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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 ');
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(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');
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(120, 'PUBLIC AND PRESIDENTIAL SEALS ACT, 1970 (ACT 342)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1279" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PUBLIC AND PRESIDENTIAL SEALS ACT, \r\n                                              1970 (ACT 342)</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                                              1. Use of Public and Presidential \r\n                                              Seals </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Custody of Seals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Wafer Seals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Offences in connection with \r\n                                              Seals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Repeal of Act 246</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">\r\n                                              <b>THE THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              FORTY-SECOND</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">\r\n                                              THE PUBLIC AND PRESIDENTIAL SEALS \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 regulate the use and \r\n                                              custody of the Public and \r\n                                              Presidential Seals and to provide \r\n                                              for other matters connected \r\n                                              therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 21st August, 1970.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS article 39 of the \r\n                                              Constitution provides that there \r\n                                              shall be a Public Seal and a \r\n                                              Presidential Seal, the use and \r\n                                              custody of which shall, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of the \r\n                                              Constitution, be regulated by law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED by the \r\n                                              President and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Use of Public and \r\n                                              Presidential Seals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsections (2) and \r\n                                              (3) of this section, except where \r\n                                              their use is expressly provided \r\n                                              for by the Constitution or any \r\n                                              other enactment, the Public Seal \r\n                                              and the Presidential Seal shall or \r\n                                              may be used on such occasions and \r\n                                              in respect of such matters as may \r\n                                              be prescribed by regulations made \r\n                                              under section 4 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Public Seal may be applied \r\n                                              in respect of any instrument \r\n                                              signed by a Minister in exercise \r\n                                              of any function conferred or \r\n                                              imposed on him by the Constitution \r\n                                              or by any other enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Presidential Seal may be \r\n                                              applied in respect of any \r\n                                              instrument executed personally in \r\n                                              exercise of any function conferred \r\n                                              by the Constitution or any other \r\n                                              enactment, by the President or by \r\n                                              the Speaker when exercising the \r\n                                              functions of the President under \r\n                                              article 38 of the Constitution.</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;Custody of Seals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Secretary to the Cabinet \r\n                                              or such other member of the Public \r\n                                              Services as may be prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations, shall have the \r\n                                              custody and charge of the Public \r\n                                              Seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary to the President \r\n                                              or such other member of the Public \r\n                                              Services as may be prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations, shall have the \r\n                                              custody and charge of the \r\n                                              Presidential Seal.</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;Wafer Seals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Regulations may provide for \r\n                                              the making of wafer seals, \r\n                                              representing the Public Seal and \r\n                                              the Presidential Seal, of such \r\n                                              material as the regulations may \r\n                                              specify and also prescribe the \r\n                                              size of the cast to be used for \r\n                                              that purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The wafer seals made in \r\n                                              pursuance of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; be in the same custody as the \r\n                                              seals they represent, and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; when affixed to any document \r\n                                              required to be authenticated by or \r\n                                              passed under the Public Seal or \r\n                                              the Presidential Seal, shall \r\n                                              confer on that document the same \r\n                                              validity in all respects as if the \r\n                                              document itself had been \r\n                                              authenticated by or passed under \r\n                                              the Public Seal or the \r\n                                              Presidential Seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; It shall not be necessary to \r\n                                              the validity of any document to \r\n                                              which a wafer Public Seal or a \r\n                                              wafer Presidential Seal is \r\n                                              attached or embossed to prove that \r\n                                              the attachment or embossing of \r\n                                              such wafer seals respectively was \r\n                                              authorised, and no evidence to the \r\n                                              contrary shall be received.</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;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Prime Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations in respect of all or \r\n                                              any of the following matters:&#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 documents to which the \r\n                                              wafer Public Seal and the wafer \r\n                                              Presidential Seal respectively are \r\n                                              to be affixed; </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 manner in which such \r\n                                              documents are to be prepared, \r\n                                              whether to be printed or written, \r\n                                              or partly printed or partly \r\n                                              written, and whether to be printed \r\n                                              or written on paper, parchment or \r\n                                              any other fitting material;</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) such matters as are required \r\n                                              or authorised under this Act to be \r\n                                              prescribed by regulations; 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) any other matter which he \r\n                                              considers expedient for the \r\n                                              purpose of carrying this Act into \r\n                                              effect:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that regulations shall \r\n                                              not be made under this section in \r\n                                              relation to the Presidential Seal \r\n                                              or the wafer Presidential Seal \r\n                                              except with the prior approval of \r\n                                              the President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section may modify the provisions \r\n                                              of any enactment for the purpose \r\n                                              of giving full effect to this Act \r\n                                              or to the regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Offences in Connection \r\n                                              with Seals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who, without lawful \r\n                                              authority or excuse (the proof of \r\n                                              which shall lie on him), uses or \r\n                                              has in his possession any seal or \r\n                                              wafer seal to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall be guilty of a \r\n                                              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 6&#8212;Repeal of Act 246.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Official Seals Act, 1964 (Act \r\n                                              246) is hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 342');
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(121, 'REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS ACT, 1965 (ACT 301)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1311" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 301)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; The central and local offices.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Registers of births and \r\n                                              deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; The Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Registration Regions and \r\n                                              Districts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Power to take affidavits.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Disclosure of information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7.&nbsp; Live-birth.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Registration of births.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp; Case of doubtful paternity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Registration of name \r\n                                              subsequent to registration of \r\n                                              birth.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11.&nbsp; Birth certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FOETAL \r\n                                              DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Registration of foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Persons responsible for \r\n                                              registering foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Burial permit for foetal \r\n                                              death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;REGISTRATION OF DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Registration of deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17.&nbsp; Persons to furnish \r\n                                              information as to death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Certificate of medical \r\n                                              practitioner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Duty of coroner after holding \r\n                                              inquiry.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20.&nbsp; Death certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21.&nbsp; Provisions as to burial or \r\n                                              other disposition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22.&nbsp; No burial without burial \r\n                                              permit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Occurring on the High Seas and Air \r\n                                              Space above the High Seas</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23.&nbsp; Births and deaths on high \r\n                                              seas and air space.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;AUTHORISED BURIAL GROUNDS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Local authorities to provide \r\n                                              burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Private burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Exhumation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fraudulent Registrations and \r\n                                              Certificates</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29.&nbsp; Cancellation of registration \r\n                                              and birth certificates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Alterations in Registers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Alterations in registers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Searches</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Searches of records.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Issue of Certificates and Copies</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Certified Copy of entry in \r\n                                              Register&nbsp; of Birth. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Certified Copy of entry in \r\n                                              Register of Deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Certificates as evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Appeal from refusal of \r\n                                              Registrar to search or issue \r\n                                              certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Penalties</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Failure to carry out duties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Interference with public \r\n                                              notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Penalty for improper \r\n                                              disclosure of information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. General penalty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Power to make regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Repeal and saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Application of Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: 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 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 REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND \r\n                                              DEATHS ACT, 1965</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              registration of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths and deaths and to make \r\n                                              provision for burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 29th September, \r\n                                              1965.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows: &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;The Central and Local \r\n                                              Offices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; There shall be a central \r\n                                              office in Accra (in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the central \r\n                                              office&quot;) and a local office in \r\n                                              such registration district as may \r\n                                              be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp;&nbsp; The central office shall be \r\n                                              the office for registration of all \r\n                                              births and deaths in the State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp;&nbsp; The functions of the local \r\n                                              offices shall be such as may be \r\n                                              prescribed. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; The central office and the \r\n                                              local offices shall collectively \r\n                                              be known as the Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Registry.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Registers of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be maintained in the \r\n                                              central office registers of all \r\n                                              births, foetal deaths and deaths \r\n                                              occurring in the State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;The Registrar of Births \r\n                                              and Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Central Office shall be \r\n                                              under the management and control \r\n                                              of an officer who shall be called \r\n                                              the Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Registration Regions and \r\n                                              Districts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations may provide for the \r\n                                              division of the country into \r\n                                              registration regions and \r\n                                              registration districts, and for \r\n                                              the appointment of District \r\n                                              Registrars and Assistant District&nbsp; \r\n                                              Registrars.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.1] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Power to Take \r\n                                              Affidavits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Registrar may take the \r\n                                              affidavit or statutory declaration \r\n                                              of any person for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee which shall be paid \r\n                                              into the Consolidated Fund.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.2] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Disclosure of \r\n                                              Information.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall communicate or \r\n                                              allow to be communicated to any \r\n                                              other person any information \r\n                                              obtained under this Act, or allow \r\n                                              any person to inspect or have \r\n                                              access to any records containing \r\n                                              information obtained under this \r\n                                              Act except as authorised by or \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Live-Birth.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              birth means live-birth which is \r\n                                              the complete expulsion or \r\n                                              extraction from its mother of a \r\n                                              product of conception, \r\n                                              irrespective of the duration of \r\n                                              pregnancy, which after such \r\n                                              separation, breathes or shows any \r\n                                              evidence of life, such as beating \r\n                                              of the heart, pulsation of the \r\n                                              umbilical cord, or definite \r\n                                              movement of voluntary muscles \r\n                                              whether or not the umbilical cord \r\n                                              has been cut or the placenta is \r\n                                              detached; each product of such \r\n                                              birth is considered live-born.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Registration of Births.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The birth of every child in \r\n                                              any district to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar in the district in which \r\n                                              the child was born.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a living new-born child \r\n                                              is found deserted and no \r\n                                              information as to the place of \r\n                                              birth is available, the birth \r\n                                              shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar for the district in \r\n                                              which the child is found.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall, subject to \r\n                                              subsection (2) of section 36 of \r\n                                              this Act, be the duty of each of \r\n                                              the following persons&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the father and the mother of \r\n                                              the child;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of the death or \r\n                                              incapacity of the father and \r\n                                              mother&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the occupier of the premises in \r\n                                              which the child is born, if he has \r\n                                              knowledge of the birth;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) a person present at the \r\n                                              birth,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) a person having charge of \r\n                                              the child, to furnish the \r\n                                              prescribed particulars for \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The birth shall be registered \r\n                                              within twenty-one days of the date \r\n                                              of birth and registration outside \r\n                                              of this period shall only be made \r\n                                              on payment of the prescribed fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) When a birth has not been \r\n                                              registered within the twenty-one \r\n                                              day period referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section, \r\n                                              the Registrar may by notice in \r\n                                              writing summon any of the persons \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (3) of \r\n                                              this section to attend personally \r\n                                              at the Births and Deaths Registry \r\n                                              to furnish the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars for registration \r\n                                              within a prescribed time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) No birth shall be registered \r\n                                              after the expiration of twelve \r\n                                              months from the date of birth \r\n                                              except with the written authority \r\n                                              of the Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee, and a note of such \r\n                                              authority having been given, shall \r\n                                              be entered in the register.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.3] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Case of Doubtful \r\n                                              Paternity.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the paternity of any child \r\n                                              is in doubt&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) no person shall as the \r\n                                              putative father of the child be \r\n                                              required to give information \r\n                                              concerning the birth of the child; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the Registrar shall not enter \r\n                                              the name of any person as father \r\n                                              of the child except at the joint \r\n                                              request of the mother and the \r\n                                              person acknowledging himself to be \r\n                                              the father of the child and that \r\n                                              person shall either sign the \r\n                                              register together with the mother \r\n                                              or make a declaration in the \r\n                                              prescribed form acknowledging \r\n                                              himself to be the father of the \r\n                                              child.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the mother is \r\n                                              dead the entry in the register may \r\n                                              be made on the request of the \r\n                                              person acknowledging himself to be \r\n                                              the father.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.4] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Registration of Name \r\n                                              Subsequent to Registration of \r\n                                              Birth.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Where a birth had been \r\n                                              registered and it is desired to \r\n                                              change the name of the child, or \r\n                                              where a birth has been registered \r\n                                              without a name and a name is \r\n                                              subsequently given to the child, \r\n                                              the parent or guardian of the \r\n                                              child may within twelve months \r\n                                              after the registration of the \r\n                                              birth deliver to the Registrar a \r\n                                              certificate stating the name now \r\n                                              given to the child and the \r\n                                              Registrar, upon receipt of such \r\n                                              certificate and upon payment of \r\n                                              the prescribed fee, shall, without \r\n                                              any erasure of the original entry, \r\n                                              forthwith enter in the register \r\n                                              the name mentioned in the \r\n                                              certificate as having been given \r\n                                              to such child.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Every such certificate shall \r\n                                              be signed either by the person who \r\n                                              performed the rite of baptism upon \r\n                                              the occasion on which the name was \r\n                                              given or altered, or, if the child \r\n                                              is not baptised, by the parent or \r\n                                              guardian of the child.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Birth Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Registrar shall, as soon as a \r\n                                              birth is registered, or, where the \r\n                                              birth has been registered without \r\n                                              a name, then, upon registration of \r\n                                              the name, issue a birth \r\n                                              certificate free of charge to the \r\n                                              father, mother or a person \r\n                                              authorised by one of them or by \r\n                                              the court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FOETAL \r\n                                              DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Foetal Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              foetal death is death prior to the \r\n                                              complete expulsion or extraction \r\n                                              from its mother of a product of \r\n                                              conception, irrespective of the \r\n                                              duration of pregnancy; the death \r\n                                              is indicated by the fact that \r\n                                              after such separation the foetus \r\n                                              does not breathe or show any other \r\n                                              evidence of life, such as beating \r\n                                              of the heart, pulsation of the \r\n                                              umbilical cord, or definite \r\n                                              movement of voluntary muscles.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Registration of Foetal \r\n                                              Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every foetal death which occurs in \r\n                                              any district to which this Act \r\n                                              applies shall be registered as \r\n                                              provided herein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Person Responsible for \r\n                                              Registering Foetal Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Where a foetal death occurs, \r\n                                              the person who would have been \r\n                                              responsible for the registration \r\n                                              of birth under subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 8 of this Act if it had \r\n                                              been a birth, shall furnish the \r\n                                              prescribed statement respecting \r\n                                              the foetal death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The person furnishing the \r\n                                              statement required under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall either&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; deliver to the Registrar a \r\n                                              written certificate in respect of \r\n                                              the foetal death signed by a \r\n                                              registered medical practitioner or \r\n                                              midwife who was in attendance at \r\n                                              the occurrence or who has examined \r\n                                              the foetus; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; make a declaration to the \r\n                                              effect that no registered medical \r\n                                              practitioner or midwife was \r\n                                              present at the occurrence or has \r\n                                              examined the foetus, or that his \r\n                                              or her certificate cannot be \r\n                                              obtained in respect of the foetal \r\n                                              death. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Burial Permit for \r\n                                              Foetal Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If the Registrar is satisfied with \r\n                                              the certificate or the declaration \r\n                                              referred to in section 14 of this \r\n                                              Act, he shall register the foetal \r\n                                              death and forthwith issue a burial \r\n                                              permit to the person requiring it \r\n                                              for the purpose of burial or other \r\n                                              disposition of the body.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.5] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;REGISTRATION OF DEATHS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Registration of Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every death which occurs in a \r\n                                              district to which this Act applies \r\n                                              shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar of that district within \r\n                                              twenty-four hours after the death \r\n                                              and registration outside of this \r\n                                              period shall only be made on \r\n                                              payment of the prescribed fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No death shall be registered \r\n                                              after the expiration of twelve \r\n                                              months from the date of death \r\n                                              except with the written authority \r\n                                              of the Registrar of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee and a note of such \r\n                                              authority having been given shall \r\n                                              be entered in the register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a dead body is found and \r\n                                              no information as to the place of \r\n                                              death is available, the death \r\n                                              shall be registered by the \r\n                                              Registrar for the district in \r\n                                              which the body is found.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.6] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Persons to Furnish \r\n                                              Information as to Death.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall, subject to subsection \r\n                                              (2) of section 36 of this Act, be \r\n                                              the duty of each of the following \r\n                                              persons to furnish the Registrar \r\n                                              with the prescribed particulars of \r\n                                              a death&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the nearest relative of the \r\n                                              deceased present at the death or \r\n                                              in attendance at the last illness \r\n                                              of the deceased;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; in default of the above, any \r\n                                              relative of the deceased residing \r\n                                              or being within the registration \r\n                                              district;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp;&nbsp; if no relative is available \r\n                                              the occupier of the premises in \r\n                                              which the death occurred;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; any other adult person \r\n                                              present at the death or having \r\n                                              knowledge of the death;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; the coroner who has been \r\n                                              notified of the death and has made \r\n                                              an inquiry or held an inquiry \r\n                                              regarding the death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Certificate of Medical \r\n                                              Practitioner.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The medical certificate stating \r\n                                              the cause of death shall be issued \r\n                                              free of charge by the medical \r\n                                              practitioner who was last in \r\n                                              attendance during the illness of \r\n                                              the deceased, and this certificate \r\n                                              shall forthwith be delivered to \r\n                                              the Registrar.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.7]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Duty of Coroner After \r\n                                              Holding Inquiry.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; When an inquiry is held on \r\n                                              any dead body, the coroner who \r\n                                              holds the inquiry shall forthwith \r\n                                              complete and sign a certificate \r\n                                              stating the cause of the death and \r\n                                              the certificate shall forthwith be \r\n                                              delivered to the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Where a death was the result \r\n                                              of any of the circumstances in \r\n                                              which a coroner is required under \r\n                                              the Coroners Act, 1960 (Act 18) to \r\n                                              hold an inquiry or conduct a \r\n                                              post-mortem examination, the \r\n                                              Registrar shall neither register \r\n                                              the death nor issue a death \r\n                                              certificate unless ordered to do \r\n                                              so by a coroner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Death Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2) of \r\n                                              section 19 of this Act, upon the \r\n                                              receipt of the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars required under section \r\n                                              17 of this Act or the certificate, \r\n                                              if any, under section 18 of this \r\n                                              Act, the Registrar, if he is \r\n                                              satisfied as to the particulars or \r\n                                              the certificate, as the case may \r\n                                              be, shall register the death.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall as soon as \r\n                                              a death is registered issue:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a burial permit free of charge \r\n                                              in the prescribed form, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a death certificate in the \r\n                                              prescribed form on payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the body of a deceased \r\n                                              person has been removed into Ghana \r\n                                              from some place outside of Ghana \r\n                                              for disposal, and no order has \r\n                                              been given by a coroner in respect \r\n                                              thereof, the Registrar of the \r\n                                              district in which it is intended \r\n                                              to dispose of the body, if it \r\n                                              appears that the death is not \r\n                                              required by law to be registered \r\n                                              in Ghana, shall upon application \r\n                                              by the person procuring the \r\n                                              disposal and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee issue a burial \r\n                                              permit.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.8] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Provisions as to Burial \r\n                                              or Other Disposition.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; No person shall bury or \r\n                                              otherwise dispose of the body of \r\n                                              any person who dies in any \r\n                                              district to which this Act applies \r\n                                              except as provided herein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Regulations may provide for \r\n                                              the disposal of dead bodies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;No Burial Without \r\n                                              Burial Permit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The owner or manager of an \r\n                                              authorised burial ground shall not \r\n                                              permit the burial of a dead body \r\n                                              in the burial ground, unless a \r\n                                              burial permit has been delivered \r\n                                              to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that in the case of \r\n                                              reburial after an authorised \r\n                                              exhumation, a burial permit shall \r\n                                              not be required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The owner or manager of an \r\n                                              authorised burial ground shall \r\n                                              endorse the burial permit with the \r\n                                              prescribed particulars and shall \r\n                                              then return it to the Registrar of \r\n                                              the district in which burial took \r\n                                              place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The owner or manager of an \r\n                                              authorised burial ground, shall at \r\n                                              the end of each month, transmit to \r\n                                              the Registrar a return of the \r\n                                              burials that took place that month \r\n                                              in the burial ground.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Registration of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              285), s.9] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Occurring on the High Seas and Air \r\n                                              Space above the High Seas</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Births and Deaths on \r\n                                              High Seas and Air Space.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Upon receipt of an information in \r\n                                              respect of birth of a child, \r\n                                              foetal death or death of a person \r\n                                              on board a ship or an aircraft \r\n                                              whose port or place of registry is \r\n                                              in Ghana, the Registrar, if he is \r\n                                              satisfied as to the truth and \r\n                                              sufficiency of the particulars \r\n                                              received, shall register the \r\n                                              birth, foetal death or death, as \r\n                                              the case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;AUTHORISED BURIAL GROUNDS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Burial in Authorised \r\n                                              Burial Grounds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Local Authorities to \r\n                                              Provide Burial Grounds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Private Burial Grounds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Exhumation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Saving.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Repealed by the Mortuaries and \r\n                                              Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 (Act \r\n                                              563), s.40(1)]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding the repeal of the \r\n                                              Part Specified in section 40(1) of \r\n                                              the Mortuaries and Funeral \r\n                                              Facilities Act, 1998 any burial \r\n                                              ground use under the provisions of \r\n                                              the Part is hereby continued in \r\n                                              existence but subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.[Inserted \r\n                                              and to be cited as the Mortuaries \r\n                                              and Funeral Facilities Act, 1998 \r\n                                              (Act 563), s.40(2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fraudulent Registrations and \r\n                                              Certificates</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Cancellation of \r\n                                              Registration and Birth \r\n                                              Certificates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On written application by any \r\n                                              person and after notice to and \r\n                                              hearing of all persons interested, \r\n                                              or where the holding of a hearing \r\n                                              is not possible, on receipt of a \r\n                                              statutory declaration or such \r\n                                              other evidence satisfactory to the \r\n                                              Registrar as may be adduced by any \r\n                                              person interested, the Registrar, \r\n                                              if he is satisfied that a \r\n                                              registration is false or \r\n                                              improperly made or that a \r\n                                              certificate obtained is being used \r\n                                              for fraudulent or improper \r\n                                              purposes shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; order that a note be made on \r\n                                              the register to that effect, as \r\n                                              the case may be;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) order every certificate issued \r\n                                              in respect of that registration to \r\n                                              be delivered to him for&nbsp; \r\n                                              cancellation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a registration is false \r\n                                              or improperly made no certificate \r\n                                              shall be issued in respect of that \r\n                                              registration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person who has in his \r\n                                              possession or under his control a \r\n                                              certificate in respect of which an \r\n                                              order has been made under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall forthwith, upon receipt of \r\n                                              the order, deliver the certificate \r\n                                              to the Registrar, who shall \r\n                                              preserve it in a permanent file \r\n                                              together with the order and all \r\n                                              documents relating thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Alterations in Registers</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Alterations in \r\n                                              Registers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No alteration shall be made in \r\n                                              any register of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths or deaths except as \r\n                                              authorised by this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any clerical error which may \r\n                                              from time to time be discovered in \r\n                                              any such register may, in the \r\n                                              prescribed manner and subject to \r\n                                              the prescribed conditions, be \r\n                                              corrected by any person authorised \r\n                                              in that behalf by the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) An error or omission of fact \r\n                                              or substance in any such register \r\n                                              may be corrected by ruling one \r\n                                              clear line through the original \r\n                                              entry and. by an entry in the \r\n                                              appropriate column or columns \r\n                                              which shall be dated and \r\n                                              authenticated&nbsp; by the&nbsp; signature \r\n                                              of the Registrar, having custody \r\n                                              of the register, upon payment to \r\n                                              him by the person requiring the \r\n                                              error to be corrected of the \r\n                                              prescribed fee and upon production \r\n                                              to him by that person of a \r\n                                              statutory declaration setting \r\n                                              forth the nature of the error or \r\n                                              omission, and the true facts of \r\n                                              the case made by any two of the \r\n                                              persons referred to in subsection \r\n                                              (3) of section 8 or section 17 of \r\n                                              this Act of the birth or death \r\n                                              with reference to which the error \r\n                                              has been made, or in default of \r\n                                              such persons, then by two credible \r\n                                              persons having knowledge of the \r\n                                              truth of the case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where an error of fact or \r\n                                              substance (other than an error \r\n                                              relating to the cause of death)&nbsp; \r\n                                              occurs in the information given by \r\n                                              a coroner''s certificate concerning \r\n                                              a dead body upon which or a death \r\n                                              touching which he has held an \r\n                                              inquiry, the coroner, if satisfied \r\n                                              by evidence on oath or statutory \r\n                                              declaration that such an error \r\n                                              exists, may certify under his hand \r\n                                              to the Registrar having custody of \r\n                                              the register in which the \r\n                                              information is entered, the nature \r\n                                              of the error and the true facts of \r\n                                              the case as ascertained by him on \r\n                                              that evidence, and the error may \r\n                                              thereupon be corrected by that \r\n                                              Registrar in the register by \r\n                                              ruling one clear line through the \r\n                                              original entry and by an entry in \r\n                                              the appropriate column or columns \r\n                                              of the facts so certified by the \r\n                                              coroner, which entry shall be \r\n                                              dated and authenticated by that \r\n                                              Registrar having custody of the \r\n                                              register.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.10] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Searches</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Searches of Records.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar, upon the \r\n                                              application of any person and the \r\n                                              giving by that person of such \r\n                                              information as the Registrar \r\n                                              thinks fit and upon the payment by \r\n                                              that person of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              shall on being satisfied that the \r\n                                              information is not to be used for \r\n                                              an improper purpose, cause to be \r\n                                              made on behalf of that person a \r\n                                              search</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; for the record of the \r\n                                              registration in his office of any \r\n                                              birth, foetal death or death; and\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; for the record of any burial \r\n                                              in his office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar shall make a \r\n                                              report on the search which shall \r\n                                              state whether or not the birth, \r\n                                              foetal death, death or burial is \r\n                                              registered or recorded and, if \r\n                                              registered, shall state the \r\n                                              registration number thereof, and \r\n                                              shall contain no further \r\n                                              information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Issue of Certificates and Copies</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Certified Copy of Entry \r\n                                              in Register of Births.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar upon the \r\n                                              application of any person and the \r\n                                              giving by that person of such \r\n                                              information as the Registrar \r\n                                              thinks fit and upon the payment by \r\n                                              that person of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              shall on being satisfied that the \r\n                                              information is not to be used for \r\n                                              an improper purpose cause to be \r\n                                              issued to that person a certified \r\n                                              copy of the entry in the Register \r\n                                              of Births in respect of any \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A certified copy issued under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be a true copy of the entry \r\n                                              in the Register of Births together \r\n                                              with a certificate to that effect \r\n                                              at the end which shall be signed \r\n                                              by the Registrar having custody of \r\n                                              the register.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.11]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Certified Copy of Entry \r\n                                              in Register of Deaths.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Registrar, upon the \r\n                                              application of any person and the \r\n                                              giving by that person of such \r\n                                              information as the Registrar \r\n                                              thinks fit and upon the payment by \r\n                                              that person of the prescribed fee, \r\n                                              shall on being satisfied that the \r\n                                              information is not to be used for \r\n                                              an improper purpose cause to be \r\n                                              issued to that person a certified \r\n                                              copy of the entry in the Register \r\n                                              of Deaths in respect of any \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A certified copy issued under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be a true copy of the entry \r\n                                              in the Register of Deaths together \r\n                                              with a certificate to that effect \r\n                                              at the end which shall be signed \r\n                                              by the Registrar having custody of \r\n                                              the register.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.11]\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 34&#8212;Certificates as \r\n                                              Evidence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every certificate purporting to be \r\n                                              issued under this Act shall be \r\n                                              admissible in any court as prima \r\n                                              facie evidence of the facts \r\n                                              certified to be recorded, and \r\n                                              every certified copy purporting to \r\n                                              be issued under this Act shall be \r\n                                              so admissible as prima facie \r\n                                              evidence of the facts recorded \r\n                                              therein; and it shall not be \r\n                                              necessary to prove the signature \r\n                                              or official position of the person \r\n                                              by whom the certificate or \r\n                                              certificate copy purports to be \r\n                                              signed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 35&#8212;Appeal from Refusal of \r\n                                              Registrar to Search or Issue \r\n                                              Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an application for a \r\n                                              certified copy or a search in \r\n                                              respect of the registration of a \r\n                                              birth, foetal death or death is \r\n                                              refused by the Registrar, then if, \r\n                                              within one year of the refusal, \r\n                                              application is made to a judge of \r\n                                              the High Court, the judge, upon \r\n                                              being satisfied that the \r\n                                              application is made in good faith \r\n                                              and that the applicant has good \r\n                                              reason for requiring the certified \r\n                                              copy or search, may make an order \r\n                                              requiring the Registrar to issue \r\n                                              the certified copy or make the \r\n                                              search; and the clerk of the court \r\n                                              shall forthwith forward a copy of \r\n                                              the order to the Registrar who \r\n                                              shall comply therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the Registrar has made \r\n                                              an order under section 29 of this \r\n                                              Act any person interested may, \r\n                                              within two years thereafter, \r\n                                              appeal therefrom to a judge of the \r\n                                              High Court; and the judge may make \r\n                                              an order confirming or setting \r\n                                              aside the order of the Registrar \r\n                                              and the order of the judge shall \r\n                                              be final.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; At least 14 days notice of \r\n                                              the application or appeal shall be \r\n                                              served on the Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Penalties</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 36&#8212;Failure to Carry out \r\n                                              Duties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Any person who fails to give \r\n                                              any notice, or to furnish any \r\n                                              statement, certificate or \r\n                                              particulars required under this \r\n                                              Act, within the time limited by \r\n                                              this Act, shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and shall be liable on \r\n                                              conviction thereof to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding forty-eight cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Where more than one person is \r\n                                              required&nbsp; to give any notice, or \r\n                                              to register, or to furnish any \r\n                                              statement, certificate or \r\n                                              particulars required under this \r\n                                              Act and the duty is carried out by \r\n                                              any one of such persons, the \r\n                                              others shall cease to be liable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Interference with \r\n                                              public Notice. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who wilfully removes, \r\n                                              defaces or destroys a public \r\n                                              notice relating to the \r\n                                              registration of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths or deaths shall be guilty \r\n                                              of an offence and shall be liable \r\n                                              on conviction thereof to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding fifty cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 38&#8212;Penalty for Improper \r\n                                              Disclosure of Information.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of section 6 of this \r\n                                              Act shall be guilty of an offence \r\n                                              and shall be liable on conviction \r\n                                              thereof to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              two hundred and fifty cedis or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding six months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;General Penalty.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of this Act, for which \r\n                                              no penalty is provided, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and on \r\n                                              conviction shall be liable to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding one hundred \r\n                                              cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;Power to make \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations providing for any \r\n                                              matter which under this Act is to \r\n                                              be provided for by regulations or \r\n                                              is to be prescribed and generally \r\n                                              for carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              the regulations may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) provide for the form of any \r\n                                              certificate declaration or return \r\n                                              to be given or made under&nbsp; this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) provide for the regulation and \r\n                                              control of burial grounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) provide for payment of fees \r\n                                              in. respect of any of the \r\n                                              following matters:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              the&nbsp; allocation of grave spaces;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) the exhumation of a corpse, \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) generally in respect of any \r\n                                              matter for which fees are to be \r\n                                              prescribed for carrying into \r\n                                              effect the provisions of the Act \r\n                                              and Regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Registration of Births and Deaths \r\n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285), s.12] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, except where the \r\n                                              context otherwise requires, the \r\n                                              following expressions have the \r\n                                              meanings hereby respectively \r\n                                              assigned to them, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;birth&quot; has the meaning assigned \r\n                                              to it by section 7 of this Act;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;burial&quot; includes cremation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;burial ground&quot; includes a \r\n                                              cemetery;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;disposal&quot; in relation to a dead \r\n                                              body, means disposal by burial, \r\n                                              cremation or any other means;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;district&quot; means a registration \r\n                                              district created under section 4 \r\n                                              of this Act and includes area of \r\n                                              authority of a District Assembly; \r\n                                              [As amended by the Local \r\n                                              Administration Act, 1971 (Act \r\n                                              359), sch.5 and further amended by \r\n                                              the Local Government Act, 1993 \r\n                                              (Act 462), sch.7]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;district to which this Act \r\n                                              applies&quot; means a district to which \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              relating to the registration of \r\n                                              births, foetal deaths and deaths \r\n                                              apply by virtue of an instrument \r\n                                              made under section 44 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for the registration \r\n                                              of births and deaths;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;occupier&quot; in relation to any \r\n                                              institution, includes the \r\n                                              governor, keeper, master, matron, \r\n                                              superintendent, or other chief \r\n                                              resident officer, and, in relation \r\n                                              to a house let in separate \r\n                                              apartments or lodgings, includes \r\n                                              any person residing in the house \r\n                                              who is the person under whom the \r\n                                              lodgings or separate apartments \r\n                                              are immediately held, or his \r\n                                              agent;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by \r\n                                              regulations made under section 40 \r\n                                              of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Registrar&quot; means Registrar of \r\n                                              Births and Deaths and includes an \r\n                                              officer of the District Assembly \r\n                                              designated for the purpose by \r\n                                              District Executive.[As substituted \r\n                                              by the Registration of Births and \r\n                                              Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.13 and \r\n                                              further amended by the Local \r\n                                              Government Act, 1993 (Act 462), \r\n                                              sch.7]] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;relative&quot; includes a relative by \r\n                                              marriage.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Repeal and Saving.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Births, Deaths, and \r\n                                              Burials Ordinance (Cap. 80) as \r\n                                              subsequently amended is repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An instrument made under the \r\n                                              enactment repealed by this Act and \r\n                                              in force immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              the corresponding provision of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such day as the Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Application of Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act, so far as it relates to \r\n                                              the registration of births, foetal \r\n                                              deaths and deaths, shall apply to \r\n                                              such districts as the Minister by \r\n                                              legislative instrument may specify \r\n                                              and to the area of authority of \r\n                                              every District Assembly, which \r\n                                              shall for the purposes of this Act \r\n                                              be deemed to have been specified \r\n                                              by the Minister by legislative \r\n                                              instrument made under this \r\n                                              section.[As amended by the Local \r\n                                              Administration Act, 1971 (Act \r\n                                              359), s. sch.5 and further amended \r\n                                              by the Local Government Act, 1993 \r\n                                              (Act 462), sch.7.]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1968 \r\n                                              (NLCD 285).1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LOCAL ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 359).2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1993 (ACT \r\n                                              462).3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              MORTUARIES AND FUNERAL FACILITIES \r\n                                              ACT, 1998 (ACT 563).4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"></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  301');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(122, 'RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER OF ASSETS ACT, 1970 (ACT 323)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1338" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER OF ASSETS \r\n                                              ACT, 1970 (ACT 323)</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                                              1. Minister of Finance may \r\n                                              Restrict Transfer or other \r\n                                              Disposal of Assets of certain \r\n                                              Persons in Prescribed \r\n                                              Circumstances.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Bank Accounts, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Penalty for Contravention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Bankers and Others to give \r\n                                              Information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Offences by Bodies of Persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. A Restriction may be Imposed \r\n                                              under Section 1 in respect of \r\n                                              Persons falling under Prescribed \r\n                                              Categories before Commencement of \r\n                                              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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD</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 RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER OF \r\n                                              ASSETS 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                                              imposition of restrictions on the \r\n                                              transfer or other disposal of the \r\n                                              assets of certain persons in \r\n                                              prescribed circumstances and for \r\n                                              other purposes connected \r\n                                              therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 7th April, 1970</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Presidential \r\n                                              Commission and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Minister of Finance may \r\n                                              Restrict Transfer or other \r\n                                              Disposal of Assets of certain \r\n                                              Persons in Prescribed \r\n                                              Circumstances.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance hereafter in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the Minister&quot; may, \r\n                                              by Gazette notice, impose \r\n                                              restrictions on the transfer or \r\n                                              other disposal of the assets \r\n                                              generally or any particular assets \r\n                                              specified in the Gazette notice, \r\n                                              of any person in all or any of the \r\n                                              following circumstances:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where a Commission or \r\n                                              Committee of Inquiry is conducting \r\n                                              an investigation into the \r\n                                              activities or assets of that \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                                              (b) where that person or his \r\n                                              personal representative has been \r\n                                              required under the Financial \r\n                                              Administration Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              165), to pay any money to the \r\n                                              Government or to account to the \r\n                                              Government for any money or apply \r\n                                              any public money for a particular \r\n                                              purpose and has not so applied 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                                              (c) where that person is being \r\n                                              prosecuted or is being \r\n                                              investigated for an offence \r\n                                              involving misappropriation or \r\n                                              dissipation of public funds,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) where that person is being \r\n                                              sued by the Government for the \r\n                                              recovery of public funds, 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) where the Cabinet is satisfied \r\n                                              in respect of that person that it \r\n                                              is in the public interest so to \r\n                                              do:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that any restriction \r\n                                              under paragraph (e) of this \r\n                                              section shall not be imposed for a \r\n                                              period of more than three months \r\n                                              in the first instance subject to \r\n                                              renewal for further periods of \r\n                                              three months in each instance.</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;Bank Accounts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In the case of any account kept \r\n                                              with any banker or any security or \r\n                                              thing deposited with or any \r\n                                              document relating thereto kept \r\n                                              with a banker by any person to \r\n                                              whom all or any of the provisions \r\n                                              of paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) \r\n                                              and (e) of section 1 of this Act \r\n                                              apply the Minister may, without \r\n                                              prejudice to the general effect of \r\n                                              the said section, impose \r\n                                              restrictions on&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the withdrawal of any money \r\n                                              from the said account by any \r\n                                              person or the obtaining of any \r\n                                              such security, thing or document \r\n                                              by any person from the banker,</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 out of the bank \r\n                                              account by the banker of any money \r\n                                              or the delivery to any person of \r\n                                              any such security, thing or \r\n                                              document.</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;Penalty for \r\n                                              Contravention.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes any of \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act or the \r\n                                              terms imposed in any Gazette \r\n                                              notice published pursuant to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and shall on \r\n                                              conviction be liable to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢10,000 or a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding three \r\n                                              years or both, and shall also be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢100 in respect of each day on \r\n                                              which the offence continues.</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;Bankers and Others to \r\n                                              give Information.</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 any \r\n                                              banker requested in writing by the \r\n                                              Minister so to do to give any \r\n                                              information in his knowledge or \r\n                                              possession concerning any bank \r\n                                              account to which section 2 of this \r\n                                              Act relates or any security, thing \r\n                                              or document referred to in that \r\n                                              section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) It shall be the duty of any \r\n                                              person (including a banker) to \r\n                                              give any information in his \r\n                                              knowledge or possession concerning \r\n                                              any activities, assets, moneys or \r\n                                              public funds referred to in \r\n                                              paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of \r\n                                              section 1 of this Act which may \r\n                                              reasonably be requested from him \r\n                                              in writing by the Minister for any \r\n                                              of the purposes referred to in the \r\n                                              said paragraphs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) without reasonable excuse \r\n                                              proof of which shall be on him, \r\n                                              fails to comply with a request \r\n                                              made by the Minister under 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                                              (b) gives in response to any such \r\n                                              request any information which he \r\n                                              knows to be false or which he has \r\n                                              no reason to believe to be true,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              shall be liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢200 or to a term of imprisonment \r\n                                              not exceeding one year or to both; \r\n                                              and to a further fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢10 for each day on \r\n                                              which the offence continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Offences by Bodies of \r\n                                              Persons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an offence under section \r\n                                              4 of this Act is committed by a \r\n                                              body of persons then&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of a body \r\n                                              corporate other than a \r\n                                              partnership, every director and \r\n                                              officer of that body shall be \r\n                                              deemed also to be guilty of the \r\n                                              offence,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of a partnership, \r\n                                              every partner shall also be deemed \r\n                                              to be guilty of the offence.</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 deemed to \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence by virtue \r\n                                              of subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              if he proves that the offence was \r\n                                              committed without his consent or \r\n                                              connivance by a person other than \r\n                                              himself and that he exercised all \r\n                                              due diligence to prevent the \r\n                                              commission of the offence having \r\n                                              regard to all the circumstances.</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;A Restriction may be \r\n                                              Imposed under Section 1 in respect \r\n                                              of Persons falling under \r\n                                              Prescribed Categories before \r\n                                              Commencement of this Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              restriction may be imposed in \r\n                                              respect of any person to whom any \r\n                                              of the circumstances set out in \r\n                                              section 1 of this Act applies \r\n                                              whether it first applied to him \r\n                                              before or after the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act.</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 323');
