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(116, 'NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING ACT, 1970 (ACT 351)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1308" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING ACT, \r\n                                              1970 (ACT 351)</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;ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Establishment of National \r\n                                              Vocational Training Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Offices of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Functions of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Constitution of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Meetings of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Committees of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Administration and Staffing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Duties of the Director of the \r\n                                              Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Superannuation of employees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Funds of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Estimates of Income and \r\n                                              Expenditure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Accounts and audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Annual Report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Powers of the Minister.</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                                              16. Bye-laws and Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Exemption from taxes and \r\n                                              rates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Repeals and Revocation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Commencement of this 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: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING \r\n                                              ACT, 1970</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish a National \r\n                                              Vocational Training Institute to \r\n                                              co-ordinate at the national level \r\n                                              all aspects of vocational training \r\n                                              including apprenticeship.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 12th January, 1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:-</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE</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;Establishment of the \r\n                                              National Vocational Training \r\n                                              Institute.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate to be known as the \r\n                                              National Vocational Training \r\n                                              Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal and may sue and be sued in \r\n                                              its corporate name.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Institute may, for and in \r\n                                              connection with its functions \r\n                                              under this Act, purchase, hold, \r\n                                              manage and dispose of any property \r\n                                              and may enter into such contracts \r\n                                              and other transactions as may be \r\n                                              expedient.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The common seal of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be kept in such \r\n                                              custody as the Board may \r\n                                              determine, and shall not be \r\n                                              affixed to any document or \r\n                                              instrument except by order of the \r\n                                              Board, and in the presence of two \r\n                                              members of the Board, who shall \r\n                                              sign any such document or \r\n                                              instrument independently of the \r\n                                              signatures of any person who may \r\n                                              have signed the document or \r\n                                              instrument as a witness.</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;Offices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The head office of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be at Accra.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute may open branch \r\n                                              offices in all the Regions of \r\n                                              Ghana for the performance of its \r\n                                              functions under 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 3&#8212;Functions of the \r\n                                              Institute.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The functions of the Institute \r\n                                              are&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to organise apprenticeship, \r\n                                              in-plant training and training \r\n                                              programmes for industrial and \r\n                                              clerical workers, and to train the \r\n                                              instructors and training officers \r\n                                              required for that purpose;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to provide for vocational \r\n                                              guidance and career development in \r\n                                              industry;</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) to develop training standards \r\n                                              and trade testing;</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) to initiate a continuing study \r\n                                              of the country''s manpower \r\n                                              requirements at the skilled worker \r\n                                              level;</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) to establish and maintain \r\n                                              technical and cultural relations \r\n                                              with international organisations \r\n                                              and other foreign institutions \r\n                                              engaged in activities connected \r\n                                              with vocational training; 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) subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, to do all such things as \r\n                                              are conducive to the attainment of \r\n                                              the objects of the Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute shall, in the \r\n                                              exercise of its functions, have \r\n                                              financial and administrative \r\n                                              autonomy.</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;The Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The governing body of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be a Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman and members of \r\n                                              the Board shall be appointed by \r\n                                              the President acting on the advice \r\n                                              of the Prime Minister, in \r\n                                              accordance with article 49 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and the provisions 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                                              (3) The Board shall consist of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a Chairman,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the Director of the Institute,</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) two members representing the \r\n                                              Ghana Trades Union Congress,\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                                              (d) two members representing the \r\n                                              Ghana Employers'' Association,</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 Chief Technical Education \r\n                                              Officer, Ministry of Education, \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                                              (f) two other members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Chief Labour Officer and \r\n                                              the Chairman of the Manpower Board \r\n                                              may be appointed members of the \r\n                                              Board under this section and if \r\n                                              they are not so appointed they \r\n                                              shall nevertheless be entitled to \r\n                                              attend and participate at all \r\n                                              meetings of the Board but shall \r\n                                              not vote on any matter before the \r\n                                              Board at any such meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Chairman of the Board \r\n                                              shall be a person of recognised \r\n                                              standing and experience in \r\n                                              administration and industrial \r\n                                              training.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board shall elect from \r\n                                              among their number a person, other \r\n                                              than the Director, to be \r\n                                              Vice-Chairman of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) A member of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Director shall hold \r\n                                              office for the period, not being \r\n                                              more than three years, specified \r\n                                              in his instrument of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The Chairman of the Board may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Minister \r\n                                              for transmission to the Prime \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) A member of the Board may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Chairman \r\n                                              of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) Every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall, on ceasing to be a member, \r\n                                              be eligible for re-appointment, \r\n                                              unless he has ceased to be a \r\n                                              member as a result of misconduct \r\n                                              or removal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (11) Members of the Board may be \r\n                                              paid such allowance or \r\n                                              remuneration as the Minister may \r\n                                              decide.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such times and places as the \r\n                                              Board may decide but shall meet at \r\n                                              least once every three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman may, and shall at \r\n                                              the request in writing of not less \r\n                                              than five members of the Board, \r\n                                              call an extraordinary meeting of \r\n                                              the Board at such time and place \r\n                                              as he may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The quorum at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five or such \r\n                                              greater number as the Board may \r\n                                              determine. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Chairman, if present, \r\n                                              shall preside at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board, and, in his absence, \r\n                                              the Vice-Chairman, and in the \r\n                                              latter''s absence, any member of \r\n                                              the Board elected by the members \r\n                                              present shall preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Subject to any other \r\n                                              provisions of this Act or any \r\n                                              bye-laws of the Board, all \r\n                                              questions proposed at a meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be determined by a \r\n                                              simple majority of the members \r\n                                              present and voting and where the \r\n                                              votes are equal the Chairman or \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board may request the \r\n                                              attendance of any person to act as \r\n                                              adviser at any meeting of the \r\n                                              Board and that person while so \r\n                                              attending shall have all the \r\n                                              powers of a member except that he \r\n                                              shall not vote on any question and \r\n                                              his presence at the meeting shall \r\n                                              not count towards the constitution \r\n                                              of a quorum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The validity of any act of the \r\n                                              Board shall not be affected by any \r\n                                              vacancy among its members or any \r\n                                              defect in the appointment of a \r\n                                              member thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Subject to the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this paragraph the \r\n                                              Board may regulate its own \r\n                                              procedure.</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;Committees of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may appoint such \r\n                                              committees consisting of such \r\n                                              number of persons, whether members \r\n                                              of the Board or not, as it thinks \r\n                                              fit to exercise or advise the \r\n                                              Board on the exercise of any of \r\n                                              its functions 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 member of the Board shall be \r\n                                              appointed chairman of every such \r\n                                              committee.</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;Administration and Staff \r\n                                              Matters.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, have \r\n                                              the sole management of the \r\n                                              property, income, funds and \r\n                                              affairs of the Institute. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Institute shall have a \r\n                                              Director and a Deputy Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Director and the Deputy \r\n                                              Director shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President, acting in accordance \r\n                                              with the advice of the Prime \r\n                                              Minister, and shall hold office \r\n                                              upon such terms and conditions as \r\n                                              may be prescribed in the \r\n                                              instrument of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Board may employ, upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Board thinks fit, such persons as \r\n                                              may be required for the proper and \r\n                                              efficient discharge of the Board''s \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Board may delegate to the \r\n                                              Director of the Institute the \r\n                                              power to appoint persons to such \r\n                                              posts as are designated by the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Every such appointment shall \r\n                                              be submitted to the Board for \r\n                                              approval.</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;Duties of the Director.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Director shall be the \r\n                                              principal technical and \r\n                                              administrative officer of the \r\n                                              Institute and shall subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, perform \r\n                                              the following duties:&#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) exercise authority and general \r\n                                              control over the technical and \r\n                                              administrative staff of the \r\n                                              Institute,</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) co-ordinate and implement the \r\n                                              training programme of the \r\n                                              Institute in accordance with the \r\n                                              general policy of the Board, 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) submit to the Board progress \r\n                                              reports on the projects of the \r\n                                              Institute.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the absence of the Director \r\n                                              shall the Deputy Director, act \r\n                                              until such time as a new Director \r\n                                              is appointed.</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;Superannuation of \r\n                                              Employees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may grant, subject \r\n                                              to the provisions of the Social \r\n                                              Security Act, 1965 (Act 279) and \r\n                                              in accordance with rules made in \r\n                                              that behalf by the Board, \r\n                                              pensions, allowances, gratuities \r\n                                              or retiring awards to such \r\n                                              employees of the Board as the \r\n                                              Board may, after consultation with \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              finance, determine, being \r\n                                              employees to whom the Pensions \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 30) does not \r\n                                              apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board may require any such \r\n                                              employees to contribute to any \r\n                                              pension, provident fund or \r\n                                              superannuation scheme.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;FINANCIAL 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 10&#8212;Funds of the Institute.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The funds of the Institute \r\n                                              shall include&#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 grants received from the \r\n                                              Government by the Institute for \r\n                                              the discharge of its functions;</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 loans granted to the \r\n                                              Institute by 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                                              (c) any grants received from the \r\n                                              United Nations Special Fund or \r\n                                              from any international \r\n                                              organization;</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) any moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Institute in the course of the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \r\n                                              this Act; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The assets and liabilities of \r\n                                              the Apprentices Board, dissolved \r\n                                              by this Act, are hereby \r\n                                              transferred to the Board.</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;Gifts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every gift intended for the \r\n                                              Institute or for any project of \r\n                                              the Institute shall be made \r\n                                              directly to the Institute.</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;Estimates of \r\n                                              Expenditure.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              prepared estimates of income and \r\n                                              expenditure for each financial \r\n                                              year and submit them through the \r\n                                              Minister for approval by the \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister shall approve, \r\n                                              amend or recommend such changes in \r\n                                              the estimates submitted to him \r\n                                              under the foregoing subsection as \r\n                                              the Minister thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board shall ensure that \r\n                                              any funds approved by the \r\n                                              Government in pursuance of the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be employed solely for the \r\n                                              purposes for which they were \r\n                                              approved and in accordance with \r\n                                              the financial regulations of the \r\n                                              Institute.</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;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of accounts and proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to such directions as \r\n                                              to form as the Auditor-General \r\n                                              shall give, the Board shall \r\n                                              prepare, in respect of each \r\n                                              financial year, a statement of \r\n                                              account which shall include&#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 balance sheet, a statement \r\n                                              of income and expenditure and a \r\n                                              statement of surplus containing \r\n                                              such information as, had the Board \r\n                                              been a company registered under \r\n                                              the Companies Code, 1963 (Act \r\n                                              179), would be required to be laid \r\n                                              before the company by the \r\n                                              directors at an annual meeting, \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) such other information in \r\n                                              respect of the financial affairs \r\n                                              of the Institute as the Minister \r\n                                              may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board shall submit to the \r\n                                              Minister such report of the \r\n                                              Board''s financial affairs as the \r\n                                              Minister may at any time require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Institute shall be submitted for \r\n                                              audit to the Auditor-General \r\n                                              within three months after the end \r\n                                              of the financial year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Board shall, as soon as \r\n                                              may be practicable, forward to the \r\n                                              Minister a copy of the audited \r\n                                              accounts and the Auditor-General''s \r\n                                              report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the purpose of this \r\n                                              paragraph, the period extending \r\n                                              from the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              to the end of the current \r\n                                              financial year shall be deemed to \r\n                                              be a financial year.</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;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, not later \r\n                                              than six months after the end of \r\n                                              each financial year, submit an \r\n                                              annual report to the Minister in \r\n                                              such form as the Minister may \r\n                                              prescribe which shall include the \r\n                                              statement of account specified in \r\n                                              section 13 (2) of this Act and the \r\n                                              Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable lay the report before \r\n                                              the Cabinet.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The audited report of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General shall be included \r\n                                              in the annual report of the \r\n                                              Institute and the annual report of \r\n                                              the Institute shall be published \r\n                                              in such a manner as the Minister \r\n                                              may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Minister&#8217;s Powers&#8217;s.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister shall be generally \r\n                                              responsible for the Institute, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</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 16&#8212;Bye-Laws and \r\n                                              Regulations of the Institute.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister, make \r\n                                              bye-laws or other instruments not \r\n                                              inconsistent with this Act for the \r\n                                              purpose of regulating the \r\n                                              Institute''s business or any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              Institute''s functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board may in particular \r\n                                              make bye-laws 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) govern all employers of \r\n                                              apprentices in any industry and \r\n                                              the apprentices of such employers;</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) govern other matters relating \r\n                                              to apprenticeship between such \r\n                                              employers and apprentices provided \r\n                                              no such bye-laws are made to apply \r\n                                              to the following:&#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                                              seamen,</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) students of a university, \r\n                                              university college or other \r\n                                              educational institution who are \r\n                                              exempted from the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act by executive instrument \r\n                                              in the form of an order made by \r\n                                              the Board, 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                                              (iii) other apprentices belonging \r\n                                              to any class or description who \r\n                                              are exempted from the provisions \r\n                                              of this Act by such instrument;</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) specify penalties and fines \r\n                                              for breach of any such bye-laws; \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                                              (d) make provision for payment of \r\n                                              fees or &nbsp;charges as the Board \r\n                                              shall deem fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Exemption from Taxes \r\n                                              and Rates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Institute shall be exempted \r\n                                              from any tax imposed under the \r\n                                              Income Tax Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              78), the Customs and Excise Tariff \r\n                                              Act, 1966 (Act 318) and any rates \r\n                                              imposed by any enactment relating \r\n                                              to local administration.</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;Repeals and Revocation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Apprentices Act, 1961 (Act \r\n                                              45) and the Apprentices Act \r\n                                              (Amendment Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              364)) are hereby repealed and the \r\n                                              Board constituted under the said \r\n                                              Act is, subject to the proviso in \r\n                                              subsection (3), hereby dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Apprentices Board \r\n                                              (Functions) Instrument, 1961 (E.I. \r\n                                              107) is hereby revoked.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subsections (1) and (2) of \r\n                                              this section shall not have effect \r\n                                              with respect to the dissolution of \r\n                                              the said Board until immediately \r\n                                              before the first meeting of the \r\n                                              Board under 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 19&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the Board&quot; means the Board \r\n                                              constituted under section 4 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 Institute&quot; means the National \r\n                                              Vocational Training Institute \r\n                                              established under section 1 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 Labour and \r\n                                              Co-operatives.</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;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Without prejudice to clause 16 \r\n                                              this Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on the 23rd day of October, 1968.</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', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 351');
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(117, 'NEW TIMES CORPORATION ACT, 1971 (ACT 363)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1257" 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                                              NEW TIMES CORPORATION ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 363)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW&nbsp; TIMES \r\n                                              CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Establishment of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Compulsory acquisition of \r\n                                              property for Corporation where \r\n                                              there is hindrance</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OBJECTS OF THE CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Objects</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Corporation to conduct its \r\n                                              affairs on sound commercial lines</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE BOARD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. The Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Qualifications, and vacation of \r\n                                              office of members of Board, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Remuneration of Board members</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Meetings of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Board to be in control of \r\n                                              general policy of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Execution of contracts, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Staff of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Secretary of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Internal Auditor</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Capital and Funds of \r\n                                              Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Estimates of revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Staff Welfare Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Depreciation Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Corporation to pay sums into \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Borrowing powers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Corporation to keep proper \r\n                                              books of account</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Financial year of Corporation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Audit.</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                                              23. Annual Report, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Quarterly reports</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Minister''s power of direction</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Bye-laws or other Instruments</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Exemption from taxes, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Dissolution of New Times \r\n                                              Limited</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 SIXTY-THIRD</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 PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \r\n                                              OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE NEW TIMES CORPORATION ACT, \r\n                                              1971</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish the New Times \r\n                                              Limited as a statutory corporation \r\n                                              and to make other provision in \r\n                                              relation thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 9th July, 1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW TIMES \r\n                                              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 1&#8212;Establishment of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate to be known as the \r\n                                              New Times Corporation in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the Corporation.&quot;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal, may sue and be sued in its \r\n                                              own name, and may for the purposes \r\n                                              of its functions under this Act \r\n                                              acquire, hold and dispose of any \r\n                                              moveable or immoveable property \r\n                                              and enter into any transaction \r\n                                              whatsoever.</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;Compulsory Acquisition \r\n                                              of Property for Corporation where \r\n                                              there is Hindrance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where there is any hindrance to \r\n                                              the acquisition by the Corporation \r\n                                              of any property, the property may \r\n                                              be acquired for the Corporation \r\n                                              under the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960&nbsp; (CA 6) or as \r\n                                              the case may be, under the State \r\n                                              Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125), and \r\n                                              each such Act shall, as the case \r\n                                              may be, apply in relation to any \r\n                                              such acquisition with such \r\n                                              modifications as may be necessary \r\n                                              to provide for the vesting of the \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the Corporation and for the cost \r\n                                              of such acquisition to be defrayed \r\n                                              by the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OBJECTS OF THE 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;Objects.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The objects of the Corporation \r\n                                              are&#8212;</span></b></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 carry on the business of \r\n                                              newspaper proprietors, and of \r\n                                              newspaper and general printers and \r\n                                              publishers, advertisers, and \r\n                                              advertising agents and \r\n                                              contractors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to purchase or otherwise \r\n                                              acquire or start either wholly or \r\n                                              in part, and to print, publish, \r\n                                              edit, and sell any newspaper, \r\n                                              journal, magazine, periodical, \r\n                                              print, picture, engraving, musical \r\n                                              composition or book and to carry \r\n                                              on the business of publishers, \r\n                                              lithographers, electrotypers, \r\n                                              bill-posters, bookbinders, \r\n                                              booksellers, stationers, \r\n                                              papermakers, type founders, \r\n                                              typecutters, and dealers in type, \r\n                                              ink, paper, and other materials \r\n                                              required for or in connection with \r\n                                              the business of printers and \r\n                                              publishers;</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) to collect and disseminate \r\n                                              news and information, and employ \r\n                                              correspondents, authors, writers \r\n                                              and others and to pay for news and \r\n                                              information however obtained;</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) to carry on business as \r\n                                              shorthand writers and reporters, \r\n                                              and to sell and supply news and \r\n                                              information, or literary or \r\n                                              artistic productions, articles, \r\n                                              novels, books and other works;</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) to carry on such other \r\n                                              business as may be conveniently or \r\n                                              profitably carried on therewith or \r\n                                              as may enhance the value of any of \r\n                                              the Corporation''s property;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) to manufacture and deal in all \r\n                                              kinds of articles and things \r\n                                              required for the purposes of any \r\n                                              such business as aforesaid or \r\n                                              commonly dealt with by persons \r\n                                              engaged in any such businesses; \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                                              (g) to do such other things as may \r\n                                              appear to the Corporation to be \r\n                                              incidental or conducive to all or \r\n                                              any of the foregoing objects.</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;Corporation to Conduct \r\n                                              its Affairs on Sound Commercial \r\n                                              Lines.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Corporation to conduct its affairs \r\n                                              on sound commercial lines, and in \r\n                                              particular, so to carry out its \r\n                                              functions under this Act as to \r\n                                              ensure that its revenues are \r\n                                              sufficient to produce on the fair \r\n                                              value of its assets, a reasonable \r\n                                              return measured by taking its net \r\n                                              operating income as a percentage \r\n                                              of the fair value of its fixed \r\n                                              assets in operation plus an \r\n                                              appropriate allowance for its \r\n                                              working capital.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In determining what \r\n                                              constitutes a reasonable return, \r\n                                              all pertinent economic and \r\n                                              financial considerations shall be \r\n                                              taken into account, including but \r\n                                              not limited to the need for net \r\n                                              operating income in an amount \r\n                                              sufficient:&#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 meet interest payments on \r\n                                              borrowings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to provide for repayments to \r\n                                              be made each year in respect of \r\n                                              loans incurred by the Corporation \r\n                                              to the extent that such repayments \r\n                                              exceed the year''s provision for \r\n                                              depreciation charged to revenue \r\n                                              account; </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) to provide a reasonable \r\n                                              proportion of the funds needed for \r\n                                              expanding the Corporation''s \r\n                                              activities and improving its \r\n                                              working;</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) to provide reserves for \r\n                                              replacement, expansion or other \r\n                                              purposes if and to the extent that \r\n                                              the Board deems it necessary to \r\n                                              establish such reserves, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) to make such reasonable \r\n                                              payments to the Consolidated Fund \r\n                                              from time to time as may be \r\n                                              determined under section 18 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) In this section, the words \r\n                                              &quot;net operating income&quot; mean the \r\n                                              amount of income remaining after \r\n                                              subtracting from total operating \r\n                                              revenues all charges which in the \r\n                                              normal conduct of business are \r\n                                              proper to be charged to revenue \r\n                                              account, including provision for \r\n                                              adequate maintenance and straight \r\n                                              line depreciation of assets, but \r\n                                              before deducting interest and \r\n                                              other charges on borrowings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE BOARD</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;The Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The governing body of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall be a Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall consist of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a Chairman and not less than \r\n                                              four nor more than ten persons \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in consultation with the Council \r\n                                              of State; 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 person appointed Managing \r\n                                              Director under section 9 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;Qualifications, and \r\n                                              Vacation of Office of Members of \r\n                                              Board, Etc.</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 be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who \r\n                                              has been sentenced to death or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months without option of a \r\n                                              fine or has been convicted of an \r\n                                              offence involving dishonesty or \r\n                                              moral turpitude and has in each \r\n                                              case not been granted a free \r\n                                              pardon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board if \r\n                                              having been declared as an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law for the time being in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country is \r\n                                              an undischarged insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The members of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director shall \r\n                                              hold office for one year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any member of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Minister \r\n                                              and without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of subsections (1) \r\n                                              and (2) of this section, any \r\n                                              member of the Board may be removed \r\n                                              from office by the President \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the office of a member \r\n                                              of the Board other than the \r\n                                              Managing Director becomes vacant \r\n                                              under subsection (1), (2) or (4) \r\n                                              of this section before the \r\n                                              expiration of his term of office \r\n                                              under subsection (3) of this \r\n                                              section or by his death, the \r\n                                              Minister shall notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of such \r\n                                              event and the President shall, \r\n                                              acting on consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State and subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, \r\n                                              appoint another person in his \r\n                                              place and to hold office for the \r\n                                              unexpired portion of his term of \r\n                                              office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act where it appears to the \r\n                                              Prime Minister on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              that any member of the Board is \r\n                                              unable by reason of absence from \r\n                                              Ghana or illness or any other \r\n                                              sufficient cause from performing \r\n                                              the duties of his office the \r\n                                              President acting in consultation \r\n                                              with the Council of State shall \r\n                                              appoint another person to hold \r\n                                              office in his place until such \r\n                                              time as the Prime Minister is \r\n                                              satisfied that that person is \r\n                                              again able to perform such duties \r\n                                              or until the term of such member \r\n                                              expires, whichever first occurs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall, on ceasing to be a member \r\n                                              be eligible for re-appointment.</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;Remuneration of Board \r\n                                              Members.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any member appointed to the Board \r\n                                              under subsection (2) (a) of \r\n                                              section 5 of this Act as well as \r\n                                              any person co-opted to the Board \r\n                                              under section 8 of this Act may be \r\n                                              paid such remuneration (if any) as \r\n                                              the Board may, with the approval \r\n                                              of the Minister, and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance determine \r\n                                              in relation to 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 8&#8212;Meetings of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such times and at such places \r\n                                              as the Board may determine but \r\n                                              shall meet at least once in every \r\n                                              month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A special meeting of the Board \r\n                                              shall be called upon a written \r\n                                              request signed by the Chairman or \r\n                                              by a majority of the members of \r\n                                              the Board addressed to the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) At every meeting of the Board \r\n                                              at which he is present, the \r\n                                              Chairman shall preside and in his \r\n                                              absence a member of the Board \r\n                                              appointed by the members present \r\n                                              from among themselves, shall \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Questions proposed at a \r\n                                              meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              members present and voting and in \r\n                                              the event of any equality of votes \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be four, or half \r\n                                              the number of members of the Board \r\n                                              whichever is the greater.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board may, at any time \r\n                                              co-opt any person or persons to \r\n                                              act as an adviser or advisers at \r\n                                              any of its meetings so, however, \r\n                                              that no person so co-opted shall \r\n                                              be entitled to vote at any such \r\n                                              meetings on any matter for \r\n                                              decision by the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The validity of any \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \r\n                                              its members or by any defect in \r\n                                              the appointment of any of them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Any member of the Board who \r\n                                              has any interest in any company or \r\n                                              undertaking with which the \r\n                                              Corporation proposes to make any \r\n                                              contract or who has any interest \r\n                                              in any contract which the \r\n                                              Corporation proposes to make \r\n                                              shall, disclose in writing to the \r\n                                              Board the nature of his interest \r\n                                              and shall, unless the Board \r\n                                              otherwise directs, be disqualified \r\n                                              from participating in any \r\n                                              deliberations of the Board on the \r\n                                              contract and shall in any case be \r\n                                              disqualified from voting in any \r\n                                              decision of the Board on such \r\n                                              contract and any member who \r\n                                              infringes the provisions of this \r\n                                              subsection shall be liable to be \r\n                                              removed from the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              recorded and kept minutes of all \r\n                                              proceedings of its meetings in \r\n                                              such manner and form as the \r\n                                              Minister may in writing direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              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 9&#8212;Board to be in Control \r\n                                              of General Policy of Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, have \r\n                                              general control of the management \r\n                                              of the Corporation on matters of \r\n                                              policy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              Managing Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Part III of this Act the Managing \r\n                                              Director shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President acting in consultation \r\n                                              with the Council of State, and \r\n                                              subject to the said provisions \r\n                                              shall hold office upon such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as may be specified \r\n                                              in his instrument of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the office of the \r\n                                              Managing Director becomes vacant \r\n                                              the Board shall notify the \r\n                                              Minister thereof and the Minister \r\n                                              shall in turn notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of the \r\n                                              vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the Managing Director is \r\n                                              incapacitated from the performance \r\n                                              of his functions under this Act \r\n                                              the Board may, subject to \r\n                                              subsection (6) of section 6 of \r\n                                              this Act authorise any senior \r\n                                              employee of the Corporation to \r\n                                              perform those functions for the \r\n                                              duration of the incapacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the Managing Director \r\n                                              shall be the Chief Executive of \r\n                                              the Corporation and shall, subject \r\n                                              to the general control of the \r\n                                              Board on matters of policy, and \r\n                                              subject in particular to such \r\n                                              rules as the Board may make in \r\n                                              that behalf under section 26 of \r\n                                              this Act, be charged with the \r\n                                              direction of the day-to-day \r\n                                              business of the Corporation and of \r\n                                              its administration and \r\n                                              organisation and control of all \r\n                                              the employees of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Subject as aforesaid the \r\n                                              Managing Director may delegate to \r\n                                              any employee of the Corporation \r\n                                              any of his functions under this \r\n                                              Act and may impose such conditions \r\n                                              with respect to the exercise of \r\n                                              such delegated functions as he may \r\n                                              think fit:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              subsection shall be construed so \r\n                                              as to absolve the Managing \r\n                                              Director from ultimate \r\n                                              responsibility for any act than by \r\n                                              any person in pursuance of any \r\n                                              such delegation.</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;Executions of \r\n                                              Contracts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The application of the seal of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall be \r\n                                              authenticated by two signatures, \r\n                                              namely&#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 signature of the Managing \r\n                                              Director or some other member of \r\n                                              the Board authorised by the Board \r\n                                              to authenticate the application of \r\n                                              the seal, 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 signature of the Secretary \r\n                                              or some other officer of the \r\n                                              Corporation authorised by the \r\n                                              Board to act in the Secretary''s \r\n                                              place for that purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation may by \r\n                                              instrument in writing under its \r\n                                              common seal empower any person \r\n                                              either generally or in respect of \r\n                                              any specified matters as its \r\n                                              attorney, to execute deeds on its \r\n                                              behalf in any place not situated \r\n                                              in Ghana; and every deed signed by \r\n                                              such attorney on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation and under his seal, \r\n                                              shall be binding on the \r\n                                              Corporation and have the same \r\n                                              effect as if it were under the \r\n                                              common seal of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any instrument or contract \r\n                                              which, if executed or entered into \r\n                                              by a person other than a body \r\n                                              corporate, would not require to be \r\n                                              under seal, may be executed or \r\n                                              entered into on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation by the Managing \r\n                                              Director or any member of the \r\n                                              Board if such person has \r\n                                              previously been authorised by \r\n                                              resolution of the Board to execute \r\n                                              or enter into that particular \r\n                                              instrument or contract:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the Corporation \r\n                                              thinks fit it may by writing under \r\n                                              its common seal appoint any person \r\n                                              outside Ghana as agent to execute \r\n                                              or enter into the instrument or \r\n                                              contract and the instrument or \r\n                                              contract if executed or entered \r\n                                              into on behalf of the Corporation \r\n                                              shall have effect as if it had \r\n                                              been duly executed or entered into \r\n                                              as prescribed for the purposes of \r\n                                              this subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every document purporting to \r\n                                              be an instrument executed or \r\n                                              issued by or on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation and to be:&#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) sealed with the common seal of \r\n                                              the Corporation authenticated in \r\n                                              the manner provided by subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section; 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) signed by and under the seal \r\n                                              of a person appointed as attorney \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section, 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) signed by the Managing \r\n                                              Director or by a member of the \r\n                                              Board or other person authorised \r\n                                              in accordance with subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section to act for that \r\n                                              purpose,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be deemed to be so executed \r\n                                              or issued until the contrary is \r\n                                              shown.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall have effect subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of section 9 of this \r\n                                              Act and of section 12 of the \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (Act 25).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Staff of Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation may from time \r\n                                              to time engage such employees as \r\n                                              may be necessary for the proper \r\n                                              and efficient conduct of the \r\n                                              business and functions of the \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation may also \r\n                                              engage the services of such \r\n                                              consultants and advisers as the \r\n                                              Board may upon the recommendation \r\n                                              of the Managing Director \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; Subject to any delegation \r\n                                              effected under clause (2) of \r\n                                              article 140 of the Constitution \r\n                                              and subject also to the other \r\n                                              provisions of the Constitution the \r\n                                              employees of the Corporation, \r\n                                              other than the Managing Director, \r\n                                              shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President acting in accordance \r\n                                              with the advice of the Public \r\n                                              Services Commission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Constitution the employees, \r\n                                              consultants and advisers of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall be engaged on \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Board may on the recommendations \r\n                                              of the Managing Director \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Public Officers may be \r\n                                              transferred or seconded to the \r\n                                              Corporation or may otherwise give \r\n                                              assistance thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Secretary of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have an \r\n                                              officer to be designated as the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary shall act as \r\n                                              Secretary to the Board and shall, \r\n                                              subject to the directions of the \r\n                                              Board, arrange the business for \r\n                                              and be responsible for the \r\n                                              recording and keeping of minutes \r\n                                              of proceedings of the meetings of \r\n                                              the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Secretary shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable after each meeting of \r\n                                              the Board forward to the Minister \r\n                                              a copy of the minutes of that \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Secretary shall also \r\n                                              perform such functions as the \r\n                                              Board may by writing direct or as \r\n                                              the Managing Director may by \r\n                                              writing delegate to him and shall \r\n                                              be assisted in his functions by \r\n                                              such of the staff of the \r\n                                              Corporation as the Board may on \r\n                                              the recommendations of the \r\n                                              Managing Director direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Internal Auditor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have an \r\n                                              Internal Auditor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the Internal Auditor \r\n                                              shall be responsible to the \r\n                                              Managing Director for the \r\n                                              performance of his functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; As part of his functions \r\n                                              under this Act the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall, at intervals of \r\n                                              three months, prepare a report on \r\n                                              the Internal Audit work carried \r\n                                              out by him during the period of \r\n                                              three months immediately preceding \r\n                                              the preparation of the report, and \r\n                                              submit the report to the Managing \r\n                                              Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section, the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall make in each report \r\n                                              such observations as appear to him \r\n                                              necessary as to the conduct of the \r\n                                              financial affairs of the \r\n                                              Corporation during the period to \r\n                                              which the report relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Internal Auditor shall \r\n                                              send a copy of each report \r\n                                              prepared by him under this section \r\n                                              to the Minister and also to each \r\n                                              of the following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Auditor-General, 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                                              the Chairman of the Board of \r\n                                              Directors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;FINANCIAL 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 14&#8212;Capital and Funds of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Government may provide to the \r\n                                              Corporation as working capital and \r\n                                              also as moneys required for \r\n                                              carrying out the functions of the \r\n                                              Corporation such sums as the \r\n                                              Minister may after consultation \r\n                                              with the Cabinet agree, being sums \r\n                                              requested by the Board from 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 15&#8212;Estimates of Revenue \r\n                                              and Expenditure.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall not less than one \r\n                                              month before the commencement of \r\n                                              each financial year cause to be \r\n                                              prepared in such form as the \r\n                                              Minister may direct estimates of \r\n                                              revenue and expenditure for that \r\n                                              financial year and shall as soon \r\n                                              as possible after they are \r\n                                              prepared submit a copy of the \r\n                                              estimates to 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 16&#8212;Staff Welfare Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              staff welfare fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Corporation shall \r\n                                              transfer to the staff welfare fund \r\n                                              such sum, not exceeding 5 per cent \r\n                                              of the net profits of the \r\n                                              Corporation as the Board may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Corporation may, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister, use the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund for the \r\n                                              provision of staff welfare \r\n                                              facilities such as canteens, low \r\n                                              interest bearing staff welfare \r\n                                              loans and for other purposes aimed \r\n                                              at enhancing the welfare of the \r\n                                              staff of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The operation of the staff \r\n                                              welfare fund shall be subject to \r\n                                              such specific rules and \r\n                                              regulations as may&nbsp; be made by the \r\n                                              Board.</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;Depreciation Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              depreciation fund and for that \r\n                                              purpose the Corporation shall open \r\n                                              a Depreciation Reserve Account \r\n                                              with the Bank of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Corporation shall \r\n                                              transfer to the credit of the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account all \r\n                                              amounts charged to profit and loss \r\n                                              account in respect of depreciation \r\n                                              for buildings, plant and \r\n                                              equipment, fixtures and other \r\n                                              fixed assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Amounts so transferred to the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account shall \r\n                                              be utilised only to replace fixed \r\n                                              assets and equipment which are \r\n                                              worn out or have become obsolete.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; Expenditure in respect of \r\n                                              current repairs and in respect of \r\n                                              purchases of spare parts shall not \r\n                                              be met out of the Depreciation \r\n                                              Reserve Account but shall be \r\n                                              charged to the income and \r\n                                              expenditure account of the \r\n                                              Corporation for the financial year \r\n                                              during which the expenditure is \r\n                                              incurred.</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;Corporation to Pay Sums \r\n                                              into Consolidated Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to section 4 of this Act \r\n                                              at the end of each financial year, \r\n                                              after the Corporation has made \r\n                                              provision for bad and doubtful \r\n                                              debts, depreciation of assets, \r\n                                              contributions to staff and \r\n                                              superannuation funds and for other \r\n                                              contingencies, if any, and after \r\n                                              appropriation has been made to the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund under section \r\n                                              16 of this Act such part of the \r\n                                              profits of the Corporation \r\n                                              remaining as the Minister after \r\n                                              consultation with the Board and \r\n                                              with the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may by writing direct \r\n                                              shall be paid into the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Borrowing Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation may obtain \r\n                                              loans and other credit facilities, \r\n                                              on the guarantee of the Government \r\n                                              from the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              or from such other Bank as the \r\n                                              Minister and the Minister for \r\n                                              Finance may approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Apart from the powers of the \r\n                                              Corporation under subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Corporation \r\n                                              may, with the prior approval of \r\n                                              the Minister and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance borrow \r\n                                              money from any other source.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; For the purpose of any \r\n                                              technical arrangements in \r\n                                              connection with the raising of any \r\n                                              loan under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section the Corporation shall, if \r\n                                              the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              agrees, use the services of that \r\n                                              Bank. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation may borrow \r\n                                              temporarily by way of overdraft or \r\n                                              otherwise, such sums as it may \r\n                                              require for meeting its current \r\n                                              obligations or discharging its \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may on behalf of the \r\n                                              Government, guarantee the \r\n                                              performance of any obligation or \r\n                                              undertaking by the Corporation \r\n                                              under this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may from time to time \r\n                                              prescribe the maximum sums which \r\n                                              the Corporation may borrow under \r\n                                              subsection (1) or (2) of this \r\n                                              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 20&#8212;Corporation to keep \r\n                                              Proper Books of Account.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of account and proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto and \r\n                                              the account books and records of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall be in such \r\n                                              form as the Auditor-General may \r\n                                              approve.</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;Financial Year of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Corporation''s financial \r\n                                              year shall end on the 31st day of \r\n                                              March in each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section the period extending from \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act to \r\n                                              the 31st day of March, 1972 shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be a financial \r\n                                              year.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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 22&#8212;Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall each year be \r\n                                              audited in accordance with article \r\n                                              135 of the Constitution by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall pay in \r\n                                              respect of such audit such fee (if \r\n                                              any) as the Auditor-General and \r\n                                              the Board may agree or in the case \r\n                                              of failure to agree, such fee as \r\n                                              the Minister may prescribe.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Board as soon as possible upon \r\n                                              receiving the report of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General under this section \r\n                                              to forward a copy of such report \r\n                                              to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable upon receipt thereof, \r\n                                              cause to be laid before the \r\n                                              National Assembly a copy of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General''s report forwarded \r\n                                              to him under this section.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Annual Report, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall, as soon \r\n                                              as possible after the expiration \r\n                                              of each financial year but within \r\n                                              six months after the termination \r\n                                              of that financial year, submit to \r\n                                              the Minister an annual report \r\n                                              dealing generally with the \r\n                                              activities and operations of the \r\n                                              Corporation within that year which \r\n                                              shall, without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the foregoing \r\n                                              include&#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 copy of the audited accounts \r\n                                              of the Corporation together with \r\n                                              the Auditor-General''s report \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                                              (b) each report submitted in \r\n                                              relation to that financial year by \r\n                                              the Internal Auditor under section \r\n                                              13 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a statement of all directions \r\n                                              given by the Minister to the \r\n                                              Corporation under section 25 of \r\n                                              this Act within that year,</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) such other information as the \r\n                                              Minister may by writing request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A copy of the annual report of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall also be sent \r\n                                              by the Corporation to the \r\n                                              following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Head of the Central Bureau of \r\n                                              Statistics.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister shall, as soon as \r\n                                              possible after receiving the \r\n                                              annual report of the Corporation, \r\n                                              cause the report to be laid before \r\n                                              the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation shall also \r\n                                              submit to the Minister such other \r\n                                              reports on its financial affairs \r\n                                              as the Minister may by writing \r\n                                              request from time to time.</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;Quarterly Reports.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              submitted to the Minister as soon \r\n                                              as possible after the months of \r\n                                              June, September, December and \r\n                                              March in each year a statement \r\n                                              showing the revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Corporation and \r\n                                              fluctuations in the number of \r\n                                              persons in employment of the \r\n                                              Corporation during the three \r\n                                              months immediately preceding and \r\n                                              the revenue and expenditure for \r\n                                              the corresponding period in the \r\n                                              year immediately preceding. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Minister''s Power of \r\n                                              Direction.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act (which \r\n                                              requires the Corporation to \r\n                                              operate on sound commercial \r\n                                              lines), the Minister may give \r\n                                              general directions in writing to \r\n                                              the Corporation on matters of \r\n                                              policy and the Corporation shall \r\n                                              be bound to comply with such \r\n                                              directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Bye-laws or other \r\n                                              Instruments.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may make bye-laws or \r\n                                              other instruments for the purpose \r\n                                              of carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions and principles of this \r\n                                              Act and for regulating any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              functions of the Corporation or \r\n                                              which is required or authorised by \r\n                                              this Act to be provided for by any \r\n                                              such instruments.</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                                              general effect of subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Board may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of the \r\n                                              Constitution and also to the \r\n                                              provisions of the Social Security \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Act 279) make bye-laws \r\n                                              or other instruments under that \r\n                                              subsection for providing the \r\n                                              conditions of service of the staff \r\n                                              of the Corporation including, if \r\n                                              the Board thinks fit, the \r\n                                              operation of a contributory \r\n                                              provident fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Exemption from Taxes, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall be exempted \r\n                                              from such taxes and duties as the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              may, by writing direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#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, &quot;Minister&quot; means the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Dissolution of New \r\n                                              Times Limited.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Company known immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act as the New Times Limited is \r\n                                              hereby dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All assets, property, rights, \r\n                                              liabilities and obligations of the \r\n                                              said company are hereby \r\n                                              transferred to the Corporation \r\n                                              established by this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The National Newspapers \r\n                                              (Guinea Press Limited) (Interim \r\n                                              Reconstitution) Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              230) is hereby repealed.</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>', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 363');
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(118, 'POLICE SERVICE ACT, 1970 (ACT 350)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1320" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              POLICE SERVICE ACT, 1970 (ACT 350)</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;FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Functions of the Service</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Statutory Declarations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;STRUCTURE AND CONDITIONS \r\n                                              OF SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Members of the Service</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Administration of the Service</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Filling of vacancies</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Acting assignment</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Functions of Public Services \r\n                                              Commission</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Schemes of service and training</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Modes of leaving the Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE POLICE COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Composition and functions of \r\n                                              Regional Police Committees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Secretary to the Police \r\n                                              Council</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Protection from legal \r\n                                              proceedings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Attendance of public officers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Production of documents</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Failure to comply with \r\n                                              request of Police Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MISCONDUCT AND \r\n                                              UNSATISFACTORY SERVICE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Misconduct and unsatisfactory \r\n                                              service</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Penalties</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Disciplinary authorities</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Disciplinary proceedings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20A. Dismissals, Removals, etc. \r\n                                              from the Police Service</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20B. Courts Prohibited from \r\n                                              Entertaining Actions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Pay not to accrue in certain \r\n                                              cases</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Loss of or damage to property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;COMPLAINTS AND OFFENCES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Complaints by the public</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Desertion</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. False statement on appointment</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Refusal to serve</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Harbouring officers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Unlawful possession of uniform \r\n                                              and other property</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Causing disaffection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;THE VOLUNTEER POLICE \r\n                                              RESERVE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Volunteer Police Reserve</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Calling out for active \r\n                                              service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS AND \r\n                                              SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Power to regulate traffic</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Duty in case of fire</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Police Welfare Fund</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Disposal of property in \r\n                                              possession of police</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Annual Report</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Control of private security \r\n                                              organisations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Repeals and savings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Amendment of Criminal \r\n                                              Procedure Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE POLICE FORCE ACT, 1970</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              organisation and administration of \r\n                                              the Police Service and for other \r\n                                              matters connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 19th January, 1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICE</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;Functions of the \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Police Service to prevent and \r\n                                              detect crime, to apprehend \r\n                                              offenders, and to maintain public \r\n                                              order and the safety of persons \r\n                                              and property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every police officer shall \r\n                                              perform such functions as are by \r\n                                              law conferred upon a police \r\n                                              officer and shall obey all lawful \r\n                                              orders and directions in respect \r\n                                              of the execution of his office \r\n                                              which he may receive from his \r\n                                              superiors in the Police Service.</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;Statutory Declarations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every superior police officer may \r\n                                              take and receive the declaration \r\n                                              of any person for the purposes of \r\n                                              the Statutory Declarations Act, \r\n                                              1835.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;STRUCTURE AND CONDITIONS \r\n                                              OF SERVICE</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;Members of the Force.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The following shall be members of \r\n                                              the Police Force:&#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 Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police;</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) Commissioners of Police;</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) Deputy Commissioners of \r\n                                              Police;</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 holding posts, or \r\n                                              being of ranks, created under this \r\n                                              Act; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) persons holding posts created \r\n                                              by or under any other enactment, \r\n                                              being posts which are designated \r\n                                              by that enactment as Police Force \r\n                                              posts.[As substituted by The \r\n                                              Police Service (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1974 (NRCD 303) 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 4&#8212;Administration of the \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police shall be the Head of the \r\n                                              Police Service, and shall, subject \r\n                                              to any directions of the Minister, \r\n                                              be responsible for exercising \r\n                                              general day-to-day supervision \r\n                                              over the operation and \r\n                                              administration of the Police \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police may delegate to any other \r\n                                              members of the Police Service such \r\n                                              of his functions under this Act as \r\n                                              he thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Filling of Vacancies.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A vacancy in a Police Service \r\n                                              post or rank may be filled&#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) by promotion, that is by \r\n                                              appointing a police officer who is \r\n                                              to be moved from another grade or \r\n                                              rank with an immediate increase in \r\n                                              his salary;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) by transfer within the \r\n                                              Service, that is by appointing a \r\n                                              police officer who is to be moved \r\n                                              from another grade or rank with no \r\n                                              alteration in his salary;</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) on reduction in rank, that is \r\n                                              by appointing a police officer who \r\n                                              is to be moved from another grade \r\n                                              or rank with an immediate \r\n                                              reduction in his salary;</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) by recruitment, that is by \r\n                                              appointing a person who is not a \r\n                                              police officer or who would cease \r\n                                              to be a police officer if the \r\n                                              appointment were not made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Wherever practicable, a \r\n                                              vacancy in the Police Service \r\n                                              shall be filled either by \r\n                                              promotion or transfer within the \r\n                                              Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Promotions shall be made \r\n                                              according to merit.</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;Acting Assignment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a Police Service post is \r\n                                              vacant or a police officer is \r\n                                              absent from duty for any reason \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police \r\n                                              may assign a member of the Police \r\n                                              Service to carry out the \r\n                                              appropriate duties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An assignment under this \r\n                                              section shall cease to have \r\n                                              effect&#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) on the filling of the vacancy \r\n                                              or the return to duty of the \r\n                                              officer, as the case may be; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if some other person is \r\n                                              assigned to carry out the said \r\n                                              duties; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if the assignment is revoked \r\n                                              by the Inspector General of \r\n                                              Police.</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;Functions of Public \r\n                                              Services Commission.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Public Services Commission \r\n                                              shall, in the exercise of its \r\n                                              functions under article 141 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and in consultation \r\n                                              with the appropriate authority, \r\n                                              provide in accordance with clause \r\n                                              (6) of article 140 of the \r\n                                              Constitution for the procedure to \r\n                                              be followed and requirements to be \r\n                                              observed in the making of \r\n                                              appointments.</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;Schemes of Service and \r\n                                              Training.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police may, with the consent of \r\n                                              the Minister, prepare schemes of \r\n                                              service giving details of duties, \r\n                                              training facilities, and other \r\n                                              matters relating to service as a \r\n                                              police officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) There shall be a branch of the \r\n                                              Police Service with the function \r\n                                              of supervising and coordinating, \r\n                                              under the general direction of the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police, \r\n                                              arrangements for the training of \r\n                                              members of the Police Service.</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;Modes of Leaving the \r\n                                              Force.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person holding a post \r\n                                              otherwise than on a limited \r\n                                              engagement shall retire from the \r\n                                              Police Force on reaching the age \r\n                                              of 55 years, or in the case of a \r\n                                              woman on reaching the age of 50 \r\n                                              years:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this subsection \r\n                                              shall not prevent the appointment \r\n                                              of any person on a limited \r\n                                              engagement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person holding a post as a \r\n                                              police officer otherwise than on a \r\n                                              limited engagement may retire from \r\n                                              the Police Force at any time after \r\n                                              he has reached the age of 45 \r\n                                              years, or in the case of a woman \r\n                                              40 years:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that a superior police \r\n                                              officer may retire at any earlier \r\n                                              time with the consent of the \r\n                                              Chairman of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council, and a \r\n                                              subordinate police officer may \r\n                                              retire at any earlier time with \r\n                                              the consent of the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police.[As \r\n                                              substituted by The Police Service \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1974 (NRCD \r\n                                              303) s.3]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A police officer may resign \r\n                                              from the Police Service in \r\n                                              accordance with such conditions as \r\n                                              may be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A police officer may leave the \r\n                                              Police Service on the expiry or \r\n                                              other termination of a limited \r\n                                              engagement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A police officer may leave the \r\n                                              Police Service by transfer, with \r\n                                              his consent, to employment in \r\n                                              another Public Service or to other \r\n                                              approved employment in accordance \r\n                                              with regulations made 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                                              (6) A police officer may leave the \r\n                                              Police Service on the abolition of \r\n                                              his post; and where a post in a \r\n                                              grade is abolished by the \r\n                                              revocation or amendment of the \r\n                                              instrument by which it was \r\n                                              created, the appointing authority \r\n                                              shall, if two or more persons hold \r\n                                              posts in that grade, determine \r\n                                              which of those persons is to be \r\n                                              treated as the person whose post \r\n                                              is abolished.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Unless the person in respect \r\n                                              of whom a determination is to be \r\n                                              made under subsection (6) is to be \r\n                                              promoted or transferred, he shall \r\n                                              be given an opportunity to make \r\n                                              representations to the appointing \r\n                                              authority, who shall consider any \r\n                                              such representations before making \r\n                                              the determination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Where a post or rank is held \r\n                                              by an officer on probation and it \r\n                                              appears to the appointing \r\n                                              authority during or at the end of \r\n                                              the probationary period that he is \r\n                                              unlikely to fulfil the \r\n                                              requirements of the post or rank, \r\n                                              the appointing authority may order \r\n                                              that he shall cease to be a member \r\n                                              of the Police Service, and if no \r\n                                              such order is made he shall revert \r\n                                              to the post or rank, if any, held \r\n                                              by him immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of such probationary \r\n                                              period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE POLICE COUNCIL</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;Membership and \r\n                                              Functions of the Police Council</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by The Provisional \r\n                                              National Defence Council \r\n                                              (Establishment) Proclamation \r\n                                              (Supplementary and Consequently \r\n                                              Proclamation Law, 1982&nbsp; (PNDCL 42) \r\n                                              s. 65].</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;Composition and \r\n                                              Functions of Regional Police \r\n                                              Committees</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by The Provisional \r\n                                              National Defence Council \r\n                                              (Establishment) Proclamation \r\n                                              (Supplementary and Consequently \r\n                                              Proclamation Law, 1982&nbsp; (PNDCL 42) \r\n                                              s. 65].</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;Secretary to the Police \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a Secretary to \r\n                                              the Police Council who shall be a \r\n                                              public officer. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary shall not be a \r\n                                              member of the Police Council, and \r\n                                              he shall perform such \r\n                                              administrative functions relating \r\n                                              to its work as the Police Council \r\n                                              may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Protection from Legal \r\n                                              Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chairman and any member of the \r\n                                              Police Council shall have the same \r\n                                              protection and privilege in case \r\n                                              of any action or suit brought \r\n                                              against him for any act done or \r\n                                              omitted to be done in the exercise \r\n                                              of his duties in relation to the \r\n                                              hearing of appeals under section \r\n                                              20 of this Act as is by law given \r\n                                              to acts done or words spoken by a \r\n                                              Judge of the Superior Court of \r\n                                              Judicature in the exercise of his \r\n                                              judicial office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Attendance of Public \r\n                                              Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Police Council may require any \r\n                                              public officer to attend and give \r\n                                              evidence before it concerning any \r\n                                              matter which it is required to \r\n                                              consider in the exercise of its \r\n                                              functions.</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;Production of \r\n                                              Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Police Council may require the \r\n                                              production of any official \r\n                                              document reasonably required for \r\n                                              the exercise of its functions; and \r\n                                              any public officer who submits any \r\n                                              matter for the consideration of \r\n                                              the Police Council shall ensure \r\n                                              that all relevant documents and \r\n                                              papers are made available to the \r\n                                              Police Council.</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;Failure to Comply with \r\n                                              Request of Police Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any public officer who without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse fails to appear \r\n                                              before the Police Council when \r\n                                              notified to do so, or who fails to \r\n                                              comply with any request lawfully \r\n                                              and properly made by the Police \r\n                                              Council, shall be guilty of \r\n                                              misconduct and the Police Council \r\n                                              may direct that the matter should \r\n                                              be brought to the notice of the \r\n                                              appropriate disciplinary \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MISCONDUCT AND \r\n                                              UNSATISFACTORY SERVICE</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;Misconduct and \r\n                                              Unsatisfactory Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall be misconduct for a \r\n                                              police 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) to be absent from duty without \r\n                                              leave or reasonable excuse;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to be insubordinate;</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) to use, without lawful \r\n                                              authority, any property or \r\n                                              facilities provided for the \r\n                                              purposes of the Police Service for \r\n                                              some purpose not connected with \r\n                                              his official duties;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) to engage in any activity \r\n                                              outside his official duties which \r\n                                              is likely to involve him in \r\n                                              political controversy or to lead \r\n                                              to his taking improper advantage \r\n                                              of his position in the Police \r\n                                              Service;</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) to engage in any gainful \r\n                                              occupation outside the Police \r\n                                              Service without the consent of the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police;</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) to become or be a member of a \r\n                                              trade union or of any other \r\n                                              association (other than an \r\n                                              association authorised by the \r\n                                              Minister) having similar objects;</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) to sleep on duty;</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) to take any alcoholic drink \r\n                                              while on duty;</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                                              to permit a prisoner to escape \r\n                                              through negligence or wilfulness;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) to divulge any confidential \r\n                                              information to a person not \r\n                                              authorised to receive it;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) to do any other act without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse which amounts to \r\n                                              a failure to perform in a proper \r\n                                              manner any duty imposed on him as \r\n                                              such, or which contravenes any \r\n                                              enactment relating to the Police \r\n                                              Service, or which is otherwise \r\n                                              prejudicial to the efficient \r\n                                              conduct of the Police Service or \r\n                                              tends to bring the Police Service \r\n                                              into disrepute.</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;Penalties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following are the \r\n                                              penalties that may be imposed in \r\n                                              disciplinary proceedings under \r\n                                              this Act in respect of the \r\n                                              misconduct or unsatisfactory \r\n                                              service of a police 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) dismissal, that is termination \r\n                                              of an appointment with forfeiture \r\n                                              of all retirement benefits;</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) removal, that is termination \r\n                                              of an appointment with or without \r\n                                              a reduction in retirement \r\n                                              benefits;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) reduction in rank, that is \r\n                                              removal to another rank with \r\n                                              immediate reduction of salary;</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) reduction of salary, that is \r\n                                              an&nbsp; immediate adjustment of salary \r\n                                              to a lower point on the salary \r\n                                              scale attached to the post in \r\n                                              question;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) deferment of increment, that \r\n                                              is a postponement of the date on \r\n                                              which the next increment is due, \r\n                                              with corresponding postponement in \r\n                                              subsequent years;</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) stoppage of increment, that is \r\n                                              non-payment for a specified period \r\n                                              of an increment otherwise due;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) imposition of a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding one-eighth of one \r\n                                              month''s salary;</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) severe reprimand or reprimand;</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                                              in the case of constables only, \r\n                                              confinement to barracks for a \r\n                                              period not exceeding fourteen \r\n                                              days;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) caution or admonition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              dismissal, removal and reduction \r\n                                              in rank shall be treated as major \r\n                                              penalties and all other penalties \r\n                                              shall be treated as minor \r\n                                              penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Disciplinary \r\n                                              Authorities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chairman of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              Police Council shall have \r\n                                              disciplinary powers over all \r\n                                              police officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council may delegate \r\n                                              his disciplinary powers in respect \r\n                                              of all or any police officers to \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police, \r\n                                              and may authorise the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police to \r\n                                              exercise all or any of the said \r\n                                              powers through a disciplinary \r\n                                              board or superior police officer \r\n                                              in accordance with regulations \r\n                                              made under section 20.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person or body in whom \r\n                                              disciplinary powers under this Act \r\n                                              are for the time being vested \r\n                                              shall be a disciplinary authority \r\n                                              for the purposes of this Act.[As \r\n                                              substituted by The Police Service \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1994 (NRCD) \r\n                                              s.5]</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;Disciplinary \r\n                                              Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Disciplinary proceedings shall \r\n                                              be either summary or formal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No major penalty shall be \r\n                                              imposed on an officer in summary \r\n                                              proceedings not arising out of a \r\n                                              conviction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Commissioner after \r\n                                              consultation with the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations providing for the \r\n                                              conduct of disciplinary \r\n                                              proceedings in cases of misconduct \r\n                                              or unsatisfactory service, and \r\n                                              providing for appeals&#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 the Police Council, in the \r\n                                              case of police officers of the \r\n                                              rank of Inspector and above;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to the Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police, in the case of police \r\n                                              officers below the rank of \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The defendant in any appeal \r\n                                              proceedings before the Police \r\n                                              Council shall be entitled to be \r\n                                              represented by counsel, and where \r\n                                              he is so represented, the Police \r\n                                              Force shall also be entitled to be \r\n                                              represented by counsel.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and except as may be \r\n                                              otherwise provided by regulations \r\n                                              made under this section, the \r\n                                              Police Council on deciding an \r\n                                              appeal under this section may make \r\n                                              such order thereon as it thinks \r\n                                              fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police shall not be entitled to \r\n                                              sit as a member of the Police \r\n                                              Council for the purpose of \r\n                                              determining an appeal made to the \r\n                                              Police Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where the defendant in any \r\n                                              disciplinary or appeal proceedings \r\n                                              referred to in this section has \r\n                                              exhausted all available processes \r\n                                              provided by this Act or \r\n                                              regulations made thereunder, and \r\n                                              is aggrieved in respect of any \r\n                                              matter relating thereto, he may \r\n                                              petition the Chairman of the \r\n                                              National Redemption Council whose \r\n                                              decision shall be final.[As \r\n                                              substituted by The Police Service \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1974 (NRCD 303) \r\n                                              s.5].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20A&#8212;Dismissals, Removals, \r\n                                              etc. from the Police Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding the provisions of \r\n                                              the Police Service Act, 1970 (Act \r\n                                              350), any regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder or any other enactment \r\n                                              the Provisional National Defence \r\n                                              Council in consultation with the \r\n                                              Police Council shall have power to \r\n                                              dismiss, remove or take any \r\n                                              disciplinary action as it may \r\n                                              consider necessary against any \r\n                                              member of the Polic \r\n                                              Service.[Inserted and to be cited \r\n                                              as Police Service (Amendment) Law, \r\n                                              1988 (PNDCL 194A), 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 20B&#8212;Courts Prohibited from \r\n                                              Entertaining Actions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No Court or other Tribunal shall \r\n                                              entertain any action whatsoever or \r\n                                              take any decision, make an order \r\n                                              or grant any relief in any \r\n                                              proceedings in respect of any \r\n                                              claim arising from any dismissal, \r\n                                              removal or disciplinary action \r\n                                              taken against a member of the \r\n                                              Police Service under section 1 of \r\n                                              this Law.[Inserted and to be cited \r\n                                              as Police Service (Amendment) Law, \r\n                                              1988 (PNDCL 194A), 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 21&#8212;Pay not to Accrue in \r\n                                              Certain Cases.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No pay shall accrue to any \r\n                                              police officer in respect of any \r\n                                              period during which he is absent \r\n                                              from duty without leave, unless \r\n                                              the Police Council in the case of \r\n                                              a superior police officer, or the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police in any \r\n                                              other case, authorises the payment \r\n                                              of such proportion of his pay, not \r\n                                              being more than one half, as the \r\n                                              Council or the Inspector-General \r\n                                              of Police thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No pay shall accrue to any \r\n                                              police officer in respect of any \r\n                                              period during which he is absent \r\n                                              from duty as a deserter or \r\n                                              undergoing any sentence of \r\n                                              imprisonment for any offence of \r\n                                              whatever nature.</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;Loss of or Damage to \r\n                                              Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where in any disciplinary inquiry \r\n                                              a police officer has been punished \r\n                                              for an offence involving the sale, \r\n                                              loss by neglect or wilful or \r\n                                              negligent injury or damage to any \r\n                                              accoutrement, clothing, public \r\n                                              stores or other property issued \r\n                                              for the use of the Police Service \r\n                                              or taken by him into his \r\n                                              possession as a police officer, \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police \r\n                                              may order, in addition to any \r\n                                              punishment imposed on such \r\n                                              officer, that the amount of the \r\n                                              loss or damage or such portion of \r\n                                              it as he thinks proper be \r\n                                              recovered by stoppages from that \r\n                                              officer''s pay.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;COMPLAINTS AND OFFENCES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Complaints by the \r\n                                              Public.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any member of the public shall \r\n                                              be entitled, without prejudice to \r\n                                              any other means of redress legally \r\n                                              available to him, to make a \r\n                                              complaint in writing, signed by \r\n                                              him, as 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 instance of bribery, \r\n                                              corruption, oppression or \r\n                                              intimidation by a police 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                                              (b) any neglect or non-performance \r\n                                              of his duties by a police 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) any other misconduct by a \r\n                                              police officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A complaint of bribery, \r\n                                              corruption, oppression or \r\n                                              intimidation shall be addressed to \r\n                                              the superior police officer in \r\n                                              charge of the district or unit to \r\n                                              which the police officer \r\n                                              concerning whom the complaint is \r\n                                              made belongs or to the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A complaint of neglect or \r\n                                              non-performance of duty or other \r\n                                              misconduct shall be addressed to \r\n                                              any superior police officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police or superior police officer, \r\n                                              as the case may be, on receiving a \r\n                                              written complaint under this \r\n                                              section, shall cause a full and \r\n                                              impartial investigation to be \r\n                                              made, and 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) send a report of his \r\n                                              conclusions to the complainant;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) take such action on the report \r\n                                              as the circumstances may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any person who knowingly makes \r\n                                              any false or malicious complaint \r\n                                              under this section shall be guilty \r\n                                              of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred new 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 24&#8212;Desertion.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A police officer who deserts \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding fifty new cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding three \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, a police officer deserts \r\n                                              who leaves or fails to attend at \r\n                                              his place of duty with the \r\n                                              intention of remaining permanently \r\n                                              absent from duty without proper \r\n                                              authority or if, having left or \r\n                                              failed to attend at his place of \r\n                                              duty in any circumstances, he does \r\n                                              any act with the like intention.</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 been absent \r\n                                              without authority for a continuous \r\n                                              period of twenty-one days or more \r\n                                              shall, unless the contrary is \r\n                                              proved, be presumed to have \r\n                                              deserted for the purposes of this \r\n                                              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 25&#8212;False Statement on \r\n                                              Appointment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any police officer who on \r\n                                              appointment in the Police Service \r\n                                              falsely states that he has not \r\n                                              been convicted of or imprisoned \r\n                                              for a criminal offence or that he \r\n                                              has never been employed by the \r\n                                              Government shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred new cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding six \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Refusal to Serve.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person enlisted as a \r\n                                              supernumerary or special police \r\n                                              officer, and any member of the \r\n                                              Volunteer Police Reserve called \r\n                                              out for active service who, \r\n                                              without reasonable cause refuses \r\n                                              or neglects&#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 serve on being called upon; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to obey any lawful order or \r\n                                              direction,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding one hundred new cedis, \r\n                                              unless he satisfies the Court that \r\n                                              he was prevented from serving or \r\n                                              complying with any such order or \r\n                                              direction by sickness or such \r\n                                              other unavoidable cause as the \r\n                                              Court deems a sufficient excuse.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Harbouring Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who harbours or \r\n                                              entertains, or supplies any \r\n                                              intoxicating liquor to, any police \r\n                                              officer in uniform or any person \r\n                                              whom he knows to be a police \r\n                                              officer on duty or permits any \r\n                                              such officer or person to be in or \r\n                                              upon his premises (except for some \r\n                                              reason shown to be in course of \r\n                                              duty), shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding fifty new \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 28&#8212;Unlawful Possession of \r\n                                              Uniform and Other Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person not being a police \r\n                                              officer who has in his possession \r\n                                              any article being part of the \r\n                                              clothing, accoutrements or \r\n                                              equipment supplied to any police \r\n                                              officer and who is not able \r\n                                              satisfactorily to account for his \r\n                                              possession of it shall be guilty \r\n                                              of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              two hundred new cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every police officer shall on \r\n                                              ceasing to hold and exercise his \r\n                                              office forthwith deliver over all \r\n                                              the clothing, arms, accoutrements \r\n                                              and equipment supplied to him free \r\n                                              of charge for the execution of his \r\n                                              duty or taken by him into his \r\n                                              possession for the execution of \r\n                                              his duty to the superior police \r\n                                              officer under whom he is serving \r\n                                              and if he fails to do so shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              two hundred new cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who has in his \r\n                                              possession, wears or uses any \r\n                                              article so closely resembling any \r\n                                              part of the uniform of a police \r\n                                              officer as to be likely to deceive \r\n                                              shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Causing Disaffection.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who causes or does any \r\n                                              act calculated to cause \r\n                                              disaffection among police \r\n                                              officers, or induces or does any \r\n                                              act calculated to induce any \r\n                                              police officer to withhold his \r\n                                              service or commit any act of \r\n                                              misconduct, shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding two \r\n                                              hundred new cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;VOLUNTEER POLICE RESERVE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Volunteer Police \r\n                                              Reserve.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)There shall be a reserve body \r\n                                              of persons to be known as the \r\n                                              Volunteer Police Reserve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Reserve shall not form \r\n                                              part of the Police Service or of \r\n                                              the Public Services within the \r\n                                              meaning of the Constitution but \r\n                                              shall be a voluntary body subject \r\n                                              to the provisions of this section \r\n                                              and section 31.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding subsection \r\n                                              (2), a member of the Reserve shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be a public officer \r\n                                              for the purposes of the Criminal \r\n                                              Code, 1960 (Act 29); and every \r\n                                              member of the Reserve when called \r\n                                              out for active service shall have \r\n                                              the powers and duties given by law \r\n                                              to a police officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Reserve shall be organised \r\n                                              within districts of such extent as \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police \r\n                                              may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Reserve in any district \r\n                                              shall be under the control of the \r\n                                              senior police officer of the \r\n                                              district and of such other \r\n                                              officers as the Inspector-General \r\n                                              of Police may 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 31&#8212;Calling Out for Active \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In case of actual or \r\n                                              apprehended public disorder, the \r\n                                              Prime Minister acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              Cabinet may call out the Volunteer \r\n                                              Police Reserve or any of its \r\n                                              members for active service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister may authorise the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police to \r\n                                              call out the Reserve or any part \r\n                                              thereof for active service, for \r\n                                              such periods and for the \r\n                                              performance of such duties as the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police \r\n                                              considers necessary for the \r\n                                              maintenance of law and order, the \r\n                                              control of traffic or crowds or \r\n                                              otherwise for the assistance of \r\n                                              members of the Police Service:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the period for which \r\n                                              any member may be called out under \r\n                                              this subsection shall not exceed \r\n                                              fourteen days.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The superior police officer in \r\n                                              charge of a police region or \r\n                                              division may call out the Reserve \r\n                                              or any of its members within the \r\n                                              region or division for active \r\n                                              service:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the period for which \r\n                                              any member may be called out under \r\n                                              this subsection shall not exceed \r\n                                              eight days.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) For the purposes of subsection \r\n                                              (3) a police region or division \r\n                                              means an area established as such \r\n                                              by the Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Every person called out under \r\n                                              this section shall be bound to \r\n                                              assemble at such place as may be \r\n                                              directed and perform such service \r\n                                              as may be required of him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The period of active service \r\n                                              of members of the Reserve shall \r\n                                              continue&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of calling out \r\n                                              under subsection (1), until the \r\n                                              Prime Minister by order terminates \r\n                                              the period of calling out;</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 calling out \r\n                                              under subsection (2) or (3), until \r\n                                              the period of calling out is \r\n                                              terminated, by writing under his \r\n                                              hand, by the officer who called \r\n                                              out the Reserve or until the date \r\n                                              stipulated in the notice of \r\n                                              calling out.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Nothing in this Act shall \r\n                                              render any member of the Reserve \r\n                                              liable to serve or proceed on duty \r\n                                              without his consent beyond the \r\n                                              limits of the district of the \r\n                                              Reserve in which he resides.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS AND \r\n                                              SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Power to Regulate \r\n                                              Traffic.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any superior police officer or \r\n                                              other police officer so authorised \r\n                                              by a superior police officer may \r\n                                              at any time for the purpose of \r\n                                              preserving public order and safety \r\n                                              stop, divert or otherwise direct \r\n                                              and regulate the course of \r\n                                              traffic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who opposes or \r\n                                              disobeys any order under this \r\n                                              section shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding fifty new \r\n                                              cedis or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding three 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 33&#8212;Duty in Case of Fire.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of every \r\n                                              police officer to assist in the \r\n                                              extinguishment of all fires which \r\n                                              threaten life or property and for \r\n                                              such purpose a police officer may \r\n                                              enter any building or part thereof \r\n                                              and do all other things which he \r\n                                              considers necessary to check the \r\n                                              spread of the fire, and damage \r\n                                              occasioned by such officer in the \r\n                                              performance of his duty shall be \r\n                                              deemed for all purposes to be \r\n                                              damage by fire.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who obstructs a \r\n                                              police officer in the performance \r\n                                              of his duties under this section \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding one hundred new cedis or \r\n                                              to imprisonment not exceeding six \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</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;Police Welfare Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a Police \r\n                                              Welfare Fund, and there shall be \r\n                                              paid to the Accountant-General to \r\n                                              the credit of the Fund all fines \r\n                                              imposed on police officers in \r\n                                              disciplinary proceedings, all sums \r\n                                              paid for the hire of police \r\n                                              officers, voluntary contributions \r\n                                              and moneys granted by the National \r\n                                              Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Fund shall be under the \r\n                                              control of the Inspector-General \r\n                                              of Police and, in accordance with \r\n                                              regulations made under this Act, \r\n                                              there shall be payable from the \r\n                                              Fund&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) rewards and gratuities to, or \r\n                                              in respect of, subordinate police \r\n                                              officers;</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) grants for providing and \r\n                                              improving comforts, conveniences \r\n                                              and advantages, not chargeable to \r\n                                              the general revenue, for the \r\n                                              benefit of subordinate police \r\n                                              officers;</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) gratuities to, or in respect \r\n                                              of, dependents of any deceased \r\n                                              subordinate police officer.</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;Disposal of Property in \r\n                                              Possession of Police.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where property has come into \r\n                                              the possession of the police a \r\n                                              District Magistrate may, on \r\n                                              application either by or on behalf \r\n                                              of the Inspector-General of Police \r\n                                              or by a claimant of the property, \r\n                                              make an order for the delivery of \r\n                                              the property to the person \r\n                                              appearing to the Magistrate to be \r\n                                              entitled thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An order under subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall not affect the right of any \r\n                                              person to take legal proceedings \r\n                                              against any person in possession \r\n                                              of property delivered by virtue of \r\n                                              the order for the recovery of the \r\n                                              property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument regulate \r\n                                              the disposal of property which has \r\n                                              come into the possession of the \r\n                                              police where the owner of the \r\n                                              property cannot be ascertained or \r\n                                              no order of a Magistrate has been \r\n                                              made with respect thereto.</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 authorise the sale of \r\n                                              such property, and the application \r\n                                              of the proceeds of sale, and the \r\n                                              application of any money of which \r\n                                              the owner cannot be ascertained, \r\n                                              to all or any of the following \r\n                                              purposes:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the expenses of executing the \r\n                                              regulations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the payment of reasonable \r\n                                              compensation to any person by whom \r\n                                              the property has been delivered \r\n                                              into the possession of the police;</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 making of payments for the \r\n                                              benefit of discharged prisoners or \r\n                                              of persons dependent on prisoners \r\n                                              or discharged prisoners;</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 Police Welfare Fund; 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) such other purpose as the \r\n                                              Minister may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the property is a \r\n                                              perishable article or its custody \r\n                                              involves unreasonable expense or \r\n                                              inconvenience it may be sold at \r\n                                              any time, but the proceeds of sale \r\n                                              shall not be disposed of until \r\n                                              they have remained in the \r\n                                              possession of the police for six \r\n                                              months; and in any other case the \r\n                                              property shall not be sold until \r\n                                              it has remained in the possession \r\n                                              of the police for six 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 36&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) As soon as may be after the \r\n                                              30th day of June in each year the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police shall \r\n                                              prepare a report giving details of \r\n                                              the administration of the Police \r\n                                              Service and the Volunteer Police \r\n                                              Reserve during the previous twelve \r\n                                              months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The report shall be submitted \r\n                                              to the Minister who shall cause it \r\n                                              to be laid before the National \r\n                                              Assembly.</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;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The President, after \r\n                                              consulting the Police Council and \r\n                                              the Cabinet, 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) designating posts created \r\n                                              under any other enactment as \r\n                                              Police Service posts;</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) dividing the Police Service \r\n                                              into branches and divisions, and \r\n                                              specifying the composition, \r\n                                              organisation and functions of any \r\n                                              such branch or division and the \r\n                                              functions of any member 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                                              (c) creating posts and ranks in \r\n                                              the Police Service and specifying \r\n                                              the number of persons constituting \r\n                                              each rank or grade of post;</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) providing, in relation to each \r\n                                              post or rank created by or under \r\n                                              this Act, the conditions of \r\n                                              service attached to it;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) providing for the enlistment \r\n                                              in the Police Service of persons \r\n                                              as supernumerary or special police \r\n                                              officers for specified purposes or \r\n                                              occasions;</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) for the determination of the \r\n                                              salary or salary scale payable to \r\n                                              a police 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                                              (g) regulating the award of \r\n                                              increments of salary, and the \r\n                                              payment of allowances and other \r\n                                              additional remuneration;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) regulating hours of work and \r\n                                              the granting of leave with or \r\n                                              without pay or allowances;</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                                              for making available to police \r\n                                              officers (with or without charge) \r\n                                              housing accommodation, medical \r\n                                              treatment or other facilities;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) regulating the presentation of \r\n                                              petitions by police officers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) for other matters relating to \r\n                                              the conditions of service of \r\n                                              police officers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l) providing for the retirement \r\n                                              ages, pensions, gratuities and \r\n                                              other allowances, conditions for \r\n                                              resignation, and the procedure to \r\n                                              be followed in determining whether \r\n                                              a police officer should be removed \r\n                                              or should retire for medical \r\n                                              reasons;[As substituted by The \r\n                                              Police Service (Pensions) Law 1985 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 126) s. 3(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (m) providing for the transfer of \r\n                                              a police officer, with his \r\n                                              consent, to employment in another \r\n                                              Public Service or to other \r\n                                              approved employment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (n) providing for the making of \r\n                                              payments from the Police Welfare \r\n                                              Fund;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (o) providing for the organisation \r\n                                              of the Volunteer Police Reserve, \r\n                                              the fixing of the numbers and \r\n                                              ranks of its members, the \r\n                                              enrolment in, discipline, and loss \r\n                                              of membership of the Reserve;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (p) providing for any other matter \r\n                                              which under this Act is to be \r\n                                              prescribed or which otherwise \r\n                                              relates to the administration and \r\n                                              functions of the Police Service or \r\n                                              the Volunteer Police Reserve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to regulations made \r\n                                              under this Act and to any \r\n                                              directions given to him by the \r\n                                              Minister, the Inspector-General of \r\n                                              Police may issue Police Service \r\n                                              Instructions providing for any \r\n                                              matter referred to in paragraphs \r\n                                              (f) to (k) of subsection (1), and \r\n                                              any matter otherwise relating to \r\n                                              the administration and functions \r\n                                              of the Police Service or the \r\n                                              Volunteer Police Reserve.</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;Control of Private \r\n                                              Security Organisations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) controlling the establishment \r\n                                              and operations of any private \r\n                                              security organisation,</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) requiring the registration of \r\n                                              all private security \r\n                                              organisations,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) regulating the conditions \r\n                                              under which a private security \r\n                                              organisation may employ any \r\n                                              person,</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) regulating the use of uniforms \r\n                                              by any private security \r\n                                              organisation,</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) prescribing fees and forms for \r\n                                              any of the above purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In this section &quot;private \r\n                                              security organisation&quot; includes \r\n                                              any organisation which undertakes \r\n                                              private investigations as to facts \r\n                                              or the character of any person, or \r\n                                              which performs services of \r\n                                              watching, guarding, patrolling or \r\n                                              carriage for the purpose of \r\n                                              providing protection against \r\n                                              crime, but does not include the \r\n                                              Police Service, the Prisons \r\n                                              Service or the Armed Forces of \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any doubt as to whether or not \r\n                                              an organisation is a private \r\n                                              security organisation for the \r\n                                              purposes of this section shall be \r\n                                              determined by the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;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;approved employment&quot; means such \r\n                                              employment as the Minister may by \r\n                                              executive instrument specify;</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 to \r\n                                              whom responsibility for the Police \r\n                                              Service is assigned by the Prime \r\n                                              Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;police officer&quot; means a member of \r\n                                              the Police Service;</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 36;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prisoner&quot; includes a person \r\n                                              involved in a criminal case and \r\n                                              who is in police custody;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;salary&quot; includes wages;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;subordinate police officer&quot; means \r\n                                              a member of the Police Service \r\n                                              other than a superior police \r\n                                              officer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;superior police officer&quot; means an \r\n                                              officer not below the rank of \r\n                                              Assistant Superintendent of \r\n                                              Police.</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;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">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sections 150 and 151 of the \r\n                                              Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act \r\n                                              30).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Service Act, 1965 (Act \r\n                                              284).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Service Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              16).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Service Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Commencement) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              25).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Service Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              336).</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 above enactments, the \r\n                                              following statutory instruments \r\n                                              shall continue in force as if made \r\n                                              under the corresponding provisions \r\n                                              of this Act, until modified or \r\n                                              revoked:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Force Regulations, 1922 \r\n                                              (No. 7)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Reward Fund Regulations, \r\n                                              1922 (No. 8)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Transport of Private Property \r\n                                              (Police Escort) Regulations, 1922 \r\n                                              (No. 20).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Force (Volunteer Police \r\n                                              Reserve) Regulations, 1939 (No. \r\n                                              16).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unclaimed Property Disposal \r\n                                              Regulations, 1941 (No.37)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Force (Volunteer Police \r\n                                              Reserve) (Amendment) Regulations, \r\n                                              1956 (L.N. 134).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Police Force (Volunteer Police \r\n                                              Reserve) (Amendment) (No. 2) \r\n                                              Regulations, 1956 (L.N. 245).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Unclaimed Property Disposal \r\n                                              (Amendment) Regulations, 1963 (L.I. \r\n                                              321).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding the repeals \r\n                                              effected by subsection (1), all \r\n                                              Police Service Instructions issued \r\n                                              under the Police Service Act, 1965 \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                                              section 37 (2) of this Act, until \r\n                                              modified or rescinded.</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;Amendment of Criminal \r\n                                              Procedure Code.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 \r\n                                              (Act 30) is hereby amended by the \r\n                                              insertion immediately after \r\n                                              section 149 thereof of the \r\n                                              following new section:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Property in Possession of Police.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              150. Where property has come into \r\n                                              the possession of the police in \r\n                                              connection with any criminal \r\n                                              charge it shall be dealt with in \r\n                                              accordance with section 35 of the \r\n                                              Police Service Act, 1970 (Act \r\n                                              350).&quot;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE POLICE SERVICE (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE 1974, (NRCD 303)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PROVISIONAL NATIONAL DEFENCE \r\n                                              COUNCIL (ESTABLISHMENT) \r\n                                              PROCLAMATION (SUPPLEMENTARY&nbsp; AND \r\n                                              CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) LAW, \r\n                                              1982 (PNDCL 42)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE POLICE SERVICE (PENSIONS) LAW \r\n                                              1985 (PNDCL 126)3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              POLICE SERVICE (AMENDMENT) LAW, \r\n                                              1988 (PNDCL 194A)4</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"></table></td>\r\n        </tr\r\n\r\n>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 350 ');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(119, 'PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF PESTS AND DISEASES OF PLANTS ACT, 1965 (ACT 307)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1293" 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">\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: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <b>THE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH</b></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&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                                              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">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \r\n                                              amendments the law relating to the \r\n                                              prevention and treatment of pests \r\n                                              and diseases of plants and plant \r\n                                              quarantine. </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                                              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                                              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; margin-left: 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; margin-left: 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&nbsp; this 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: 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"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 307');
