         ACCIDENTAL AND OTHER EXCEPTIONAL \r\n                                              DISCHARGES OR ESCAPES OF OIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Date and time of occurrence&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;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Place or position of ship at \r\n                                              time of occurrence&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Approximate quantity and type \r\n                                              of oil&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Circumstances of discharge or \r\n                                              escape and general remarks&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;&nbsp; . </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Signature of Officer or \r\n                                              Officers in charge of the \r\n                                              operations concerned&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Date of entry&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; . \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; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Signature of Master&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; . \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; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Date&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; . \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;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ENTRY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              A.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Ballasting of and Discharge of \r\n                                              Ballast from Cargo Tanks</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Identity number(s) of tank(s) \r\n                                              concerned&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; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Type of oil previously \r\n                                              contained in tank(s)&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Date and place of ballasting&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;&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Date and time of discharge of \r\n                                              ballast water&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;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Place or position of ship at \r\n                                              time of discharge&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;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Approximate amount of \r\n                                              oil-contaminated water transferred \r\n                                              to slop tank(s). .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Identity number(s) of slop \r\n                                              tank(s)&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; . .</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                                              B.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Cleaning of Cargo Tanks</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Identity number(s) of tank(s) \r\n                                              cleaned. .&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Type of oil previously \r\n                                              contained in&nbsp; tank(s)&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Identity number(s) of slop \r\n                                              tank(s) to which washings \r\n                                              transferred. .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Dates and times of cleaning . \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; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              C.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Settling in Slop Tank(s) and \r\n                                              Discharge of Water</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Identity number(s) of slop \r\n                                              tank(s)&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Period of settling (in hours) \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;&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Date and time of discharge of \r\n                                              water&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Place or position of \r\n                                              ship&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; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Approximate quantities of \r\n                                              residue&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;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Approximate quantities of \r\n                                              water discharged&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              D.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Disposal of Oily Residues from \r\n                                              Slop Tank(s) and other sources</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Date and method of disposal . \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;&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Place or position of ship at \r\n                                              time of disposal&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Sources and approximate \r\n                                              quantities&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; . .</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ............................................................................................................\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of officer or officers \r\n                                              in charge of the operations \r\n                                              concerned</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III</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                                              (a) Ballasting, or Cleaning during \r\n                                              Voyage, of Bunker Fuel Tanks</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                                              1. Identity number(s) of tank(s) \r\n                                              concerned&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Type of oil previously \r\n                                              contained in tank(s)&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; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Date and place of \r\n                                              ballasting&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \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; \r\n                                              ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of Officer in charge of \r\n                                              operations and date of \r\n                                              entry............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of Master and date..............................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Date and time of discharge of \r\n                                              ballast or washing \r\n                                              water&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Place or position of ship at \r\n                                              time of disposal&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; \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; \r\n                                              ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Whether separator used; if so, \r\n                                              give period of use&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Disposal of oily residue \r\n                                              retained on board.....................................................................</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                                              Signature of Officer in charge of \r\n                                              operations and date of \r\n                                              entry..............................................</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                                              Signature of Master and date..&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              .......................................................................................</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                                              (b) Disposal of Oily Residues from \r\n                                              Bunker Fuel Tanks and other \r\n                                              sources</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                                              8. Date and method of disposal&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \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; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Place or position of ship at \r\n                                              time of disposal ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Sources and approximate \r\n                                              quantities \r\n                                              ...............................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of officer in charge of \r\n                                              the operations and date of \r\n                                              entry&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</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                                              Signature of Master and Date \r\n                                              ...........................................................................................</span></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">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 235');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(77, 'PENSIONS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, \n                                              1959 (NO. 69 OF 1959)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1344" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PENSIONS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, \r\n                                              1959 (NO. 69 OF 1959)</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. Short Title</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;AMENDMENT TO PENSIONS \r\n                                              ORDINANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Service with United Nations \r\n                                              Organisation to be public service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SPECIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Pension to cease where \r\n                                              deportation order made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Pension suspended where \r\n                                              preventive detention order made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Pension rights of D. A. \r\n                                              Chapman.</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                                              GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Assented to in Her Majesty''s Name \r\n                                              and on Her Majesty''s behalf this \r\n                                              27th day of November, 1959.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Governor-General</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to amend the Pensions \r\n                                              Ordinance and to make special \r\n                                              provision as to payment of \r\n                                              pensions in certain cases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Commencement: 2nd \r\n                                              December, 1959.</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 Queen''s Most \r\n                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the \r\n                                              advice and consent of the National \r\n                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled, and by the \r\n                                              authority of the same 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;Short Title.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act may be cited as the \r\n                                              Pensions (Special Provisions) Act, \r\n                                              1959.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;AMENDMENT TO PENSIONS \r\n                                              ORDINANCE</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;Service with United \r\n                                              Nations Organisation to be Public \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Cap. 30</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) This section shall be read \r\n                                              together with, and form part of \r\n                                              the Pensions Ordinance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Section 2 of the Pensions \r\n                                              Ordinance is amended by the \r\n                                              insertion after subsection (1) of \r\n                                              the following new subsection,&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;(1A.) Service with the United \r\n                                              Nations Organisation shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be public service for \r\n                                              the purposes of this Ordinance, \r\n                                              and paragraph 8 of the Schedule \r\n                                              shall be read and construed so as \r\n                                              to include the United Nations \r\n                                              Organisation as a Scheduled \r\n                                              Government in respect of any \r\n                                              officer appointed to service with \r\n                                              that Organisation on or after the \r\n                                              commencement of the year 1946.&#8221;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SPECIAL PROVISIONS</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;Pension to Cease where \r\n                                              Deportation Order Made.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1957 No. 14.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where before or after the \r\n                                              coming into operation of this Act \r\n                                              any person is the subject of an \r\n                                              order made under the Deportation \r\n                                              Act 1957,&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) contributions made by him or \r\n                                              on his behalf to a pension fund or \r\n                                              scheme and any earned retiring \r\n                                              award or allowance accruing due to \r\n                                              him or to any dependant of such \r\n                                              person under the provisions of any \r\n                                              Act shall be forfeited and paid \r\n                                              into the Consolidated Fund;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any pension or allowance \r\n                                              granted or awarded under the \r\n                                              provisions of any Act shall, on \r\n                                              the publication of the order, \r\n                                              cease to be paid to that person or \r\n                                              his dependants, as the case may \r\n                                              be;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) nothing in any Act which \r\n                                              confers a right to continue to \r\n                                              rank for any benefit if as an \r\n                                              officer he is dismissed from \r\n                                              service with the Government of \r\n                                              Ghana shall apply to any person \r\n                                              affected by this section, and any \r\n                                              such right if accrued due shall \r\n                                              cease and determine, and any \r\n                                              moneys shall be retained in or \r\n                                              paid into the Consolidated Fund as \r\n                                              the case may require.</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;Pension Suspended where \r\n                                              Preventive Detention Order Made.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17 of 1958 Cap. 30. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If any person is detained \r\n                                              under the Preventive Detention \r\n                                              Act, 1958, or where not detained \r\n                                              is the subject of an order made \r\n                                              under that Act, any pension or \r\n                                              allowance granted or awarded under \r\n                                              the Pensions Ordinance before the \r\n                                              making of the order shall, during \r\n                                              the currency of that order, cease \r\n                                              to be payable to that person or \r\n                                              his dependants as the case may be. \r\n                                              Where an order made under the \r\n                                              provisions of the Preventive \r\n                                              Detention Act, 1958 ceases to have \r\n                                              effect, any pension or allowance \r\n                                              suspended under this Act shall be \r\n                                              restored; but no restoration shall \r\n                                              have retrospective effect, and the \r\n                                              pension or allowance shall be \r\n                                              payable as if it had been granted \r\n                                              or made when the order ceased to \r\n                                              have effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section shall be deemed \r\n                                              to have come into operation on the \r\n                                              1st day of April, 1959 and shall \r\n                                              apply in relation to any order \r\n                                              made under the Preventive \r\n                                              Detention Act 1958 before the \r\n                                              coming into operation of this Act \r\n                                              as well as to any later 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 5&#8212;Pension Right of D. A. \r\n                                              Chapman.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Cap. 30. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whereas Daniel Ahmling Chapman \r\n                                              being a person to whom the \r\n                                              provisions of a pension scheme \r\n                                              under the Pensions Ordinance \r\n                                              applied, duly resigned from \r\n                                              service with the Achimota School \r\n                                              Council in the then Gold Coast, \r\n                                              and for reasons connected with his \r\n                                              appointment to service with the \r\n                                              United Nations Organisation it is \r\n                                              expedient and necessary to make \r\n                                              provision for the continuance of \r\n                                              his entitlement as if the \r\n                                              resignation never had effect: Be \r\n                                              It Therefore Enacted as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purpose of determining the \r\n                                              rights of the said Daniel Ahmling \r\n                                              Chapman to a superannuation \r\n                                              benefit or other pension on his \r\n                                              retirement from service with or on \r\n                                              behalf of the Government of Ghana \r\n                                              after the passing of this Act, the \r\n                                              period during which he ceased to \r\n                                              be a person to whom the provisions \r\n                                              of a pension scheme applied shall, \r\n                                              upon the refund by him to the \r\n                                              Government of Ghana of the total \r\n                                              sum of seven hundred and fifty \r\n                                              pounds, be treated for all the \r\n                                              purposes of the Pensions Ordinance \r\n                                              as if he were a person to whom \r\n                                              such provisions as aforesaid had \r\n                                              never ceased to apply, and the \r\n                                              Pensions Ordinance shall have \r\n                                              effect accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This printed impression has been \r\n                                              carefully compared by me with the \r\n                                              Bill which has passed the National \r\n                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a \r\n                                              true and correctly printed copy of \r\n                                              the said Bill.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              K. B. AYENSU</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</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">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', '');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(78, 'PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF PESTS \n                                              AND DISEASES OF PLANTS ACT, 1965 \n                                              (ACT 307)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1358" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF PESTS \r\n                                              AND DISEASES OF PLANTS ACT, 1965 \r\n                                              (ACT 307)</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                                              PART I&#8212;PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF \r\n                                              PESTS AND DISEASES OF PLANTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Prohibition against dealing in \r\n                                              diseased plants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Restriction on removal of \r\n                                              plants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Remedial and preventive \r\n                                              measures.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Power to make order restricting \r\n                                              use of land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Inspection of land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Inspector to keep a register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Duties of occupier after \r\n                                              inspection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Treatment by inspectors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;PLANT QUARANTINE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Restriction on importing \r\n                                              plants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Powers of inspectors to \r\n                                              examine luggage, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Forfeiture of prohibited \r\n                                              imported plants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Regulations relating to plants \r\n                                              imported from foreign countries.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Punishment of offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Power to make regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Repeals and savings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVEN</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">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 22nd October, \r\n                                              1965</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF \r\n                                              PESTS AND DISEASES OF PLANTS</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;Prohibition Against \r\n                                              Dealing in Diseased Plants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall keep, sell or \r\n                                              offer for sale or barter or in any \r\n                                              way distribute or cause to be \r\n                                              distributed any plant infested or \r\n                                              infected with such pest or disease \r\n                                              as may be prescribed.</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;Restriction on Removal \r\n                                              of Plants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall remove from any \r\n                                              land any plant infested or \r\n                                              infected with any pest or disease \r\n                                              prescribed under section 1 of this \r\n                                              Act except&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) for the investigation of such \r\n                                              pest or disease by an inspector;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) for the purpose of destroying \r\n                                              such plant; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) for the purpose of preserving \r\n                                              the produce of such plant in a \r\n                                              sound, clean and mature condition \r\n                                              for subsequent manufacture for \r\n                                              sale or for seed purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Remedial and Preventive \r\n                                              Measures.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Regulations may prescribe the \r\n                                              treatment to be applied to any \r\n                                              plant infested or infected with \r\n                                              pests or diseases or the measures \r\n                                              to be adopted for the \r\n                                              extermination and prevention of \r\n                                              pests and diseases of plants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations prescribing the \r\n                                              treatment and prevention of pests \r\n                                              and diseases of plants may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prohibit or restrict the \r\n                                              transport of any plant, soil or \r\n                                              rooting medium to or from a \r\n                                              specified area;</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) prescribe plants which may or \r\n                                              may not be grown in any specified \r\n                                              area;</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) require the owner or occupier \r\n                                              within any specified area to apply \r\n                                              or adopt any treatment or measures \r\n                                              prescribed under this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Power to make Order \r\n                                              Restricting use of Land.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by an executive \r\n                                              instrument declare any area \r\n                                              infected with or in danger of \r\n                                              infection with pests or diseases \r\n                                              of plants as an infected area and \r\n                                              may order all or any plants in \r\n                                              such area to be removed, and \r\n                                              prohibit the use of such area for \r\n                                              any purpose connected with \r\n                                              agriculture. </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;Inspection of Land.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Regulations may designate \r\n                                              persons to act as inspectors for \r\n                                              the purposes of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section, an inspector shall \r\n                                              have power to enter at any \r\n                                              reasonable time any land, other \r\n                                              than a dwelling house for the \r\n                                              purpose of ascertaining whether \r\n                                              there are on such land any pests \r\n                                              or diseases of plants, or whether \r\n                                              conditions or circumstances exist \r\n                                              which in his opinion are conducive \r\n                                              to or will contribute to the \r\n                                              infection of plants with pests or \r\n                                              diseases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Before entering any land in \r\n                                              exercise of powers conferred by \r\n                                              this section, the inspector shall \r\n                                              inform the occupier, if present, \r\n                                              of his intention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No person shall obstruct a \r\n                                              person exercising powers conferred \r\n                                              by this section or fail to comply \r\n                                              with any direction or requirement \r\n                                              made by him in exercise of those \r\n                                              powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Inspector to keep a \r\n                                              Register.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every inspector shall keep a \r\n                                              register in which he shall enter \r\n                                              the following items in respect of \r\n                                              any land inspected by him&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the identity and location of \r\n                                              such land;</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 name of the occupier;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the pests and diseases found \r\n                                              thereon;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the treatment or measures \r\n                                              directed to be applied;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the date of inspection; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) such other particulars as may \r\n                                              be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Duties of Occupier After \r\n                                              Inspection.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where an inspector, after \r\n                                              inspecting any land is satisfied \r\n                                              that&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any plant thereon</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                                              shows signs of disease; or</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) is being attacked by any \r\n                                              pest; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) conditions or circumstances \r\n                                              exist on such land which in his \r\n                                              opinion are conducive to, or will \r\n                                              contribute to the spreading of \r\n                                              pests and diseases,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              he may serve on the occupier of \r\n                                              the land a notice in writing \r\n                                              directing such occupier to apply, \r\n                                              within such time as may be \r\n                                              specified in the notice, such \r\n                                              treatment or measures as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Treatment by Inspectors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any inspector may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where an occupier of any land \r\n                                              has failed to comply with any \r\n                                              direction given under section 7 of \r\n                                              this Act within the specified \r\n                                              time; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where any pest or disease is \r\n                                              found on any land permitted to go \r\n                                              out of cultivation,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              apply such treatment or adopt such \r\n                                              measures as he thinks necessary \r\n                                              for the purpose of preventing, \r\n                                              exterminating or restricting, as \r\n                                              the case may be, any pest or \r\n                                              disease.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any expenses incurred by any \r\n                                              inspector as a result of any \r\n                                              treatment or measures undertaken \r\n                                              in respect of any land under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be paid by the occupier to \r\n                                              such officer as may be prescribed \r\n                                              within thirty days after \r\n                                              notification by the inspector of \r\n                                              the amount due, and if not so \r\n                                              paid, the officer may sue for or \r\n                                              authorise any person on his behalf \r\n                                              to sue for and recover it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In any action for the recovery \r\n                                              of any amount due under subsection \r\n                                              (2) of this section a certificate \r\n                                              under the hand of the inspector \r\n                                              that such expenses have been \r\n                                              incurred shall be prima facie \r\n                                              evidence of the same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;PLANT QUARANTINE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Restriction on Importing \r\n                                              Plants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall import any \r\n                                              plants, plant products, plant \r\n                                              disease or pest, soil, manure, \r\n                                              grass and other parking materials \r\n                                              or any other material liable to \r\n                                              harbour dangerous diseases or \r\n                                              pests of plants except under a \r\n                                              permit issued in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of this section and \r\n                                              regulations made thereunder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations may prescribe the \r\n                                              conditions for the grant of a \r\n                                              permit for the importation of any \r\n                                              of the items mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              and the places to which the items \r\n                                              may be imported otherwise by post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Regulations prescribing the \r\n                                              conditions for the importation of \r\n                                              the said items may provide for the \r\n                                              examination of any of the said \r\n                                              items imported into Ghana, and may \r\n                                              authorise the destruction or \r\n                                              treatment, as the case may \r\n                                              require, if any of them is found \r\n                                              to be infested or infected with \r\n                                              pests or diseases of plants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section may prohibit or restrict \r\n                                              the importation of any of the \r\n                                              items mentioned in subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Powers of inspectors to \r\n                                              examine luggage, etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purpose of enforcing the \r\n                                              provisions of section 9 of this \r\n                                              Act and any regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder, regulations may \r\n                                              authorise any inspector appointed \r\n                                              under section 5 of this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to examine any luggage or \r\n                                              container imported or which is \r\n                                              about to be imported into Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) enter any conveyance for the \r\n                                              purpose of examining or inspecting \r\n                                              any of the items mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of section 9 of \r\n                                              this Act which is about to be \r\n                                              imported into Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Forfeiture of \r\n                                              prohibited imported plants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Without prejudice to section \r\n                                              13 of this Act, any inspector \r\n                                              examining or inspecting any \r\n                                              luggage or conveyance under \r\n                                              section 10 of this Act shall seize \r\n                                              any of the items referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of section 9 of \r\n                                              this Act which is being imported \r\n                                              in contravention of the said \r\n                                              section 9 or any regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder and such item shall be \r\n                                              forfeited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations may provide for \r\n                                              the disposal of any item forfeited \r\n                                              under this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Regulations relating to \r\n                                              Plants Imported from Foreign \r\n                                              Countries.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations made under this Act in \r\n                                              relation to importation of plants \r\n                                              may be limited in its application \r\n                                              to any of the items referred to in \r\n                                              section 9 of this Act, coming from \r\n                                              particular countries specified in \r\n                                              the regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Punishment of Offence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who contravenes a \r\n                                              direction, requirement, conditions \r\n                                              or prohibition imposed by or under \r\n                                              this Act shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person guilty of an offence \r\n                                              under this Act shall be liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred cedis or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding three \r\n                                              months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Compensation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Regulations may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) provide in exceptional cases \r\n                                              for the payment to occupiers of \r\n                                              land or to an importer, a \r\n                                              proportion of the cost of any \r\n                                              treatment or measures prescribed;</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) provide for the payment of \r\n                                              compensation to any occupier of \r\n                                              land or to an importer who has \r\n                                              sustained pecuniary loss by reason \r\n                                              of any measures taken under this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              be deemed to entitle any person as \r\n                                              of right to receive compensation \r\n                                              in respect of measures taken under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Power to make \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) providing for any matter which \r\n                                              under this Act is to be provided \r\n                                              for by regulations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) prescribing the fees and \r\n                                              charges to be paid in respect of \r\n                                              any act or thing done under any \r\n                                              regulation; 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) generally for giving full \r\n                                              effect to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;container&quot; means any box, basket, \r\n                                              pot, package, case or other \r\n                                              receptacle or covering;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;conveyance&quot; means automobiles, \r\n                                              lorries, animal drawn vehicles, \r\n                                              aircraft, boats and other means of \r\n                                              transportation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;covering&quot; means covering of a \r\n                                              plant or of a container;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;disease&quot; means any disease caused \r\n                                              by fungus, bacterium, virus or \r\n                                              other organism which may be \r\n                                              injurious to agricultural or \r\n                                              horticultural crops and includes \r\n                                              the abnormal conditions of cocoa \r\n                                              trees known as &quot;drought dieback&quot; \r\n                                              and &quot;swollen shoot&quot;;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;inspector&quot; means a person \r\n                                              designated as such by section 5 of \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for agriculture;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;occupier of land&quot; includes the \r\n                                              owner, tenant or any person in \r\n                                              charge of the land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;pest&quot; means any organism of an \r\n                                              animal or vegetable nature which \r\n                                              attacks a plant or which may be \r\n                                              injurious to agricultural or \r\n                                              horticultural crops;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;plants and plant products&quot; means, \r\n                                              trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, \r\n                                              grafts, scions, suckers, buds, \r\n                                              fruit pits, and other seeds, \r\n                                              roots, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, \r\n                                              shoots, leaves, flowers and \r\n                                              fruits; and products from these \r\n                                              items whether in a natural dried \r\n                                              or manufactured state;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations made under section 15 \r\n                                              of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Repeals and Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following enactments are \r\n                                              hereby repealed:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) Importation of Plants \r\n                                              Regulation Ordinance (Cap. 159);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Plant Pests and Diseases \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 160).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any statutory instrument made \r\n                                              under any of the enactments \r\n                                              repealed by this Act and in force \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</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 307');
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(79, 'PRIVATE                                        HOSPITALS AND MATERNITY HOMES ACT, \n   \n1958 (NO. 9 OF 1958)', '<table>\n<tr>\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1390" height="64">\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PRIVATE</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \n                                              HOSPITALS AND MATERNITY HOMES ACT, \n                                              1958 (NO. 9 OF 1958)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              PRIVATE HOSPITALS AND MATERNITY \n                                              HOMES (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1969 (NLCD \n                                              395).1</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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              1. Short title.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              2. Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              3. Establishment of Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              4. Meetings of Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              5. Secretary to the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              6. Registrar of the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              7. Registration of private \n                                              hospitals, etc.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              8. Management of private \n                                              hospitals.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              9. Management of maternity homes.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              10. Applications for registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              11. Requirements of Board as to \n                                              private hospitals.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              12. Requirements of Board as to \n                                              maternity homes.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              13. Certificate of registration, \n                                              etc. to be displayed.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              13A. Appointment and composition \n                                              of Regional Supervisory \n                                              Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              13B. Functions of Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              13C. Meetings of Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              14. Inspection and supervision of \n                                              private hospitals, etc.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              15. Power for Board to suspend or \n                                              cancel registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              16. Further powers of Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              17. Effect of suspension or \n                                              cancellation of registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              18. Disciplinary decisions to be \n                                              approved by the Minister.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              19. Penalties.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              20. Regulations.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              NO. 9 OF 1958.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Assented to in Her Majesty''s Name \n                                              and on Her Majesty''s behalf this \n                                              27th day of June, 1958.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 324.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 324.0pt">\n                                              <i>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Governor-General.</span></i></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to make provision for the \n                                              inspection, regulation and control \n                                              of private hospitals and maternity \n                                              homes.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Date of Commencement. [30th June, \n                                              1958.]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Queen''s Most \n                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the \n                                              advice and consent of the National \n                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present \n                                              Parliament assembled, and by the \n                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Short Title.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act may be cited as the \n                                              Private Hospitals and Maternity \n                                              Homes Act, 1958.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Interpretation</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</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, &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;the Board&quot; means the Private \n                                              Hospitals and Maternity Homes \n                                              Board established under this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Chief Medical Officer&quot; means the \n                                              Chief Medical Officer of the \n                                              Ministry of Health;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Government institution&quot; includes \n                                              any maternity home, hospital, \n                                              convalescent home, nursing home, \n                                              or health centre wholly maintained \n                                              out of the public revenues by the \n                                              Government or by any Mission on \n                                              behalf of the Government;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap. 78.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;infectious disease&quot; means any \n                                              disease within the meaning of the \n                                              Infectious Diseases Ordinance;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;maternity home&quot; means any \n                                              building or other premises where \n                                              provision is made for medical \n                                              attention or nursing facilities \n                                              before, during, or after \n                                              child-birth and whether \n                                              gratuitously or for reward but \n                                              does not include any Government \n                                              institution;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;medical attention&quot; includes \n                                              surgical attention;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Medical Officer&quot; means any \n                                              medical practitioner in the \n                                              service of the Government and \n                                              includes any other medical \n                                              practitioner duly authorised in \n                                              writing by the Chief Medical \n                                              Officer for the purposes of this \n                                              Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap.69.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;medical practitioner&quot; means a \n                                              medical practitioner duly \n                                              registered under the provisions of \n                                              the Medical Practitioners and \n                                              Dentists Registration Ordinance;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;medical practitioner in charge&quot; \n                                              means the supervising medical \n                                              practitioner in a private \n                                              hospital;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap.72.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;midwife&quot; means a midwife duly \n                                              registered under the provisions of \n                                              the Midwives Ordinance; </span>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;midwife in charge&quot; means the \n                                              supervising midwife in a maternity \n                                              home;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \n                                              responsible for Health;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap.71.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;nurse&quot; means a person duly \n                                              registered under the Nurses \n                                              Ordinance;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Nursing Officer&quot; means a nurse or \n                                              midwife in the service of the \n                                              Government; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Principal Matron&quot; means the \n                                              Principal Matron of the Ministry \n                                              of Health;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;private hospital&quot; means any \n                                              building or other premises where \n                                              provision is made for medical \n                                              attention or nursing facilities \n                                              gratuitously or for reward, and \n                                              used or intended to be used for \n                                              the reception of persons suffering \n                                              from any sickness, infirmity of \n                                              injury or used or capable of being \n                                              used for purposes of or incidental \n                                              to child-birth, but does not \n                                              include a maternity home or a \n                                              Government institution;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Registrar&quot; means the registrar of \n                                              the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Secretary&quot; means the secretary of \n                                              the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Establishment of Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) For the purposes of this Act \n                                              there is hereby established a \n                                              Board to be known as the Private \n                                              Hospitals and Maternity Homes \n                                              Board, which shall be a body \n                                              corporate and have a common seal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Board shall consist of, &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) The Chief Medical Officer who \n                                              shall be the Chairman;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) The Deputy Chief Medical \n                                              Officer;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) The Principal Matron;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) Three medical practitioners \n                                              appointed by the Minister;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) One midwife not in the service \n                                              of the Government appointed by the \n                                              Minister;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) One nurse not in the service \n                                              of the Government appointed by the \n                                              Minister;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) One registered pharmacist \n                                              appointed by the Minister. </span>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The members of the Board other \n                                              than the official members shall be \n                                              appointed for a term expiring on \n                                              the thirty-first day of December \n                                              of the year of appointment but may \n                                              on the expiry of any term of \n                                              appointment be re-appointed. Any \n                                              appointed member of the Board may \n                                              at any time and for any cause be \n                                              removed from office by the \n                                              Minister notwithstanding that his \n                                              term of office has not expired.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Where an appointed member \n                                              resigns, dies, is removed from \n                                              office or is for any reason unable \n                                              to continue to act as a member of \n                                              the Board, the Minister may \n                                              appoint a fit person to hold \n                                              office for the unexpired portion \n                                              of the term of office of that \n                                              member, or as he thinks fit, as a \n                                              temporary member of the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) In the absence of the Chairman \n                                              the Deputy Chief Medical Officer \n                                              shall have all the powers of the \n                                              Chairman.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6) The powers of the Board shall \n                                              not be affected by any vacancy in \n                                              its membership.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Meetings of the Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Meetings of the Board shall be \n                                              held at such times and places as \n                                              the Chairman from time to time \n                                              determines.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) At any meeting four members \n                                              including the Chairman shall form \n                                              a quorum.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) All matters before the Board \n                                              at any meeting shall be decided by \n                                              a majority of the members present. \n                                              The Chairman shall have a \n                                              deliberative vote and in the event \n                                              of any equality of votes, shall \n                                              also have a casting vote.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \n                                              this Act and of any regulations \n                                              made under this Act for the \n                                              conduct of meetings of the Board, \n                                              the Board may regulate its \n                                              procedure in such manner as it \n                                              thinks fit.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Secretary to the Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Board may from time to time \n                                              appoint a fit person to be the \n                                              Secretary to the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Registrar of the Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Deputy Chief Medical Officer \n                                              shall be the Registrar of the \n                                              Board. The Registrar shall \n                                              exercise such powers and duties as \n                                              the Board may direct for the \n                                              purposes of registration under \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Registration of Private \n                                              Hospitals, Etc.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) No person shall establish or \n                                              conduct a private hospital or \n                                              maternity home unless the private \n                                              hospital or maternity home is \n                                              registered under the provisions of \n                                              this Act. </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding the \n                                              requirements of any other Act, the \n                                              provisions of this section shall \n                                              extend and apply, &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap.89.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) to a Labour Health Area within \n                                              the meaning of the Labour \n                                              Ordinance; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) to a Mining Health Area within \n                                              the meaning of the Mining Health \n                                              Areas Ordinance.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap.150.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Management of Private \n                                              Hospitals.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) No private hospital shall, \n                                              unless exempted by this Act, be \n                                              managed or conducted except under \n                                              the supervision of a medical \n                                              practitioner who shall be \n                                              responsible for the observance of \n                                              this Act in the private hospital.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Where in any private hospital \n                                              there is more than one medical \n                                              practitioner associated or \n                                              connected with the private \n                                              hospital, the medical \n                                              practitioners shall nominate one \n                                              of their number as the medical \n                                              practitioner in charge and give \n                                              notice in writing to the Registrar \n                                              of the fact.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Management of Maternity \n                                              Homes.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) No maternity home shall, \n                                              unless exempted by this Act, be \n                                              managed or conducted except under \n                                              the supervision of a midwife, who \n                                              shall be responsible for the \n                                              observance of this Act in the \n                                              maternity home.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Where in any maternity home \n                                              there is more than one midwife \n                                              associated or connected with the \n                                              maternity home, the midwives shall \n                                              nominate one of their member as \n                                              the midwife in charge and give \n                                              notice in writing to the Registrar \n                                              of the fact.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Applications for \n                                              Registration.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Application for registration of a \n                                              private hospital or maternity home \n                                              under this Act shall be made to \n                                              the Board in the form prescribed \n                                              by regulations under this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Requirements of Board \n                                              as to Private Hospitals.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The applicant for registration \n                                              of a private hospital where not \n                                              otherwise exempted by subsection \n                                              (2) of this section shall satisfy \n                                              the Board as to:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) the qualifications and \n                                              suitability of any medical \n                                              practitioner to be associated or \n                                              connected with the private \n                                              hospital;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the qualifications and \n                                              suitability of the person in \n                                              charge of the nursing staff;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) the adequacy and compliance \n                                              with the requirements of this Act \n                                              of the nursing staff;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) the location, buildings and \n                                              equipment of the private hospital; \n                                              and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) such other matters as may be \n                                              prescribed by regulations under \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Board may, with the \n                                              consent of the Minister and for \n                                              any period not exceeding one year, \n                                              but renewable for the like period \n                                              from time to time in the \n                                              discretion of the Board, exempt, \n                                              modify or relax the requirements \n                                              of this section other than the \n                                              obligation to register any private \n                                              hospital. Any exemption, \n                                              modification or relaxation shall \n                                              be in writing under the seal of \n                                              the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Requirements of Board \n                                              as to Maternity Homes.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The applicant for registration \n                                              of a maternity home shall satisfy \n                                              the Board as to:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) the qualifications and \n                                              suitability of any midwife in \n                                              charge or connected with the \n                                              maternity home;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the location, buildings and \n                                              equipment of the maternity home; \n                                              and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) such other matters as may be \n                                              prescribed by regulations under \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Board may, with the \n                                              consent of the Minister and for \n                                              any period not exceeding one year, \n                                              but renewable for the like period \n                                              from time to time in the \n                                              discretion of the Board exempt, \n                                              modify or relax the requirements \n                                              of this section other than the \n                                              obligation to register any \n                                              maternity home. Any exemption, \n                                              modification or relaxation shall \n                                              be in writing under the seal of \n                                              the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Certificate of \n                                              Registration, Etc. to be \n                                              Displayed.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Every certificate of registration \n                                              shall be in writing under the seal \n                                              of the Board, and shall, with any \n                                              certificate of exemption, \n                                              modification or relaxation, be \n                                              displayed in a prominent place in \n                                              the private hospital or maternity \n                                              home accessible to all patients or \n                                              intending patients.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13A&#8212;Appointment and \n                                              Composition of Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authorities.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Board shall appoint \n                                              Regional Supervisory Authorities \n                                              in each region.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) A Regional Supervisory \n                                              Authority shall be composed of the \n                                              following persons:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) the Regional Medical Officer \n                                              of Health who shall be the \n                                              Chairman;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the Regional Matron;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) the Principal Public Health \n                                              Nurse;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) the Regional Public Health \n                                              Engineer;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) the Regional Health \n                                              Superintendent;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) a person nominated by the \n                                              Ghana Medical Association;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) a person nominated by the \n                                              Nurses Association;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (h) a person nominated by the \n                                              Midwives Association;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \n                                              the Inspecting Pharmacist.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The Secretary to a Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authority shall be of \n                                              the grade of at least a Senior \n                                              Executive Officer.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The members of a Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authority other than \n                                              the official members shall be \n                                              appointed for a term expiring on \n                                              the 31st day of December of the \n                                              year of appointment and shall on \n                                              the expiry of any term of \n                                              appointment be eligible for \n                                              re-appointment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) A member of a Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authority, not being \n                                              an official member, may, at the \n                                              discretion of the Board be removed \n                                              from office notwithstanding that \n                                              his term of office has not \n                                              expired.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13B&#8212;Functions of Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authorities.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \n                                              Regional Supervisory Authority \n                                              shall exercise the following \n                                              functions:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) the inspection and supervision \n                                              of private hospitals and maternity \n                                              homes;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the retention of the names of \n                                              registered private hospitals and \n                                              registered maternity homes on the \n                                              Register of Private Hospitals and \n                                              Maternity Homes;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) the submission of quarterly \n                                              returns in respect of the \n                                              retention of the names of \n                                              registered private hospitals and \n                                              maternity homes on the Register of \n                                              Private Hospitals and Maternity \n                                              Homes;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) the collection of fees in \n                                              respect of the performance of \n                                              these functions and the payment of \n                                              those fees into the Consolidated \n                                              fund.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13C&#8212;Meetings of Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authorities.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Meetings of a Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authority shall be \n                                              held at such times and such places \n                                              as the Chairman may from time to \n                                              time determine.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Chairman shall preside at \n                                              all meetings of a Regional \n                                              Supervisory Authority and in his \n                                              absence a person nominated by the \n                                              members present shall preside.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The quorum at all meetings of \n                                              a Regional Supervisory Authority \n                                              shall be five.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) All questions proposed at a \n                                              meeting of a Regional Supervisory \n                                              Authority shall be determined by a \n                                              majority of the members present \n                                              and voting and in the event of an \n                                              equality of votes the Chairman or \n                                              the person presiding shall have a \n                                              casting vote. [As inserted by the \n                                              Private Hospitals and Maternity \n                                              Homes (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \n                                              395), s. 1]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Inspection and \n                                              Supervision.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Private hospitals and \n                                              maternity homes shall be open at \n                                              all reasonable times for the \n                                              purposes of supervision and \n                                              inspection by Regional Supervisory \n                                              Authorities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) A Regional Supervisory \n                                              Authority may call for the \n                                              production of any record register \n                                              or other document required to be \n                                              kept by this Act, and the medical \n                                              practitioner or midwife in charge, \n                                              as the case may be, shall comply \n                                              with all reasonable directions of \n                                              a Regional Supervisory Authority \n                                              in the course of the supervision \n                                              and inspection.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section shall \n                                              be construed as authorising the \n                                              inspection of any medical record \n                                              relating to a patient in a private \n                                              hospital. [As substituted by the \n                                              Private Hospitals and Maternity \n                                              Homes (Amendment) Decree 1969 (NLCD \n                                              395), s. 2]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Power for Board to \n                                              Suspend or Cancel Registration.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Where in any private hospital \n                                              or maternity home registered under \n                                              this Act it appears to the Board,&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) that the provisions of this \n                                              Act are not being complied with to \n                                              its satisfaction; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) that the private hospital is \n                                              not conducted in the best \n                                              interests or general well-being of \n                                              the patients; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) that any medical practitioner \n                                              or midwife as the case may be is \n                                              not a fit and proper person,&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              the Board may in writing fix a \n                                              time not exceeding fourteen days \n                                              and direct the medical \n                                              practitioner in charge or the \n                                              midwife in charge, as the case may \n                                              be, to comply with the \n                                              requirements of the Board. Any \n                                              direction given under this \n                                              subsection may include a \n                                              suspension of the certificate of \n                                              registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) If the medical practitioner in \n                                              charge or the midwife in charge as \n                                              the case may be fails to satisfy \n                                              the requirements of the Board \n                                              within the prescribed time the \n                                              Board may cancel the certificate \n                                              of registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Cap.78.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section shall \n                                              be construed in derogation of the \n                                              powers of a Medical Officer under \n                                              the Infectious Diseases Ordinance.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Further Powers of the \n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The exercise by the Board of its \n                                              powers under section 15 of this \n                                              Act shall not operate to preclude \n                                              the institution of proceedings for \n                                              failure to comply with the \n                                              requirements of this Act or for \n                                              the recovery of any penalty under \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Effect of Suspension or \n                                              Cancellation of Registration.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) If the certificate of \n                                              registration of a private hospital \n                                              or maternity home is suspended or \n                                              cancelled under this Act the \n                                              private hospital or maternity home \n                                              as the case may be shall be \n                                              closed; and the Board as the case \n                                              may require shall arrange for the \n                                              discharge or transfer of all \n                                              patients. In any special case the \n                                              Board may direct a patient to \n                                              remain in the private hospital or \n                                              maternity home and continue to \n                                              receive any necessary treatment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Nothing in this section shall \n                                              operate to create an offence \n                                              against this Act where a patient \n                                              continues to receive treatment at \n                                              the direction of the Board in any \n                                              private hospital or maternity home \n                                              closed under this section.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Disciplinary Decisions \n                                              to be Approved by Minister.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) No decision of a disciplinary \n                                              nature by the Board shall have \n                                              effect without the approval of the \n                                              Minister; and where a decision is \n                                              approved by the Minister it shall \n                                              be final.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \n                                              section, &quot;decision of a \n                                              disciplinary nature&quot; includes a \n                                              decision involving the suspension \n                                              or cancellation of a certificate \n                                              of registration.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Penalties.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Any person contravening this \n                                              Act or failing to comply with the \n                                              requirements of this Act commits \n                                              an offence against this Act, and \n                                              shall be liable on summary \n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \n                                              two hundred pounds or (save in the \n                                              case of a body corporate) to \n                                              imprisonment for a term not \n                                              exceeding twelve months. If the \n                                              offence is a continuing one the \n                                              offender shall in addition incur a \n                                              penalty of ten pounds for every \n                                              day during which the offence \n                                              continues.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \n                                              section, &quot;day&quot; includes a part of \n                                              a day.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Power to make \n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Minister may after \n                                              consultation with the Board make \n                                              regulations in respect of the \n                                              institution, conduct, supervision \n                                              and inspection of private \n                                              hospitals and maternity homes and \n                                              generally for the carrying into \n                                              effect the purposes of this Act. \n                                              Without prejudice to the \n                                              generality of the powers conferred \n                                              by this subsection, particular \n                                              Regulations may be made, &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) prescribing any matter or \n                                              thing required for the purposes of \n                                              this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) prescribing the standards of \n                                              sanitary arrangements;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) regulating the accommodation \n                                              for patients and nursing staff;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) regulating the accommodation \n                                              and equipment for operating \n                                              theatres, laboratories, \n                                              sterilisation and disinfection, \n                                              pharmacies and other similar \n                                              purposes;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) prescribing the qualifications \n                                              and training of the nursing staff \n                                              and the number of qualified nurses \n                                              to be employed in proportion to \n                                              the number of beds available;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) regulating the preparation and \n                                              storage of food and drugs and, \n                                              where drugs are dispensed in a \n                                              private hospital, the number of \n                                              qualified pharmacists to be \n                                              employed;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) regulating the arrangements \n                                              for disinfections and the \n                                              prevention of the spread of \n                                              infection;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (h) prescribing the arrangements \n                                              to be made for the prevention and \n                                              control of fire and for the safety \n                                              of patients and staff in the event \n                                              of fire;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \n                                              prescribing the records and \n                                              statistics to be kept and the mode \n                                              of keeping them;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (j) prescribing the registers and \n                                              records to be kept in respect of \n                                              patients;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (k) prescribing the notification \n                                              of deaths, births, still-births, \n                                              miscarriages and abortions;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (l) regulating the admission and \n                                              discharge of patients;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (m) prescribing the hours of work \n                                              and working conditions for the \n                                              nursing staff;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (n) regulating general medical and \n                                              domestic arrangements;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (o) prescribing the records to be \n                                              kept when a child born in a \n                                              private hospital or maternity home \n                                              is discharged or removed therefrom;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (p) prescribing the fees to be \n                                              paid for the registration of \n                                              private hospitals and maternity \n                                              homes under this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (q) prescribing the mode of \n                                              execution of instruments.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (r) prescribing the fees to be \n                                              paid for the supervision and \n                                              inspection of private hospitals \n                                              and maternity homes;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (s) prescribing fees to be paid \n                                              for the retention of the names of \n                                              registered private hospitals and \n                                              maternity homes on the Register of \n                                              Private Hospitals and Maternity \n                                              Homes. [As inserted by the Private \n                                              Hospitals and Maternity Homes \n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1969 (NLCD \n                                              395), s. 3]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \n                                              section shall come into force on \n                                              the date of publication in the \n                                              Gazette, and be laid before \n                                              Parliament as soon as practicable \n                                              after they have been made.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This printed impression has been \n                                              carefully compared by me with the \n                                              Bill which has passed the National \n                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a \n                                              true and correctly printed copy of \n                                              the said Bill.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 252.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              K.B. AYENSU</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 252.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n&nbsp;</td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n          </td>\n        </tr>\n<tr>\n  <td width="49" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\n        </tr>\n', 'First', 'Yes', '');
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(80, 'PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT, 1961 (ACT \n                                              59', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1384" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT, 1961 (ACT \r\n                                              59)</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.&nbsp; Public appeals for donations \r\n                                              in money or in kind restricted</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Application to collections \r\n                                              begun before the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; Exemptions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Registration of Public \r\n                                              collections</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Method, effect and duration of \r\n                                              registration</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Power of the registration \r\n                                              authority to call for books of \r\n                                              account</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Collectors</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Proceeds&nbsp; of collection deemed \r\n                                              to be received for stated objects</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Offences and penalties</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Legal proceedings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Repeal</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Commencement</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 FIFTY-NINTH</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 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT, 1961.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate the law \r\n                                              relating to public collections of \r\n                                              money or in kind.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 29th May, 1961.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Public appeals for \r\n                                              donations in money or in kind \r\n                                              restricted.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act it is unlawful to make \r\n                                              any appeal to the public or any \r\n                                              part or class thereof for \r\n                                              donations in money or in kind for \r\n                                              any object whatsoever, except \r\n                                              where registration of such public \r\n                                              collection has been effected in \r\n                                              accordance with this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A payment of money in exchange \r\n                                              for a token or any article of \r\n                                              token value only, or for any \r\n                                              article or benefit the value of \r\n                                              which is substantially less than \r\n                                              the value of such payment shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be a donation for the \r\n                                              purposes of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In any case where an appeal \r\n                                              for donations to be applied to a \r\n                                              particular object is made to five \r\n                                              or more members of the public, the \r\n                                              burden of proving, in any criminal \r\n                                              or civil proceedings taken in \r\n                                              relation to such appeal, that it \r\n                                              was not an appeal to the public \r\n                                              within the meaning of this section \r\n                                              shall be upon the defendant in \r\n                                              such proceedings.</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;Application to \r\n                                              collections begun before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An appeal for donations made \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act which would, if made after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, be \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act shall, if donations continue \r\n                                              to be solicited or made after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, be \r\n                                              deemed to be public collection to \r\n                                              which the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              apply.</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;Exemptions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall not apply to&#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) any collection made at divine \r\n                                              service in a place of public \r\n                                              worship for charitable, benevolent \r\n                                              or philanthropic purposes;</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) requests made by or on behalf \r\n                                              of the committee of any club, \r\n                                              association or trade union to \r\n                                              members of such club, association \r\n                                              or union for subscriptions;</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) collections of a purely \r\n                                              parochial character made in good \r\n                                              faith for the benefit of a local \r\n                                              church, school, sport club or \r\n                                              charity, or a project in the \r\n                                              interests of local public welfare;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) collections made in good faith \r\n                                              among a limited class of persons \r\n                                              for the purposes of making a \r\n                                              presentation to any person on any \r\n                                              special occassion;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; collections in respect of \r\n                                              customary ceremonial rites; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) any person or class of person \r\n                                              exempted by order of the Minister \r\n                                              in relation to a collection for an \r\n                                              object specified in such 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;Registration of public \r\n                                              collections.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who desires to \r\n                                              promote a public collection shall \r\n                                              make application for registration \r\n                                              in the prescribed form to the \r\n                                              registration authority for the \r\n                                              area within which the collection \r\n                                              is to be made, and the application \r\n                                              shall, in addition to such other \r\n                                              particulars as may be prescribed, \r\n                                              contain a full and accurate \r\n                                              statement of the objects to which \r\n                                              the proceeds of the collection are \r\n                                              to be applied (hereinafter \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the stated \r\n                                              objects&quot;).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The registration authorities \r\n                                              for each Region shall be such \r\n                                              persons as the Minister may \r\n                                              appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The registration authority \r\n                                              shall not refuse registration, or, \r\n                                              where registration has been \r\n                                              effected, shall nor revoke it, \r\n                                              unless it appears to him&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; that any of the stated \r\n                                              objects is illegal;</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 applicant or the \r\n                                              promoter is not a fit and proper \r\n                                              person to be registered by reason \r\n                                              of the fact that he has been \r\n                                              convicted of any offence the \r\n                                              conviction for which necessarily \r\n                                              involved a finding that he acted \r\n                                              fraudulently or dishonestly;</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)&nbsp; that the applicant or the \r\n                                              promoter, in promoting a public \r\n                                              collection, has failed to exercise \r\n                                              due diligence to secure that \r\n                                              collectors authorised by him to \r\n                                              assist in making the collection \r\n                                              were fit and proper persons, to \r\n                                              secure compliance on the part of \r\n                                              collectors with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act or to prevent \r\n                                              certificates of authority being \r\n                                              obtained by persons other than \r\n                                              duly authorised collectors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) that the applicant or the \r\n                                              promoter has been convicted of any \r\n                                              offence against the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act; or </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; that remuneration which is \r\n                                              excessive in proportion to the \r\n                                              total amount likely to be \r\n                                              collected is to be or has been \r\n                                              retained or received out of the \r\n                                              proceeds of the collection by any \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the registration authority \r\n                                              refuses registration, or if he \r\n                                              revokes registration, he shall \r\n                                              forthwith give written notice \r\n                                              thereof to the applicant or \r\n                                              promoter, stating the grounds upon \r\n                                              which registration has been \r\n                                              refused or revoked, and informing \r\n                                              him of the right of appeal given \r\n                                              by this section, and the applicant \r\n                                              or promoter may thereupon appeal \r\n                                              by petition to the Minister \r\n                                              against the refusal or revocation \r\n                                              of registration, as the case may \r\n                                              be, and the decision of the \r\n                                              Minister shall be final.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The appeal shall be brought \r\n                                              within twenty-one days from the \r\n                                              date on which notice is given \r\n                                              under subsection (4).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) If the Minister decides that \r\n                                              the appeal should be allowed, the \r\n                                              registration authority shall \r\n                                              forthwith effect registration or \r\n                                              cancel the revocation, as the case \r\n                                              may be, in accordance with the \r\n                                              decision of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Method, Effect and \r\n                                              Duration of Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except where registration is \r\n                                              refused under section 4 of this \r\n                                              Act, the registration authority \r\n                                              shall cause the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars (which shall include \r\n                                              the stated objects) to be entered \r\n                                              in the register, and thereupon the \r\n                                              promoter may make a public \r\n                                              collection for the stated objects \r\n                                              within the area in which \r\n                                              registration has been effected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A registration effected under \r\n                                              this section shall, unless sooner \r\n                                              revoked, remain in force until the \r\n                                              31st day of December in the year \r\n                                              in which it is effected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Power of the \r\n                                              Registration Authority to call for \r\n                                              Books of Accounts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The registration authority may, by \r\n                                              notice in writing, call upon the \r\n                                              promoter of a public collection to \r\n                                              produce, to the person named and \r\n                                              at the time and place specified in \r\n                                              the notice, the books of account \r\n                                              and all other documents relating \r\n                                              to such collection for examination \r\n                                              or audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Collectors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any promoter may authorise any \r\n                                              number of fit and proper persons \r\n                                              to assist him in making a public \r\n                                              collection for the stated objects.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each collector shall be \r\n                                              supplied by the promoter with a \r\n                                              certificate of authority which \r\n                                              shall specify fully and accurately \r\n                                              the stated objects of the \r\n                                              collection, and a collector shall \r\n                                              produce his certificate of \r\n                                              authority on demand to any police \r\n                                              officer in uniform or to any \r\n                                              person to whom he has made an \r\n                                              appeal for a donation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Proceeds of Collection \r\n                                              Deemed to be Received for Stated \r\n                                              Objects.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The proceeds of any public \r\n                                              collection shall, for the purposes \r\n                                              of any civil or criminal \r\n                                              proceedings whatsoever, be deemed \r\n                                              to be received by the promoter and \r\n                                              collectors for the purpose of \r\n                                              applying them to the stated \r\n                                              objects.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a reasonable proportion \r\n                                              of the proceeds of any public \r\n                                              collection is applied to the \r\n                                              expenses of administration of such \r\n                                              public collection, it shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have been applied to the \r\n                                              stated objects.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the purposes of subsection \r\n                                              (2), the determination of what is \r\n                                              a reasonable proportion shall be a \r\n                                              question of fact in each case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Offences and Penalties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes any of \r\n                                              the provisions of section 1 (1) of \r\n                                              this Act or with any of the terms \r\n                                              of a notice given under section 6 \r\n                                              of this Act or who makes an \r\n                                              application for registration under \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act knowing it \r\n                                              to be false in any material \r\n                                              particular, shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence under this Act and shall \r\n                                              be liable, upon conviction, for a \r\n                                              first offence, to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding fifty pounds or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding six months, or to both, \r\n                                              and, for a second or subsequent \r\n                                              offence, to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred pounds or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months, or to \r\n                                              both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Legal Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No prosecution for an offence \r\n                                              against this Act shall be \r\n                                              instituted except by, or with the \r\n                                              written consent of, the \r\n                                              Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister by legislative \r\n                                              instrument may make regulations \r\n                                              for carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#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, except where the \r\n                                              contrary&nbsp; intention appears&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;collector&quot; means a person duly \r\n                                              authorised under section 7 of this \r\n                                              Act to assist in making a public \r\n                                              collection;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister of \r\n                                              the Interior;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;promoter&quot; means a person duly \r\n                                              registered under section 5 of this \r\n                                              Act as the promoter of a public \r\n                                              collection.</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 sections \r\n                                              1, 2 and 7 of this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;appeal&quot; means a request or \r\n                                              invitation however conveyed, \r\n                                              whether by actions, in words, \r\n                                              pictorially or in writing, and \r\n                                              whether made in public, through \r\n                                              the press, in conversation, by \r\n                                              house to house visiting or through \r\n                                              the post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Repeal</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Public Collections \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 45) is repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every statutory instrument \r\n                                              made under the repealed Ordinance \r\n                                              and in force immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              the corresponding provision of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such day as the Minister by \r\n                                              legislative instrument may \r\n                                              appoint.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="71" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 59');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(81, 'PUBLIC CONVEYANCING ACT, 1965 (ACT \n                                              302', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1326" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PUBLIC CONVEYANCING ACT, 1965 (ACT \r\n                                              302)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;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. Declaration of selected area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. President to grant land in \r\n                                              selected area to certain persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Plan and Schedule to plan, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Grants of land to other \r\n                                              persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Repeal.</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 THREE HUNDRED AND SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT 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 PUBLIC CONVEYANCING ACT, 1965</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              declaration of a selected area, \r\n                                              the granting of land in such area, \r\n                                              and matters connected therewith or \r\n                                              incidental thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 29th September, \r\n                                              1965</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Declaration of Selected \r\n                                              Area.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever it appears to the \r\n                                              President in the public interest \r\n                                              so to do, he may by executive \r\n                                              instrument declare any area of \r\n                                              state or stool land to be a \r\n                                              selected area, and, accordingly, \r\n                                              on the making of such instrument, \r\n                                              such area shall for the purposes \r\n                                              of this Act be a selected area and \r\n                                              titles to land therein shall be \r\n                                              granted as prescribed under this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where any stool land in \r\n                                              respect of which an executive \r\n                                              instrument has been made under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section has \r\n                                              not been vested in the President \r\n                                              under section 7 of the \r\n                                              Administration of Lands Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 123), such instrument in \r\n                                              respect of such land shall have \r\n                                              the same effect as an instrument \r\n                                              made under the said section 7.</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;President to Grant Land \r\n                                              in Selected Area to Certain \r\n                                              Persons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Save as otherwise provided in \r\n                                              this Act, the President upon \r\n                                              recommendation by the Minister \r\n                                              shall grant land in a selected \r\n                                              area, on such terms and conditions \r\n                                              as he may think fit to the \r\n                                              following persons and no others:&#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) persons deprived of the use of \r\n                                              land by reason of a natural \r\n                                              catastrophe;</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) persons deprived of the use of \r\n                                              land by reason of the application \r\n                                              of the provisions of any other \r\n                                              enactment;</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) persons deprived of the use of \r\n                                              land in the town of Tema and \r\n                                              resettled in the Tema acquisition \r\n                                              area;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) persons desirous of settling \r\n                                              in a planned irrigation area;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) persons deprived of the use of \r\n                                              land by reason of a slum clearance \r\n                                              scheme;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) persons affected by \r\n                                              re-adjustment of boundaries of \r\n                                              land within an area under any \r\n                                              enactment relating to town and \r\n                                              country planning;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) persons desirous of acquiring \r\n                                              land within a planned housing \r\n                                              area;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) persons desirous of settling \r\n                                              in a land reclamation area;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              persons desirous of carrying out \r\n                                              husbandry, including animal \r\n                                              husbandry, in a planned land area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person to whom a grant of \r\n                                              land has been made shall transfer \r\n                                              his grant to any other person, \r\n                                              except with the written consent of \r\n                                              the Minister, and, subject to such \r\n                                              conditions as he may specify \r\n                                              therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of section 4 \r\n                                              shall not apply to any transfer \r\n                                              referred to in&nbsp; subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where any other enactment \r\n                                              confers powers for the settlement \r\n                                              or resettlement of persons on any \r\n                                              other Minister or Council or a \r\n                                              statutory corporation, grants \r\n                                              under this section shall be made, \r\n                                              if the powers for the settlement \r\n                                              or resettlement of persons were \r\n                                              conferred on&#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) any other Minister, upon the \r\n                                              recommendation of such other \r\n                                              Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a Council, upon the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for local government; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a statutory corporation, upon \r\n                                              the recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for such corporation.</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;Plan and Schedule to \r\n                                              Plan, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be made a plan as \r\n                                              prescribed of a selected area and \r\n                                              there shall be specified in the \r\n                                              prescribed manner on the plan a \r\n                                              Schedule setting out in entries \r\n                                              the lands granted under section 2 \r\n                                              and in corresponding entries the \r\n                                              names of the grantees, the \r\n                                              interests held by them in such \r\n                                              land, the dates from which such \r\n                                              grants take effect and such other \r\n                                              particulars as may be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister shall make an \r\n                                              endorsement below the last entry \r\n                                              that the particulars specified in \r\n                                              the plan and the Schedule thereto \r\n                                              are in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act and any \r\n                                              other enactment in that behalf and \r\n                                              are true and accurate and shall \r\n                                              sign and date that endorsement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister shall cause each \r\n                                              plan of a selected area together \r\n                                              with its Schedule to be registered \r\n                                              under the Land Registry Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 122), and the provisions of \r\n                                              that Act shall mutatis mutandis \r\n                                              apply to such registration in like \r\n                                              manner as those provisions apply \r\n                                              to the registration of any other \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a plan of a selected \r\n                                              area with its Schedule has been \r\n                                              registered under the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this section, a \r\n                                              copy, extract or certificate of \r\n                                              registration purporting to be \r\n                                              signed by a registrar within the \r\n                                              meaning of the said Act, or made \r\n                                              in the prescribed manner shall be \r\n                                              receivable in any court as \r\n                                              evidence of the particulars \r\n                                              specified therein without further \r\n                                              or other proof, unless it is \r\n                                              proved to be a forgery.</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;Grants of Land to Other \r\n                                              Persons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where any land in any selected \r\n                                              area remains vacant, the President \r\n                                              may grant land in such area to any \r\n                                              person, subject to such conditions \r\n                                              as he may think fit, including the \r\n                                              payment of rent, but the \r\n                                              provisions of section 3 shall not \r\n                                              apply to such grants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Grants made under subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section shall be made \r\n                                              in accordance with the appropriate \r\n                                              provisions of the Administration \r\n                                              of Lands Act, 1962 (Act 123) and \r\n                                              the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              125) and any statutory instruments \r\n                                              made thereunder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations may be made by the \r\n                                              Minister by legislative instrument \r\n                                              in respect of such matters as are \r\n                                              authorised or required by this Act \r\n                                              to be prescribed and for the \r\n                                              purposes of carrying out the \r\n                                              principles and provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Council&quot; means a Council within \r\n                                              the meaning of the Local \r\n                                              Government Act, 1961 (Act 54);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;land reclamation area&quot; means an \r\n                                              area of land, which was covered or \r\n                                              otherwise affected by water and \r\n                                              which by diverse works has been \r\n                                              made suitable for development, and \r\n                                              for which a layout has been \r\n                                              approved by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Town and Country \r\n                                              Planning in consultation with the \r\n                                              Ministers responsible for \r\n                                              agriculture, health, housing, \r\n                                              lands, local government and \r\n                                              community development;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for lands;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;plan&quot; means a cadastral plan \r\n                                              within the meaning of the Survey \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 127), or any other \r\n                                              plan made to the satisfaction of \r\n                                              the Minister referred to in \r\n                                              section 5 of that Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;planned housing area&quot; means an \r\n                                              area destined for residential \r\n                                              development for which a lay-out \r\n                                              has been approved by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Town and Country \r\n                                              Planning in consultation with the \r\n                                              Ministers responsible for housing, \r\n                                              health, lands, and local \r\n                                              government;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;planned irrigation area&quot; means an \r\n                                              area for which water for \r\n                                              irrigation is being supplied by \r\n                                              any organ of the State or a \r\n                                              Council or a statutory corporation \r\n                                              and for which area a lay-out has \r\n                                              been approved by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Town and Country \r\n                                              Planning in consultation with the \r\n                                              Ministers responsible for lands \r\n                                              and agriculture;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;planned land area&quot; means an area \r\n                                              of agricultural land, the \r\n                                              conditions of carrying out of \r\n                                              husbandry within which are \r\n                                              prescribed by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for agriculture, and \r\n                                              for which a lay-out has been \r\n                                              approved by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Town and Country \r\n                                              Planning in consultation with the \r\n                                              Ministers responsible for \r\n                                              agriculture, communications, lands \r\n                                              and community development;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;selected area&quot; means an area of \r\n                                              state land or of stool land \r\n                                              declared a selected area by the \r\n                                              President by executive instrument \r\n                                              under section 1 and includes in \r\n                                              the Tema Acquisition Area the area \r\n                                              of resettlement of persons from \r\n                                              the town of Tema;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;slum clearance scheme&quot; means a \r\n                                              scheme of reconstruction of a \r\n                                              built-up area undertaken, in \r\n                                              consequence of the overcrowding of \r\n                                              inhabitants in dwellings, of \r\n                                              unsatisfactory sanitary \r\n                                              conditions, and of the \r\n                                              dilapidation of buildings, by an \r\n                                              organ of the State, a Council or a \r\n                                              statutory corporation in \r\n                                              accordance with a plan approved by \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for Town \r\n                                              and Country Planning in \r\n                                              consultation with the Ministers \r\n                                              responsible for lands, health, \r\n                                              social welfare, housing and local \r\n                                              government;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;state land&quot; means land declared \r\n                                              by the President by executive \r\n                                              instrument under section 1 of the \r\n                                              State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125) to \r\n                                              be land required in the public \r\n                                              interest;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;statutory corporation&quot; means a \r\n                                              statutory corporation within the \r\n                                              meaning of the Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations Act, 1964 (Act 232), \r\n                                              or established under any other \r\n                                              enactment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;stool land&quot; shall have the same \r\n                                              meaning as in the Administration \r\n                                              of Lands Act, 1962 (Act 123);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Tema \r\n                                              acquisition area&quot; means the area \r\n                                              specified in the First Schedule to \r\n                                              the Tema Town and Port \r\n                                              (Acquisition of Land) Ordinance, \r\n                                              1952 (No. 38); and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;town of Tema&quot; means the town of \r\n                                              Tema referred to in the First \r\n                                              Schedule to the Towns Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 86).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Repeal</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Village Sites Ordinance (Cap. \r\n                                              141) is hereby repealed.</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">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 302');
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(82, 'PUBLIC OFFICERS ACT, 1962 (ACT \n                                              114)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1364" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PUBLIC OFFICERS ACT, 1962 (ACT \r\n                                              114).</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.&nbsp; Cases in which no action shall \r\n                                              lie against public officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Actions, etc., against public \r\n                                              officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; Proceedings in contravention \r\n                                              of this Act to be void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Jurisdiction of Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Designation of public \r\n                                              officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Changes in designation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Commencement.</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 FOURTEENTH</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 PUBLIC OFFICERS ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \r\n                                              amendments enactments providing \r\n                                              for the protection of public \r\n                                              officers from legal proceedings in \r\n                                              respect of certain liabilities, \r\n                                              for the protection of persons \r\n                                              acting in the execution of public \r\n                                              duties and also for the change of \r\n                                              official designations and other \r\n                                              purposes connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 7th March, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#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;Cases in which no Action \r\n                                              Shall lie against Public Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No action shall lie against a \r\n                                              public officer &#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) upon any promise, express or \r\n                                              implied, to repay money paid or \r\n                                              advanced to him or to another \r\n                                              person at his request;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) upon any promise, express or \r\n                                              implied, to be answerable for the \r\n                                              debt or default of another person; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) upon any bond, bill of \r\n                                              exchange (other than a cheque \r\n                                              drawn on a banker), promissory \r\n                                              note, or other personal security \r\n                                              made, drawn, accepted, endorsed, \r\n                                              or given by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; This section shall not apply \r\n                                              to any action which is&#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)&nbsp; brought against a public \r\n                                              officer who at the time when the \r\n                                              cause of such action arises is in \r\n                                              receipt of a salary of more than \r\n                                              three hundred pounds per annum in \r\n                                              respect of his substantive \r\n                                              appointment;</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) brought against a person in \r\n                                              respect of any liability incurred \r\n                                              prior to the date on which such \r\n                                              person became a public officer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) brought by the holder of any \r\n                                              security other than those \r\n                                              specified in paragraph (c) of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section to \r\n                                              realize such security.</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;Actions, etc. Against \r\n                                              Public Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where any action, prosecution, \r\n                                              or other proceeding is commenced \r\n                                              against any person for any act \r\n                                              done in pursuance or execution or \r\n                                              intended execution of any \r\n                                              enactment or of any public duty or \r\n                                              authority or in respect of any \r\n                                              alleged neglect or default in the \r\n                                              execution of any such enactment, \r\n                                              duty, or authority, the following \r\n                                              provisions shall have effect, that \r\n                                              is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the action, prosecution, or \r\n                                              proceeding shall not lie or be \r\n                                              instituted unless it is commenced \r\n                                              within three months next after the \r\n                                              act, neglect, or default \r\n                                              complained of, or in the case of a \r\n                                              continuance of injury or damage, \r\n                                              within three months next after the \r\n                                              ceasing thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where the action, prosecution \r\n                                              or proceeding is brought by any \r\n                                              person for cause arising while \r\n                                              such person was a convict person, \r\n                                              it may be commenced within three \r\n                                              months after the discharge of such \r\n                                              person from prison;</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) wherever in any such action a \r\n                                              judgment is obtained by the \r\n                                              defendant, it shall carry costs to \r\n                                              be taxed as between solicitor and \r\n                                              client;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) where the proceeding is an \r\n                                              action for damages, tender of \r\n                                              amends before the action was \r\n                                              commenced may, in lieu of, or in \r\n                                              addition to, any other plea, be \r\n                                              pleaded;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) where the action was commenced \r\n                                              after the tender, or is proceeded \r\n                                              with after payment into Court of \r\n                                              any money in satisfaction of the \r\n                                              plaintiff''s claim, and the \r\n                                              plaintiff does not recover more \r\n                                              than the sum tendered or paid, he \r\n                                              shall not recover any costs \r\n                                              incurred after the tender or \r\n                                              payment, and the defendant shall \r\n                                              be entitled to costs, to be taxed \r\n                                              as between solicitor and client, \r\n                                              as from the time of the tender or \r\n                                              payment, but this provision shall \r\n                                              not affect costs of any injunction \r\n                                              in the action;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) if, in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Court, the plaintiff has not given \r\n                                              the defendant a sufficient \r\n                                              opportunity of tendering amends \r\n                                              before the commencement of the \r\n                                              proceeding the Court may award to \r\n                                              the defendant costs to be taxed as \r\n                                              between solicitor and client.</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;Proceedings in \r\n                                              Contravention of this Act to be \r\n                                              Void.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All proceedings and documents \r\n                                              in or incidental to an action \r\n                                              brought in contravention of this \r\n                                              Act shall be void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where complaint is made that a \r\n                                              public officer is dealt with in \r\n                                              contravention of this Act by any \r\n                                              process, execution or order issued \r\n                                              out of any Court, and is made to \r\n                                              that Court or any Court superior \r\n                                              to it, the Court shall enquire \r\n                                              into the complaint and shall, if \r\n                                              it is satisfied that the complaint \r\n                                              is well-founded, discharge the \r\n                                              public officer without fee, and \r\n                                              may award reasonable costs to the \r\n                                              person making the complaint, which \r\n                                              may be recovered as if such costs \r\n                                              had been awarded in his favour in \r\n                                              the proceedings instituted against \r\n                                              him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Jurisdiction of Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On the coming into operation \r\n                                              of this Act no Court other than \r\n                                              the Supreme Court, High Court, \r\n                                              Circuit Court or a District Court \r\n                                              shall exercise any jurisdiction \r\n                                              whatsoever in respect of an action \r\n                                              of any of the descriptions \r\n                                              mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or \r\n                                              (c) of subsection (1) of section 1 \r\n                                              of this Act brought before or \r\n                                              after the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              against a public officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section shall not apply \r\n                                              to any action &#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) brought against a public \r\n                                              officer who at the time when the \r\n                                              cause of such action arose was in \r\n                                              receipt of a salary of more than \r\n                                              three hundred pounds per annum in \r\n                                              respect of the salary of his \r\n                                              substantive appointment; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) brought by the holder of any \r\n                                              security, other than those \r\n                                              specified in paragraph (c) \r\n                                              subsection (1) of section 1 of \r\n                                              this Act to realize such security.</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;Designation of Public \r\n                                              Officer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, declare the holder of \r\n                                              any office to be a public officer \r\n                                              and may by the same or any other \r\n                                              instrument specify the functions \r\n                                              exerciseable by any such public \r\n                                              officer or amend any enactment for \r\n                                              giving effect to the declaration \r\n                                              so made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Changes in Designation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, change the designation \r\n                                              of any public officer and may for \r\n                                              that purpose by the same or any \r\n                                              other instrument amend any \r\n                                              enactment for giving effect to the \r\n                                              change so made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;action&quot; includes legal \r\n                                              proceedings and process of&nbsp; every \r\n                                              description other than criminal;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;public officer&quot; means:&#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) any person in the service of \r\n                                              the Government,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any person in the service of \r\n                                              any local authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Public Officers \r\n                                              (Liabilities) Ordinance (Cap. 26), \r\n                                              the Public Officers (Protection) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 27) and the Public \r\n                                              Officers and Government \r\n                                              Departments (Change of \r\n                                              Designations) Ordinance (Cap. 28) \r\n                                              are hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of \r\n                                              the enactments specified in the \r\n                                              preceding subsection, any \r\n                                              statutory instrument made \r\n                                              thereunder and in force \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such day as the President may, \r\n                                              by legislative instrument, \r\n                                              appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&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        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 114');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(83, 'PUNISHMENT OF HABITUAL CRIMINALS \n                                              ACT, 1963 (ACT 192)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1354" height="64">\r\n                                              &nbsp;<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              PUNISHMENT OF HABITUAL CRIMINALS \r\n                                              ACT, 1963 (ACT 192)</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. Punishment of Habitual Criminal \r\n                                              Offenders.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Medical Examination of Offender \r\n                                              in Certain Cases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Convictions by Circuit, \r\n                                              District and Local Courts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Repeal and Transitional \r\n                                              Provision. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Construction of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              </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 PUNISHMENT OF HABITUAL \r\n                                              CRIMINALS ACT, 1963</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              punishment of habitual criminal \r\n                                              offenders and for purposes \r\n                                              connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 9th October, 1963.</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;Punishment of Habitual \r\n                                              Criminal Offenders.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a person who is not less \r\n                                              than twenty years of age&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) is convicted of any offence \r\n                                              other than an offence for which he \r\n                                              is liable to suffer death; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) has been convicted previously \r\n                                              of at least two offences, each of \r\n                                              which is either a felony or a \r\n                                              misdemeanor; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) it appears to the High Court, \r\n                                              after enquiring into the \r\n                                              circumstances of the case, that by \r\n                                              reason of his criminal habits or \r\n                                              tendencies or of his association \r\n                                              with persons of bad character, it \r\n                                              is expedient for the protection of \r\n                                              the public that he should be \r\n                                              detained in custody for a \r\n                                              substantial period, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Court shall, subject to the \r\n                                              next following section, pass (in \r\n                                              lieu of any other sentence) a \r\n                                              sentence of preventive custody \r\n                                              with productive hard labour for \r\n                                              such term, not being less than ten \r\n                                              years, as the Court may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In this Act the expression \r\n                                              &quot;productive hard labour&quot; has the \r\n                                              meaning assigned to it by the \r\n                                              Public Property (Protection) and \r\n                                              Corrupt Practices (Prevention) \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 121).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Medical Examination of \r\n                                              Offender in Certain Cases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where in the case of any \r\n                                              offender to whom subsection (1) of \r\n                                              the foregoing section applies the \r\n                                              High Court has reason to believe \r\n                                              that his physical or mental \r\n                                              condition is such as to render him \r\n                                              unsuitable for a sentence of \r\n                                              preventive custody with productive \r\n                                              hard labour under that section, \r\n                                              the Court shall, before passing \r\n                                              such sentence&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) cause an enquiry to be held \r\n                                              into, and a written report to be \r\n                                              made on, the physical and mental \r\n                                              health of that offender by a \r\n                                              medical Board consisting of not \r\n                                              fewer than two suitably qualified \r\n                                              medical practitioners appointed by \r\n                                              the Court after consultation with \r\n                                              the Chief Administrator of the \r\n                                              Ministry of Health;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) consider the report of the \r\n                                              Board and take such further \r\n                                              medical evidence concerning the \r\n                                              offender as the Court thinks fit; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) furnish the offender or his \r\n                                              lawyer with a copy of the report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where, having regard to such \r\n                                              report or further medical \r\n                                              evidence, or to any \r\n                                              representations made by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the offender, the Court \r\n                                              is satisfied that his physical or \r\n                                              mental health is such as to render \r\n                                              him unsuitable for a sentence of \r\n                                              preventive custody with productive \r\n                                              hard labour, but for no other \r\n                                              reason, the Court shall (in lieu \r\n                                              of such sentence) pass such other \r\n                                              sentence as is authorised by law \r\n                                              in relation to the offence of \r\n                                              which he is convicted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Convictions by Circuit, \r\n                                              District and Local Courts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the Court by which an \r\n                                              offender to whom paragraphs (a) \r\n                                              and (b) of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              section 1 of this Act apply is \r\n                                              convicted is a Circuit Court, \r\n                                              District Court or Local Court, the \r\n                                              Court shall not pass sentence upon \r\n                                              him but shall commit him for \r\n                                              sentence to the High Court, and \r\n                                              any enactment relating to the \r\n                                              powers of any Court upon committal \r\n                                              for trial shall apply, so far as \r\n                                              is relevant, to the committal for \r\n                                              sentence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Following such committal the \r\n                                              High Court shall have power to \r\n                                              deal with the offender as if he \r\n                                              had been convicted by that Court \r\n                                              of the offence (and, if the \r\n                                              offence is an indictable one, as \r\n                                              if he had been convicted on \r\n                                              indictment) and the conviction and \r\n                                              sentence shall be subject to \r\n                                              appeal as if he had been so \r\n                                              convicted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Repeal and Transitional \r\n                                              Provision. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Section 402 of the Criminal \r\n                                              Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30) \r\n                                              (which section relates to \r\n                                              preventive custody) is hereby \r\n                                              repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The repeal of the said section \r\n                                              402 shall not affect any case in \r\n                                              which, at the date of the passing \r\n                                              of this Act, enquiries are being \r\n                                              made under subsection (2) of the \r\n                                              said section; and any such case \r\n                                              shall continue to be dealt with by \r\n                                              the High Court as if this Act had \r\n                                              never been passed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Construction of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall be read as one with \r\n                                              the said Criminal Procedure Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          ', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 192');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(84, 'REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS \n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 301)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1339" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 301)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; The central and local offices.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Registers of births and \r\n                                              deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; The Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Registration Regions and \r\n                                              Districts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Power to take affidavits.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Disclosure of information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Live-birth.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Registration of births.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Case of doubtful paternity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Registration of name \r\n                                              subsequent to registration of \r\n                                              birth.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11.&nbsp; Birth certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FOETAL \r\n                                              DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Registration of foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Persons responsible for \r\n                                              registering foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Burial permit for foetal \r\n                                              death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;REGISTRATION OF DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Registration of deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17.&nbsp; Persons to furnish \r\n                                              information as to death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Certificate of medical \r\n                                              practitioner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Duty of coroner after holding \r\n                                              inquiry.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20.&nbsp; Death certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21.&nbsp; Provisions as to burial or \r\n                                              other disposition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22.&nbsp; No burial without burial \r\n                                              permit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Occurring on the High Seas and Air \r\n                                              Space above the High Seas</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23.&nbsp; Births and deaths on high \r\n                                              seas and air space.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;AUTHORISED BURIAL GROUNDS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Local authorities to provide \r\n                                              burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Private burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Exhumation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fraudulent Registrations and \r\n                                              Certificates</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29.&nbsp; Cancellation of registration \r\n                                              and birth certificates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Alterations in Registers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Alterations in registers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Searches</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Searches of records.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Issue of Certificates and Copies</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Certified Copy of entry in \r\n                                              Register&nbsp; of Birth. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Certified Copy of entry in \r\n                                              Register of Deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Certificates as evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Appeal from refusal of \r\n                                              Registrar to search or issue \r\n                                              certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Penalties</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Failure to carry out duties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Interference with public \r\n                                              notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Penalty for improper \r\n                                              disclosure of information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. General penalty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Power to make regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Repeal and saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Application of Act.</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 THREE HUNDRED AND 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 REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND \r\n                                              DEATHS ACT, 1965</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              registration of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths and deaths and to make \r\n                                              provision for burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 29th September, \r\n                                              1965.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows: &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;The Central and Local \r\n                                              Offices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; There shall be a central \r\n                                              office in Accra (in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the central \r\n                                              office&quot;) and a local office in \r\n                                              such registration district as may \r\n                                              be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp;&nbsp; The central office shall be \r\n                                              the office for registration of all \r\n                                              births and deaths in the State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp;&nbsp; The functions of the local \r\n                                              offices shall be such as may be \r\n                                              prescribed. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; The central office and the \r\n                                              local offices shall collectively \r\n                                              be known as the Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Registry.</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;Registers of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be maintained in the \r\n                                              central office registers of all \r\n                                              births, foetal deaths and deaths \r\n                                              occurring in the State.</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;The Registrar of Births \r\n                                              and Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Central Office shall be \r\n                                              under the management and control \r\n                                              of an officer who shall be called \r\n                                              the Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              Government.</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;Registration Regions and \r\n                                              Districts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations may provide for the \r\n                                              division of the country into \r\n                                              registration regions and \r\n                                              registration districts, and for \r\n                                              the appointment of District \r\n                                              Registrars and Assistant District&nbsp; \r\n                                              Registrars.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.1] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Power to Take \r\n                                              Affidavits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Registrar may take the \r\n                                              affidavit or statutory declaration \r\n                                              of any person for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee which shall be paid \r\n                                              into the Consolidated Fund.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.2] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Disclosure of \r\n                                              Information.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall communicate or \r\n                                              allow to be communicated to any \r\n                                              other person any information \r\n                                              obtained under this Act, or allow \r\n                                              any person to inspect or have \r\n                                              access to any records containing \r\n                                              information obtained under this \r\n                                              Act except as authorised by or \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Live-Birth.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              birth means live-birth which is \r\n                                              the complete expulsion or \r\n                                              extraction from its mother of a \r\n                                              product of conception, \r\n                                              irrespective of the duration of \r\n                                              pregnancy, which after such \r\n                                              separation, breathes or shows any \r\n                                              evidence of life, such as beating \r\n                                              of the heart, pulsation of the \r\n                                              umbilical cord, or definite \r\n                                              movement of voluntary muscles \r\n                                              whether or not the umbilical cord \r\n                                              has been cut or the placenta is \r\n                                              detached; each product of such \r\n                                              birth is considered live-born.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Registration of Births.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The birth of every child in \r\n                                              any district to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar in the district in which \r\n                                              the child was born.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a living new-born child \r\n                                              is found deserted and no \r\n                                              information as to the place of \r\n                                              birth is available, the birth \r\n                                              shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar for the district in \r\n                                              which the child is found.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall, subject to \r\n                                              subsection (2) of section 36 of \r\n                                              this Act, be the duty of each of \r\n                                              the following persons&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the father and the mother of \r\n                                              the child;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of the death or \r\n                                              incapacity of the father and \r\n                                              mother&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the occupier of the premises in \r\n                                              which the child is born, if he has \r\n                                              knowledge of the birth;</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) a person present at the \r\n                                              birth,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) a person having charge of \r\n                                              the child, to furnish the \r\n                                              prescribed particulars for \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The birth shall be registered \r\n                                              within twenty-one days of the date \r\n                                              of birth and registration outside \r\n                                              of this period shall only be made \r\n                                              on payment of the prescribed fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) When a birth has not been \r\n                                              registered within the twenty-one \r\n                                              day period referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section, \r\n                                              the Registrar may by notice in \r\n                                              writing summon any of the persons \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (3) of \r\n                                              this section to attend personally \r\n                                              at the Births and Deaths Registry \r\n                                              to furnish the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars for registration \r\n                                              within a prescribed time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) No birth shall be registered \r\n                                              after the expiration of twelve \r\n                                              months from the date of birth \r\n                                              except with the written authority \r\n                                              of the Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee, and a note of such \r\n                                              authority having been given, shall \r\n                                              be entered in the register.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.3] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Case of Doubtful \r\n                                              Paternity.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the paternity of any child \r\n                                              is in doubt&#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) no person shall as the \r\n                                              putative father of the child be \r\n                                              required to give information \r\n                                              concerning the birth of the child; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the Registrar shall not enter \r\n                                              the name of any person as father \r\n                                              of the child except at the joint \r\n                                              request of the mother and the \r\n                                              person acknowledging himself to be \r\n                                              the father of the child and that \r\n                                              person shall either sign the \r\n                                              register together with the mother \r\n                                              or make a declaration in the \r\n                                              prescribed form acknowledging \r\n                                              himself to be the father of the \r\n                                              child.</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 if the mother is \r\n                                              dead the entry in the register may \r\n                                              be made on the request of the \r\n                                              person acknowledging himself to be \r\n                                              the father.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.4] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Registration of Name \r\n                                              Subsequent to Registration of \r\n                                              Birth.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Where a birth had been \r\n                                              registered and it is desired to \r\n                                              change the name of the child, or \r\n                                              where a birth has been registered \r\n                                              without a name and a name is \r\n                                              subsequently given to the child, \r\n                                              the parent or guardian of the \r\n                                              child may within twelve months \r\n                                              after the registration of the \r\n                                              birth deliver to the Registrar a \r\n                                              certificate stating the name now \r\n                                              given to the child and the \r\n                                              Registrar, upon receipt of such \r\n                                              certificate and upon payment of \r\n                                              the prescribed fee, shall, without \r\n                                              any erasure of the original entry, \r\n                                              forthwith enter in the register \r\n                                              the name mentioned in the \r\n                                              certificate as having been given \r\n                                              to such child.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Every such certificate shall \r\n                                              be signed either by the person who \r\n                                              performed the rite of baptism upon \r\n                                              the occasion on which the name was \r\n                                              given or altered, or, if the child \r\n                                              is not baptised, by the parent or \r\n                                              guardian of the child.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Birth Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Registrar shall, as soon as a \r\n                                              birth is registered, or, where the \r\n                                              birth has been registered without \r\n                                              a name, then, upon registration of \r\n                                              the name, issue a birth \r\n                                              certificate free of charge to the \r\n                                              father, mother or a person \r\n                                              authorised by one of them or by \r\n                                              the court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FOETAL \r\n                                              DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Foetal Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              foetal death is death prior to the \r\n                                              complete expulsion or extraction \r\n                                              from its mother of a product of \r\n                                              conception, irrespective of the \r\n                                              duration of pregnancy; the death \r\n                                              is indicated by the fact that \r\n                                              after such separation the foetus \r\n                                              does not breathe or show any other \r\n                                              evidence of life, such as beating \r\n                                              of the heart, pulsation of the \r\n                                              umbilical cord, or definite \r\n                                              movement of voluntary muscles.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Registration of Foetal \r\n                                              Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every foetal death which occurs in \r\n                                              any district to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall be registered as \r\n                                              provided herein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Person Responsible for \r\n                                              Registering Foetal Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Where a foetal death occurs, \r\n                                              the person who would have been \r\n                                              responsible for the registration \r\n                                              of birth under subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 8 of this Act if it had \r\n                                              been a birth, shall furnish the \r\n                                              prescribed statement respecting \r\n                                              the foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The person furnishing the \r\n                                              statement required under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall either&#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)&nbsp; deliver to the Registrar a \r\n                                              written certificate in respect of \r\n                                              the foetal death signed by a \r\n                                              registered medical practitioner or \r\n                                              midwife who was in attendance at \r\n                                              the occurrence or who has examined \r\n                                              the foetus; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; make a declaration to the \r\n                                              effect that no registered medical \r\n                                              practitioner or midwife was \r\n                                              present at the occurrence or has \r\n                                              examined the foetus, or that his \r\n                                              or her certificate cannot be \r\n                                              obtained in respect of the foetal \r\n                                              death. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Burial Permit for \r\n                                              Foetal Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If the Registrar is satisfied with \r\n                                              the certificate or the declaration \r\n                                              referred to in section 14 of this \r\n                                              Act, he shall register the foetal \r\n                                              death and forthwith issue a burial \r\n                                              permit to the person requiring it \r\n                                              for the purpose of burial or other \r\n                                              disposition of the body.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.5] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;REGISTRATION OF DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Registration of Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every death which occurs in a \r\n                                              district to which this Act applies \r\n                                              shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar of that district within \r\n                                              twenty-four hours after the death \r\n                                              and registration outside of this \r\n                                              period shall only be made on \r\n                                              payment of the prescribed fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No death shall be registered \r\n                                              after the expiration of twelve \r\n                                              months from the date of death \r\n                                              except with the written authority \r\n                                              of the Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee and a note of such \r\n                                              authority having been given shall \r\n                                              be entered in the register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a dead body is found and \r\n                                              no information as to the place of \r\n                                              death is available, the death \r\n                                              shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar for the district in \r\n                                              which the body is found.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.6] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Persons to Furnish \r\n                                              Information as to Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall, subject to subsection \r\n                                              (2) of section 36 of this Act, be \r\n                                              the duty of each of the following \r\n                                              persons to furnish the Registrar \r\n                                              with the prescribed particulars of \r\n                                              a death&#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)&nbsp; the nearest relative of the \r\n                                              deceased present at the death or \r\n                                              in attendance at the last illness \r\n                                              of the deceased;</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)&nbsp; in default of the above, any \r\n                                              relative of the deceased residing \r\n                                              or being within the registration \r\n                                              district;</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)&nbsp;&nbsp; if no relative is available \r\n                                              the occupier of the premises in \r\n                                              which the death occurred;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; any other adult person \r\n                                              present at the death or having \r\n                                              knowledge of the death;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; the coroner who has been \r\n                                              notified of the death and has made \r\n                                              an inquiry or held an inquiry \r\n                                              regarding the death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Certificate of Medical \r\n                                              Practitioner.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The medical certificate stating \r\n                                              the cause of death shall be issued \r\n                                              free of charge by the medical \r\n                                              practitioner who was last in \r\n                                              attendance during the illness of \r\n                                              the deceased, and this certificate \r\n                                              shall forthwith be delivered to \r\n                                              the Registrar.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.7]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Duty of Coroner After \r\n                                              Holding Inquiry.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; When an inquiry is held on \r\n                                              any dead body, the coroner who \r\n                                              holds the inquiry shall forthwith \r\n                                              complete and sign a certificate \r\n                                              stating the cause of the death and \r\n                                              the certificate shall forthwith be \r\n                                              delivered to the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Where a death was the result \r\n                                              of any of the circumstances in \r\n                                              which a coroner is required under \r\n                                              the Coroners Act, 1960 (Act 18) to \r\n                                              hold an inquiry or conduct a \r\n                                              post-mortem examination, the \r\n                                              Registrar shall neither register \r\n                                              the death nor issue a death \r\n                                              certificate unless ordered to do \r\n                                              so by a coroner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Death Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2) of \r\n                                              section 19 of this Act, upon the \r\n                                              receipt of the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars required under section \r\n                                              17 of this Act or the certificate, \r\n                                              if any, under section 18 of this \r\n                                              Act, the Registrar, if he is \r\n                                              satisfied as to the particulars or \r\n                                              the certificate, as the case may \r\n                                              be, shall register the death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall as soon as \r\n                                              a death is registered issue:&#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 burial permit free of charge \r\n                                              in the prescribed form, 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) a death certificate in the \r\n                                              prescribed form on payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the body of a deceased \r\n                                              person has been removed into Ghana \r\n                                              from some place outside of Ghana \r\n                                              for disposal, and no order has \r\n                                              been given by a coroner in respect \r\n                                              thereof, the Registrar of the \r\n                                              district in which it is intended \r\n                                              to dispose of the body, if it \r\n                                              appears that the death is not \r\n                                              required by law to be registered \r\n                                              in Ghana, shall upon application \r\n                                              by the person procuring the \r\n                                              disposal and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee issue a burial \r\n                                              permit.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.8] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Provisions as to Burial \r\n                                              or Other Disposition.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; No person shall bury or \r\n                                              otherwise dispose of the body of \r\n                                              any person who dies in any \r\n                                              district to which this Act applies \r\n                                              except as provided herein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Regulations may provide for \r\n                                              the disposal of dead bodies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;No Burial Without \r\n                                              Burial Permit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The owner or manager of an \r\n                                              authorised burial ground shall not \r\n                                              permit the burial of a dead body \r\n                                              in the burial ground, unless a \r\n                                              burial permit has been delivered \r\n                                              to him.</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 in the case of \r\n                                              reburial after an authorised \r\n                                              exhumation, a burial permit shall \r\n                                              not be required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The owner or manager of an \r\n                                              authorised burial ground shall \r\n                                              endorse the burial permit with the \r\n                                              prescribed particulars and shall \r\n                                              then return it to the Registrar of \r\n                                              the district in which burial took \r\n                                              place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The owner or manager of an \r\n                                              authorised burial ground, shall at \r\n                                              the end of each month, transmit to \r\n                                              the Registrar a return of the \r\n                                              burials that took place that month \r\n                                              in the burial ground.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.9] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Occurring on the High Seas and Air \r\n                                              Space above the High Seas</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Births and Deaths on \r\n                                              High Seas and Air Space.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Upon receipt of an information in \r\n                                              respect of birth of a child, \r\n                                              foetal death or death of a person \r\n                                              on board a ship or an aircraft \r\n                                              whose port or place of registry is \r\n                                              in Ghana, the Registrar, if he is \r\n                                              satisfied as to the truth and \r\n                                              sufficiency of the particulars \r\n                                              received, shall register the \r\n                                              birth, foetal death or death, as \r\n                                              the case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;AUTHORISED BURIAL GROUNDS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Burial in Authorised \r\n                                              Burial Grounds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Local Authorities to \r\n                                              Provide Burial Grounds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Private Burial Grounds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Exhumation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Saving.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding the repeal of the \r\n                                              Part Specified in section 40(1) of \r\n                                              the Mortuaries and Funeral \r\n                                              Facilities Act, 1998 any burial \r\n                                              ground use under the provisions of \r\n                                              the Part is hereby continued in \r\n                                              existence but subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.[Inserted \r\n                                              and to be cited as the Mortuaries \r\n                                              and Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 \r\n                                              (Act 563), s.40(2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fraudulent Registrations and \r\n                                              Certificates</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Cancellation of \r\n                                              Registration and Birth \r\n                                              Certificates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On written application by any \r\n                                              person and after notice to and \r\n                                              hearing of all persons interested, \r\n                                              or where the holding of a hearing \r\n                                              is not possible, on receipt of a \r\n                                              statutory declaration or such \r\n                                              other evidence satisfactory to the \r\n                                              Registrar as may be adduced by any \r\n                                              person interested, the Registrar, \r\n                                              if he is satisfied that a \r\n                                              registration is false or \r\n                                              improperly made or that a \r\n                                              certificate obtained is being used \r\n                                              for fraudulent or improper \r\n                                              purposes shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; order that a note be made on \r\n                                              the register to that effect, as \r\n                                              the case may be;</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) order every certificate issued \r\n                                              in respect of that registration to \r\n                                              be delivered to him for&nbsp; \r\n                                              cancellation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a registration is false \r\n                                              or improperly made no certificate \r\n                                              shall be issued in respect of that \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person who has in his \r\n                                              possession or under his control a \r\n                                              certificate in respect of which an \r\n                                              order has been made under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall forthwith, upon receipt of \r\n                                              the order, deliver the certificate \r\n                                              to the Registrar, who shall \r\n                                              preserve it in a permanent file \r\n                                              together with the order and all \r\n                                              documents relating thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Alterations in Registers</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Alterations in \r\n                                              Registers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No alteration shall be made in \r\n                                              any register of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths or deaths except as \r\n                                              authorised by this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any clerical error which may \r\n                                              from time to time be discovered in \r\n                                              any such register may, in the \r\n                                              prescribed manner and subject to \r\n                                              the prescribed conditions, be \r\n                                              corrected by any person authorised \r\n                                              in that behalf by the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) An error or omission of fact \r\n                                              or substance in any such register \r\n                                              may be corrected by ruling one \r\n                                              clear line through the original \r\n                                              entry and. by an entry in the \r\n                                              appropriate column or columns \r\n                                              which shall be dated and \r\n                                              authenticated&nbsp; by the&nbsp; signature \r\n                                              of the Registrar, having custody \r\n                                              of the register, upon payment to \r\n                                              him by the person requiring the \r\n                                              error to be corrected of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee and upon production \r\n                                              to him by that person of a \r\n                                              statutory declaration setting \r\n                                              forth the nature of the error or \r\n                                              omission, and the true facts of \r\n                                              the case made by any two of the \r\n                                              persons referred to in subsection \r\n                                              (3) of section 8 or section 17 of \r\n                                              this Act of the birth or death \r\n                                              with reference to which the error \r\n                                              has been made, or in default of \r\n                                              such persons, then by two credible \r\n                                              persons having knowledge of the \r\n                                              truth of the case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where an error of fact or \r\n                                              substance (other than an error \r\n                                              relating to the cause of death)&nbsp; \r\n                                              occurs in the information given by \r\n                                              a coroner''s certificate concerning \r\n                                              a dead body upon which or a death \r\n                                              touching which he has held an \r\n                                              inquiry, the coroner, if satisfied \r\n                                              by evidence on oath or statutory \r\n                                              declaration that such an error \r\n                                              exists, may certify under his hand \r\n                                              to the Registrar having custody of \r\n                                              the register in which the \r\n                                              information is entered, the nature \r\n                                              of the error and the true facts of \r\n                                              the case as ascertained by him on \r\n                                              that evidence, and the error may \r\n                                              thereupon be corrected by that \r\n                                              Registrar in the register by \r\n                                              ruling one clear line through the \r\n                                              original entry and by an entry in \r\n                                              the appropriate column or columns \r\n                                              of the facts so certified by the \r\n                                              coroner, which entry shall be \r\n                                              dated and authenticated by that \r\n                                              Registrar having custody of the \r\n                                              register.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.10] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Searches</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Searches of Records.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar, upon the \r\n                                              application of any person and the \r\n                                              giving by that person of such \r\n                                              information as the Registrar \r\n                                              thinks fit and upon the payment by \r\n                                              that person of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              shall on being satisfied that the \r\n                                              information is not to be used for \r\n                                              an improper purpose, cause to be \r\n                                              made on behalf of that person a \r\n                                              search</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)&nbsp; for the record of the \r\n                                              registration in his office of any \r\n                                              birth, foetal death or death; and\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; for the record of any burial \r\n                                              in his office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall make a \r\n                                              report on the search which shall \r\n                                              state whether or not the birth, \r\n                                              foetal death, death or burial is \r\n                                              registered or recorded and, if \r\n                                              registered, shall state the \r\n                                              registration number thereof, and \r\n                                              shall contain no further \r\n                                              information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Issue of Certificates and Copies</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Certified Copy of Entry \r\n                                              in Register of Births.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar upon the \r\n                                              application of any person and the \r\n                                              giving by that person of such \r\n                                              information as the Registrar \r\n                                              thinks fit and upon the payment by \r\n                                              that person of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              shall on being satisfied that the \r\n                                              information is not to be used for \r\n                                              an improper purpose cause to be \r\n                                              issued to that person a certified \r\n                                              copy of the entry in the Register \r\n                                              of Births in respect of any \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A certified copy issued under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be a true copy of the entry \r\n                                              in the Register of Births together \r\n                                              with a certificate to that effect \r\n                                              at the end which shall be signed \r\n                                              by the Registrar having custody of \r\n                                              the register.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.11]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Certified Copy of Entry \r\n                                              in Register of Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar, upon the \r\n                                              application of any person and the \r\n                                              giving by that person of such \r\n                                              information as the Registrar \r\n                                              thinks fit and upon the payment by \r\n                                              that person of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              shall on being satisfied that the \r\n                                              information is not to be used for \r\n                                              an improper purpose cause to be \r\n                                              issued to that person a certified \r\n                                              copy of the entry in the Register \r\n                                              of Deaths in respect of any \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A certified copy issued under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be a true copy of the entry \r\n                                              in the Register of Deaths together \r\n                                              with a certificate to that effect \r\n                                              at the end which shall be signed \r\n                                              by the Registrar having custody of \r\n                                              the register.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.11]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Certificates as \r\n                                              Evidence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every certificate purporting to be \r\n                                              issued under this Act shall be \r\n                                              admissible in any court as prima \r\n                                              facie evidence of the facts \r\n                                              certified to be recorded, and \r\n                                              every certified copy purporting to \r\n                                              be issued under this Act shall be \r\n                                              so admissible as prima facie \r\n                                              evidence of the facts recorded \r\n                                              therein; and it shall not be \r\n                                              necessary to prove the signature \r\n                                              or official position of the person \r\n                                              by whom the certificate or \r\n                                              certificate copy purports to be \r\n                                              signed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Appeal from Refusal of \r\n                                              Registrar to Search or Issue \r\n                                              Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an application for a \r\n                                              certified copy or a search in \r\n                                              respect of the registration of a \r\n                                              birth, foetal death or death is \r\n                                              refused by the Registrar, then if, \r\n                                              within one year of the refusal, \r\n                                              application is made to a judge of \r\n                                              the High Court, the judge, upon \r\n                                              being satisfied that the \r\n                                              application is made in good faith \r\n                                              and that the applicant has good \r\n                                              reason for requiring the certified \r\n                                              copy or search, may make an order \r\n                                              requiring the Registrar to issue \r\n                                              the certified copy or make the \r\n                                              search; and the clerk of the court \r\n                                              shall forthwith forward a copy of \r\n                                              the order to the Registrar who \r\n                                              shall comply therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the Registrar has made \r\n                                              an order under section 29 of this \r\n                                              Act any person interested may, \r\n                                              within two years thereafter, \r\n                                              appeal therefrom to a judge of the \r\n                                              High Court; and the judge may make \r\n                                              an order confirming or setting \r\n                                              aside the order of the Registrar \r\n                                              and the order of the judge shall \r\n                                              be final.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; At least 14 days notice of \r\n                                              the application or appeal shall be \r\n                                              served on the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Penalties</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Failure to Carry out \r\n                                              Duties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Any person who fails to give \r\n                                              any notice, or to furnish any \r\n                                              statement, certificate or \r\n                                              particulars required under this \r\n                                              Act, within the time limited by \r\n                                              this Act, shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and shall be liable on \r\n                                              conviction thereof to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding forty-eight cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Where more than one person is \r\n                                              required&nbsp; to give any notice, or \r\n                                              to register, or to furnish any \r\n                                              statement, certificate or \r\n                                              particulars required under this \r\n                                              Act and the duty is carried out by \r\n                                              any one of such persons, the \r\n                                              others shall cease to be liable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Interference with \r\n                                              public Notice. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who wilfully removes, \r\n                                              defaces or destroys a public \r\n                                              notice relating to the \r\n                                              registration of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths or deaths shall be guilty \r\n                                              of an offence and shall be liable \r\n                                              on conviction thereof to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding fifty cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212;Penalty for Improper \r\n                                              Disclosure of Information.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of section 6 of this \r\n                                              Act shall be guilty of an offence \r\n                                              and shall be liable on conviction \r\n                                              thereof to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              two hundred and fifty cedis or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding six months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;General Penalty.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of this Act, for which \r\n                                              no penalty is provided, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and on \r\n                                              conviction shall be liable to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding one hundred \r\n                                              cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;Power to make \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              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                                              is to be prescribed and generally \r\n                                              for carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              the regulations may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) provide for the form of any \r\n                                              certificate declaration or return \r\n                                              to be given or made under&nbsp; this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) provide for the regulation and \r\n                                              control of burial grounds.</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) provide for payment of fees \r\n                                              in. respect of any of the \r\n                                              following matters:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the&nbsp; allocation of grave spaces;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) the exhumation of a corpse, \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) generally in respect of any \r\n                                              matter for which fees are to be \r\n                                              prescribed for carrying into \r\n                                              effect the provisions of the Act \r\n                                              and Regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.12] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, except where the \r\n                                              context otherwise requires, the \r\n                                              following expressions have the \r\n                                              meanings hereby respectively \r\n                                              assigned to them, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;birth&quot; has the meaning assigned \r\n                                              to it by section 7 of this Act;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;burial&quot; includes cremation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;burial ground&quot; includes a \r\n                                              cemetery;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;disposal&quot; in relation to a dead \r\n                                              body, means disposal by burial, \r\n                                              cremation or any other means;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;district&quot; means a registration \r\n                                              district created under section 4 \r\n                                              of this Act and includes area of \r\n                                              authority of a District Assembly; \r\n                                              [As amended by the Local \r\n                                              Administration Act, 1971 (Act \r\n                                              359), sch.5 and further amended by \r\n                                              the Local Government Act, 1993 \r\n                                              (Act 462), sch.7]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;district to which this Act \r\n                                              applies&quot; means a district to which \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              relating to the registration of \r\n                                              births, foetal deaths and deaths \r\n                                              apply by virtue of an instrument \r\n                                              made under section 44 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for the registration \r\n                                              of births and deaths;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;occupier&quot; in relation to any \r\n                                              institution, includes the \r\n                                              governor, keeper, master, matron, \r\n                                              superintendent, or other chief \r\n                                              resident officer, and, in relation \r\n                                              to a house let in separate \r\n                                              apartments or lodgings, includes \r\n                                              any person residing in the house \r\n                                              who is the person under whom the \r\n                                              lodgings or separate apartments \r\n                                              are immediately held, or his \r\n                                              agent;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations made under section 40 \r\n                                              of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Registrar&quot; means Registrar of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths and includes an \r\n                                              officer of the District Assembly \r\n                                              designated for the purpose by \r\n                                              District Executive.[As substituted \r\n                                              by the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.13 and \r\n                                              further amended by the Local \r\n                                              Government Act, 1993 (Act 462), \r\n                                              sch.7]] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;relative&quot; includes a relative by \r\n                                              marriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Repeal and Saving.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Births, Deaths, and \r\n                                              Burials Ordinance (Cap. 80) as \r\n                                              subsequently amended is repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An instrument made under the \r\n                                              enactment repealed by this Act and \r\n                                              in force immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              the corresponding provision of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such day as the Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Application of Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act, so far as it relates to \r\n                                              the registration of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths and deaths, shall apply to \r\n                                              such districts as the Minister by \r\n                                              legislative instrument may specify \r\n                                              and to the area of authority of \r\n                                              every District Assembly, which \r\n                                              shall for the purposes of this Act \r\n                                              be deemed to have been specified \r\n                                              by the Minister by legislative \r\n                                              instrument made under this \r\n                                              section.[As amended by the Local \r\n                                              Administration Act, 1971 (Act \r\n                                              359), s. sch.5 and further amended \r\n                                              by the Local Government Act, 1993 \r\n                                              (Act 462), sch.7.]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285).1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LOCAL ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 359).2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1993 (ACT \r\n                                              462).3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              MORTUARIES AND FUNERAL FACILITIES \r\n                                              ACT, 1998 (ACT 563).4</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"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 301');
