \r\n                                              a pensionable post, not being the \r\n                                              post of a Judge of a superior \r\n                                              court or a Circuit Judge, shall be \r\n                                              subject to satisfactory service in \r\n                                              that post for a trial period of \r\n                                              such duration as may be specified \r\n                                              in the letter of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a post is held by a \r\n                                              person on probation or on trial \r\n                                              and it appears to the appointing \r\n                                              authority at the end of the \r\n                                              probationary or trial period, or \r\n                                              at any time during that period, \r\n                                              that the said person is unlikely \r\n                                              to fulfil the requirements of the \r\n                                              post, the appointing authority may \r\n                                              provide for him to be transferred \r\n                                              or reduced in rank, or, if he \r\n                                              holds the post on probation, may \r\n                                              order that he shall cease to be a \r\n                                              member of the Judicial Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The appointing authority for a \r\n                                              post held by a person on probation \r\n                                              or on trial may if he thinks fit \r\n                                              reduce or extend the probationary \r\n                                              or trial period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12—Acting Assignments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a Judicial Service post \r\n                                              is vacant or the holder of the \r\n                                              post is absent from duty for any \r\n                                              reason the appointing authority \r\n                                              for that post may assign a member \r\n                                              of the Judicial Service or, in the \r\n                                              case of the post of an executive \r\n                                              officer, a public officer who has \r\n                                              been seconded to the Judicial \r\n                                              Service, to carry out the duties \r\n                                              of the post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An assignment under this \r\n                                              section shall cease to have \r\n                                              effect—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on the filling of the vacancy \r\n                                              or the return to duty of the \r\n                                              holder of the post, as the case \r\n                                              may be; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if some other person is \r\n                                              assigned to carry out the duties \r\n                                              of the post; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if the assignment is revoked \r\n                                              by the appointing authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12A— Former Judge of \r\n                                              Superior Court may Practise as \r\n                                              Lawyer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A judge of a superior court \r\n                                              who ceases to be a judge of that \r\n                                              court by reason of his removal, \r\n                                              retirement or resignation under \r\n                                              Article 45 of the Constitution may \r\n                                              practise as a lawyer in&nbsp; Ghana \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of the \r\n                                              Legal Profession Act, 1960&nbsp; (Act \r\n                                              32) and to the other provisions of \r\n                                              this section.&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except where the President \r\n                                              otherwise directs in writing in \r\n                                              the case of any person, a judge \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section shall, in the \r\n                                              exercise of his functions as a \r\n                                              lawyer, neither appear before nor \r\n                                              be heard by any court, judge in \r\n                                              chambers or any tribunal \r\n                                              performing judicial functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;(3) The President may give a \r\n                                              direction under subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section at any time whether \r\n                                              before, at, or after the time when \r\n                                              the person in whose case the \r\n                                              direction is given ceases to be a \r\n                                              judge as described in subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the President gives a \r\n                                              direction under subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section in the case of any \r\n                                              person before that person first \r\n                                              assumes office as a judge of a \r\n                                              superior court, or at the \r\n                                              commencement of his service as \r\n                                              such a judge, the direction shall \r\n                                              be irrevocable unless that person \r\n                                              ceases to be a judge of a superior \r\n                                              court by reason of his retirement \r\n                                              or resignation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III—CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF \r\n                                              JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13—Regulation of \r\n                                              Conditions of Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As respects a judicial officer or \r\n                                              an executive officer, regulations \r\n                                              or Judicial Service instructions \r\n                                              may provide—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; for the determination, \r\n                                              subject to the salary or salary \r\n                                              scale attached to his post, of the \r\n                                              salary payable to the officer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;(b) for regulating the award of \r\n                                              increments of salary, and the \r\n                                              payment of allowances and other \r\n                                              additional remuneration;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) for regulating hours of work \r\n                                              and the granting of leave with or \r\n                                              without pay or allowances;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) for making available to the \r\n                                              officer (with or without charge) \r\n                                              housing accommodation, medical \r\n                                              treatment or other facilities;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) for regulating the \r\n                                              presentation of petitions; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) for other matters relating to \r\n                                              his conditions of service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14—Schemes of Service of \r\n                                              Executive Officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chief Justice may require \r\n                                              the Judicial Secretary to prepare, \r\n                                              in relation to all or any of the \r\n                                              posts of executive officers, a \r\n                                              scheme of service giving details \r\n                                              of the duties assigned to the \r\n                                              posts, modes of entry and \r\n                                              qualifications required, prospects \r\n                                              of promotion, training facilities \r\n                                              and other matters relating to \r\n                                              service as an executive officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No scheme of service made \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section shall be promulgated \r\n                                              without the consent of the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council, given \r\n                                              after consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice.;[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(c)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15—Training of Executive \r\n                                              Officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a branch of the \r\n                                              Judicial Service with the function \r\n                                              of supervising and co-ordinating, \r\n                                              under the general direction of the \r\n                                              Chief Justice, arrangements for \r\n                                              the training of executive \r\n                                              officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, it is the duty of \r\n                                              the Judicial Secretary to secure, \r\n                                              so far as is practicable, that \r\n                                              facilities exist, and are used, to \r\n                                              enable executive officers to \r\n                                              undergo such training as may be \r\n                                              necessary for the performance of \r\n                                              the duties of their posts and for \r\n                                              enabling them to qualify for \r\n                                              advancement within the service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV—MISCONDUCT OF JUDICIAL AND \r\n                                              EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16—General Definition of \r\n                                              Misconduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any act done without reasonable \r\n                                              excuse by a judicial officer&nbsp; or \r\n                                              executive officer which amounts to \r\n                                              a failure to perform in a&nbsp; proper \r\n                                              manner any duty imposed upon him \r\n                                              as such, or which contravenes any \r\n                                              enactment relating to the Judicial \r\n                                              Service, or which is otherwise \r\n                                              prejudicial to the efficient \r\n                                              conduct of the Judicial Service or \r\n                                              tends to bring the Judicial \r\n                                              Service into disrepute shall \r\n                                              constitute misconduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17—Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following are the \r\n                                              penalties that may be imposed in \r\n                                              disciplinary proceedings under \r\n                                              this Part of this Act in respect \r\n                                              of the misconduct or \r\n                                              unsatisfactory service of a \r\n                                              judicial officer or executive \r\n                                              officer—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) dismissal, that is termination \r\n                                              of an appointment with forfeiture \r\n                                              of all retirement benefits;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) removal, that is termination \r\n                                              of an appointment with or without \r\n                                              a reduction in retirement \r\n                                              benefits;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) reduction in rank, that is \r\n                                              removal to another rank with an \r\n                                              immediate reduction of salary;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) reduction of salary, that is \r\n                                              an immediate adjustment of salary \r\n                                              to a lower point on the salary \r\n                                              scale attached to the post in \r\n                                              question;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) deferment of increment, that \r\n                                              is a postponement of the date on \r\n                                              which the next increment&nbsp; is due, \r\n                                              with corresponding postponements \r\n                                              in subsequent years;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) stoppage of increment, that is \r\n                                              non-payment for a specified period \r\n                                              of an increment otherwise due;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) in the case of executive \r\n                                              officers, suspension from duty \r\n                                              with consequent loss of pay and \r\n                                              allowances for a period not \r\n                                              exceeding fourteen days.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              dismissal, removal and reduction \r\n                                              in rank shall be treated as major \r\n                                              penalties and all other penalties \r\n                                              shall be treated as minor \r\n                                              penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18—Disciplinary \r\n                                              Authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section, the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council shall be the \r\n                                              disciplinary authority for all \r\n                                              judicial officers and executive \r\n                                              officers:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that in the exercise of \r\n                                              its powers as disciplinary \r\n                                              authority, the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council shall act on the advice of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Commission, \r\n                                              except in respect of the office of \r\n                                              Chief Justice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations may provide, \r\n                                              subject to such conditions as may \r\n                                              be prescribed for the delegation \r\n                                              by the National Liberation Council \r\n                                              of its disciplinary powers as \r\n                                              respects all or any of the posts \r\n                                              of judicial officers to the \r\n                                              Judicial Service Commission, and \r\n                                              in relation to posts to which the \r\n                                              delegation applies the Judicial \r\n                                              Service Commission shall be the \r\n                                              disciplinary authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Regulations made under section \r\n                                              31, may provide subject to such \r\n                                              conditions as may be prescribed \r\n                                              therein, for the delegation by the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council of its \r\n                                              disciplinary powers as respects \r\n                                              the posts of all or any executive \r\n                                              officers to the Chief Justice and \r\n                                              in relation to posts to which the \r\n                                              delegation applies the Chief \r\n                                              Justice shall be the disciplinary \r\n                                              authority:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Chief Justice \r\n                                              may, subject to such conditions as \r\n                                              he may think fit, delegate any \r\n                                              disciplinary power conferred on \r\n                                              him under this subsection to the \r\n                                              Judicial Secretary;[As substituted \r\n                                              by Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(e)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19—Proceedings for \r\n                                              Misconduct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Disciplinary proceedings in \r\n                                              the case of misconduct shall be \r\n                                              either summary or formal. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No major penalty shall be \r\n                                              imposed on a pensionable officer \r\n                                              in summary proceedings not arising \r\n                                              out of a conviction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20—Conduct of Disciplinary \r\n                                              Proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Regulations shall be made \r\n                                              providing for the conduct of \r\n                                              disciplinary proceedings in cases \r\n                                              of misconduct or unsatisfactory \r\n                                              service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section governing cases of \r\n                                              misconduct shall include \r\n                                              provision—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) requiring a written charge to \r\n                                              be preferred in all proceedings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) enabling the accused in formal \r\n                                              proceedings to call appropriate \r\n                                              witnesses;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) enabling persons to be \r\n                                              compelled to give evidence or \r\n                                              produce exhibits in formal \r\n                                              proceedings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) requiring that no major \r\n                                              penalty imposed on a judicial \r\n                                              officer shall take effect unless \r\n                                              confirmed by the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council acting on the \r\n                                              advice of the Judicial Service \r\n                                              Commission;[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(f)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) enabling the accused in any \r\n                                              proceedings to appeal against any \r\n                                              decision involving the imposition \r\n                                              of a penalty not being a decision \r\n                                              requiring confirmation by the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council under \r\n                                              paragraph (d) of this \r\n                                              subsections;[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(f)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and except as may be \r\n                                              otherwise provided by regulations, \r\n                                              the authority by whom an appeal is \r\n                                              decided under this section may \r\n                                              make such order thereon as he \r\n                                              thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V—LEAVING THE SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21—Modes of Leaving the \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A judge of a superior court \r\n                                              may leave the Judicial Service on \r\n                                              removal, retirement or resignation \r\n                                              under paragraph 1 of this \r\n                                              Decree.;[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(g)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The modes by which a judicial \r\n                                              officer or executive officer may \r\n                                              leave the service are as follows:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on dismissal or removal in \r\n                                              consequence of disciplinary \r\n                                              proceedings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) on compulsory retirement;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) on voluntary retirement;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) on retirement for medical \r\n                                              reasons;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) on resignation in accordance \r\n                                              with such conditions as may be \r\n                                              prescribed;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) on the expiry or other \r\n                                              termination of a limited \r\n                                              engagement;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) on transfer on approved \r\n                                              employment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) on the abolition of his post;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              in the case of an officer on \r\n                                              probation, on the making of an \r\n                                              order under subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 11 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) in the case of an officer \r\n                                              holding a non-pensionable post, on \r\n                                              being discharged by his appointing \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22—Compulsory Retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person holding a pensionable \r\n                                              post otherwise than on a limited \r\n                                              engagement shall retire from the \r\n                                              service on reaching the prescribed \r\n                                              compulsory retiring age:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this section shall \r\n                                              not prevent the appointment of any \r\n                                              person on a limited engagement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23—Voluntary Retirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              person holding, otherwise than a \r\n                                              limited engagement, a pensionable \r\n                                              post as a judicial officer or \r\n                                              executive officer may retire from \r\n                                              service at any time after he has \r\n                                              reached the prescribed voluntary \r\n                                              retiring age, or with the consent \r\n                                              of the Judicial Service \r\n                                              Commission.;[As substituted by&nbsp; \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(h)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24—Retirement for Medical \r\n                                              Reasons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              judicial officer or executive \r\n                                              officer shall retire from the \r\n                                              service if, in accordance with the \r\n                                              prescribed procedure, it is found \r\n                                              that he is incapable by reason of \r\n                                              infirmity of mind or body of \r\n                                              discharging the duties of his post \r\n                                              and that the infirmity is likely \r\n                                              to be permanent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25—Transfer on Approved \r\n                                              Employment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations may be made for the \r\n                                              transfer of a judicial officer or \r\n                                              executive officer to employment in \r\n                                              another Public Service or to other \r\n                                              approved employment:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that an officer shall not \r\n                                              be transferred under this section \r\n                                              unless he consents to the \r\n                                              transfer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26—Abolition of Post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a post in a grade is \r\n                                              abolished by the repeal or \r\n                                              amendment of the enactment by \r\n                                              which it was created, the \r\n                                              appointing authority shall, if two \r\n                                              or more persons hold posts in that \r\n                                              grade, determine which of those \r\n                                              persons is to be treated as the \r\n                                              person whose post is abolished.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless the person in respect \r\n                                              of whom a determination is to be \r\n                                              made under subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section is to be promoted or \r\n                                              transferred, he shall be afforded \r\n                                              an opportunity to make \r\n                                              representations to the appointing \r\n                                              authority, who shall consider any \r\n                                              such representations before making \r\n                                              the determination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27—Discharge of Non-Pensionable \r\n                                              Staff.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The appointing authority may \r\n                                              discharge a person holding a non-pensionable \r\n                                              post—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on the ground that he is \r\n                                              physically incapable of performing \r\n                                              the duties of the post; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where he has not held a \r\n                                              Judicial Service post during the \r\n                                              whole of the preceding twelve \r\n                                              months, on the ground that he is \r\n                                              generally unsuitable for the post; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) on the ground that the post is \r\n                                              no longer required to be occupied.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a person is discharged \r\n                                              under this section the appointing \r\n                                              authority shall furnish him with a \r\n                                              statement in writing of the ground \r\n                                              on which he is discharged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS AND \r\n                                              SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28—Official Language.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The official language of the \r\n                                              Judicial Service is English and \r\n                                              accordingly all written and oral \r\n                                              communications, examination \r\n                                              questions and answers, and other \r\n                                              transactions of the Judicial \r\n                                              Service shall be expressed in that \r\n                                              language.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29—Annual Report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) As soon as may be after the \r\n                                              30th June in each year the&nbsp; \r\n                                              Judicial Secretary shall prepare a \r\n                                              report giving details of the&nbsp; \r\n                                              administration of the Judicial \r\n                                              Service during the previous twelve \r\n                                              months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The report shall be submitted \r\n                                              by the Judicial Secretary to the \r\n                                              Chief Justice, who shall transmit \r\n                                              it to the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council. The Chief Justice, shall \r\n                                              also transmit a copy thereof to \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Commission.; \r\n                                              and[As substituted by Judicial \r\n                                              Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD 83) \r\n                                              s.1(i)] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30—Legal Proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except in relation to contracts \r\n                                              subsisting by virtue of section 10 \r\n                                              of this Act, no proceedings shall \r\n                                              be brought in any Court on the \r\n                                              ground only that compliance has \r\n                                              not been made with this Act or any \r\n                                              statutory instrument thereunder:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this section shall \r\n                                              not prevent the institution of any \r\n                                              criminal proceedings in respect of \r\n                                              any offence under such an \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31—Power to Make \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National Liberation \r\n                                              Council acting on the advice of \r\n                                              the Judicial Service Commission \r\n                                              may by legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations providing for any \r\n                                              matter which under this Act is to \r\n                                              be provided for by regulations or \r\n                                              in respect of any matter which is \r\n                                              to be prescribed or which \r\n                                              otherwise relates to the \r\n                                              administration of the Judicial \r\n                                              Service.[As substituted by \r\n                                              Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.1(j)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32—Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires— </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;executive officer&quot;, means a \r\n                                              member of the Judicial Service who \r\n                                              is neither a Judge of a superior \r\n                                              court nor a judicial officer, and \r\n                                              is the holder of a post designated \r\n                                              by regulations as the post of an \r\n                                              executive officer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;grade&quot; means a series of \r\n                                              established or unestablished posts \r\n                                              with the same title and salary or \r\n                                              salary scale;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;judicial officer&quot; means a Circuit \r\n                                              Judge, the Judicial Secretary, a \r\n                                              District Magistrate, or a holder \r\n                                              of a post designated by&nbsp; \r\n                                              regulations as the post of a \r\n                                              judicial officer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;pensionable \r\n                                              post&quot; means a post service in \r\n                                              which is pensionable service under \r\n                                              the enactments relating to \r\n                                              Judicial Service pensions, and \r\n                                              &quot;non-Pensionable post&quot; shall be \r\n                                              construed accordingly;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              “prescribed” means prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations or instructions made \r\n                                              under section 31 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;salary&quot; includes wages;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;vacancy &quot; includes a prospective \r\n                                              vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33—Transitional \r\n                                              Provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations may be made—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) for the continued application \r\n                                              to executive officers, subject to \r\n                                              such modifications as may be \r\n                                              prescribed, of the Public Service \r\n                                              Commission Regulations, 1957, \r\n                                              General Orders and any other \r\n                                              provisions applicable to such \r\n                                              officers immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) for continuing as appointments \r\n                                              to posts created by or under this \r\n                                              Act, appointments made before the \r\n                                              commencement thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) for making such amendments in \r\n                                              the enactments relating to \r\n                                              Judicial Service pensions as may \r\n                                              be necessary in consequence of the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) for such other matters \r\n                                              (including the repeal or amendment \r\n                                              of enactments) as may need to be \r\n                                              provided for in consequence of the \r\n                                              passing of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33A—Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Judicial Service Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              39) and the Judicial Service Act, \r\n                                              1960 (Amendment) (No. 2) Decree, \r\n                                              1966 (N.L.C.D. 58) are hereby \r\n                                              revoked without prejudice to \r\n                                              anything done under those Decrees; \r\n                                              and the alterations made in the \r\n                                              said Act by these Decrees shall \r\n                                              cease to have effect.[Inserted and \r\n                                              to be cited as Judicial Service \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 83) s.6]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34—Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              at the same time as the \r\n                                              Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34A—Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) This Decree, other than the \r\n                                              provisions of paragraphs 5 and 6, \r\n                                              shall come into force at the same \r\n                                              time as the Courts Decree, 1966.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Paragraphs 5 and 6 of this \r\n                                              Decree shall come into force on \r\n                                              the date the Decree is made and \r\n                                              signed by the Chairman of the \r\n                                              National Liberation \r\n                                              Council.[Inserted and to be cited \r\n                                              as Judicial Service Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83) s.7]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE JUDICIAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 281)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              JUDICIAL SERVICE DECREE, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              83)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              JUDICIAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) LAW, \r\n                                              1984 (PNDCL 85)3</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center"></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'CA 10');
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(59, 'KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF ACT, 1961 (ACT 80)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1352" 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">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF \r\n                                              SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI \r\n                                              ACT, 1961 (ACT 80)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND \r\n                                              TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1990 (PNDCL 240)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND \r\n                                              TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1998 (ACT 559)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Establishment of University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Aims.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Principal officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Chairman of University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Vice-Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Academic Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. General powers of University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Internal Organisation of \r\n                                              University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Property and contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Annual report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              University</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              statutes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Abolition of Kumasi College of \r\n                                              Technology.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Transitional provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17A. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule&#8212;University council</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE EIGHTIETH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF \r\n                                              SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI \r\n                                              ACT, 1961</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish the Kwame \r\n                                              Nkrumah University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi in place of the \r\n                                              Kumasi College of Technology.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 22nd August, 1961</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\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">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of \r\n                                              University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              university under the name of the \r\n                                              Kwame Nkrumah University of \r\n                                              Science and Technology, Kumasi (in \r\n                                              this Act referred to as the \r\n                                              University).[As inserted by The \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Act, 1998 (Act 559) s. (c) ]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The University is a body \r\n                                              corporate, and shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to its other \r\n                                              powers, the University shall have \r\n                                              power to award its own degrees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Aims.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The aims of the University shall \r\n                                              be to provide higher education, to \r\n                                              undertake research, to disseminate \r\n                                              knowledge and to foster \r\n                                              relationships with outside persons \r\n                                              and bodies; and to do so in \r\n                                              accordance with the following \r\n                                              principles&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that in determining the \r\n                                              subjects to be taught emphasis \r\n                                              should be placed on those which \r\n                                              are of special relevance to the \r\n                                              needs and aspirations of \r\n                                              Ghanaians, including the \r\n                                              furtherance of African unity;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that higher education should \r\n                                              be available to all Ghanaians who \r\n                                              are capable of benefiting from it;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) that so far as practicable \r\n                                              students should be given an \r\n                                              understanding of world affairs, \r\n                                              and in particular of the \r\n                                              histories, institutions and \r\n                                              cultures of African civilisations;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) that students should be taught \r\n                                              methods of critical and \r\n                                              independent thought, while being \r\n                                              made aware that they have a \r\n                                              responsibility to use their \r\n                                              education for the general benefit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) that research should be \r\n                                              undertaken in all subjects which \r\n                                              are taught in the University, but \r\n                                              with special attention to subjects \r\n                                              which relate to the social, \r\n                                              cultural, economic, scientific, \r\n                                              technical and other problems which \r\n                                              exist in Ghana or elsewhere in \r\n                                              Africa;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) that opportunities for higher \r\n                                              education and research should be \r\n                                              provided for students from other \r\n                                              countries, particularly countries \r\n                                              in Africa;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) that the fruits of research, \r\n                                              and knowledge generally, should be \r\n                                              spread abroad by the publication \r\n                                              of books and papers and by any \r\n                                              other suitable means;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) that the University should \r\n                                              develop close relationships with \r\n                                              the people of Ghana and with other \r\n                                              cultural institutions, whether \r\n                                              within Ghana or outside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Principal Officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The principal officers of the \r\n                                              University shall be the \r\n                                              Chancellor, the Chairman of the \r\n                                              University Council and the \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Head of State shall hold \r\n                                              the office of Chancellor and as \r\n                                              such shall be the head of the \r\n                                              University. [As substituted by \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240) s. 1(a)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the absence of the Head of \r\n                                              State the person acting as the \r\n                                              Head of State shall be the \r\n                                              Chancellor. [As substituted by \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240) s. 1(a)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Chairman of University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Chairman of the \r\n                                              University Council shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the PNDC. [As \r\n                                              substituted by University of \r\n                                              Science and Technology, Kumasi \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240) \r\n                                              s. 1(a)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The Chairman of the \r\n                                              University Council shall hold \r\n                                              office for two years but shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-appointment. [As \r\n                                              substituted by University of \r\n                                              Science and Technology, Kumasi \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240) \r\n                                              s. 1(a)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Vice-Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the PNDC on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the University \r\n                                              Council and shall hold office upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as may \r\n                                              be specified in his instrument of \r\n                                              appointment.[As substituted by \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240), s.1 (b).]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Vice-Chancellor shall, \r\n                                              under the direction of the \r\n                                              Council, be the academic and \r\n                                              administrative head and chief \r\n                                              disciplinary officer of the \r\n                                              University.[As substituted by \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240), s.1(b).]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A Pro-Vice-Chancellor shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the University \r\n                                              Council in accordance with a \r\n                                              statute in that behalf enacted by \r\n                                              the Council, and shall act as \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor when the post of \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor is vacant or the \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor is absent or \r\n                                              unable to act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The governing body of the \r\n                                              University shall be the University \r\n                                              Council which shall consist of the \r\n                                              following members appointed by the \r\n                                              PNDC&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the Chairman;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the Vice-Chancellor;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) two representatives of \r\n                                              Convocation (one of professorial \r\n                                              status and one of non-professorial \r\n                                              status);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) one representative of the \r\n                                              University Teachers Association;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) a representative of the \r\n                                              under-graduate students of the \r\n                                              University;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) a representative of the \r\n                                              post-graduate students of the \r\n                                              University;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) a representative of the \r\n                                              Committee for the Defence of the \r\n                                              Revolution of the University;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) a representative of the \r\n                                              Teachers and Education Workers \r\n                                              Union;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              a representative of the Education \r\n                                              Commission;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) a representative of the \r\n                                              Conference of Heads of Assisted \r\n                                              Secondary Schools;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) a representative of the Alumni \r\n                                              Association of the University; and\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l)&nbsp; three other persons including \r\n                                              at least one woman. [As \r\n                                              substituted by the University of \r\n                                              Science and Technology, Kumasi \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240), \r\n                                              s. 1(c).]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Schedule to this Act shall \r\n                                              apply with respect to the members \r\n                                              and meetings of the University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Academic Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be an Academic \r\n                                              Board, which shall be responsible \r\n                                              under the University Council for&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) formulating and carrying out \r\n                                              the academic policy of the \r\n                                              University;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) devising and regulating \r\n                                              courses of instruction and study, \r\n                                              and supervising research;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) regulating the conduct of \r\n                                              examinations and the award of \r\n                                              degrees, diplomas and \r\n                                              certificates;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) advising the University \r\n                                              Council on the admission of \r\n                                              students and the award of \r\n                                              scholarships;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) reporting on such matters as \r\n                                              may be referred to it by the \r\n                                              University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Academic Board may make \r\n                                              representations to the University \r\n                                              Council on any matter connected \r\n                                              with the University, and shall \r\n                                              have such additional functions as \r\n                                              may be conferred on it by statutes \r\n                                              enacted by the University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Academic Board shall \r\n                                              consist of the Vice-Chancellor and \r\n                                              at least nine other persons drawn \r\n                                              from the academic staff in \r\n                                              accordance with a statute in that \r\n                                              behalf enacted by the University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a Registrar to the \r\n                                              University, who shall be appointed \r\n                                              by, and act as secretary to, the \r\n                                              University Council. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;General Powers of \r\n                                              University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, the University Council shall \r\n                                              have power to do or provide for \r\n                                              any act or thing in relation to \r\n                                              the University which it considers \r\n                                              necessary or expedient in its \r\n                                              capacity as the governing body, \r\n                                              and the conferring of particular \r\n                                              powers on the Council by other \r\n                                              provisions of this Act shall not \r\n                                              be taken to limit the generality \r\n                                              on this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Internal Organisation \r\n                                              of&nbsp; University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the University Council \r\n                                              may make such arrangements as it \r\n                                              thinks fit regarding the internal \r\n                                              organisation of the University, \r\n                                              including the establishment, \r\n                                              variation and suppression of &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) halls of residence, faculties, \r\n                                              institutes, schools, departments \r\n                                              and other bodies, whether in \r\n                                              Kumasi or elsewhere;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) professorships, lectureships \r\n                                              and other posts, whether&nbsp; \r\n                                              academic, administrative or \r\n                                              otherwise;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) fellowships, bursaries, \r\n                                              exhibitions, scholarships, prizes, \r\n                                              honorary degrees and other awards.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In so far as they relate to \r\n                                              matters which in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Council are academic matters, \r\n                                              the Council shall exercise the \r\n                                              powers referred to in the \r\n                                              preceding subsection only after \r\n                                              consultation with the Academic \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Property and Contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The University shall have \r\n                                              power, for any purpose which in \r\n                                              the opinion of the University \r\n                                              Council is necessary or expedient \r\n                                              for or in connection with the \r\n                                              exercise of the functions of the \r\n                                              University, to acquire and hold \r\n                                              any moveable or immoveable \r\n                                              property, to sell, lease, mortgage \r\n                                              or otherwise alienate or dispose \r\n                                              of any such property, and to enter \r\n                                              into any other transaction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the University Council \r\n                                              have resolved that it is necessary \r\n                                              or expedient to acquire any \r\n                                              property under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection the property may be \r\n                                              treated as property required for \r\n                                              the Public Service, and the State \r\n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (C.A.6) shall apply accordingly, \r\n                                              so however that the provisions of \r\n                                              that Act shall apply with such \r\n                                              modifications as are necessary to \r\n                                              provide for the vesting of \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the University and for the cost of \r\n                                              acquisition to be defrayed by the \r\n                                              University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The University Council shall cause \r\n                                              the accounts of the University to \r\n                                              be drawn up, audited and published \r\n                                              annually at such times and in such \r\n                                              manner as the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for finance may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Annual Report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Within six months after the end of \r\n                                              each academic year the University \r\n                                              Council shall cause a report of \r\n                                              the activities of the University \r\n                                              during that year to be drawn up \r\n                                              and made available to the public.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;University Statutes.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The University Council may \r\n                                              enact statutes for carrying into \r\n                                              effect the provisions of this Act, \r\n                                              and in particular for&#8212; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) regulating the appointment, \r\n                                              conditions of service, termination \r\n                                              of appointment and retirement \r\n                                              benefits of the staff of the \r\n                                              University, and for determining \r\n                                              the persons who form the academic \r\n                                              staff for the purposes of this \r\n                                              Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) determining the persons who \r\n                                              are authorised to sign contracts, \r\n                                              cheques and other documents on \r\n                                              behalf of the University, and \r\n                                              otherwise regulating procedure in \r\n                                              relation to transactions entered \r\n                                              into by the University;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) fixing the academic year of \r\n                                              the University;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) securing that the seal of the \r\n                                              University is kept in proper \r\n                                              custody and is used only by \r\n                                              authority of the University \r\n                                              Council. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A statute shall be taken to be \r\n                                              enacted if, but only if&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a draft of the statute has \r\n                                              been circulated to the members of \r\n                                              the Council at least fourteen days \r\n                                              before the meeting at which it is \r\n                                              to be considered; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) after consideration by the \r\n                                              meeting the draft has been \r\n                                              provisionally approved either \r\n                                              without amendment or only with \r\n                                              amendments of which notice in \r\n                                              writing was circulated to the \r\n                                              members at least three days before \r\n                                              the meeting; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the statute as provisionally \r\n                                              approved has been circulated to \r\n                                              the members of the Council, and \r\n                                              (where in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Council it affects academic \r\n                                              matters) to the members of the \r\n                                              Academic Board, at least seven \r\n                                              days before the meeting at which \r\n                                              it is proposed to confirm the \r\n                                              statute; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the statute is confirmed \r\n                                              without amendment at a meeting of \r\n                                              the Council held not less than one \r\n                                              month nor more than six months \r\n                                              after the meeting at which it was \r\n                                              provisionally approved. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Abolition of Kumasi \r\n                                              College of Technology. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Kumasi College of \r\n                                              Technology is hereby abolished and \r\n                                              the body corporate styled the \r\n                                              Council of the Kumasi College of \r\n                                              Technology is hereby dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, all property which at \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act was \r\n                                              vested in the Council of the \r\n                                              Kumasi College of Technology or \r\n                                              was in any other manner held on \r\n                                              behalf of, or for the purposes of, \r\n                                              the Kumasi College of Technology, \r\n                                              shall by virtue of this Act \r\n                                              similarly vest in or be held on \r\n                                              behalf of, or for the purposes of, \r\n                                              the University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, every contract entered \r\n                                              into by the Council of the Kumasi \r\n                                              College of Technology shall have \r\n                                              effect as if entered into by the \r\n                                              University, and all obligations \r\n                                              subsisting against the said \r\n                                              Council shall continue to subsist \r\n                                              against the University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may make a scheme for \r\n                                              safeguarding pension rights of the \r\n                                              staff of the Kumasi College of \r\n                                              Technology.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Except where otherwise \r\n                                              provided by this Act, and until \r\n                                              otherwise provided in the exercise \r\n                                              of functions conferred by this \r\n                                              Act, all other matters and things \r\n                                              relating to the Kumasi College of \r\n                                              Technology shall continue as \r\n                                              nearly as may be in relation to \r\n                                              the University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Transitional \r\n                                              Provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Until the date of the first \r\n                                              meeting of the University Council, \r\n                                              the body appointed by the \r\n                                              President and known as the Interim \r\n                                              Council of the University of \r\n                                              Science and Technology, Kumasi \r\n                                              shall have and exercise all the \r\n                                              functions conferred by this Act on \r\n                                              the University Council, and any \r\n                                              act done by the said Interim \r\n                                              Council before that date (whether \r\n                                              before or after the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act) shall have the like \r\n                                              effect as if done by the \r\n                                              University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purpose of determining \r\n                                              the composition of the University \r\n                                              Council in the first instance, \r\n                                              paragraph (g) of section 7 of this \r\n                                              Act shall not apply and the four \r\n                                              members therein referred to shall \r\n                                              be elected before the first \r\n                                              meeting of the University Council \r\n                                              in accordance with arrangements \r\n                                              made by the Interim Council and, \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything in the \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act, shall hold \r\n                                              office for one year only, but \r\n                                              shall be eligible for re-election.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              the Schedule to this Act, the term \r\n                                              of office of the first members of \r\n                                              the University Council to be \r\n                                              appointed or elected under section \r\n                                              7 of this Act shall be one year \r\n                                              only in the case of the following, \r\n                                              who shall nevertheless be eligible \r\n                                              for reappointment or re-election&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              two persons nominated by the \r\n                                              Chancellor out of the four \r\n                                              appointed by him;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) the person elected by a body \r\n                                              representative of heads of \r\n                                              secondary schools;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) the two persons with the \r\n                                              lowest number of votes out of the \r\n                                              four elected by members of the \r\n                                              staff of the University, the \r\n                                              choice being by lot in the case of \r\n                                              equal votes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The University Council&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) shall enact the statute \r\n                                              referred to in section 7 (1) (g) \r\n                                              of this Act within one year after \r\n                                              the commencement thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) shall enact the statutes \r\n                                              referred to in sections 6 (3) and \r\n                                              8 (3) of this Act within three \r\n                                              months after the commencement \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17A&#8212;Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this law PNDC means the \r\n                                              Provisional National Defence \r\n                                              Council. [Inserted and to be cited \r\n                                              as University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990, PNDC 240), s. 2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Commencement. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such date as the President may \r\n                                              by legislative instrument appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE&#8212;UNIVERSITY COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Members</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The term of office of a person \r\n                                              who is a member of the Council \r\n                                              other than the Vice-Chancellor \r\n                                              shall be two years but such a \r\n                                              person shall be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment. [As substituted by \r\n                                              the University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240) s. 1(d)(i).]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. If an appointed or elected \r\n                                              member (other than a member \r\n                                              elected by the Council) is absent \r\n                                              from Ghana for a continuous period \r\n                                              of twelve months his office shall \r\n                                              become vacant at the end of that \r\n                                              period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Where the office of an \r\n                                              appointed or elected member \r\n                                              becomes vacant on his death or \r\n                                              resignation, or by virtue of the \r\n                                              preceding paragraph, a successor \r\n                                              shall be appointed or elected in \r\n                                              the same manner to serve for the \r\n                                              remainder of the term of office.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Where an appointed or elected \r\n                                              member is temporarily absent from \r\n                                              Ghana a substitute may be \r\n                                              appointed or elected in the same \r\n                                              manner to act for him during his \r\n                                              absence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. An appointment or election may \r\n                                              be made in anticipation of the \r\n                                              vacation of office or temporary \r\n                                              absence of a member.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. A member whose office has or \r\n                                              will become vacant shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-appointment or \r\n                                              re-election.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. No member shall hold office \r\n                                              under more than one provision of \r\n                                              section 7 of this Act, and if a \r\n                                              person is appointed or elected \r\n                                              under more than one provision he \r\n                                              shall notify the Council under \r\n                                              which provision he chooses to hold \r\n                                              office and another person shall \r\n                                              thereupon be appointed or elected \r\n                                              under the other provision.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. No act of the Council shall be \r\n                                              invalidated by vacancies in its \r\n                                              membership or defects in the \r\n                                              appointment or election of any of \r\n                                              its members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. No member of the Council shall \r\n                                              be entitled to remuneration in \r\n                                              respect of his membership, but \r\n                                              members shall be entitled to such \r\n                                              travelling and subsistence \r\n                                              allowances (if any) as the Council \r\n                                              may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Meetings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. The Council shall meet at \r\n                                              least three times in every \r\n                                              academic year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. A meeting may be convened by \r\n                                              any of the principal officers of \r\n                                              the University, and shall be \r\n                                              convened if eight members of the \r\n                                              Council sign a requisition to that \r\n                                              effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. If the Chancellor is present \r\n                                              at a meeting of the Council he \r\n                                              shall act as chairman, but if the \r\n                                              Chancellor is not present the \r\n                                              Chairman of the Council shall act \r\n                                              as chairman unless he also is \r\n                                              absent, in which case the members \r\n                                              present shall elect a chairman.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. The quorum at meetings of the \r\n                                              Council shall be eight.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Questions shall be decided by \r\n                                              a simple majority of votes cast.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. The chairman shall have an \r\n                                              original vote and a casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, the \r\n                                              Registrar and a representative of \r\n                                              Ministry of Education shall attend \r\n                                              meetings of the Council but shall \r\n                                              not vote on any matter before the \r\n                                              Council. [As inserted by the \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology, Kumasi (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 (PNDCL 240) s. \r\n                                              1(d)(ii).]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND \r\n                                              TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1990 (PNDCL 240)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND \r\n                                              TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1998 (ACT 559)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal"></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"><p align="center"></table>\r\n          \r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 80');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(60, 'LAND DEVELOPMENT (PROTECTION OF \n   PURCHASERS) ACT, 1960 (ACT 2)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1343" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LAND DEVELOPMENT (PROTECTION OF \r\n                                              PURCHASERS) ACT, 1960 (ACT 2)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Power to cure defective titles.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Reopening of past cases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Provisions as to payments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;THE SECOND ACT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \r\n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE LAND DEVELOPMENT (PROTECTION \r\n                                              OF PURCHASERS) ACT, 1960</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to protect purchasers of \r\n                                              land, and their successors, whose \r\n                                              titles are found to be defective \r\n                                              after a building has been erected \r\n                                              on the land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 9th August, 1960</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Power to Cure Defective \r\n                                              Titles.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) 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) a person (in this section \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the purchaser&quot;) \r\n                                              has taken a conveyance of land in \r\n                                              a prescribed area at any time \r\n                                              after 31st December, 1944 (whether \r\n                                              before or after the date on which \r\n                                              the area became a prescribed \r\n                                              area), and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the purchaser or a person \r\n                                              claiming through him has in good \r\n                                              faith erected a building on the \r\n                                              land, 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) proceedings are brought to \r\n                                              obtain a possession order in \r\n                                              relation to the land on the ground \r\n                                              that a person other than the \r\n                                              purchaser or a person claiming \r\n                                              through him is entitled to the \r\n                                              land,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the court, where it considers that \r\n                                              if this Act had not been passed \r\n                                              the possession order would fall to \r\n                                              be made by reason that the \r\n                                              conveyance taken by the purchaser \r\n                                              did not operate to confer on him \r\n                                              the title to the land, but that to \r\n                                              make the order would cause \r\n                                              hardship and&nbsp; injustice to the \r\n                                              person against whom it would fall \r\n                                              to be made, may, instead of making \r\n                                              the possession order, make an \r\n                                              order providing that the \r\n                                              conveyance taken by the purchaser \r\n                                              shall&nbsp; be deemed for all purposes \r\n                                              to have operated to confer on him \r\n                                              the title to the land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an order is made under \r\n                                              the preceding subsection and the \r\n                                              court considers that the order \r\n                                              would by itself cause hardship and \r\n                                              injustice to any person, the court \r\n                                              may make a further order requiring \r\n                                              the person in whose favour the \r\n                                              order under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection is made to pay to that \r\n                                              person a sum of money by way of \r\n                                              compensation:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the aggregate of any \r\n                                              sums ordered to be paid under this \r\n                                              subsection shall not exceed an \r\n                                              amount equal to twice the value of \r\n                                              the land at the date of the \r\n                                              purported conveyance to the \r\n                                              purchaser.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The court may exercise the \r\n                                              powers conferred by this section \r\n                                              in any proceedings notwithstanding \r\n                                              that the proceedings were \r\n                                              instituted before the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act, and, in proceedings \r\n                                              on appeal, notwithstanding that \r\n                                              the decision appealed against was \r\n                                              given before the commencement \r\n                                              thereof.</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;Re-opening of Past \r\n                                              Cases.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) 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) a person (in this section \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the purchaser&quot;) \r\n                                              took a conveyance of land in a&nbsp; \r\n                                              prescribed area at some time after \r\n                                              31st December, 1944 and before the \r\n                                              date on which the area became a \r\n                                              prescribed area, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the purchaser, or a person \r\n                                              claiming through him, in good \r\n                                              faith erected a building on the \r\n                                              land, 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) a possession order was made in \r\n                                              relation to the land in \r\n                                              proceedings finally disposed of \r\n                                              before the date on which the area \r\n                                              became a prescribed area, and was \r\n                                              so made by reason that the \r\n                                              conveyance taken by the purchaser \r\n                                              did not operate to confer on him \r\n                                              the title to the land,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the person against whom the \r\n                                              possession order was made may, at \r\n                                              any time within twelve months \r\n                                              after the date on which the area \r\n                                              became a prescribed area, apply to \r\n                                              the High Court for an order under \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the court considers that \r\n                                              the making of the possession order \r\n                                              caused hardship and injustice to \r\n                                              the person against whom it was \r\n                                              made, the court may make an order \r\n                                              setting aside the possession order \r\n                                              and providing that the conveyance \r\n                                              taken by the purchaser shall be \r\n                                              deemed for all&nbsp; purposes to have \r\n                                              operated to confer on him the \r\n                                              title to the land:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that an order under this \r\n                                              subsection shall not be taken to \r\n                                              render unlawful anything done in \r\n                                              the period before the making of \r\n                                              the order or to found a claim for \r\n                                              mesne profits or other \r\n                                              compensation in respect of \r\n                                              occupation during that period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where an order is made under \r\n                                              the preceding subsection and the \r\n                                              court considers that the order \r\n                                              would by itself cause hardship and \r\n                                              injustice to any person, the court \r\n                                              may make a further order requiring \r\n                                              the person in whose favour the \r\n                                              order under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection is made to pay to that \r\n                                              person a sum of money by way of \r\n                                              compensation:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the aggregate of any \r\n                                              sums ordered to be paid under this \r\n                                              subsection shall not exceed an \r\n                                              amount equal to the aggregate of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) twice the value of the land at \r\n                                              the date of the purported \r\n                                              conveyance to the purchaser; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the value at the date when the \r\n                                              order under this subsection is \r\n                                              made of any improvements carried \r\n                                              out on the land since the making \r\n                                              of the possession order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where an order is made under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              it is proved&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that a lease or other right to \r\n                                              the occupation of the land was \r\n                                              granted by a person who, by virtue \r\n                                              of the order, is to be taken to \r\n                                              have had no right to make the \r\n                                              grant, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that the said person or his \r\n                                              successor received a payment in \r\n                                              respect of the grant by way of&nbsp; \r\n                                              premium, rent in advance or \r\n                                              otherwise which was wholly or \r\n                                              partly attributable to any period&nbsp; \r\n                                              after the making of the order,\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the court may make a further order \r\n                                              requiring the person against whom \r\n                                              the order under subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section is made to refund to \r\n                                              the person who made the said \r\n                                              payment or his successor the \r\n                                              amount of the payment or the part \r\n                                              thereof attributable to the said \r\n                                              period as may be appropriate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The court shall not make an \r\n                                              order under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section if, after the making of \r\n                                              the possession order, the land was \r\n                                              conveyed to a person who took in \r\n                                              good faith and for a valuable \r\n                                              consideration, but in lieu thereof \r\n                                              the court may make an order \r\n                                              requiring any party to the \r\n                                              proceedings before it, being a \r\n                                              person who has been unjustly \r\n                                              enriched by reason of the defect \r\n                                              in the purchaser''s title, to pay \r\n                                              to the person against whom the \r\n                                              possession order was made a sum of \r\n                                              money by way of compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where the person against whom \r\n                                              the possession order was made has \r\n                                              since died, subsections (1) and \r\n                                              (5) of this section shall apply as \r\n                                              if references therein to that \r\n                                              person were references to the \r\n                                              person who would be entitled to \r\n                                              the land if, at the time of his \r\n                                              death, the said person had been \r\n                                              entitled 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 3&#8212;Provisions as to \r\n                                              Payments.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An order requiring the payment of \r\n                                              any sum under this Act may provide \r\n                                              that the sum shall be payable by \r\n                                              instalments or on a future date \r\n                                              specified in the order, and may \r\n                                              further require the giving of \r\n                                              security for any sum payable under \r\n                                              the order.</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;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;conveyance&quot; includes a transfer \r\n                                              of land by customary law;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;possession order&quot; means an order \r\n                                              requiring the delivery up of \r\n                                              possession of land or setting \r\n                                              aside a conveyance or making a \r\n                                              declaration of title or otherwise \r\n                                              in defeasance of title to land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed area&quot; means an area \r\n                                              prescribed for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act by a legislative \r\n                                              instrument made by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Lands.</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 Act a \r\n                                              person shall be deemed to have \r\n                                              erected a building if he has \r\n                                              carried out the greater part of \r\n                                              the work required for the erection \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center"></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 2');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(61, 'LANDS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) \n                                              ACT, 1963 (ACT 161)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1381" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LANDS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) \r\n                                              ACT, 1963 (ACT 161)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Application of State Lands Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 125).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Declaration and claims under \r\n                                              the State Property and Contracts \r\n                                              Act, 1960 (CA 6).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Prescription of fees under the \r\n                                              Concessions Act, 1962 (Act 124), \r\n                                              and the Minerals Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              126).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Commencement of the Land \r\n                                              Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Amendment of Section 5 of the \r\n                                              Concessions Act, 1962.</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                                              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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF 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 LANDS (MISCELLANEOUS \r\n                                              PROVISIONS) ACT, 1963</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Preamble</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to apply the State Lands \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 125), to land held \r\n                                              on behalf of the Republic by \r\n                                              virtue of other enactments; to \r\n                                              make provision with respect to \r\n                                              procedure in cases of acquisition \r\n                                              of land commenced under the State \r\n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (CA 6), but not completed; to \r\n                                              provide for the prescribing of \r\n                                              fees by regulations made under the \r\n                                              Concessions Act, 1962 (Act 124), \r\n                                              and the Minerals Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              126); to make provision in \r\n                                              relation to the commencement of \r\n                                              the Land Registry Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              122); and to amend section 5 of \r\n                                              the Concessions Act, 1962.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 22nd March, 1963</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                                              National Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Application of State \r\n                                              Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of sections 5 and 6 \r\n                                              of the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              125), (which sections relate \r\n                                              respectively to the grant of \r\n                                              leases and licences by the \r\n                                              President and the making of \r\n                                              regulations by the Minister) shall \r\n                                              apply in relation to any land \r\n                                              vested in the President by or by \r\n                                              virtue of the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6) \r\n                                              (hereinafter referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              Act of 1960&quot;), or any other \r\n                                              enactment, other than the \r\n                                              enactments specified in the \r\n                                              Schedule hereto, as they apply in \r\n                                              relation to land acquired under \r\n                                              the said State Lands 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 2&#8212;Declaration and claims \r\n                                              under the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6).</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, where a declaration \r\n                                              has been made by the President \r\n                                              under section 4 of the Act of 1960 \r\n                                              in respect of any land but no \r\n                                              proceedings have been commenced in \r\n                                              the High Court under section 14 of \r\n                                              that Act for the grant of a \r\n                                              certificate of title to that land, \r\n                                              that declaration 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) in the case of a declaration \r\n                                              which relates to land to which the \r\n                                              Administration of Lands Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 123), applies, be deemed to \r\n                                              be a notice, published on the date \r\n                                              of commencement of this Act \r\n                                              (hereinafter referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              relevant date&quot;), under subsection \r\n                                              (2) of section 10 of that Act \r\n                                              (which subsection relates to the \r\n                                              publication of notices concerning \r\n                                              land authorised by the President \r\n                                              to be occupied or used under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of that section), \r\n                                              and the provisions of that section \r\n                                              shall apply accordingly subject to \r\n                                              the following modifications, that \r\n                                              is to say,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              where compensation has been agreed \r\n                                              for the purposes of the Act of \r\n                                              1960, no payments or compensation \r\n                                              shall be required by virtue of the \r\n                                              said section 10;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) where compensation has not \r\n                                              been agreed as aforesaid, the \r\n                                              President shall publish a notice \r\n                                              in the Gazette giving particulars \r\n                                              of any payments which it is \r\n                                              intended to make under that \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) in any other case, be deemed \r\n                                              to be a declaration made by the \r\n                                              President on the relevant date \r\n                                              under section 1 of the said State \r\n                                              Lands Act, and the provisions of \r\n                                              that Act shall apply accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where any claim duly made \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of section 8 \r\n                                              of the Act of 1960 is, on the \r\n                                              relevant date, under dispute but \r\n                                              has not been referred to the High \r\n                                              Court under section 9 of that Act, \r\n                                              that claim 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) where it arises out of a \r\n                                              declaration to which paragraph (a) \r\n                                              of the foregoing subsection \r\n                                              applies, be treated as if it had \r\n                                              been made by a person to whom \r\n                                              subsection (4) of section 10 of \r\n                                              the said Administration of Lands \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                                              (b) where it arises out of a \r\n                                              declaration to which paragraph (b) \r\n                                              of the foregoing subsection \r\n                                              applies, be treated as a claim \r\n                                              duly made on the relevant date \r\n                                              under section 4 of the said State \r\n                                              Lands Act, and the provisions of \r\n                                              the last-mentioned Act shall apply \r\n                                              to that claim accordingly, subject \r\n                                              to the modification that the \r\n                                              reference in subsection (3) of the \r\n                                              said section 4 to the date of the \r\n                                              publication of the instrument \r\n                                              shall be construed for the \r\n                                              purposes of the claim as a \r\n                                              reference to the date on which the \r\n                                              declaration giving rise to the \r\n                                              claim was made under section 4 of \r\n                                              the Act of 1960.</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;Prescription of fees \r\n                                              under the Concessions Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 124), and the Minerals Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 126).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the removal of doubt it is \r\n                                              hereby declared that the power \r\n                                              vested in the Minister to make \r\n                                              regulations by paragraph (c) of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of section 14 of \r\n                                              the Concessions Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              124), and by subsection (2) of \r\n                                              section 11 of the Minerals Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 126), shall be deemed \r\n                                              always to have included the power \r\n                                              to prescribe fees in those \r\n                                              regulations.</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;Commencement of the Land \r\n                                              Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The power conferred on the \r\n                                              Minister by section 37 of the Land \r\n                                              Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122), to \r\n                                              appoint, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, a day on which that \r\n                                              Act is to come into operation, \r\n                                              shall be deemed always to have \r\n                                              included a power to appoint \r\n                                              different days for the coming into \r\n                                              operation of different provisions \r\n                                              of that 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 5&#8212;Amendment of Section 5 \r\n                                              of the Concessions Act, 1962.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5 of the Concessions Act, \r\n                                              1962 (which relates to the \r\n                                              cancellation of concessions by the \r\n                                              President) is hereby amended by \r\n                                              the substitution in subsection (4) \r\n                                              of that section for the words &quot;the \r\n                                              cancellation of the concession by \r\n                                              the President&quot;, of the words &quot;the \r\n                                              transmission of the application to \r\n                                              the Tribunal by the Minister&quot;.</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 1)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Ashanti Stool Lands Act, 1958 \r\n                                              (No. 28).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Stool Lands Act, 1960 (Act \r\n                                              27).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Administration of Lands Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 123).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Concessions Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              124).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minerals Act, 1962 (Act 126).</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 161');
