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(41, 'DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES ACT, 1962 (ACT 148)', '\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="728" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES ACT, 1962 \r\n                                              (ACT 148)</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. Articles to have Force of Law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. International Organisations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA 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 DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES ACT, \r\n                                              1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to enable effect to be \r\n                                              given to the Vienna Convention on \r\n                                              Diplomatic Relations signed in \r\n                                              Vienna on the eighteenth day of \r\n                                              April, one thousand nine hundred \r\n                                              and sixty-one, and for purposes \r\n                                              connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 7th November, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS a Convention entitled the \r\n                                              Vienna Convention on Diplomatic \r\n                                              Relations the fact of which is set \r\n                                              out in the Schedule to this Act, \r\n                                              and is in this Act referred to as \r\n                                              &quot;the Vienna Convention&quot; was signed \r\n                                              on behalf of the Government of \r\n                                              Ghana in Vienna on the eighteenth \r\n                                              day of April, one thousand nine \r\n                                              hundred and sixty-one, for \r\n                                              promoting friendly relations among \r\n                                              nations by establishing in common \r\n                                              agreement uniform principles and \r\n                                              rules relating to diplomatic \r\n                                              intercourse, privileges and \r\n                                              immunities:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS it is decided to give \r\n                                              effect to the Vienna Convention \r\n                                              and to provide, so far as \r\n                                              necessary, that its provisions \r\n                                              shall have the force of law in \r\n                                              Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS it is intended that \r\n                                              the Vienna Convention shall \r\n                                              replace the Diplomatic Privileges \r\n                                              Ordinance conferring immunities \r\n                                              and privileges on staffs, \r\n                                              representatives and members of \r\n                                              committees of, and persons on \r\n                                              missions on behalf of, certain \r\n                                              international organisations and in \r\n                                              respect of the property, premises \r\n                                              and documents of such \r\n                                              organisations:</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;Articles to Have Force \r\n                                              of Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Articles 22, 23, 24, and 27 to 40 \r\n                                              of the Vienna Convention (which \r\n                                              regulate the immunities and \r\n                                              privileges, including exemption \r\n                                              from taxation, freedom of \r\n                                              communication, inviolability of \r\n                                              premises and immunity from civil \r\n                                              and criminal jurisdiction, to be \r\n                                              conferred upon diplomatic agents) \r\n                                              shall have the force of law and \r\n                                              references therein to the \r\n                                              receiving State shall, for this \r\n                                              purpose, be construed as \r\n                                              references to the Republic.</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;International \r\n                                              Organisations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, make Regulations \r\n                                              extending any or all of the \r\n                                              immunities and privileges \r\n                                              conferred on diplomatic agents by \r\n                                              virtue of this Act to prescribed \r\n                                              organisations and prescribed \r\n                                              representatives and officials, \r\n                                              subject to such conditions and \r\n                                              limitations 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 3&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Diplomatic Privileges \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 268) and the \r\n                                              Diplomatic Immunities Commonwealth \r\n                                              Countries) Ordinance, 1957 (No. \r\n                                              22) are repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Pending the making of \r\n                                              regulations under section 2 of \r\n                                              this Act, organisations and \r\n                                              persons to whom the Diplomatic \r\n                                              Privileges Ordinance applied shall \r\n                                              continue to be entitled to the \r\n                                              privileges and immunities \r\n                                              conferred by that Ordinance, so \r\n                                              far as they are not inconsistent \r\n                                              with the provisions of the Vienna \r\n                                              Convention to which section 2 of \r\n                                              this Act applies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Commencement. </span>\r\n                                              </b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such day as the President may, \r\n                                              by legislative instrument, \r\n                                              appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE&#8212;VIENNA CONVENTION ON \r\n                                              DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The States Parties to the Present \r\n                                              Convention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Recalling that peoples of all \r\n                                              nations from ancient times have \r\n                                              recognised the status of \r\n                                              diplomatic agents,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Having in mind the purposes and \r\n                                              principles of the Charter of the \r\n                                              United Nations concerning the \r\n                                              sovereign equality of States, the \r\n                                              maintenance of international peace \r\n                                              and security, and the promotion of \r\n                                              friendly relations among nations,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Believing that an international \r\n                                              convention on diplomatic \r\n                                              intercourse, privileges, and \r\n                                              immunities would contribute to the \r\n                                              development of friendly relations \r\n                                              among nations, irrespective of \r\n                                              their differing constitutional and \r\n                                              social system,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Realising that the purpose of such \r\n                                              privileges and immunities is not \r\n                                              to benefit individuals but to \r\n                                              ensure the efficient performance \r\n                                              of the functions of diplomatic \r\n                                              missions as representing States,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Affirming that the rules of \r\n                                              customary international law should \r\n                                              continue to govern questions not \r\n                                              expressly regulated by the \r\n                                              provisions of the present \r\n                                              Convention,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Have agreed as follows:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purpose of the present \r\n                                              Convention, the following \r\n                                              expressions shall have the \r\n                                              meanings hereunder assigned to \r\n                                              them:</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 &quot;head of the mission&quot; is \r\n                                              the person charged by the sending \r\n                                              State with the duty of acting in \r\n                                              that capacity;</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 &quot;members of the mission&quot; \r\n                                              are the head of the mission and \r\n                                              the members of the staff of the \r\n                                              mission;</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 &quot;members of the staff of \r\n                                              the mission&quot; are the members of \r\n                                              the diplomatic staff, of the \r\n                                              administrative and technical staff \r\n                                              and of the service staff of the \r\n                                              mission;</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 &quot;members of the diplomatic \r\n                                              staff&quot; are the members of the \r\n                                              staff of the mission having \r\n                                              diplomatic rank;</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) a &quot;diplomatic agent&quot; is the \r\n                                              head of the mission or a member of \r\n                                              the diplomatic staff of the \r\n                                              mission;</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) the &quot;members of the \r\n                                              administrative and technical \r\n                                              staff&quot; are the members of the \r\n                                              staff of the mission employed in \r\n                                              the administrative and technical \r\n                                              service of the mission;</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) the &quot;members of the service \r\n                                              staff&quot; are the members of the \r\n                                              staff of the mission in the \r\n                                              domestic service of the mission;</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) a &quot;private servant&quot; is a \r\n                                              person who is in the domestic \r\n                                              service of a member of the mission \r\n                                              and who is not an employee of the \r\n                                              sending State;</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                                              the &quot;premises of the mission&quot; are \r\n                                              the buildings or parts of \r\n                                              buildings and the land ancillary \r\n                                              thereto, irrespective of \r\n                                              ownership, used for the purposes \r\n                                              of the mission including the \r\n                                              residence of the head of the \r\n                                              mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The establishment of diplomatic \r\n                                              relations between States, and of \r\n                                              permanent diplomatic missions, \r\n                                              takes place by mutual consent.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The functions of a diplomatic \r\n                                              mission consist inter alia in:</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) representing the sending State \r\n                                              in the receiving State;</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) protecting in the receiving \r\n                                              State the interests of the sending \r\n                                              State and of its nationals, within \r\n                                              the limits permitted by \r\n                                              international law;</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) negotiating with the \r\n                                              Government of the receiving State;</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) ascertaining by all lawful \r\n                                              means conditions and developments \r\n                                              in the receiving state and \r\n                                              reporting thereon to the \r\n                                              government of the sending State;</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) promoting friendly relations \r\n                                              between the sending State and the \r\n                                              receiving State, and&nbsp; developing \r\n                                              their economic, cultural and \r\n                                              scientific relations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Nothing in the present \r\n                                              Convention shall be construed as \r\n                                              preventing the performance of \r\n                                              consular functions by a diplomatic \r\n                                              mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The sending State must make \r\n                                              certain that the agreément of the \r\n                                              receiving State has been given for \r\n                                              the person it proposes to accredit \r\n                                              as head of the mission to that \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The receiving State is not \r\n                                              obliged to give reasons to the \r\n                                              sending State for a refusal of \r\n                                              agreément.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 5 </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The sending State may, after it \r\n                                              has given due notification to the \r\n                                              receiving State concerned, \r\n                                              accredit a head of mission or \r\n                                              assign any member of the \r\n                                              diplomatic staff, as the case may \r\n                                              be, to more than one State, unless \r\n                                              there is express objection by any \r\n                                              of the receiving States.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. If the sending State accredits \r\n                                              a head of mission to one or more \r\n                                              other States it may establish a \r\n                                              diplomatic mission headed by a \r\n                                              chargé d&#8217;affaires ad interim in \r\n                                              each State where the head of \r\n                                              mission has not his permanent \r\n                                              seat.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. A head of&nbsp; mission&nbsp; or any \r\n                                              member of the diplomatic staff of \r\n                                              the mission may act as \r\n                                              representative of the sending \r\n                                              state to any international \r\n                                              organisation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 6</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Two or more States may accredit \r\n                                              the same person as head of mission \r\n                                              to another State, unless objection \r\n                                              is offered by the receiving State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 7</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Articles 5, 8, 9 and 11, the \r\n                                              sending State may freely appoint \r\n                                              the members of the staff of the \r\n                                              mission.&nbsp; In the case of military, \r\n                                              naval or air attachés, the \r\n                                              receiving State may require their \r\n                                              names to be submitted beforehand \r\n                                              for its approval.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 8 </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Members of the diplomatic staff \r\n                                              of the mission should in principle \r\n                                              be of the nationality of the \r\n                                              sending State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Members of the diplomatic staff \r\n                                              of the mission may not be \r\n                                              appointed from among persons \r\n                                              having the nationality of the \r\n                                              receiving State, except with the \r\n                                              consent of that State which may be \r\n                                              withdrawn at any time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The receiving State may reserve \r\n                                              the same right with regard to \r\n                                              nationals of a third State who are \r\n                                              not also nationals of the sending \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 9</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The receiving State may at any \r\n                                              time and without having to explain \r\n                                              its decision, notify the sending \r\n                                              State that the head of the mission \r\n                                              or any member of the diplomatic \r\n                                              staff of the mission is persona \r\n                                              non grata or that any other member \r\n                                              of the staff of the mission is not \r\n                                              acceptable.&nbsp; In any such case, the \r\n                                              sending State shall, as \r\n                                              appropriate, either recall the \r\n                                              person concerned or terminate his \r\n                                              functions with the mission. A \r\n                                              person may be declared non grata \r\n                                              or not acceptable before arriving \r\n                                              in the territory of the receiving \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. If the sending State refuses or \r\n                                              fails within a reasonable period \r\n                                              to carry out its obligations under \r\n                                              paragraph 1 of this Article, the \r\n                                              receiving State may refuse to \r\n                                              recognise the person concerned as \r\n                                              a member of the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 10</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The Ministry for Foreign \r\n                                              Affairs of the receiving State, or \r\n                                              such other ministry as may be \r\n                                              agreed, shall be notified of:</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 appointment of members of \r\n                                              the mission, their arrival and \r\n                                              their final departure or the \r\n                                              termination of their functions \r\n                                              with the mission;</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 arrival and final \r\n                                              departure of a person belonging to \r\n                                              the family of a member of the \r\n                                              mission and, where appropriate, \r\n                                              the fact that a person becomes or \r\n                                              ceases to be a member of the \r\n                                              family of a member of the mission;</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 arrival and final \r\n                                              departure of private servants in \r\n                                              the employ of persons referred to \r\n                                              in sub-paragraph (a) of this \r\n                                              paragraph and, where appropriate, \r\n                                              the fact that they are leaving the \r\n                                              employ of such persons;</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 engagement and discharge \r\n                                              of persons resident in the \r\n                                              receiving State as members of the \r\n                                              mission or private servants \r\n                                              entitled to privileges and \r\n                                              immunities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where possible, prior \r\n                                              notification of arrival and final \r\n                                              departure shall also be given.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 11</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. In the absence of specific \r\n                                              agreement as to the size of the \r\n                                              mission, the receiving State may \r\n                                              require that the size of a mission \r\n                                              be kept within limits considered \r\n                                              by it to be reasonable and normal, \r\n                                              having regard to circumstances and \r\n                                              conditions in the receiving State \r\n                                              and to the needs of the particular \r\n                                              mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The receiving State may \r\n                                              equally, within similar bounds and \r\n                                              on a non-discriminatory basis, \r\n                                              refuse to accept officials of a \r\n                                              particular category.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 12</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The sending State may not, without \r\n                                              the prior express consent of the \r\n                                              receiving State, establish offices \r\n                                              forming part of the mission in \r\n                                              localities other than those in \r\n                                              which the mission itself is \r\n                                              established.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 13</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The head of the mission is \r\n                                              considered as having taken up his \r\n                                              functions in the receiving State \r\n                                              either when he has presented his \r\n                                              credentials or when he has \r\n                                              notified his arrival and a true \r\n                                              copy of his credentials has been \r\n                                              presented to the Ministry for \r\n                                              Foreign Affairs of the receiving \r\n                                              State, or such other ministry as \r\n                                              may be agreed, in accordance with \r\n                                              the practice prevailing in the \r\n                                              receiving State which shall be \r\n                                              applied in a uniform manner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The order of presentation of \r\n                                              credentials or of a true copy \r\n                                              thereof will be determined by the \r\n                                              date and time of the arrival of \r\n                                              the head of the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 14</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Heads of mission are divided \r\n                                              into three classes, namely:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that of ambassadors or nuncios \r\n                                              accredited to Heads of State, and \r\n                                              other heads of mission of \r\n                                              equivalent rank;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that of envoys, ministers and \r\n                                              internuncios accredited to Heads \r\n                                              of State;</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) that of chargé d''affaires \r\n                                              accredited to Ministers for \r\n                                              Foreign Affairs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except as concerns precedence and \r\n                                              etiquette, there shall be no \r\n                                              differentiation between heads of \r\n                                              mission by reason of their class.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 15</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The class to which the heads of \r\n                                              their missions are to be assigned \r\n                                              shall be agreed between States.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 16</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Heads of mission shall take \r\n                                              precedence in their respective \r\n                                              classes in the order of the date \r\n                                              and time of taking up their \r\n                                              functions in accordance with \r\n                                              Article 13.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Alterations in the credentials \r\n                                              of a head of mission not involving \r\n                                              any change of class shall not \r\n                                              affect his precedence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. This article is without \r\n                                              prejudice to any practice accepted \r\n                                              by the receiving State regarding \r\n                                              the precedence of the \r\n                                              representative of the Holy See.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 17</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The precedence of the members of \r\n                                              the diplomatic staff of the \r\n                                              mission shall be notified by the \r\n                                              head of the mission to the \r\n                                              Ministry for Foreign Affairs or \r\n                                              such other ministry as may be \r\n                                              agreed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 18</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The procedure to be observed in \r\n                                              each State for the reception of \r\n                                              heads of mission shall be uniform \r\n                                              in respect of each class.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 19</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. If the post of head of the \r\n                                              mission is vacant, or if the head \r\n                                              of the mission is unable to \r\n                                              perform his functions, a chargé \r\n                                              d''affaires ad interim shall act \r\n                                              provisionally as head of the \r\n                                              mission.&nbsp; The name of the charge \r\n                                              d''affaires ad interim shall be \r\n                                              notified, either by the head of \r\n                                              the mission or, in case he is \r\n                                              unable to do so, by the Ministry \r\n                                              for Foreign Affairs of the sending \r\n                                              State to the Ministry for Foreign \r\n                                              Affairs of the receiving State or \r\n                                              such other ministry as may be \r\n                                              agreed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. In cases where no member of the \r\n                                              diplomatic staff of the mission is \r\n                                              present in the receiving State, a \r\n                                              member of the administrative and \r\n                                              technical staff may, with the \r\n                                              consent of the receiving State, be \r\n                                              designated by the sending State to \r\n                                              be in charge of the current \r\n                                              administrative affairs of the \r\n                                              mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 20</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The mission and its head shall \r\n                                              have the right to use the flag and \r\n                                              emblem of the sending State on the \r\n                                              premises of the mission, including \r\n                                              the residence of the head of the \r\n                                              mission, and on his means of \r\n                                              transport.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 21</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The receiving State shall \r\n                                              either facilitate the acquisition \r\n                                              on its territory, in accordance \r\n                                              with its laws, by the sending \r\n                                              State of premises necessary for \r\n                                              its mission or assist the latter \r\n                                              in obtaining accommodation in some \r\n                                              other way.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. It shall also, where necessary, \r\n                                              assist missions in obtaining \r\n                                              suitable accommodation for their \r\n                                              members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 22</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The premises of the mission \r\n                                              shall be inviolable.&nbsp; The agents \r\n                                              of the receiving State may not \r\n                                              enter them, except with the \r\n                                              consent of the head of the \r\n                                              mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The receiving State is under a \r\n                                              special duty to take all \r\n                                              appropriate steps to protect the \r\n                                              premises of the mission against \r\n                                              any intrusion or damage and to \r\n                                              prevent any disturbance of the \r\n                                              peace of the mission or impairment \r\n                                              of its dignity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The premises of the mission, \r\n                                              their furnishings and other \r\n                                              property thereon and the means of \r\n                                              transport of the mission shall be \r\n                                              immune from search, requisition, \r\n                                              attachment or execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 23</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The sending State and the head \r\n                                              of the mission shall be exempt \r\n                                              from all national, regional or \r\n                                              municipal dues and taxes in \r\n                                              respect of the premises of the \r\n                                              mission,&nbsp; whether owned or leased, \r\n                                              other than such as represent \r\n                                              payment for specific services \r\n                                              rendered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The exemption from taxation \r\n                                              referred to in this Article shall \r\n                                              not apply to such dues and taxes \r\n                                              payable under the law of the \r\n                                              receiving State by persons \r\n                                              contracting with the sending State \r\n                                              or the head of the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 24</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The archives and documents of the \r\n                                              mission shall be inviolable at any \r\n                                              time and wherever they may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 25</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The receiving State shall accord \r\n                                              full facilities for the \r\n                                              performance of the functions of \r\n                                              the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 26</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to its laws and \r\n                                              regulations concerning zones entry \r\n                                              into which is prohibited or \r\n                                              regulated for reasons of national \r\n                                              security, the receiving State \r\n                                              shall ensure to all members of the \r\n                                              mission freedom of movement and \r\n                                              travel in its territory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 27</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The receiving State shall \r\n                                              permit and protect free \r\n                                              communication on the part of the \r\n                                              mission for all official purposes. \r\n                                              In communicating with the \r\n                                              Government and the other missions \r\n                                              and consulates of the sending \r\n                                              State, wherever situated, the \r\n                                              mission may employ all appropriate \r\n                                              means, including diplomatic \r\n                                              couriers and messages in code or \r\n                                              cipher.&nbsp; However, the mission may \r\n                                              install and use a wireless \r\n                                              transmitter only with the consent \r\n                                              of the receiving State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The official correspondence of \r\n                                              the mission shall be inviolable. \r\n                                              Official correspondence means all \r\n                                              correspondence relating to the \r\n                                              mission and its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The diplomatic bag shall not be \r\n                                              opened or detained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The packages constituting the \r\n                                              diplomatic bag must bear visible \r\n                                              external marks of their character \r\n                                              and may contain only diplomatic \r\n                                              documents or articles intended for \r\n                                              official use.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. The diplomatic courier, who \r\n                                              shall be provided with an official \r\n                                              document indicating his status and \r\n                                              the number of packages \r\n                                              constituting the diplomatic bag, \r\n                                              shall be protected by the \r\n                                              receiving State in the performance \r\n                                              of his functions.&nbsp; He shall enjoy \r\n                                              personal inviolability and shall \r\n                                              not be liable to any form of \r\n                                              arrest or detention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. The sending State or the \r\n                                              mission may designate diplomatic \r\n                                              couriers ad hoc.&nbsp; In such cases \r\n                                              the provisions of paragraph 5 of \r\n                                              this Article shall also apply, \r\n                                              except that the immunities therein \r\n                                              &nbsp;mentioned shall cease to apply \r\n                                              when such a courier has delivered \r\n                                              to the consignee the diplomatic \r\n                                              bag in his charge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. A diplomatic bag may be \r\n                                              entrusted to the captain of a \r\n                                              commercial aircraft scheduled to \r\n                                              land at an authorised port of \r\n                                              entry.&nbsp; He shall be provided with \r\n                                              an official document indicting the \r\n                                              number of packages constituting \r\n                                              the bag but he shall not be \r\n                                              considered to be a diplomatic \r\n                                              courier.&nbsp; The mission may send one \r\n                                              of its members to take possession \r\n                                              of the diplomatic bag directly and \r\n                                              freely from the captain of the \r\n                                              aircraft.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 28</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The fees and charges levied by the \r\n                                              mission in the course of its \r\n                                              official duties shall be exempt \r\n                                              from all dues and taxes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 29</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The person of a diplomatic agent \r\n                                              shall be inviolable. He shall not \r\n                                              be liable to any form of arrest or \r\n                                              detention. The receiving State \r\n                                              shall treat him with due respect \r\n                                              and shall take all appropriate \r\n                                              steps to prevent any attack on his \r\n                                              person, freedom or dignity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 30</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The private residence of a \r\n                                              diplomatic agent shall enjoy the \r\n                                              same inviolability and protection \r\n                                              as the premises of the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. His papers, correspondence and, \r\n                                              except as provided in paragraph 3 \r\n                                              of Article 31, his property, shall \r\n                                              likewise enjoy inviolability.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 31</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. A diplomatic agent shall enjoy \r\n                                              immunity from the criminal \r\n                                              jurisdiction of the receiving \r\n                                              State. He shall also enjoy \r\n                                              immunity from its civil and \r\n                                              administrative jurisdiction, \r\n                                              except in the case of:</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 real action relating to \r\n                                              private immovable property \r\n                                              situated in the territory of the \r\n                                              receiving State, unless he holds \r\n                                              it on behalf of the sending State \r\n                                              for the purpose of the mission;</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) an action relating to \r\n                                              succession in which the diplomatic \r\n                                              agent is involved as executor, \r\n                                              administrator, heir or legatee as \r\n                                              a private person and not on behalf \r\n                                              of the sending State;</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) an action relating to any \r\n                                              professional commercial activity \r\n                                              exercised by the diplomatic agent \r\n                                              in the receiving State outside his \r\n                                              official functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. A diplomatic agent is not \r\n                                              obliged to give evidence as a \r\n                                              witness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. No measures of execution may be \r\n                                              taken in respect of a diplomatic \r\n                                              agent except in the cases coming \r\n                                              under sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and \r\n                                              (c) of paragraph 1 of this \r\n                                              Article, and provided that the \r\n                                              measures concerned can be taken \r\n                                              without infringing the \r\n                                              inviolability of his person or of \r\n                                              his residence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The immunity of a diplomatic \r\n                                              agent from the jurisdiction of the \r\n                                              receiving State does not exempt \r\n                                              him from the jurisdiction of the \r\n                                              sending State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 32</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The immunity from jurisdiction \r\n                                              of diplomatic agents and of \r\n                                              persons enjoying immunity under \r\n                                              Article 37 may be waived by the \r\n                                              sending State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Waiver must always be express.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The initiation of proceedings \r\n                                              by a diplomatic agent or by a \r\n                                              person enjoying immunity from \r\n                                              jurisdiction under Article 37 \r\n                                              shall preclude him from invoking \r\n                                              immunity from jurisdiction in \r\n                                              respect of any counterclaim \r\n                                              directly connected with the \r\n                                              principal claim.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Waiver of immunity from \r\n                                              jurisdiction in respect of civil \r\n                                              or administrative proceedings \r\n                                              shall not be held to imply waiver \r\n                                              of immunity in respect of the \r\n                                              execution of the judgment, for \r\n                                              which a separate waiver shall be \r\n                                              necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 33</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph 3 of this Article a \r\n                                              diplomatic agent shall with \r\n                                              respect to services rendered for \r\n                                              the sending State be exempt from \r\n                                              social security provisions which \r\n                                              may be in force in the receiving \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The exemption provided for in \r\n                                              paragraph 1 of this Article shall \r\n                                              also apply to private servants who \r\n                                              are in the sole employ of a \r\n                                              diplomatic agent, on condition:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that they are not nationals of \r\n                                              or permanently resident in the \r\n                                              receiving State; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that they are covered by the \r\n                                              social security provisions which \r\n                                              may be in force in the sending \r\n                                              State or a third State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. A diplomatic agent who employs \r\n                                              persons to whom the exemption \r\n                                              provided for in paragraph 2 of \r\n                                              this Article does not apply shall \r\n                                              observe the obligations which the \r\n                                              social security provisions of the \r\n                                              receiving State impose upon \r\n                                              employers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The exemption provided for in \r\n                                              paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article \r\n                                              shall not preclude voluntary \r\n                                              participation in the social \r\n                                              security system of the receiving \r\n                                              State provided that such \r\n                                              participation is permitted by that \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. The provisions of this Article \r\n                                              shall not affect bilateral or \r\n                                              multilateral agreements concerning \r\n                                              social security concluded \r\n                                              previously and shall not prevent \r\n                                              the conclusion of such agreements \r\n                                              in the future.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 34 </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              diplomatic agent shall be exempt \r\n                                              from all dues and taxes, personal \r\n                                              or real, national, regional or \r\n                                              municipal, except:</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) indirect taxes of a kind which \r\n                                              are normally incorporated in the \r\n                                              price of goods or services;</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) dues and taxes on private \r\n                                              immovable property situated in the \r\n                                              territory of the receiving State, \r\n                                              unless he holds it on behalf of \r\n                                              the sending State for the purpose \r\n                                              of the mission;</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) estate, succession or \r\n                                              inheritance duties levied by the \r\n                                              receiving State, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of paragraph 4 of \r\n                                              Article 39;</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) dues and taxes on private \r\n                                              income having its source in the \r\n                                              receiving State and capital taxes \r\n                                              on investments made in commercial \r\n                                              undertakings in the receiving \r\n                                              State;</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; charges levied for specific \r\n                                              services rendered;</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) registration, court or record \r\n                                              fees, mortgage dues and stamp \r\n                                              duty, with respect to immovable \r\n                                              property, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of Article 23.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 35</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The receiving State shall exempt \r\n                                              diplomatic agents from all \r\n                                              personal services from all public \r\n                                              service of any kind whatsoever and \r\n                                              from military obligations such as \r\n                                              those connected with \r\n                                              requisitioning, military \r\n                                              contributions and billeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 36</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The receiving State shall, in \r\n                                              accordance with such laws and \r\n                                              regulations as it may adopt, \r\n                                              permit entry of and grant \r\n                                              exemption from all customs duties, \r\n                                              taxes and related charges other \r\n                                              than charges for storage, cartage \r\n                                              and similar services, on:</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) articles for the official use \r\n                                              of the mission;</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) articles for the personal use \r\n                                              of a diplomatic agent or members \r\n                                              of his family forming part of his \r\n                                              household, including articles \r\n                                              intended for his establishment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. The personal baggage of a \r\n                                              diplomatic agent shall be exempt \r\n                                              from inspection,&nbsp; unless there are \r\n                                              serious grounds for presuming that \r\n                                              it contains articles not covered \r\n                                              by the exemptions mentioned in \r\n                                              paragraph 1 of this Article, or \r\n                                              articles the import or export of \r\n                                              which is prohibited by the law or \r\n                                              controlled by the quarantine \r\n                                              regulations of the receiving \r\n                                              State.&nbsp; Such inspection shall be \r\n                                              conducted only in the presence of \r\n                                              the diplomatic agent or of h is \r\n                                              authorized representative.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 37</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The members of the family of a \r\n                                              diplomatic agent forming part of \r\n                                              his household shall, if they are \r\n                                              not nationals of the receiving \r\n                                              State, enjoy the privileges and \r\n                                              immunities specified in Articles \r\n                                              29 to 36.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Members of the administrative \r\n                                              and technical staff of the \r\n                                              mission, together with members of \r\n                                              their families forming part of \r\n                                              their respective households, \r\n                                              shall, if they are not nationals \r\n                                              of or permanently resident in the \r\n                                              receiving state, enjoy the \r\n                                              privileges and immunities \r\n                                              specified in Articles 29 to 35, \r\n                                              except that the immunity from \r\n                                              civil and administrative \r\n                                              jurisdiction of the receiving \r\n                                              State specified in paragraph 1 of \r\n                                              Article 31 shall not extend to \r\n                                              acts performed outside the course \r\n                                              of their duties.&nbsp; They shall also \r\n                                              enjoy the privileges specified in \r\n                                              Article 36, paragraph 1, in \r\n                                              respect of articles imported at \r\n                                              the time of first installation.</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 staff of \r\n                                              the mission who are not nationals \r\n                                              of or permanently resident in the \r\n                                              receiving State shall enjoy \r\n                                              immunity in respect of acts \r\n                                              performed in the course of their \r\n                                              duties, exemption from dues and \r\n                                              taxes on the emoluments they \r\n                                              receive by reason of their \r\n                                              employment and the exemption \r\n                                              contained in Article 33.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Private servants of members of \r\n                                              the mission shall, if they are not \r\n                                              nationals of or permanently \r\n                                              resident in the receiving State, \r\n                                              be except from dues and taxes on \r\n                                              the emoluments they receive by \r\n                                              reason of their employment.&nbsp; In \r\n                                              other respects, they may enjoy \r\n                                              privileges and immunities only to \r\n                                              the extent admitted by the \r\n                                              receiving State.&nbsp; However, the \r\n                                              receiving State must exercise its \r\n                                              jurisdiction over those persons in \r\n                                              such a manner as not to interfere \r\n                                              unduly with the performance of the \r\n                                              functions of the mission. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 38</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Except insofar as additional \r\n                                              privileges and immunities may be \r\n                                              granted by the receiving State, a \r\n                                              diplomatic agent who is a national \r\n                                              of or permanently resident in that \r\n                                              State shall enjoy only immunity \r\n                                              from jurisdiction, and \r\n                                              inviolability, in respect of \r\n                                              official acts performed in the \r\n                                              exercise of his functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Other members of the staff of \r\n                                              the mission and private servants \r\n                                              who are nationals of or \r\n                                              permanently resident in the \r\n                                              receiving State shall enjoy \r\n                                              privileges and immunities only to \r\n                                              the extent admitted by the \r\n                                              receiving State.&nbsp; However, the \r\n                                              receiving State must exercise its \r\n                                              jurisdiction over those persons in \r\n                                              such a manner as not to interfere \r\n                                              unduly with the performance of the \r\n                                              functions of the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 39</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Every person entitled to \r\n                                              privileges and immunities shall \r\n                                              enjoy them from the moment he \r\n                                              enters the territory of the \r\n                                              receiving State on proceeding&nbsp; to \r\n                                              take up his post or, if already in \r\n                                              its territory, from the moment \r\n                                              when his appointment is notified \r\n                                              to the Ministry for Foreign \r\n                                              Affairs or such other ministry as \r\n                                              may be agreed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. When the functions of a person \r\n                                              enjoying privileges and immunities \r\n                                              have come to an end, such \r\n                                              privileges and immunities shall \r\n                                              normally cease at the moment when \r\n                                              he leaves the country or on expiry \r\n                                              of a reasonable period in which to \r\n                                              do so, but shall subsist until \r\n                                              that time, even in case of armed \r\n                                              conflict.&nbsp; However, with respect \r\n                                              to acts performed by such a person \r\n                                              in the exercise of his functions \r\n                                              as a member of the mission, \r\n                                              immunity shall continue to \r\n                                              subsist.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; In case of the death of a \r\n                                              member of the mission, the members \r\n                                              of his family shall continue to \r\n                                              enjoy the privileges and \r\n                                              immunities to which they are \r\n                                              entitled until the expiry of a \r\n                                              reasonable period in which to \r\n                                              leave the country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. In the event of the death of a \r\n                                              member of the mission not a \r\n                                              national of or permanently \r\n                                              resident in the receiving State or \r\n                                              a&nbsp; member of his family forming \r\n                                              part of his household, the \r\n                                              receiving State shall permit the \r\n                                              withdrawal of the movable property \r\n                                              of the deceased, with the \r\n                                              exception of any property acquired \r\n                                              in the country the export of which \r\n                                              was prohibited at the time of his \r\n                                              death.&nbsp; Estate, succession and \r\n                                              inheritance duties shall not be \r\n                                              levied on movable property the \r\n                                              presence of which in the receiving \r\n                                              State was due solely to the \r\n                                              presence there of the deceased as \r\n                                              a member of the mission or as a \r\n                                              member of the family of a member \r\n                                              of the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 40</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. If a diplomatic agent passes \r\n                                              through or is in the territory of \r\n                                              a third State, which has granted \r\n                                              him a passport visa if such&nbsp; visa \r\n                                              was necessary, while proceeding to \r\n                                              take up or to return to his post, \r\n                                              or when returning to his own \r\n                                              country, the third State shall \r\n                                              accord him inviolability and such \r\n                                              other immunities as may be \r\n                                              required to ensure his transit or \r\n                                              return.&nbsp; The same shall apply in \r\n                                              the case of any members of his \r\n                                              family enjoying privileges or \r\n                                              immunities who are accompanying \r\n                                              the diplomatic agent, or \r\n                                              travelling separately to join him \r\n                                              or to return to their country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. In circumstances similar to \r\n                                              those specified in paragraph 1 of \r\n                                              this Article, third States shall \r\n                                              not hinder the passage of the \r\n                                              members of the administrative and \r\n                                              technical or service staff of a \r\n                                              mission, and of members of their \r\n                                              families, through their \r\n                                              territories.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Third States shall accord to \r\n                                              official correspondence and other \r\n                                              official communications in \r\n                                              transit, including messages in \r\n                                              code or cipher, the same freedom \r\n                                              and protection as is accorded by \r\n                                              the receiving State.&nbsp; They shall \r\n                                              accord to diplomatic couriers, who \r\n                                              have been granted a passport visa \r\n                                              if such visa was necessary and \r\n                                              diplomatic bags in transit the \r\n                                              same inviolability and protection \r\n                                              as the receiving State is bound to \r\n                                              accord.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The obligations of third States \r\n                                              under paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of \r\n                                              this Article shall also apply to \r\n                                              the persons mentioned respectively \r\n                                              in those paragraphs, and to \r\n                                              official communications and \r\n                                              diplomatic bags, whose presence in \r\n                                              the territory of the third State \r\n                                              is due to force majeure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 41</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Without prejudice to their \r\n                                              privileges and immunities, it is \r\n                                              the duty of all persons enjoying \r\n                                              such privileges and immunities to \r\n                                              respect the laws and regulations \r\n                                              of the receiving State.&nbsp; They also \r\n                                              have a duty not to interfere in \r\n                                              the internal affairs of that \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. All official business with the \r\n                                              receiving State entrusted to the \r\n                                              mission by the sending State shall \r\n                                              be conducted with or through the \r\n                                              Ministry for Foreign Affairs of \r\n                                              the receiving State or such other \r\n                                              ministry as may be agreed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. The premises of the mission \r\n                                              must not be used in any manner \r\n                                              incompatible with the functions of \r\n                                              the mission as laid down in the \r\n                                              present Convention or by other \r\n                                              rules of general international law \r\n                                              or by any special agreements in \r\n                                              force between the sending and the \r\n                                              receiving State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 42</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              diplomatic agent shall not in the \r\n                                              receiving State practice for \r\n                                              personal profit any professional \r\n                                              or commercial activity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 43</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The function of a diplomatic agent \r\n                                              comes to an end, inter alia:</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 notification by the sending \r\n                                              State to the receiving State that \r\n                                              the function of the diplomatic \r\n                                              agent has come to an end;</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) on notification by the \r\n                                              receiving State to the sending \r\n                                              State that, in accordance with \r\n                                              paragraph 2 of Article 9, it \r\n                                              refuses to recognise the \r\n                                              diplomatic agent as a member of \r\n                                              the mission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 44</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The receiving State must, even in \r\n                                              case of armed conflict grant \r\n                                              facilities in order to enable \r\n                                              persons enjoying privileges and \r\n                                              immunities, other than nationals \r\n                                              of the receiving State, and \r\n                                              members of the families of such \r\n                                              persons irrespective of their \r\n                                              nationality, to leave at the \r\n                                              earliest possible moment.&nbsp; It \r\n                                              must, in particular, in case of \r\n                                              need, place at their disposal the \r\n                                              necessary means of transport for \r\n                                              themselves and their property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 45</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If diplomatic relations are broken \r\n                                              off between two States, or if a \r\n                                              mission is permanently or \r\n                                              temporarily recalled:</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 receiving State must, even \r\n                                              in case of armed conflict, respect \r\n                                              and protect the premises of the \r\n                                              mission, together with its \r\n                                              property and archives;</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 sending State may entrust \r\n                                              the custody of the premises of the \r\n                                              mission, together with its \r\n                                              property and archives, to a third \r\n                                              State acceptable to the receiving \r\n                                              State;</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 sending State may entrust \r\n                                              the protection of its interests \r\n                                              and those of its nationals to a \r\n                                              third State acceptable to the \r\n                                              receiving State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 46</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              sending State may with the prior \r\n                                              consent of a receiving State, and \r\n                                              at the request of a third State \r\n                                              not represented in the receiving \r\n                                              State, undertake the temporary \r\n                                              protection of the interests of the \r\n                                              third State and of its nationals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 47</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. In the application of the \r\n                                              provisions of the present \r\n                                              Convention, the receiving State \r\n                                              shall not discriminate as between \r\n                                              States.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. However, discrimination shall \r\n                                              not be regarded as taking place:</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 the receiving State \r\n                                              applies any of the provisions of \r\n                                              the present Convention \r\n                                              restrictively because of a \r\n                                              restrictive application of that \r\n                                              provision to its mission in the \r\n                                              sending State;</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 by custom or agreement \r\n                                              States extend to each other more \r\n                                              favourable treatment than is \r\n                                              required by the provisions of the \r\n                                              present Convention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 48</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The present Convention shall be \r\n                                              open for signature by all States \r\n                                              Members of the United Nations or \r\n                                              of any of the specialised agencies \r\n                                              or Parties to the Statute of the \r\n                                              International Court of Justice, \r\n                                              and by any other State invited by \r\n                                              the General Assembly of the United \r\n                                              Nations to become a Party to the \r\n                                              Convention, as follows: until 31st \r\n                                              October, 1961 at the Federal \r\n                                              Ministry for Foreign Affairs of \r\n                                              Austria and subsequently, until \r\n                                              31st March, 1962, at the United \r\n                                              Nations Headquarters in New York.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 49</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The present Convention is subject \r\n                                              to ratification. The instruments \r\n                                              of ratification shall be deposited \r\n                                              with the Secretary-General of the \r\n                                              United Nations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 50</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The present Convention shall \r\n                                              remain open for accession by any \r\n                                              State belonging to any of the four \r\n                                              categories mentioned in Article \r\n                                              48.&nbsp; The instruments of accession \r\n                                              shall be deposited with the \r\n                                              Secretary-General of the United \r\n                                              Nations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 51</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The present Convention shall \r\n                                              enter into force on the thirtieth \r\n                                              day following the date of deposit \r\n                                              of the twenty-second instrument of \r\n                                              ratification or accession with the \r\n                                              Secretary-General of the United \r\n                                              Nations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. For each State ratifying or \r\n                                              acceding to the Convention after \r\n                                              the deposit of the twenty-second \r\n                                              instrument of ratification or \r\n                                              accession, the Convention shall \r\n                                              enter into force on the thirtieth \r\n                                              day after deposit by such State of \r\n                                              its instrument of ratification or \r\n                                              accession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 52</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Secretary-General of the \r\n                                              United Nations shall inform all \r\n                                              States belonging to any of the \r\n                                              four categories mentioned in \r\n                                              Article 48:</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) of signatures to the present \r\n                                              Convention and of the deposit of \r\n                                              instruments of ratification or \r\n                                              accession, in accordance with \r\n                                              Articles 48, 49 and 50;</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) of the date on which the \r\n                                              present Convention will enter into \r\n                                              force, in accordance with Article \r\n                                              51.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Article 53</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The original of the present \r\n                                              Convention of which the Chinese, \r\n                                              English, French, Russian and \r\n                                              Spanish texts are equally \r\n                                              authentic shall be deposited with \r\n                                              the Secretary-General of the \r\n                                              United Nations, who shall send \r\n                                              certified copies thereof to all \r\n                                              States belonging to any of the \r\n                                              four categories mentioned in \r\n                                              Article 48.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned \r\n                                              Plenipotentiaries, being duly \r\n                                              authorised thereto by their \r\n                                              respective Governments, have \r\n                                              signed the present Convention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DONE AT VIENNA, this eighteenth \r\n                                              day of April, one thousand nine \r\n                                              hundred and sixty-one.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 148');
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(42, 'EDUCATION ACT, 1961 (ACT 87)', '<table>\r\n <tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1388" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EDUCATION ACT, 1961 (ACT 87)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, \r\n                                              1965 (ACT 266)1</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;GENERAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Public system of education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Compulsory education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;COMMITTEES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Establishment of Service \r\n                                              Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Meetings of Service Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Advisory committees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;LOCAL EDUCATION \r\n                                              AUTHORITIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Local education authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Functions of local education \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Establishment of education \r\n                                              committees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Constitution of an education \r\n                                              committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Attendance of Chief Education \r\n                                              Officer at meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Restrictions on expenditure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Returns.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Default by local education \r\n                                              authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;PUBLIC HIGHER INSTITUTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Control of public higher \r\n                                              institutions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Establishment of boards of \r\n                                              governors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Dissolution of board of \r\n                                              governors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Establishment of private \r\n                                              institutions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Returns, etc. to be furnished.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Closing of private \r\n                                              institutions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS \r\n                                              RELATING TO INSTITUTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Power to unite two or more \r\n                                              institutions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Payment of fees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Provisions relating to race, \r\n                                              language and religion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Restriction on use of \r\n                                              premises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Restrictions on use and \r\n                                              possession of literature.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Visits and inspection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;FINANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Public funds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Payment of grants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;TEACHERS AND TEACHERS'' \r\n                                              COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Salaries and terms of service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Establishment of a Teachers'' \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Meetings of the Teachers'' \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IX&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Exemptions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman">\r\n                                              <![endif]>\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\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 EDUCATION ACT, 1961</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              development of education and to \r\n                                              regulate the terms and conditions \r\n                                              of service of teachers; and for \r\n                                              purposes connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 15th November, \r\n                                              1961</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled, as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Public System of \r\n                                              Education.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The public system of education \r\n                                              shall be organised in two \r\n                                              progressive stages to be known as \r\n                                              primary and middle education and \r\n                                              secondary education.</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 the \r\n                                              local education authority for \r\n                                              every area as far as its functions \r\n                                              extend to contribute towards the \r\n                                              spiritual, moral, mental and \r\n                                              physical development of the \r\n                                              community by securing that \r\n                                              efficient education throughout the \r\n                                              primary and middle stages shall be \r\n                                              available to meet the needs of the \r\n                                              population of its area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Compulsory Education.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every child who has attained \r\n                                              the school-going age as determined \r\n                                              by the Minister shall attend a \r\n                                              course of instruction as laid down \r\n                                              by the Minister in a school \r\n                                              recognised for the purpose by the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any parent who fails to comply \r\n                                              with the provisions of the \r\n                                              preceding subsection commits an \r\n                                              offence and shall be liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding ten pounds and in the \r\n                                              case of a continuing offence to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding two pounds in \r\n                                              respect of each and every day \r\n                                              during which the offence \r\n                                              continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;COMMITTEES</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;Establishment of Service \r\n                                              Committee.</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 established a \r\n                                              terms of service committee which \r\n                                              shall advise the Minister on the \r\n                                              remuneration and terms and \r\n                                              conditions of service of teachers, \r\n                                              other than public officers, who \r\n                                              are employed in public \r\n                                              institutions and of all persons, \r\n                                              who are employed in the service of \r\n                                              public education other than public \r\n                                              officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Service Committee shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the Minister and \r\n                                              shall consist of the following \r\n                                              members:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a chairman to be appointed by \r\n                                              the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) three members representing \r\n                                              Educational Units;</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) three members, nominated by \r\n                                              the organization recognised by the \r\n                                              Minister as representing the \r\n                                              interests of teachers,</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) three members to represent the \r\n                                              interests of local authorities, \r\n                                              appointed by the Minister after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for local government; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) two other members, one to \r\n                                              represent the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for Education and the other to \r\n                                              represent the Minister or \r\n                                              department responsible for \r\n                                              establishment matters.</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;Meetings of Service \r\n                                              Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Service Committee shall \r\n                                              meet at such times and places as \r\n                                              the chairman shall, by not less \r\n                                              than ten days notice in writing to \r\n                                              the other members, appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The chairman shall preside at \r\n                                              meetings of the Committee and in \r\n                                              his absence the members present \r\n                                              shall appoint one of their number \r\n                                              to preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every question before the \r\n                                              Service Committee at any meeting \r\n                                              shall be decided by a majority of \r\n                                              the votes of the members present.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The chairman or, in his \r\n                                              absence, the member presiding \r\n                                              shall have a vote, and in the case \r\n                                              of an equality of votes, may \r\n                                              exercise a second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Six members shall form a \r\n                                              quorum at any meeting of the \r\n                                              Service Committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Advisory Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may from time to time \r\n                                              set up committees to advise him on \r\n                                              the educational system or specific \r\n                                              aspects thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;LOCAL EDUCATION \r\n                                              AUTHORITIES</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;Local Education \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) A local authority shall be the \r\n                                              local education authority for the \r\n                                              area or part of the area over \r\n                                              which it exercises authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The standing orders of a local \r\n                                              authority in relation to its \r\n                                              meetings shall apply to the \r\n                                              meetings of the local education \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Functions of Local \r\n                                              Education Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, a local education \r\n                                              authority shall, in the prescribed \r\n                                              manner&#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) build, equip and maintain all \r\n                                              public primary and middle schools, \r\n                                              in its 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) establish all such public \r\n                                              primary, middle and special \r\n                                              schools as are, in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Minister, after consultation \r\n                                              with the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              local government, required in its \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) advise the Minister on all \r\n                                              matters relating to primary and \r\n                                              middle school education in its \r\n                                              area and such other matters as may \r\n                                              be referred to it by the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) perform in its area all the \r\n                                              prescribed functions of a local \r\n                                              education authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A local education authority \r\n                                              may perform any educational \r\n                                              function approved by the Minister, \r\n                                              and shall perform any educational \r\n                                              function conferred by any other \r\n                                              enactment on the local authority \r\n                                              of its area. </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;Establishment of \r\n                                              Education Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every local education \r\n                                              authority shall establish an \r\n                                              education committee and may \r\n                                              authorise the education committee \r\n                                              to perform on its behalf any \r\n                                              function imposed or conferred upon \r\n                                              it with respect to education by \r\n                                              the provisions of this or any \r\n                                              other enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Before performing any function \r\n                                              relating to education, a local \r\n                                              education authority shall require \r\n                                              a report of its education \r\n                                              committee on the exercise of the \r\n                                              function for approval.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Constitution of an \r\n                                              Education Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The education committee of the \r\n                                              local education authority shall \r\n                                              consist of nine members not less \r\n                                              than two of whom shall be members \r\n                                              of the local education authority.</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 education \r\n                                              committee shall be a person who is \r\n                                              a member of the local education \r\n                                              authority and shall be elected by \r\n                                              the local education authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Members of the education \r\n                                              committee who are not members of \r\n                                              the local education authority \r\n                                              shall be known as private members \r\n                                              and shall be suitable persons with \r\n                                              experience and interest in \r\n                                              education nominated by the \r\n                                              Educational Units and appointed by \r\n                                              the local education authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act the local education \r\n                                              authority appointing an education \r\n                                              committee may make, vary and \r\n                                              revoke standing orders relating to \r\n                                              the meetings of the education \r\n                                              committee so appointed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Attendance of Chief \r\n                                              Education Officer at Meetings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chief Education Officer \r\n                                              shall have the right to attend all \r\n                                              meetings of a local education \r\n                                              authority and of its education \r\n                                              committee but shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to vote upon any matter \r\n                                              for decision by the authority or \r\n                                              committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The local education authority \r\n                                              shall send to the Chief Education \r\n                                              Officer not less than fourteen \r\n                                              days'' notice of any meetings of \r\n                                              the authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Restrictions on \r\n                                              Expenditure.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A local education authority \r\n                                              shall not, without the prior \r\n                                              approval of the Minister, maintain \r\n                                              or assist in maintaining or incur \r\n                                              any expenditure whatsoever on any \r\n                                              institution other than a public \r\n                                              primary, middle or special school.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No expenditure on education \r\n                                              shall be incurred by a local \r\n                                              education authority otherwise than \r\n                                              to meet its commitments under the \r\n                                              provisions of section 7 of this \r\n                                              Act, until it has met all such \r\n                                              commitments.</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;Returns.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All local education authorities \r\n                                              shall from time to time provide \r\n                                              the Chief Education Officer with \r\n                                              any information, returns, accounts \r\n                                              and estimates as he may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Default by Local \r\n                                              Education Authorities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If the Minister is satisfied \r\n                                              that a local education authority \r\n                                              has made default in the \r\n                                              performance of any function \r\n                                              imposed or conferred upon it by \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act or any \r\n                                              other enactment for the time being \r\n                                              in force, he may by executive \r\n                                              instrument, declare the local \r\n                                              education authority to be in \r\n                                              default and may, by the same or \r\n                                              any other executive instrument&#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) direct the local education \r\n                                              authority to perform such of its \r\n                                              functions in such manner and \r\n                                              within such time as may be \r\n                                              specified in the instrument for \r\n                                              the purpose of removing the \r\n                                              default; 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) transfer, after consultation \r\n                                              with the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              local government, to such person \r\n                                              and for such period as he thinks \r\n                                              fit, all or any of the functions \r\n                                              of the local education authority \r\n                                              in default.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If a local education authority \r\n                                              fails to comply with the terms of \r\n                                              an instrument made in accordance \r\n                                              with the provisions of paragraph \r\n                                              (a) of subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section, the Minister may, after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for local government, \r\n                                              order a transfer in accordance \r\n                                              with the provisions of paragraph \r\n                                              (b) of that subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a local authority is \r\n                                              dissolved or suspended from the \r\n                                              exercise of all its functions in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              any enactment the local education \r\n                                              authority shall, for the avoidance \r\n                                              of doubts, continue to perform its \r\n                                              functions as an education \r\n                                              authority unless in the instrument \r\n                                              of suspension or dissolution the \r\n                                              functions of education are \r\n                                              specifically included.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The provisions of sections 8 \r\n                                              and 9 of this Act shall not apply \r\n                                              to a local education authority \r\n                                              established under the provisions \r\n                                              of subsection (3) of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where any function of a local \r\n                                              education authority has been \r\n                                              transferred from that authority to \r\n                                              another person in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of paragraph (b) of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section&#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 local education authority \r\n                                              in default shall cease to perform \r\n                                              that function for such period as \r\n                                              the Minister thinks fit; 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 expenses incurred by such \r\n                                              other person in discharging such \r\n                                              functions shall be paid by the \r\n                                              local education authority in \r\n                                              default.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the avoidance of doubts a \r\n                                              person to whom the functions of a \r\n                                              local education authority have \r\n                                              been transferred shall be deemed \r\n                                              for all purposes to be the local \r\n                                              education authority and \r\n                                              accordingly that person may sue \r\n                                              and be sued in the name of the \r\n                                              local education authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;PUBLIC HIGHER INSTITUTIONS</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;Control of Public \r\n                                              Higher Institutions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Public higher institutions, not \r\n                                              being Government institutions, \r\n                                              shall be controlled by a board of \r\n                                              governors, committee of management \r\n                                              or any other body performing \r\n                                              similar functions of a board of \r\n                                              governors established under the \r\n                                              provisions of section 15 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 15&#8212;Establishment of Boards \r\n                                              of Governors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (4) of this section, \r\n                                              the Minister shall for every \r\n                                              assisted institution by notice in \r\n                                              the Gazette, establish a board of \r\n                                              governors to act in accordance \r\n                                              with a constitution and rules \r\n                                              approved by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A board of governors so \r\n                                              established for an assisted \r\n                                              institution shall be a body \r\n                                              corporate with perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal and \r\n                                              shall have power to hold and \r\n                                              manage land for the purposes for \r\n                                              which it is established, but shall \r\n                                              have no power to dispose of land \r\n                                              so held without the written \r\n                                              authority of the President in that \r\n                                              behalf first had and obtained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The constitution and rules \r\n                                              approved by the Minister shall in \r\n                                              no respect be altered, amended, \r\n                                              varied, added to or revoked, save \r\n                                              with the written approval of the \r\n                                              Minister first had and obtained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A board of governors or a \r\n                                              similar body recognised by the \r\n                                              Minister in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of any enactment in \r\n                                              force at the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act shall be deemed to have been \r\n                                              established in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions 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 16&#8212;Dissolution of Board of \r\n                                              Governors.</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 at any time \r\n                                              for good cause, by notice in the \r\n                                              Gazette, dissolve a board of \r\n                                              governors established under the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act and, as \r\n                                              from the date of the notice or \r\n                                              from any other date, specified \r\n                                              therein, the board of governors \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              disestablished and dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any property, estate or \r\n                                              interest in land held by or vested \r\n                                              in a board of governors and all \r\n                                              the functions exercisable by a \r\n                                              board of governors at the time of \r\n                                              the publication of the notice of \r\n                                              dissolution in respect of such \r\n                                              board of governors shall \r\n                                              forthwith, without further \r\n                                              authority than this subsection, \r\n                                              vest in the Minister and remain so \r\n                                              vested until the establishment of \r\n                                              a new board of governors in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              section 15 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On the establishment of a new \r\n                                              board of governors the land and \r\n                                              the functions shall be vested in \r\n                                              the new board of governors by a \r\n                                              written declaration by the \r\n                                              Minister to that effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS</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;Establishment of \r\n                                              Private Institution.</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 establish a \r\n                                              private institution without the \r\n                                              prior approval of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who establishes a \r\n                                              private institution without the \r\n                                              prior approval of the Minister \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence, and \r\n                                              shall, on conviction thereof, be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              five hundred pounds, or to a term \r\n                                              of imprisonment not exceeding one \r\n                                              year, or to both such fine and \r\n                                              such imprisonment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who proposes to \r\n                                              establish and conduct&nbsp; a private \r\n                                              institution shall, not later than \r\n                                              three months before such \r\n                                              establishment, make an application \r\n                                              to the Minister under this section \r\n                                              for his approval of the proposal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The application shall be in \r\n                                              the prescribed form and shall \r\n                                              contain the prescribed \r\n                                              particulars.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Minister may grant, or, \r\n                                              for reasons which to him appear \r\n                                              sufficient, decline to grant the \r\n                                              application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any person whose application \r\n                                              for the approval of a proposal to \r\n                                              establish and conduct a private \r\n                                              institution has been granted by \r\n                                              the Minister may, in the \r\n                                              prescribed manner, and subject to \r\n                                              the subsequent provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, establish and conduct a \r\n                                              private institution.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Education \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1965Act 266 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 18&#8212;Returns, Etc. to be \r\n                                              Furnished.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The proprietor of every \r\n                                              private institution shall, within \r\n                                              one month after the date of the \r\n                                              establishment thereof or, in the \r\n                                              case of a private institution \r\n                                              which is in existence at the date \r\n                                              of the commencement of this Act, \r\n                                              within one month after the date of \r\n                                              commencement thereof, furnish the \r\n                                              Chief Education Officer or the \r\n                                              Chief Technical Education Officer \r\n                                              as the case may be with such \r\n                                              information and returns as he may \r\n                                              require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Whenever a change in the \r\n                                              ownership or location of a private \r\n                                              institution occurs or there in a \r\n                                              modification in respect of any of \r\n                                              the particulars required to be \r\n                                              supplied in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, other than \r\n                                              particulars of the number, names \r\n                                              and ages of the pupils attending \r\n                                              such institution, the proprietor \r\n                                              shall furnish the Chief Education \r\n                                              Officer or the Chief Technical \r\n                                              Education Officer, as the case may \r\n                                              be, with a supplementary return \r\n                                              containing the new particulars.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If a private institution \r\n                                              remains closed, other than in \r\n                                              respect of regular holidays, for a \r\n                                              period longer than one month, the \r\n                                              proprietor thereof shall furnish \r\n                                              the Chief Education Officer or the \r\n                                              Chief Technical Education Officer, \r\n                                              as the case may be, with written \r\n                                              reasons for the closing of the \r\n                                              institution and inform him in \r\n                                              writing of the period during which \r\n                                              it is likely to remain closed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the proprietor desires \r\n                                              thereafter to reopen the \r\n                                              institution, he shall furnish a \r\n                                              return in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              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 19&#8212;Closing of Private \r\n                                              Institutions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If the Minister is satisfied \r\n                                              that a private institution is \r\n                                              dangerous or potentially dangerous \r\n                                              to the physical or moral welfare \r\n                                              of the pupils attending it or that \r\n                                              its continued existence is against \r\n                                              the public interest he shall, by \r\n                                              notice in writing, require the \r\n                                              proprietor thereof to close the \r\n                                              institution within a specified \r\n                                              time and may by the same or any \r\n                                              other notice appoint a board of \r\n                                              governors who shall have complete \r\n                                              control and superintendence of the \r\n                                              institution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Whenever the Minister appoints \r\n                                              a board of governors under the \r\n                                              provisions of the immediately \r\n                                              preceding subsection the \r\n                                              institution concerned shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be a public institution, \r\n                                              subject to the payment of \r\n                                              compensation to be assessed by the \r\n                                              Minister whose decision thereon \r\n                                              shall be final.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS \r\n                                              RELATING TO INSTITUTIONS</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;Power to Unite Two or \r\n                                              more Institutions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever it shall appear to \r\n                                              the Minister that the union of any \r\n                                              two or more institutions will \r\n                                              conduce to greater economy or \r\n                                              efficiency, he may, subject to \r\n                                              such conditions as he thinks fit, \r\n                                              direct the union of the \r\n                                              institutions concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If an institution, in respect \r\n                                              of which the Minister has given a \r\n                                              direction in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of this section, is not \r\n                                              brought into the union in \r\n                                              accordance with such direction, it \r\n                                              shall cease to be a public \r\n                                              institution from the date of the \r\n                                              Minister''s direction and no grant \r\n                                              shall be paid to it from that date \r\n                                              or in the case of a private \r\n                                              institution it shall be lawful for \r\n                                              the Minister to appoint a board of \r\n                                              governors for that institution for \r\n                                              the purpose of the desired union.</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;Payment of Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No fee, other than the payment \r\n                                              for the provision of essential \r\n                                              books or stationery or of \r\n                                              materials required by pupils for \r\n                                              use in practical work, shall be \r\n                                              charged in respect of tuition at a \r\n                                              public primary, middle or special \r\n                                              school.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No fee, other than the \r\n                                              prescribed fees, shall be charged \r\n                                              in respect of the education or \r\n                                              residence of any pupil or student \r\n                                              at a public secondary school or at \r\n                                              a public training college.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister may at any time \r\n                                              appoint a committee consisting of \r\n                                              the Chief Education Officer or the \r\n                                              Chief Technical Education Officer \r\n                                              and two other persons who may \r\n                                              investigate the amount, and the \r\n                                              payment, of fees in a private \r\n                                              institution and make \r\n                                              recommendations to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any person who contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of this section commits \r\n                                              an offence and shall be liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding one hundred pounds.</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;Provisions Relating to \r\n                                              Race, Language and Religion.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be refused \r\n                                              admission as a pupil to, or \r\n                                              refused attendance as a pupil at, \r\n                                              any school on account of the \r\n                                              religious persuasion, nationality, \r\n                                              race or language of himself or of \r\n                                              either of his parents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No test or enquiries shall be \r\n                                              made of, or concerning the \r\n                                              religious beliefs of pupils or \r\n                                              students prior to their admittance \r\n                                              to any school or college.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person attending or \r\n                                              desirous of attending a school as \r\n                                              a pupil shall, if his parent \r\n                                              objects, be required to attend or \r\n                                              to abstain from attending, whether \r\n                                              in the institution or elsewhere, \r\n                                              any Sunday school, or any form of \r\n                                              religious worship or observance, \r\n                                              or any instruction in religious \r\n                                              subjects.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any person who contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of this section commits \r\n                                              an offence and shall be liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding fifty pounds.</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;Restriction on Use of \r\n                                              Premises.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The premises of a public \r\n                                              institution shall not be used for \r\n                                              any purpose which, in the opinion \r\n                                              of the Minister, interferes with \r\n                                              the purposes for which the \r\n                                              institution was established.</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;Restrictions on use and \r\n                                              Possession of Literature.</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 in writing \r\n                                              direct that any book, newspaper, \r\n                                              document or other printed or \r\n                                              written matter or any film, \r\n                                              picture or visual or aural aid or \r\n                                              any record of speech or language \r\n                                              of whatsoever kind shall not be \r\n                                              treated in any manner, either by \r\n                                              exhibition, reading, recitation, \r\n                                              description, delivery or otherwise \r\n                                              as to make known its contents to \r\n                                              any pupil in any institution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who fails to comply \r\n                                              with a direction given by the \r\n                                              Minister in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, commits an offence \r\n                                              and shall be liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to imprisonment for a \r\n                                              term not exceeding twelve months \r\n                                              or to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred pounds.</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;Visits and Inspection.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chief Education Officer or \r\n                                              the Chief Technical Education \r\n                                              Officer may at all reasonable \r\n                                              times, with or without notice, \r\n                                              visit and inspect any institution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who prevents or \r\n                                              hinders the Chief Education \r\n                                              Officer or the Chief Technical \r\n                                              Education Officer from visiting or \r\n                                              inspecting an institution in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              commits an offence and shall be \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction&#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 first offence \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding ten \r\n                                              pounds; 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) in the case of a second or \r\n                                              subsequent offence to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;FINANCE</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;Public Funds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              sum of money shall be provided \r\n                                              annually by the Government and \r\n                                              shall be administered by the \r\n                                              Minister for the purposes of \r\n                                              public education in accordance \r\n                                              with the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              and regulations made thereunder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Payment of Grants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Grants-in-aid made in respect of \r\n                                              public education, other than \r\n                                              grants made by a local education \r\n                                              authority to schools which the \r\n                                              authority manages, 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) if made to a public \r\n                                              institution, be made to a duly \r\n                                              constituted and responsible board \r\n                                              of governors or, if no such board \r\n                                              exists, to trustees constituted \r\n                                              under a trust instrument;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in all other cases, be made to \r\n                                              trustees constituted under a trust \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;TEACHERS AND TEACHERS'' \r\n                                              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 28&#8212;Salaries and Terms of \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, the salaries, terms and \r\n                                              conditions of service and \r\n                                              discipline of all teachers, other \r\n                                              than public officers, employed in \r\n                                              public institutions shall be \r\n                                              prescribed by 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 29&#8212;Establishment of a \r\n                                              Teachers'' Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister shall establish a \r\n                                              Teachers'' Council to advise on \r\n                                              measures necessary to preserve \r\n                                              high standards of conduct in the \r\n                                              teaching profession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council shall consist of \r\n                                              not less than seven active service \r\n                                              teachers of whom at least one \r\n                                              shall be a woman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The members of the Council \r\n                                              shall be appointed by the Minister \r\n                                              in consultation with the teachers \r\n                                              organization recognised by the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The members of the Council \r\n                                              shall serve on the Council for a \r\n                                              period of one year from the date \r\n                                              of their appointment but shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-appointment at the \r\n                                              expiration of that period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The members of the Council \r\n                                              shall, at the first meeting of the \r\n                                              Council and thereafter whenever \r\n                                              the office falls vacant, elect, \r\n                                              subject to the approval of the \r\n                                              Minister, a chairman from amongst \r\n                                              their number.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Chairman shall hold office \r\n                                              from the date of election until \r\n                                              the expiry of the period referred \r\n                                              to in subsection (4) of this \r\n                                              section but shall, if re-elected \r\n                                              under the provisions of that \r\n                                              subsection, be eligible for \r\n                                              re-election as chairman at the \r\n                                              expiration of that period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) A member of the Council may, \r\n                                              after giving fourteen days'' notice \r\n                                              in writing to the Minister, resign \r\n                                              from office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The powers of the Council may \r\n                                              be exercised notwithstanding any \r\n                                              vacancy among its members.</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;Meetings of the \r\n                                              Teachers'' Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Teachers'' Council shall \r\n                                              meet at such times and places as \r\n                                              the Chief Education Officer in \r\n                                              consultation with the chairman \r\n                                              shall, by ten days'' notice in \r\n                                              writing to the members, appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The chairman shall preside at \r\n                                              meetings of the Council and in his \r\n                                              absence the members present shall \r\n                                              appoint one of their number to \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every question before the \r\n                                              Council shall be decided by a \r\n                                              majority of the votes of members \r\n                                              present.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The chairman or, in his \r\n                                              absence, the member presiding \r\n                                              shall have a vote, and in the case \r\n                                              of an equality of votes, may \r\n                                              exercise a second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Four members of the Council \r\n                                              shall form a quorum at any meeting \r\n                                              of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IX&#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 31&#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 Minister may, and in so \r\n                                              far as such regulations give \r\n                                              powers to, or impose duties upon, \r\n                                              local authorities, after \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for local government, \r\n                                              make, by legislative instrument, \r\n                                              Regulations dealing with all \r\n                                              matters relating to education; and \r\n                                              in particular, but without \r\n                                              derogating from the generality of \r\n                                              the foregoing provision, with \r\n                                              respect to any of the following \r\n                                              subjects, that is to say:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the establishment, \r\n                                              recognition, maintenance and \r\n                                              discontinuance of institutions, \r\n                                              their administration, control, \r\n                                              supervision and management and the \r\n                                              procedure in the event of an \r\n                                              institution ceasing to be a public \r\n                                              institution;</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 organization, staffing and \r\n                                              inspection of institutions and the \r\n                                              curriculum and instruction to be \r\n                                              given therein:</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 manner in which public \r\n                                              education shall be financed, the \r\n                                              payment of grants-in-aid by \r\n                                              Government in respect of public \r\n                                              education and the conditions under \r\n                                              which the grants shall be made;</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 fees chargeable in public \r\n                                              institutions, the collection, use \r\n                                              and disposal of such fees;</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 admission, registration, \r\n                                              transfer, attendance, examination \r\n                                              and promotion of pupils and \r\n                                              students in public institutions, \r\n                                              the selection of pupils and \r\n                                              students for public middle, \r\n                                              secondary and technical education \r\n                                              and teacher training and the \r\n                                              allocation of boarding places at \r\n                                              public boarding and part-boarding \r\n                                              institutions recognised as such;</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) the withdrawal and removal of \r\n                                              pupils and students in public \r\n                                              institutions and their discipline;</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) the registers, records \r\n                                              accounts, and similar documents to \r\n                                              be kept in institutions; and the \r\n                                              returns and information to be \r\n                                              rendered by persons and bodies \r\n                                              responsible for institutions;</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) the examination, \r\n                                              certification, training, \r\n                                              instruction, registration, \r\n                                              qualifications and bonds of \r\n                                              teachers in consultation with the \r\n                                              National Teacher Training Council;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              the appointment, employment, \r\n                                              discipline, allocation, posting, \r\n                                              classification, salaries, \r\n                                              allowances, terms and conditions \r\n                                              of service of teachers in public \r\n                                              institutions, and of other persons \r\n                                              engaged in the service of public \r\n                                              education; the appointment, \r\n                                              salaries, allowances, terms and&nbsp; \r\n                                              conditions of service of teachers \r\n                                              in private institutions: provided \r\n                                              that no regulations made under \r\n                                              this paragraph shall relate to \r\n                                              public officers;[Amended by the \r\n                                              insertion of the Education \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1965 s.2]</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) the duties, responsibilities \r\n                                              and functions of heads of public \r\n                                              institutions, of boards of \r\n                                              governors and trustees of \r\n                                              secondary schools, training \r\n                                              colleges, other establishments for \r\n                                              higher education and of managers \r\n                                              of primary and middle schools;</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) the duties, responsibilities, \r\n                                              powers and functions of local \r\n                                              education authorities, their \r\n                                              control and direction by the \r\n                                              Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l) the physical welfare and \r\n                                              medical inspection of pupils and \r\n                                              students in institutions;</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) the inspection, maintenance \r\n                                              and closure of premises used for \r\n                                              purposes of education;</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) the standards for such \r\n                                              premises and the procedure \r\n                                              governing the execution of capital \r\n                                              works for the purposes of \r\n                                              education, including the grant of \r\n                                              a power to pull down buildings \r\n                                              erected without prior approval \r\n                                              when the regulations provide for \r\n                                              such prior approval;</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) the returns to be furnished by \r\n                                              the proprietors of educational \r\n                                              establishments;</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) matters which under the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act may be or \r\n                                              are required to be prescribed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under the \r\n                                              provisions of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section may provide that any \r\n                                              person convicted of the \r\n                                              contravention of, or failure to \r\n                                              comply with, the provisions of any \r\n                                              regulation shall be liable to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding fifty pounds or \r\n                                              to imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding six months or to both \r\n                                              such fine and imprisonment and in \r\n                                              the case of a continuing \r\n                                              contravention of, or failure to \r\n                                              comply with, any regulation shall \r\n                                              be liable, in addition, to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding five pounds for each \r\n                                              day during which the contravention \r\n                                              or failure to comply 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 32&#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;assisted institution&quot; means a \r\n                                              public secondary school or \r\n                                              training college or other \r\n                                              establishment for higher \r\n                                              education, which is controlled by \r\n                                              a board of governors, committee of \r\n                                              management or other body \r\n                                              performing similar functions under \r\n                                              a constitution and rules approved \r\n                                              by the Minister and which is \r\n                                              approved by the Minister for the \r\n                                              receipt of grants-in-aid from \r\n                                              public funds;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;board of governors&quot; includes a \r\n                                              committee of management or any \r\n                                              other body performing similar \r\n                                              functions of a board of governors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Chief Education Officer&quot; means \r\n                                              the person for the time being \r\n                                              lawfully discharging the functions \r\n                                              of the Chief Education Officer or \r\n                                              any person duly authorised by him;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Chief Technical Education \r\n                                              Officer&quot; means the person for the \r\n                                              time being lawfully discharging \r\n                                              the functions of the Chief \r\n                                              Technical Education Officer or any \r\n                                              person duly authorised by him;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Educational Unit&quot; means a \r\n                                              corporation, a body or religious \r\n                                              society which has the management \r\n                                              of one or more public institutions \r\n                                              and is recognised as such by the \r\n                                              Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Government institution&quot; means an \r\n                                              educational establishment which is \r\n                                              managed by the Chief Education \r\n                                              Officer or the Chief Technical \r\n                                              Education Officer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;grant-in-aid&quot; means money paid \r\n                                              from Central or Local Government \r\n                                              funds in respect of any \r\n                                              institution, other than a \r\n                                              Government institution, or in \r\n                                              respect of the administration of \r\n                                              an Educational Unit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;institution&quot; means a school, \r\n                                              training college or any other \r\n                                              educational establishment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;local authority&quot; includes a city \r\n                                              council and the Tema Corporation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;local government&quot;, in relation to \r\n                                              funds, means the funds of local \r\n                                              authorities;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;manager&quot; , in relation to an \r\n                                              institution, means any person who \r\n                                              is responsible for the management \r\n                                              of the institution;</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 Education;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;parent&quot; includes guardian;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;middle school&quot; means a school so \r\n                                              designated by the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;primary school&quot; means a school so \r\n                                              designated by the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;private&quot; , in relation to an \r\n                                              institution, means maintained \r\n                                              neither wholly nor in part from \r\n                                              Central or Local Government funds;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;proprietor&quot; , in relation to a \r\n                                              private institution, means the \r\n                                              person or body of persons \r\n                                              responsible for the management of \r\n                                              the institution, or in charge \r\n                                              thereof, or in the absence of both \r\n                                              such persons the teacher who has \r\n                                              been a member of the staff of such \r\n                                              institution for the longest \r\n                                              period;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;public&quot; , in relation to an \r\n                                              institution, means maintained \r\n                                              wholly or in part from Central or \r\n                                              Local Government funds;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;public higher institution&quot; means \r\n                                              a Government or assisted \r\n                                              institution other than a primary \r\n                                              or middle school;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;recognised institution&quot; means an \r\n                                              educational establishment which is \r\n                                              so recognised by the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;school&quot; means an educational \r\n                                              establishment intended for the \r\n                                              education of not less than ten \r\n                                              pupils, assembled for the purpose \r\n                                              of receiving regular instruction, \r\n                                              other than any Sunday school, \r\n                                              industrial school, training \r\n                                              college or other establishment \r\n                                              intended solely for the education \r\n                                              of adults;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;secondary school&quot; means a school, \r\n                                              or a department of an institution, \r\n                                              which provides courses leading to \r\n                                              the attainment of a standard at \r\n                                              least equivalent to that of the \r\n                                              School Certificate examination of \r\n                                              the West African Examinations \r\n                                              Council;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;special school&quot; means a school \r\n                                              providing a course of instruction, \r\n                                              approved by the Minister, for \r\n                                              children who are blind, deaf and \r\n                                              dumb or in any other manner \r\n                                              physically handicapped or mentally \r\n                                              affected;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;training college&quot; means an \r\n                                              establishment for the training of \r\n                                              teachers, other than the \r\n                                              University of Ghana and the Kwame \r\n                                              Nkrumah University or any other \r\n                                              department thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Exemptions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nothing in this Act contained \r\n                                              shall apply to the University of \r\n                                              Ghana, the Kwame Nkrumah \r\n                                              University or to any institution \r\n                                              established under the provisions \r\n                                              of any other enactment.</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;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The following enactments as \r\n                                              subsequently amended are hereby \r\n                                              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                                              the Achimota School Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 114);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Education (Southern Ghana and \r\n                                              Ashanti) Ordinance(Cap. 121);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Education (Northern and Upper \r\n                                              Regions) Ordinance(Cap. 122):</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; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that any office specified \r\n                                              in the Second Schedule to the \r\n                                              Achimota School Ordinance (Cap. \r\n                                              114) at the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act shall continue to be \r\n                                              pensionable office within the \r\n                                              meaning of the Pensions Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 30) and accordingly the \r\n                                              provisions of the Pensions \r\n                                              Ordinance shall continue to apply \r\n                                              in the same way and manner as they \r\n                                              did apply under the Achimota \r\n                                              School Ordinance to any person \r\n                                              holding such office and confirmed \r\n                                              therein at the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act notwithstanding the \r\n                                              repeal of the Achimota School \r\n                                              Ordinance.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 87');
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(43, 'EXCHANGE CONTROL ACT, 1961 (ACT 71)', '				<table>\r\n           \r\n                <tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="728" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EXCHANGE CONTROL ACT, 1961 (ACT \r\n                                              71)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</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;GOLD AND EXTERNAL CURRENCY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Dealings in gold and external \r\n                                              currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1A.&nbsp; Unauthorised Payments in \r\n                                              External Currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Duty to encash traveller''s \r\n                                              cheques, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; Surrender and custody of gold \r\n                                              and external currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Duties of bailees of gold and \r\n                                              external currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;PAYMENTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;5.&nbsp; Payments in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;6.&nbsp; Payments outside Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;7.&nbsp; Compensation&nbsp; deals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;IMPORT AND EXPORT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;8.&nbsp; Import restrictions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;9.&nbsp; General restrictions on \r\n                                              exports.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Payments for exports.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;SECURITIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11.&nbsp; Authorised depositaries.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12.&nbsp; Issue of securities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13.&nbsp; Transfer of securities and \r\n                                              coupons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Issue of bearer certificates \r\n                                              and coupons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Substitution of securities \r\n                                              and certificates outside Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16.&nbsp; Payment of capital moneys \r\n                                              outside Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17.&nbsp; Duties of persons keeping \r\n                                              registers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18.&nbsp; Additional provisions as to \r\n                                              nominee holdings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Deposit of certificates of \r\n                                              title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20.&nbsp; Additional provisions as to \r\n                                              deposited certificates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21.&nbsp; Validation of certain \r\n                                              transfers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22.&nbsp; Application to secondary \r\n                                              securities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23.&nbsp; Interpretation of Part IV.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Duty to collect certain debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Duty not to delay sale or \r\n                                              importation of goods.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Property obtained by \r\n                                              infringement of Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Provisions supplemental to \r\n                                              preceding provisions of Part V.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Transfer of annuities, \r\n                                              policies, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Settlements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Companies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Special power to safeguard \r\n                                              economy of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;SUPPLEMENTAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Persons leaving Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Residence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Contracts, legal proceedings, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Enforcement and \r\n                                              administration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Power to make regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. Act binds Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule&#8212;External Companies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule&#8212;Blocked Accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Third Schedule&#8212;Legal proceedings, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fourth Schedule&#8212;Enforcement.</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                                              SEVENTY-FIRST</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">< width="108" height="89"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA 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 EXCHANGE CONTROL ACT, 1961</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An ACT to confer powers, and \r\n                                              impose duties and restrictions, in \r\n                                              relation to gold, currency, \r\n                                              payments, securities and debts, \r\n                                              and the import, export, transfer \r\n                                              and settlement of property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 1st August, 1961</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;GOLD AND EXTERNAL CURRENCY</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;Dealings in Gold and \r\n                                              External Currency.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance (in this Act referred to \r\n                                              as &quot;the Minister&quot;) shall prescribe \r\n                                              such banks or other bodies or \r\n                                              persons as he thinks fit to be \r\n                                              authorised dealers in gold and \r\n                                              external currency for the purposes \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                                              (2) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, no Ghana \r\n                                              resident other than an authorised \r\n                                              dealer shall buy or borrow any \r\n                                              gold or external currency from, or \r\n                                              sell or lend any gold or external \r\n                                              currency to, any person other than \r\n                                              an authorised dealer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a Ghana resident buys or \r\n                                              borrows gold or external currency \r\n                                              he shall comply with such \r\n                                              requirements as to the use to \r\n                                              which it may be put or the period \r\n                                              for which it may be retained as \r\n                                              may be notified to him by the Bank \r\n                                              of Ghana before or at the time of \r\n                                              the purchase or borrowing or at \r\n                                              any subsequent time while he \r\n                                              retains the gold or currency.</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 this \r\n                                              section a person issuing an \r\n                                              external currency draft, and the \r\n                                              person to whom it is issued, shall \r\n                                              be deemed respectively to sell and \r\n                                              buy external currency, and, where \r\n                                              external currency is obtained by \r\n                                              means of the draft, respectively \r\n                                              to sell and buy that external \r\n                                              currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act &quot;external currency \r\n                                              draft&quot; means any document (whether \r\n                                              expressed in terms of external \r\n                                              currency or Ghana currency) of a \r\n                                              kind intended&nbsp; to enable the \r\n                                              person to whom the document is \r\n                                              issued to obtain external currency \r\n                                              from some other person on the \r\n                                              credit of the person issuing it, \r\n                                              and in particular means a \r\n                                              traveller''s cheque or other draft \r\n                                              or letter of credit so intended.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1A&#8212;Unauthorised Payments \r\n                                              in External Currencies.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the avoidance of doubt, it is \r\n                                              hereby declared that unless \r\n                                              otherwise authorised by the \r\n                                              Secretary responsible for Finance \r\n                                              no Ghana resident shall receive in \r\n                                              Ghana any external currency as \r\n                                              payment for services rendered or \r\n                                              for the sale of goods or property \r\n                                              by him or as rent in respect of \r\n                                              any property owned by him. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Exchange Control \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law 1986, PNDCL 149 s \r\n                                              1(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1B&#8212;Unauthorised Dealing in \r\n                                              Foreign Currency.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the avoidance of doubts, \r\n                                              it is hereby declared that section \r\n                                              1(2) of the Exchange Control Act, \r\n                                              1961 (Act 71) prohibits any person \r\n                                              resident in Ghana (other than an \r\n                                              authorised dealer) from buying \r\n                                              foreign currency from any visitor \r\n                                              to Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The penalties for a \r\n                                              contravention of section 1(2) of \r\n                                              the Exchange Control Act, 1961 \r\n                                              (Act 71) are as specified in Part \r\n                                              II of the Fourth Schedule to that \r\n                                              Act. [Inserted and to be cited as \r\n                                              Exchange Control (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD 220), 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 2&#8212;Duty to Encash \r\n                                              Traveller''s Cheques, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except in such circumstances as \r\n                                              may be prescribed, every Ghana \r\n                                              resident, not being the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana or an authorised dealer, who \r\n                                              holds or to whose order there is \r\n                                              held an external currency draft \r\n                                              expressed in terms of Ghana \r\n                                              currency shall be under a duty to \r\n                                              encash it, or cause it to be \r\n                                              encashed, in Ghana with the person \r\n                                              who issued it or with a banker.</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;Surrender and Custody of \r\n                                              Gold and External Currency.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, every Ghana \r\n                                              resident, not being the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana or an authorised dealer, \r\n                                              who&nbsp; (apart from restrictions \r\n                                              imposed by or under this Act) is \r\n                                              entitled to sell, or to procure \r\n                                              the sale of, any gold or any \r\n                                              external currency shall be under a \r\n                                              duty to offer the gold or \r\n                                              currency, or cause it to be \r\n                                              offered, for sale to an authorised \r\n                                              dealer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a person has become \r\n                                              bound under this section to offer \r\n                                              or cause to be offered any gold or \r\n                                              currency for sale to an authorised \r\n                                              dealer, he shall not be deemed to \r\n                                              comply with that obligation by any \r\n                                              offer made or caused to be made by \r\n                                              him, if the offer is an offer to \r\n                                              sell at a price exceeding that \r\n                                              authorised by the Bank of Ghana, \r\n                                              or without payment of any usual \r\n                                              and proper charges of the \r\n                                              authorised dealer, or otherwise on \r\n                                              any unusual terms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a person has become \r\n                                              bound under this section to offer \r\n                                              or cause to be offered any gold or \r\n                                              currency for sale to an authorised \r\n                                              dealer and has not complied with \r\n                                              that obligation, the Minister may \r\n                                              direct that that gold or currency \r\n                                              shall vest in the Minister, and it \r\n                                              shall vest accordingly free from \r\n                                              any mortgage, pledge or charge, \r\n                                              but the Minister shall pay to the \r\n                                              person who would but for the \r\n                                              direction be entitled to the gold \r\n                                              or currency such sum as he would \r\n                                              have received therefor if he had \r\n                                              sold it to an authorised dealer in \r\n                                              pursuance of an offer made under \r\n                                              this section at the time when the \r\n                                              vesting occurred.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) An external currency draft \r\n                                              shall be treated for the purposes \r\n                                              of this Act as itself being \r\n                                              external currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) In any proceedings in respect \r\n                                              of a failure to comply with the \r\n                                              provisions of this section, it \r\n                                              shall be presumed, until the \r\n                                              contrary is shown, that the gold \r\n                                              or currency in question has not \r\n                                              been offered for sale to an \r\n                                              authorised dealer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Bank of Ghana may direct a \r\n                                              person such as is mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              (whether or not he is subject to \r\n                                              the duty thereby imposed) to cause \r\n                                              the gold or currency in question, \r\n                                              being gold held in Ghana or \r\n                                              currency in the form of notes or \r\n                                              an external currency draft held in \r\n                                              Ghana, to be kept in the custody \r\n                                              of such banker as is specified in \r\n                                              the direction.</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;Duties of Bailees of \r\n                                              Gold and External Currency.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, every Ghana \r\n                                              resident by whom or to whose order \r\n                                              (whether directly or indirectly) \r\n                                              and gold or any external currency \r\n                                              in the form of notes or an \r\n                                              external currency draft is held in \r\n                                              Ghana, but who is not (even apart \r\n                                              from restrictions imposed by or \r\n                                              under this Act) entitled to sell \r\n                                              it or procure its sale, shall be \r\n                                              under a duty to notify the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana in writing that he so holds \r\n                                              it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Bank of Ghana may direct a \r\n                                              person such as is mentioned in the \r\n                                              preceding subsection (whether or \r\n                                              not he is subject to the duty \r\n                                              thereby imposed) to cause the gold \r\n                                              or currency&nbsp; in question to be \r\n                                              kept in the custody of such banker \r\n                                              as is specified in the direction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;PAYMENTS</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;Payments in External \r\n                                              Currencies.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, no person or \r\n                                              individual shall do any of the \r\n                                              following in Ghana&#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) make a payment to, or for the \r\n                                              credit of, an external resident;</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) make a payment to, or for the \r\n                                              credit of, a Ghana resident where \r\n                                              the payment is by order or on \r\n                                              behalf of an external resident;</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) place any sum to the credit of \r\n                                              an external resident:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where an external \r\n                                              resident has paid a sum in or \r\n                                              towards the satisfaction of a debt \r\n                                              due from&nbsp; him, paragraph (c) of \r\n                                              this subsection shall not prevent \r\n                                              the acknowledgement or recording \r\n                                              of the payment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except in circumstances as may \r\n                                              be prescribed, no person or \r\n                                              individual shall make a payment in \r\n                                              external currency to or for the \r\n                                              credit of a Ghana resident for \r\n                                              services rendered by him or for \r\n                                              the purchase of or in exchange for \r\n                                              goods or property, or for the \r\n                                              settlement of rent in respect of \r\n                                              any property, owned by such Ghana \r\n                                              resident. [As Substituted by \r\n                                              Exchange Control (Amendment) Law, \r\n                                              1986, PNDCL 149 s 1(b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except in such circumstances as \r\n                                              may be prescribed, no person shall \r\n                                              do any of the following in Ghana&#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) make a payment to, or for the \r\n                                              credit of, an external resident;</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) make a payment to, or for the \r\n                                              credit of, a Ghana resident where \r\n                                              the payment is by order or on \r\n                                              behalf of an external resident;</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) place any sum to the credit of \r\n                                              an external resident:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where an external \r\n                                              resident has paid a sum in or \r\n                                              towards the satisfaction of a debt \r\n                                              due from him, paragraph (c) of \r\n                                              this section shall not prevent the \r\n                                              acknowledgement or recording of \r\n                                              the payment.</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;Payments Outside Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except in such circumstances as \r\n                                              may be prescribed, no Ghana \r\n                                              resident shall make any payment \r\n                                              outside Ghana to or for the credit \r\n                                              of an external resident.</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;Compensation Deals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except in such circumstances as \r\n                                              may be prescribed, no person shall \r\n                                              in Ghana, and no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall outside Ghana, make any \r\n                                              payment to or for the credit of a \r\n                                              Ghana resident as consideration \r\n                                              for or in association with&#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 receipt by any person of a \r\n                                              payment made outside Ghana, or the \r\n                                              acquisition by any person of \r\n                                              property which is outside Ghana, \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) the transfer to any person, or \r\n                                              the creation in favour of any \r\n                                              person, of a right (whether \r\n                                              present or future, and whether \r\n                                              vested or contingent) to receive a \r\n                                              payment outside Ghana or to \r\n                                              acquire property which is outside \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;IMPORT AND EXPORT</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;Import Restrictions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, no person \r\n                                              shall import any of the following&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) gold;</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 certificate of title to a \r\n                                              security, including any such \r\n                                              certificate which has been \r\n                                              cancelled;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a document certifying the \r\n                                              destruction, loss or cancellation \r\n                                              of a certificate of title to a \r\n                                              security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations may prohibit or \r\n                                              restrict the import of currency \r\n                                              notes of such description as is \r\n                                              specified in 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 9&#8212;General Restrictions on \r\n                                              Exports.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, no person \r\n                                              shall export any of the following&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) currency notes;</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) postal orders;</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) gold;</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) a document of any of the \r\n                                              following descriptions, including \r\n                                              any such document which has been \r\n                                              cancelled and any document \r\n                                              certifying the destruction, loss \r\n                                              or cancellation of any such \r\n                                              document&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations may prohibit or \r\n                                              restrict the export of further \r\n                                              articles if carried on the person \r\n                                              of a traveller or in his baggage.</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;Payments for Exports.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, no person \r\n                                              shall export goods of any \r\n                                              description unless&#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) payment for the goods has been \r\n                                              made in the prescribed manner to a \r\n                                              Ghana resident, or is to be so \r\n                                              made not later than six months \r\n                                              after the date of exportation; 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 amount of the payment that \r\n                                              has been made or is to be made is \r\n                                              such as to represent a return for \r\n                                              the goods which is in all the \r\n                                              circumstances satisfactory in the \r\n                                              interest of Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Minister may \r\n                                              direct that, in cases to which the \r\n                                              direction applies, paragraph (a) \r\n                                              of this subsection shall have \r\n                                              effect as if for the reference to \r\n                                              six months there were substituted \r\n                                              a reference to such shorter period \r\n                                              as may be specified in the \r\n                                              direction, or as if the words &quot;or \r\n                                              is to be so made not later than \r\n                                              six months after the date of \r\n                                              exportation&quot; were omitted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the preceding subsection \r\n                                              applies, the Comptroller of \r\n                                              Customs may require the person \r\n                                              making entry of any goods for \r\n                                              export to deliver to the collector \r\n                                              or other proper officer together \r\n                                              with the entry such declarations \r\n                                              as to the matters specified in \r\n                                              that subsection as the Comptroller \r\n                                              may require, and where any such \r\n                                              declaration has been so required \r\n                                              the goods shall not be exported \r\n                                              until it has been delivered as \r\n                                              aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the Comptroller of \r\n                                              Customs is not satisfied in the \r\n                                              case of any goods as to the \r\n                                              matters specified in paragraph (b) \r\n                                              of subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              he shall give his reasons to the \r\n                                              person making entry of the goods \r\n                                              for export and shall take into \r\n                                              consideration any representations \r\n                                              made by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;SECURITIES</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;Authorised \r\n                                              Depositaries.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister shall prescribe such \r\n                                              banks or other bodies or persons \r\n                                              as he thinks fit to be authorised \r\n                                              depositaries of securities for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Issue of Securities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Minister, no person shall in Ghana \r\n                                              issue any security or, whether in \r\n                                              Ghana or elsewhere, issue any \r\n                                              security which is registered or to \r\n                                              be registered in Ghana, unless \r\n                                              that person is satisfied by means \r\n                                              of a declaration in writing signed \r\n                                              by or on behalf of the person to \r\n                                              whom the security is to be issued \r\n                                              that the latter person is not an \r\n                                              external resident and is not \r\n                                              acquiring the security as the \r\n                                              nominee of an external resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The subscription by, or by a \r\n                                              nominee for, an external resident \r\n                                              of the memorandum of association \r\n                                              of a company to be formed under \r\n                                              the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 193) \r\n                                              shall, unless he subscribes the \r\n                                              memorandum with the permission of \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana, be invalid in \r\n                                              so far as it would on registration \r\n                                              of the memorandum have the effect \r\n                                              of making him a member of or \r\n                                              shareholder in the company:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this provision shall \r\n                                              not render invalid the \r\n                                              incorporation of the company, but \r\n                                              if by virtue of this subsection \r\n                                              the number of the subscribers of \r\n                                              the memorandum who on its \r\n                                              registration become members of the \r\n                                              company is less than the minimum \r\n                                              number required to subscribe the \r\n                                              memorandum, the provisions of the \r\n                                              said Ordinance relating to the \r\n                                              carrying on of business of a \r\n                                              company the number of whose \r\n                                              members is reduced below the legal \r\n                                              minimum shall nevertheless apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Transfer of Securities \r\n                                              and Coupons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, a security \r\n                                              registered in Ghana shall not be \r\n                                              transferred, and a security not so \r\n                                              registered shall not be \r\n                                              transferred in Ghana, if either \r\n                                              the transferor or the transferee, \r\n                                              or any person for whom either of \r\n                                              them is or is to be a nominee, is \r\n                                              an external resident:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no person shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have committed an \r\n                                              offence by reason only that the \r\n                                              requirements of this subsection \r\n                                              were not fulfilled unless he knew \r\n                                              or had reason to believe that \r\n                                              those requirements were not \r\n                                              fulfilled.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, a security not \r\n                                              registered in Ghana shall not be \r\n                                              transferred outside Ghana if the \r\n                                              transferor or the transferee, or \r\n                                              any person for whom either of them \r\n                                              is or is to be a nominee, is a \r\n                                              Ghana resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no coupon shall be \r\n                                              transferred&#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 Ghana, if the transferee or \r\n                                              the person, if any, for whom he is \r\n                                              to be a nominee is an external \r\n                                              resident;</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) outside Ghana, if the \r\n                                              transferor or the transferee, or \r\n                                              any person for whom either of them \r\n                                              is or is to be a nominee, is a \r\n                                              Ghana resident. </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;Issue of Bearer \r\n                                              Certificates and Coupons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no person shall, in \r\n                                              Ghana, and no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall, outside Ghana, issue any \r\n                                              bearer certificate or coupon or so \r\n                                              alter any document that it becomes \r\n                                              a bearer certificate or coupon.</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;Substitution of \r\n                                              Securities and Certificates \r\n                                              Outside Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no person shall, in \r\n                                              Ghana, and no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall, outside Ghana, do any act \r\n                                              with intent to secure&#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) that a security which is&#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                                              registered in Ghana; 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) transferable by means of a \r\n                                              bearer certificate in 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                                              becomes, or is replaced by, a \r\n                                              security registered outside Ghana \r\n                                              or a security transferable by \r\n                                              means of a bearer certificate \r\n                                              outside Ghana; 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) that a certificate of title to \r\n                                              any other security is issued&nbsp; \r\n                                              outside Ghana in substitution for \r\n                                              or in addition to a certificate of \r\n                                              title thereto which is in, or is \r\n                                              or has been lost or destroyed in, \r\n                                              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 16&#8212;Payment of Capital \r\n                                              Moneys Outside Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall do any act with intent to \r\n                                              secure that capital moneys payable \r\n                                              on a security registered in Ghana \r\n                                              are paid outside Ghana, or that, \r\n                                              where the certificate of title to \r\n                                              a security is in Ghana, capital \r\n                                              moneys payable on the security are \r\n                                              paid outside Ghana without \r\n                                              production of the certificate to \r\n                                              the person making the payment.</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;Duties of Persons \r\n                                              Keeping Registers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no person concerned \r\n                                              with the keeping of any register \r\n                                              in Ghana 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) enter in the register the name \r\n                                              of any person in relation to any \r\n                                              security unless there has been \r\n                                              produced to him evidence in \r\n                                              accordance with the following \r\n                                              subsection that the entry does not \r\n                                              form part of a transaction which \r\n                                              involves the doing of anything \r\n                                              prohibited by this Act; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) enter in the register, in \r\n                                              respect of any security, an \r\n                                              address outside Ghana, except for \r\n                                              the purpose of any transaction for \r\n                                              which the consent of the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana has been granted with the \r\n                                              knowledge that it involved the \r\n                                              entry of that address; 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) do any act in relation to the \r\n                                              register which recognises or gives \r\n                                              effect to any act appearing to him \r\n                                              to have been done with such intent \r\n                                              as is mentioned in the two last \r\n                                              preceding sections, whether done \r\n                                              by a person in or resident in \r\n                                              Ghana or not.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The evidence required for the \r\n                                              purposes of paragraph (a) of the \r\n                                              preceding subsection&#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 the issue of \r\n                                              securities, is a declaration in \r\n                                              writing, signed by or on behalf of \r\n                                              the person to whom the security is \r\n                                              to be issued, that the person to \r\n                                              whom the security is to be issued \r\n                                              is not an external resident and is \r\n                                              not acquiring the security as the \r\n                                              nominee of an external resident;</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 transfer of \r\n                                              securities, is a&nbsp; declaration in \r\n                                              writing, signed by an authorised \r\n                                              depositary, that the holder of the \r\n                                              security is not an external \r\n                                              resident and is not holding the \r\n                                              security as the nominee of an \r\n                                              external resident, together with a \r\n                                              declaration in writing, signed by \r\n                                              an authorised depositary, that the \r\n                                              transferee is not an external \r\n                                              resident and is not acquiring the \r\n                                              security as the nominee of an \r\n                                              external resident;</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) in the case of the \r\n                                              registration of securities \r\n                                              transferable by means of bearer \r\n                                              certificates, is a declaration in \r\n                                              writing, signed by an authorised \r\n                                              depositary, that the person to \r\n                                              whom the security is to be issued \r\n                                              is not an external resident and is \r\n                                              not acquiring the security as the \r\n                                              nominee of an external resident.</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;Additional Provisions \r\n                                              as to Nominee Holdings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the holder of a security is a \r\n                                              nominee and the person for whom he \r\n                                              is a nominee is an external \r\n                                              resident; 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) the holder of a security is \r\n                                              not a nominee but is an external \r\n                                              resident,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              then, except with the consent of \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana, no Ghana \r\n                                              resident shall do any act whereby \r\n                                              the holder becomes his nominee in \r\n                                              respect of the security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, a Ghana resident \r\n                                              for whom the holder of a security \r\n                                              is a nominee shall not do any act \r\n                                              whereby&#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 holder, being an external \r\n                                              resident, holds the security \r\n                                              otherwise than as his nominee; 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) the holder, not being an \r\n                                              external resident, holds the \r\n                                              security as nominee for an \r\n                                              external resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the holder of a security \r\n                                              is a nominee, then, except with \r\n                                              the consent of the Bank of Ghana, \r\n                                              neither he, if he is a Ghana \r\n                                              resident, nor any Ghana resident \r\n                                              through whose agency the exercise \r\n                                              of all or any of the holder''s \r\n                                              rights in respect of the security \r\n                                              are controlled, 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) do any act whereby he \r\n                                              recognises or gives effect to the \r\n                                              substitution of another person as \r\n                                              the person from whom he directly \r\n                                              receives his instructions unless \r\n                                              both the person previously \r\n                                              instructing him and the person \r\n                                              substituted for that person were, \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              substitution, resident in Ghana \r\n                                              and not elsewhere; 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) do any act whereby he ceases \r\n                                              to be a person bound to give \r\n                                              effect to the instructions of \r\n                                              another person in relation to the \r\n                                              security, unless the person who \r\n                                              theretofore instructed him is \r\n                                              resident in Ghana and not \r\n                                              elsewhere.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the holder of a security \r\n                                              is not a nominee and is a Ghana \r\n                                              resident, then, except with the \r\n                                              consent of the Bank of Ghana, he \r\n                                              shall not do any act whereby he \r\n                                              becomes the nominee of another \r\n                                              person in respect of the security, \r\n                                              unless that other person is \r\n                                              resident in Ghana and not \r\n                                              elsewhere.</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;Deposit of Certificates \r\n                                              of Title.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) This and the next following \r\n                                              section apply to any security \r\n                                              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) a security which is registered \r\n                                              in Ghana otherwise than in a \r\n                                              subsidiary register, and on which \r\n                                              none of the dividends or interest \r\n                                              is payable on presentment of a \r\n                                              coupon; 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) any such other security 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                                              and in the following provisions of \r\n                                              this section and in the next \r\n                                              following section the expressions \r\n                                              &quot;security&quot;, &quot;certificate of title&quot; \r\n                                              and &quot;coupon&quot; mean respectively a \r\n                                              security to which the said \r\n                                              sections apply, a certificate of \r\n                                              title to such a security, and a \r\n                                              coupon representing dividends or \r\n                                              interest on such a security.</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 every \r\n                                              person by whom or to whose order \r\n                                              (whether directly or indirectly) a \r\n                                              certificate of title is held in \r\n                                              Ghana, and of every Ghana resident \r\n                                              by whom or to whose order (whether \r\n                                              directly or indirectly) a \r\n                                              certificate of title is held \r\n                                              outside Ghana, to cause the \r\n                                              certificate of title to be kept at \r\n                                              all times, except with the consent \r\n                                              of the Bank of Ghana, in the \r\n                                              custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary, and nothing in this \r\n                                              Part of this Act shall prohibit \r\n                                              the doing of anything for the \r\n                                              purpose of complying with the \r\n                                              requirements of this subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, an authorised \r\n                                              depositary shall not part with any \r\n                                              certificate of title or coupon \r\n                                              required under this section to be \r\n                                              in the custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this subsection \r\n                                              shall not prohibit an authorised \r\n                                              depositary&#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) from parting with a \r\n                                              certificate of title or coupon to \r\n                                              or to the order of another \r\n                                              authorised depositary, where the \r\n                                              person from whom the other \r\n                                              authorised depositary is to \r\n                                              receive instructions in relation \r\n                                              thereto is to be the same as the \r\n                                              person from whom he receives \r\n                                              instructions;</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) from parting with a \r\n                                              certificate of title, for the \r\n                                              purpose of obtaining payment of \r\n                                              capital moneys payable on the \r\n                                              security, to the person entrusted \r\n                                              with payment 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) from parting with a coupon in \r\n                                              the ordinary course for \r\n                                              collection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no capital moneys, \r\n                                              interest or dividends shall be \r\n                                              paid in Ghana on any security \r\n                                              except to or to the order of an \r\n                                              authorised depositary having the \r\n                                              custody of the certificate of \r\n                                              title to that security, so, \r\n                                              however, that this subsection \r\n                                              shall not be taken as restricting \r\n                                              the manner in which any sums \r\n                                              lawfully paid on account of the \r\n                                              capital moneys, interest or \r\n                                              dividends may be dealt with by the \r\n                                              person receiving them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, an authorised \r\n                                              depositary shall not do any act \r\n                                              whereby he recognises or gives \r\n                                              effect to the substitution of one \r\n                                              person for another as the person \r\n                                              from whom he receives instructions \r\n                                              in relation to a certificate of \r\n                                              title or coupon, unless he is \r\n                                              satisfied that neither person is, \r\n                                              or is the nominee of, an external \r\n                                              resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where a certificate of title \r\n                                              which under this section should \r\n                                              for the time being be in the \r\n                                              custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary is not in the custody \r\n                                              of an authorised depositary, then, \r\n                                              except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no person shall in \r\n                                              Ghana, and no Ghana resident shall \r\n                                              outside Ghana, buy, sell, \r\n                                              transfer, or do anything which \r\n                                              affects his rights or powers in \r\n                                              relation to, the security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no person shall in \r\n                                              Ghana, and no Ghana resident shall \r\n                                              outside Ghana, detach any coupons \r\n                                              from a certificate of title with \r\n                                              coupons (whether attached or on \r\n                                              separate coupon sheets), otherwise \r\n                                              than in the ordinary course for \r\n                                              collection.</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;Additional Provisions \r\n                                              as to Deposited Certificates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a certificate of title \r\n                                              to a security is by the preceding \r\n                                              section required to be and is in \r\n                                              the custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary, the provisions of this \r\n                                              section shall, except so far as \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana otherwise \r\n                                              directs, have effect in relation \r\n                                              thereto unless&#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 authorised depositary is \r\n                                              satisfied that the security is \r\n                                              owned by a Ghana resident; 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) in the case of a certificate \r\n                                              of title which&#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                                              would ordinarily be accompanied by \r\n                                              coupons (whether attached or on \r\n                                              separate coupon sheets); but</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) when it comes into the \r\n                                              custody of the authorised \r\n                                              depositary wants, in order to \r\n                                              render it complete, any coupons \r\n                                              which would not in the ordinary \r\n                                              course have been detached for \r\n                                              collection,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              there have also been deposited \r\n                                              with him the coupons so wanting at \r\n                                              the time when the certificate of \r\n                                              title comes into his custody.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, the authorised \r\n                                              depositary shall not part with or \r\n                                              destroy the certificate of title \r\n                                              or any coupons belonging thereto, \r\n                                              otherwise than as mentioned in \r\n                                              paragraphs (b) and (c) of the \r\n                                              proviso to subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 19 of this Act, or do any \r\n                                              act whereby he recognises or gives \r\n                                              effect to the substitution of one \r\n                                              person for another as the person \r\n                                              from whom he receives instructions \r\n                                              in relation thereto:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that, where the person \r\n                                              from whom an authorised depositary \r\n                                              receives instructions in relation \r\n                                              to any certificate of title dies \r\n                                              or becomes subject to the Ghana \r\n                                              law of insolvency, this subsection \r\n                                              shall not prohibit the authorised \r\n                                              depositary from recognising the \r\n                                              person charged with administering \r\n                                              his assets as the person entitled \r\n                                              to give instructions in relation \r\n                                              to the certificate of title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The authorised depositary \r\n                                              shall place any capital moneys, \r\n                                              dividends or interest on the \r\n                                              security received by him to the \r\n                                              credit of the person by virtue of \r\n                                              whose authority he received them, \r\n                                              but shall not permit any part of \r\n                                              the sums received to be dealt with \r\n                                              except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of 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 21&#8212;Validation of Certain \r\n                                              Transfers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The title of any person to a \r\n                                              security for which he has given \r\n                                              value on a transfer thereof, and \r\n                                              the title of all persons claiming \r\n                                              through or under him, shall, \r\n                                              notwithstanding that the transfer, \r\n                                              or any previous transfer, or the \r\n                                              issue of the security, was by \r\n                                              reason of the residence of any \r\n                                              person concerned other than the \r\n                                              first-mentioned person prohibited \r\n                                              by the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              relating to the transfer or issue \r\n                                              of securities, be valid unless the \r\n                                              first-mentioned person had notice \r\n                                              of the facts by reason of which it \r\n                                              was prohibited.</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                                              provisions of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, the Bank of Ghana \r\n                                              may issue a certificate declaring, \r\n                                              in relation to a security, that \r\n                                              any acts done before the issue of \r\n                                              the certificate purporting to \r\n                                              effect the issue or transfer of \r\n                                              the security, being acts which \r\n                                              were prohibited by this Act, are \r\n                                              to be, and are always to have \r\n                                              been, as valid as if they had been \r\n                                              done with the consent of the \r\n                                              competent authority, and the said \r\n                                              acts shall have effect \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              affect the liability of any person \r\n                                              to prosecution for any offence \r\n                                              against 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 22&#8212;Application to \r\n                                              Secondary Securities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) This Part of this Act shall \r\n                                              apply, with such modifications (if \r\n                                              any) as may be prescribed, in \r\n                                              relation to any such document as \r\n                                              is mentioned in the following \r\n                                              subsection, as if the document \r\n                                              created, and were the certificate \r\n                                              of title to, a security (hereafter \r\n                                              in this Act referred to as a \r\n                                              &quot;secondary security&quot;).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The documents referred to in \r\n                                              the preceding subsection are any \r\n                                              letter of allotment which may be \r\n                                              renounced, any letter of rights, \r\n                                              any warrant conferring an option \r\n                                              to acquire a security, any deposit \r\n                                              certificate in respect of \r\n                                              securities (but not including a \r\n                                              receipt by an authorised \r\n                                              depositary for any certificate of \r\n                                              title deposited in pursuance of \r\n                                              this Part of this Act), and such \r\n                                              other documents conferring, or \r\n                                              containing evidence of, rights as \r\n                                              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 23&#8212;Interpretation of Part \r\n                                              IV.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In this Part of this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;register&quot; includes any book, file \r\n                                              or index in which securities are \r\n                                              registered;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;registered&quot; includes inscribed;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;registered in Ghana&quot; and \r\n                                              &quot;registered outside Ghana&quot; mean \r\n                                              respectively, registered in a \r\n                                              register in, and registered in a \r\n                                              register outside, Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;security which is registered in \r\n                                              Ghana otherwise than in a \r\n                                              subsidiary register&quot; means a \r\n                                              security which 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) is registered in Ghana and is \r\n                                              not, and cannot without the \r\n                                              necessity for an entry in the \r\n                                              register in Ghana become, \r\n                                              registered outside, 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; is registered both in Ghana \r\n                                              and outside but on a transfer \r\n                                              cannot, without the necessity for \r\n                                              an entry in the register in Ghana, \r\n                                              become registered outside in the \r\n                                              name of the transferee.</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 any \r\n                                              provision of this Part of this Act \r\n                                              prohibiting the transfer of \r\n                                              securities, a person shall be \r\n                                              deemed to transfer a security if \r\n                                              he executes any instrument of \r\n                                              transfer thereof, whether \r\n                                              effective or not, and shall be \r\n                                              deemed to transfer it at the place \r\n                                              where he executes the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) References in this Part of \r\n                                              this Act to the person holding a \r\n                                              certificate of title or coupon \r\n                                              shall be construed as references \r\n                                              to the person having physical \r\n                                              custody of the certificate of \r\n                                              title or coupon:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the \r\n                                              certificate of title or coupon is \r\n                                              deposited with any person in a \r\n                                              locked or sealed receptacle from \r\n                                              which he is not entitled to remove \r\n                                              it without the authority of some \r\n                                              other person, that other person \r\n                                              shall be deemed for the purposes \r\n                                              of this provision to have the \r\n                                              physical custody thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) In this Part of this Act, \r\n                                              &quot;holder&quot;&#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 relation to a security \r\n                                              transferable by means of a bearer \r\n                                              certificate or to a coupon, \r\n                                              includes the person holding the \r\n                                              certificate or coupon; and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\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) in relation to a security \r\n                                              which is registered in the name of \r\n                                              a deceased person, or of any \r\n                                              person who, by reason of \r\n                                              insolvency, unsoundness of mind or \r\n                                              any other disability is incapable \r\n                                              of transferring the security, \r\n                                              means the personal representative \r\n                                              or other person entitled to \r\n                                              transfer the security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The holder of a security or \r\n                                              coupon shall be deemed for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Part of this Act \r\n                                              to be a nominee in respect thereof \r\n                                              if, as respects the exercise of \r\n                                              any rights in respect thereof, he \r\n                                              is not entitled to exercise those \r\n                                              rights except in accordance with \r\n                                              instructions given by some other \r\n                                              person, and references in this \r\n                                              Part of this Act to the person for \r\n                                              whom the holder of a security or \r\n                                              coupon is a nominee shall be \r\n                                              construed as references to the \r\n                                              person who is entitled to give \r\n                                              instructions, either directly or \r\n                                              through the agency of one or more \r\n                                              persons, as to the exercise of any \r\n                                              rights in respect of the security \r\n                                              or coupon and is not in so doing \r\n                                              himself under a duty to comply \r\n                                              with instructions given by some \r\n                                              other person:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a person shall not by reason \r\n                                              only that he has a controlling \r\n                                              interest in a body corporate be \r\n                                              deemed for the purposes of this \r\n                                              subsection to be entitled to give \r\n                                              instructions to that body \r\n                                              corporate as to the exercise of \r\n                                              rights in respect of any security \r\n                                              or coupon of which it is the \r\n                                              holder; 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                                              (b) a person shall not be deemed \r\n                                              to hold a security or coupon as a \r\n                                              nominee by reason only that he \r\n                                              holds it as trustee if he is \r\n                                              entitled to transfer the security \r\n                                              or coupon without permission from \r\n                                              any other person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) A certificate of title shall \r\n                                              not for the purposes of this Part \r\n                                              of this Act be treated as in the \r\n                                              custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary if 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) the depositary has no notice \r\n                                              of the nature of the certificate; \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) the certificate is deposited \r\n                                              with him in a locked or sealed \r\n                                              receptacle from which he is not \r\n                                              entitled to remove it without the \r\n                                              authority of some other person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where a certificate of title \r\n                                              outside Ghana is by this Part of \r\n                                              this Act required to be kept in \r\n                                              the custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary, it shall be deemed to \r\n                                              be in the custody of an authorised \r\n                                              depositary if&#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 his direction or with his \r\n                                              assent it is in the custody of \r\n                                              some other person who holds it on \r\n                                              behalf of and to the order of the \r\n                                              authorised depositary; 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 certificate is not \r\n                                              deposited with that other person \r\n                                              in a locked or sealed receptacle \r\n                                              from which he is not entitled to \r\n                                              remove it without the authority of \r\n                                              a person other than himself;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and where a certificate of title \r\n                                              is by virtue of this subsection \r\n                                              deemed to be in the custody of an \r\n                                              authorised depositary, references \r\n                                              in this Part of this Act to the \r\n                                              depositary parting with the \r\n                                              certificate or a coupon belonging \r\n                                              thereto shall be construed as \r\n                                              references to his permitting the \r\n                                              person having the actual custody \r\n                                              thereof to part with it otherwise \r\n                                              than to the depositary, and \r\n                                              references to his destroying the \r\n                                              certificate or such a coupon shall \r\n                                              be construed as references to his \r\n                                              permitting it to be destroyed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#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 24&#8212;Duty to Collect Certain \r\n                                              Debts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no Ghana resident \r\n                                              who has a right (whether present \r\n                                              or future and whether vested or \r\n                                              contingent) to receive any \r\n                                              external currency, or to receive \r\n                                              from an external resident a \r\n                                              payment in Ghana currency, shall \r\n                                              do any act with intent to secure&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that the receipt by him of the \r\n                                              whole or part of that currency is \r\n                                              delayed; 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) that the currency ceases, in \r\n                                              whole or in part, to be receivable \r\n                                              by him:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              subsection&#8212;</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                                              shall, unless the Bank of Ghana \r\n                                              otherwise directs, impose on any \r\n                                              person an obligation, in relation \r\n                                              to a debt arising in the carrying \r\n                                              on of any trade or business, to \r\n                                              procure the payment thereof at an \r\n                                              earlier time than is customary in \r\n                                              the course of that trade or \r\n                                              business; 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                                              (ii) shall, unless the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana otherwise directs, prohibit \r\n                                              any transfer to a person resident \r\n                                              in Ghana and not elsewhere of any \r\n                                              right to receive external or Ghana \r\n                                              currency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a person has contravened \r\n                                              the provisions of subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section in relation to any \r\n                                              currency, the Minister may give to \r\n                                              him or to any other person who \r\n                                              appears to the Minister to be in a \r\n                                              position to give effect thereto \r\n                                              (being a person in or resident in \r\n                                              Ghana) such directions as appear \r\n                                              to the Minister to be expedient \r\n                                              for the purpose of obtaining or \r\n                                              expediting the receipt of the \r\n                                              currency in question, and, without \r\n                                              prejudice to the generality of the \r\n                                              preceding provisions of this \r\n                                              subsection, may direct that there \r\n                                              shall be assigned to the Minister, \r\n                                              or to such person as may be \r\n                                              specified in the directions, the \r\n                                              right to receive the currency or \r\n                                              enforce any security for the \r\n                                              receipt thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Duty not to Delay Sale \r\n                                              or Importation of Goods.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any consent has been granted \r\n                                              under this Act subject to a \r\n                                              condition providing that, or on \r\n                                              the faith of an application \r\n                                              stating an intention that, any \r\n                                              goods should be sold outside \r\n                                              Ghana; 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) any statement or declaration \r\n                                              has been made under this Act that \r\n                                              any goods are to be sold outside \r\n                                              Ghana; 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) any currency has been obtained \r\n                                              in Ghana, or by any Ghana \r\n                                              resident, on the faith of an \r\n                                              application stating an intention \r\n                                              that any goods should be sold \r\n                                              outside Ghana,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              then, except with the consent of \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana, no Ghana \r\n                                              resident who is entitled to sell \r\n                                              or procure the sale of the said \r\n                                              goods shall do any act with intent \r\n                                              to secure&#8212;</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                                              that the said sale is delayed to \r\n                                              an extent which is unreasonable \r\n                                              having regard to the ordinary \r\n                                              course of trade; 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                                              (ii) that, on the said sale, any \r\n                                              payment made for the goods is not \r\n                                              made in the manner indicated by \r\n                                              the condition, statement, or \r\n                                              declaration, as the case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any consent has been granted \r\n                                              under this Act, subject to a \r\n                                              condition providing that, or on \r\n                                              the faith of an application \r\n                                              stating an intention that, any \r\n                                              goods should be imported; 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) any currency has been obtained \r\n                                              in Ghana, or by any Ghana \r\n                                              resident, on the faith of an \r\n                                              application stating an intention \r\n                                              that any goods should be imported,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              then, except with the consent of \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana, no Ghana \r\n                                              resident who is entitled to \r\n                                              procure the importation of the \r\n                                              said goods shall do any act with \r\n                                              intent to secure that the \r\n                                              importation thereof is delayed to \r\n                                              an extent which is unreasonable \r\n                                              having regard to the ordinary \r\n                                              course of trade.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where in any such case as is \r\n                                              specified in paragraph (a), (b) or \r\n                                              (c) of subsection (1), or \r\n                                              paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection \r\n                                              (2), of this section&#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 goods have not been sold \r\n                                              or imported as indicated by the \r\n                                              condition, statement or \r\n                                              declaration within the time \r\n                                              thereby indicated or, if no time \r\n                                              is thereby indicated, a reasonable \r\n                                              time, or (in either case) within \r\n                                              such further time as may be \r\n                                              allowed by the Minister; 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) it appears to the Minister \r\n                                              that the goods cannot be sold or \r\n                                              imported as indicated by the \r\n                                              condition, statement or \r\n                                              declaration,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister may give to any Ghana \r\n                                              resident who appears to the \r\n                                              Minister to be in a position to \r\n                                              give effect thereto such \r\n                                              directions as appear to the \r\n                                              Minister to be expedient as to the \r\n                                              manner in which the goods are to \r\n                                              be dealt with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the provisions of \r\n                                              the last preceding subsection, the \r\n                                              power conferred thereby on the \r\n                                              Minister to give directions shall \r\n                                              extend to the giving of directions \r\n                                              that the goods shall be assigned \r\n                                              to the Minister or to a person \r\n                                              specified in the directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The powers conferred by the \r\n                                              two last preceding subsections in \r\n                                              relation to any goods shall extend \r\n                                              to the giving of directions with \r\n                                              respect to any goods produced or \r\n                                              manufactured therefrom, and, where \r\n                                              goods to be sold outside Ghana or \r\n                                              to be imported were to be produced \r\n                                              or manufactured from other goods, \r\n                                              to the giving of directions with \r\n                                              respect to those other goods and \r\n                                              any goods produced or manufactured \r\n                                              from those other goods.</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;Property Obtained by \r\n                                              Infringement of Act.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a person&#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) has made any payment which is \r\n                                              prohibited by this Act; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) being bound under this Act to \r\n                                              offer or cause to be offered any \r\n                                              gold or currency to an authorised \r\n                                              dealer, has otherwise disposed of \r\n                                              that gold or currency,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister may direct him to \r\n                                              sell or procure the sale of any \r\n                                              property which he is entitled to \r\n                                              sell or of which he is entitled to \r\n                                              procure the sale, being property \r\n                                              which represents, whether directly \r\n                                              or indirectly, that payment or \r\n                                              that gold or currency, as the case \r\n                                              may be, and may by the same or a \r\n                                              subsequent direction specify the \r\n                                              manner in which, the persons to \r\n                                              whom and the terms on which the \r\n                                              property is to be sold.</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 subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, the power conferred \r\n                                              thereby to give directions shall \r\n                                              extend to the giving of directions \r\n                                              that the property shall be \r\n                                              assigned to the Minister or to a \r\n                                              person specified in the \r\n                                              directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Provisions Supplemental \r\n                                              to Preceding Provisions of Part V.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where, under the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this Part of this \r\n                                              Act, the Minister has power to \r\n                                              give directions that any right to \r\n                                              receive any currency or to enforce \r\n                                              any security for the receipt \r\n                                              thereof, any goods, or any other \r\n                                              property shall be assigned to the \r\n                                              Minister, the Minister shall also \r\n                                              have power to direct that the \r\n                                              right, goods or property shall \r\n                                              vest in the Minister, and it or \r\n                                              they shall vest accordingly free \r\n                                              from any mortgage, pledge or \r\n                                              charge, and the Minister may deal \r\n                                              with it or them as he thinks fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where, in pursuance of \r\n                                              directions under the said \r\n                                              provisions, any right, goods or \r\n                                              property is or are assigned to the \r\n                                              Minister or to a person specified \r\n                                              in the directions, or any right, \r\n                                              goods or property vests or vest in \r\n                                              the Minister in pursuance of \r\n                                              directions given under subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section, the Minister \r\n                                              shall pay the net sum recovered by \r\n                                              him in respect of the right, goods \r\n                                              or property to the person making \r\n                                              the assignment or, in the case of \r\n                                              any right, goods or property \r\n                                              vested in the Minister under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, to \r\n                                              the person who, but for the \r\n                                              directions, would be entitled to \r\n                                              the right, goods or property.</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;Transfer of Annuities, \r\n                                              Policies, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall transfer to an external \r\n                                              resident or a person who is to be \r\n                                              a nominee for an external \r\n                                              resident, any right to the sums \r\n                                              assured by any policy of \r\n                                              assurance, so, however, that where \r\n                                              the person liable for the sums so \r\n                                              assured makes any payment thereof \r\n                                              to a person resident in Ghana and \r\n                                              not elsewhere, or makes, with the \r\n                                              permission of the Bank, any \r\n                                              payment thereof to any other \r\n                                              person,&#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) he shall not be bound to \r\n                                              inquire as to the residence of any \r\n                                              person other than the person to \r\n                                              whom, and (if it is not the same \r\n                                              person) the person to whose order, \r\n                                              the payment is made; 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) the payment shall, to the \r\n                                              extent of the sums paid, discharge \r\n                                              him from his liability under the \r\n                                              policy, notwithstanding that the \r\n                                              payment is made to or to the order \r\n                                              of a person who was not entitled \r\n                                              thereto otherwise than by virtue \r\n                                              of a transfer prohibited by this \r\n                                              subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subsections (2) and (3) of \r\n                                              section 21 of this Act shall apply \r\n                                              in relation to any transfer \r\n                                              prohibited by this section as they \r\n                                              apply in relation to a transfer \r\n                                              prohibited by this Act of a \r\n                                              security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In this section &quot;nominee&quot; has, \r\n                                              in relation to any policy, annuity \r\n                                              or assurance, the same meaning as \r\n                                              it has in Part IV of this Act in \r\n                                              relation to a security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Settlements.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall settle any property, \r\n                                              otherwise than by will, so as to \r\n                                              confer an interest in the property \r\n                                              on a person who, at the time of \r\n                                              the settlement, is an external \r\n                                              resident, or shall exercise, \r\n                                              otherwise than by will, any power \r\n                                              of appointment, whether created by \r\n                                              will or otherwise, in favour of a \r\n                                              person who, at the time of the \r\n                                              exercise of the power, is an \r\n                                              external resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A settlement or exercise of a \r\n                                              power of appointment shall not be \r\n                                              invalid by reason that it is \r\n                                              prohibited by this section, except \r\n                                              so far as it purports to confer \r\n                                              any interest on any person who, at \r\n                                              the time of the settlement or the \r\n                                              exercise of the power, is an \r\n                                              external resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subsections (2) and (3) of \r\n                                              section 21 of this Act shall apply \r\n                                              in relation to a settlement or the \r\n                                              exercise of a power of appointment \r\n                                              prohibited by this section as they \r\n                                              apply in relation to a transfer \r\n                                              prohibited by this Act of a \r\n                                              security.</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 this \r\n                                              section&#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 reference to settling \r\n                                              property includes a reference to \r\n                                              the making of any disposition, \r\n                                              covenant, agreement or arrangement \r\n                                              whereby the property becomes \r\n                                              subject to a trust, or (in the \r\n                                              case of resettlement) to a \r\n                                              different trust; 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 person shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have an interest in property if he \r\n                                              has any beneficial interest \r\n                                              therein, whether present or \r\n                                              future, and whether vested or \r\n                                              contingent, or falls within a \r\n                                              limited class of persons in whose \r\n                                              favour a discretion or power in \r\n                                              respect of the property is \r\n                                              exercisable.</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;Companies.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where there is served on any \r\n                                              Ghana resident a notice in writing \r\n                                              that the Bank of Ghana wishes any \r\n                                              such requirements as are \r\n                                              hereinafter mentioned to be \r\n                                              complied with by any such body \r\n                                              corporate as is specified in the \r\n                                              First Schedule to this Act \r\n                                              (hereafter in this section \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;an external \r\n                                              company&quot;) and that person can by \r\n                                              doing any 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) cause the external company to \r\n                                              comply with any of the \r\n                                              requirements; 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) remove any obstacle to the \r\n                                              company complying with any of the \r\n                                              requirements; 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) render it in any respect more \r\n                                              probable that the company will \r\n                                              comply with any of the \r\n                                              requirements,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              then, except so far as consent to \r\n                                              the contrary may be given by the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, that person shall \r\n                                              do that act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The requirements with respect to \r\n                                              which such a notice may be given \r\n                                              are as follows, that is to say, \r\n                                              that the external company shall&#8212;</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                                              furnish to the Bank of Ghana such \r\n                                              particulars as to its assets and \r\n                                              business as may be mentioned in \r\n                                              the notice;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) sell or procure the sale to \r\n                                              an authorised dealer of any gold \r\n                                              or external currency mentioned in \r\n                                              the notice, being gold or external \r\n                                              currency which it is entitled to \r\n                                              sell or of which it is entitled to \r\n                                              procure the sale;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) declare and pay such \r\n                                              dividend as may be mentioned in \r\n                                              the notice;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) realise any of its assets \r\n                                              mentioned in the notice in such \r\n                                              manner as may be so mentioned;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (v) refrain from selling, \r\n                                              transferring, or doing anything \r\n                                              which affects its rights or powers \r\n                                              in relation to, any such \r\n                                              securities as may be mentioned in \r\n                                              the notice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where any sum falls to be paid \r\n                                              by an authorised dealer on the \r\n                                              sale of gold or currency in \r\n                                              pursuance of a requirement \r\n                                              notified under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection, the Bank of Ghana may \r\n                                              direct the authorised dealer to \r\n                                              pay the sum to a blocked account \r\n                                              only, and where such a direction \r\n                                              is given the Second Schedule to \r\n                                              this Act shall have effect in \r\n                                              relation to the payment of the \r\n                                              sum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana, no Ghana resident \r\n                                              shall do any act whereby a body \r\n                                              corporate which is by any means \r\n                                              controlled (whether directly or \r\n                                              indirectly) by Ghana residents \r\n                                              ceases to be controlled by Ghana \r\n                                              residents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this subsection \r\n                                              shall not prohibit any person from \r\n                                              selling securities authorised to \r\n                                              be dealt in on any recognised \r\n                                              stock exchange in Ghana if the \r\n                                              sale takes place in pursuance of \r\n                                              an agreement entered into in the \r\n                                              ordinary course of business on \r\n                                              that exchange.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Except in such circumstances \r\n                                              as may be prescribed, no Ghana \r\n                                              resident shall lend money in any \r\n                                              form or any securities to a body \r\n                                              corporate resident in Ghana which \r\n                                              is by any means controlled \r\n                                              (whether directly or indirectly) \r\n                                              by external residents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this subsection \r\n                                              shall not apply where the lender \r\n                                              after making such inquiries as are \r\n                                              reasonable in the circumstances of \r\n                                              the case does not know and has no \r\n                                              reason to suspect that the body \r\n                                              corporate is controlled as \r\n                                              aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section and of the First Schedule \r\n                                              to this Act, persons shall be \r\n                                              deemed to control a body corporate \r\n                                              notwithstanding that other persons \r\n                                              are associated with them in the \r\n                                              control thereof if they can \r\n                                              together override those other \r\n                                              persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) In this section &quot;security&quot; \r\n                                              includes a secondary security.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Special Power to \r\n                                              Safeguard Economy of Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the Minister is satisfied \r\n                                              that, owing to a change in the \r\n                                              external or internal position of \r\n                                              any country, action is being or is \r\n                                              likely to be taken to the \r\n                                              detriment of the economic position \r\n                                              of Ghana, he may give general or \r\n                                              special directions prohibiting, \r\n                                              either absolutely or to such \r\n                                              extent as may be specified in the \r\n                                              directions, the carrying out, \r\n                                              except with permission granted by \r\n                                              or on behalf of the Minister, of \r\n                                              any order given by or on behalf \r\n                                              of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the country, or the Sovereign \r\n                                              thereof, or any person resident \r\n                                              therein, 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) any body or corporation which \r\n                                              is incorporated under the law of \r\n                                              the country or is under the \r\n                                              control of the country, or the \r\n                                              Sovereign thereof, or any person \r\n                                              resident therein,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              in so far as the order&#8212;</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                                              requires the person to whom the \r\n                                              order is given to make any payment \r\n                                              or to part with any gold or \r\n                                              securities, 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                                              (ii) requires any change to be \r\n                                              made in the person to whose credit \r\n                                              any sum of money is to stand or to \r\n                                              whose order any gold or securities \r\n                                              are to be held.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;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;Persons Leaving Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a Ghana resident leaves \r\n                                              Ghana, the Bank of Ghana may, \r\n                                              before, at or after the time he \r\n                                              leaves Ghana, direct that, for \r\n                                              such period as may be specified in \r\n                                              the direction, payments by him or \r\n                                              on his behalf and to him or to his \r\n                                              credit, and transactions in or in \r\n                                              relation to Ghana Treasury bills, \r\n                                              or securities or secondary \r\n                                              securities, in which he is in any \r\n                                              way concerned shall, whether or \r\n                                              not he continues to be resident in \r\n                                              Ghana, be subject to such \r\n                                              restrictions as may be specified \r\n                                              in the direction.</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;Evidence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              document stating that any consent \r\n                                              or direction is given under this \r\n                                              Act, and purporting to be signed \r\n                                              by or on behalf of the person \r\n                                              giving the consent or direction, \r\n                                              shall be evidence of the facts \r\n                                              stated in the 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 34&#8212;Residence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Bank of Ghana may give \r\n                                              directions declaring that for all \r\n                                              or any of the purposes of this Act \r\n                                              a person is to be treated as \r\n                                              resident or not resident in such \r\n                                              territories as may be specified in \r\n                                              the directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except where the Bank of Ghana \r\n                                              otherwise directs</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a person carrying on in Ghana \r\n                                              a branch of any business shall, as \r\n                                              respects such business as he is \r\n                                              carrying on by that branch, be \r\n                                              treated for the purposes of this \r\n                                              Act as a Ghana resident;</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 transaction with or by a \r\n                                              branch of any business, whether \r\n                                              carried on by a body corporate or \r\n                                              otherwise, shall be treated for \r\n                                              the purposes of this Act as if the \r\n                                              branch were a body corporate \r\n                                              resident where the branch is \r\n                                              situated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this subsection &quot;branch&quot; \r\n                                              includes the head office of a \r\n                                              business; and this subsection \r\n                                              shall apply in relation to a body \r\n                                              of persons (whether corporate or \r\n                                              unincorporate) who carry on any \r\n                                              activity, whether for the purpose \r\n                                              of profit or not, as it applies in \r\n                                              relation to a business.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the purposes of this Act a \r\n                                              personal representative of a \r\n                                              deceased person shall, unless the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana otherwise directs, \r\n                                              be treated as resident in the \r\n                                              territory where the deceased was \r\n                                              resident for the purposes in \r\n                                              question at the time of his death \r\n                                              and as not resident elsewhere, so \r\n                                              far as relates to any matters in \r\n                                              which the personal representative \r\n                                              is concerned solely in his \r\n                                              capacity as such.</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;Contracts, Legal \r\n                                              Proceedings, Etc.</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 an implied \r\n                                              condition in any contract that, \r\n                                              where, by virtue of this Act any \r\n                                              consent is at the time of the \r\n                                              contract required for the \r\n                                              performance of any term thereof, \r\n                                              that term shall not be performed \r\n                                              except in so far as the consent is \r\n                                              given or is subsequently not \r\n                                              required:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this subsection \r\n                                              shall not apply in so far as it is \r\n                                              shown to be inconsistent with the \r\n                                              intention of the parties that it \r\n                                              should apply, whether by reason of \r\n                                              their having contemplated the \r\n                                              performance of that term inspite \r\n                                              of the provisions of this Act or \r\n                                              for any other reason.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              the Bills of Exchange Act, 1961 \r\n                                              (Act 55) neither the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, nor any condition, \r\n                                              whether express or to be implied \r\n                                              having regard to those provisions, \r\n                                              that any payment shall not be made \r\n                                              without consent under this Act, \r\n                                              shall be deemed to prevent any \r\n                                              instrument being a bill of \r\n                                              exchange or promissory note.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of the Third \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act shall have \r\n                                              effect with respect to legal \r\n                                              proceedings, arbitrations, \r\n                                              insolvency proceedings, the \r\n                                              administration of the estates of \r\n                                              deceased persons, the winding up \r\n                                              of companies, and proceedings \r\n                                              under deeds of arrangement or \r\n                                              trust deeds for behoof of \r\n                                              creditors.</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;Enforcement and \r\n                                              Administration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The provisions of the Fourth \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act shall have \r\n                                              effect for the purpose of the \r\n                                              enforcement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the exercise of its \r\n                                              functions under this Act, the Bank \r\n                                              of Ghana shall comply with any \r\n                                              directions given to it by the \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Persons belonging to the \r\n                                              following classes, that is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) bankers, authorised dealers \r\n                                              and authorised depositaries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) persons who with the consent \r\n                                              of any person are in possession of \r\n                                              documents which would, but for the \r\n                                              consent, have to be in the custody \r\n                                              of an authorised depositary;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) persons concerned with the \r\n                                              keeping of any register in Ghana; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) persons entrusted with the \r\n                                              payment of capital moneys, \r\n                                              dividends or interest in Ghana,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall comply with such directions \r\n                                              as may be given to them \r\n                                              respectively by or on behalf of \r\n                                              the Minister, being&#8212;</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 any such persons, \r\n                                              directions as respects the \r\n                                              exercise of any functions \r\n                                              exercisable by them by virtue of, \r\n                                              or by virtue of anything done \r\n                                              under, any provision of this Act; \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                                              (ii) in the case of authorised \r\n                                              dealers, such&nbsp; directions as \r\n                                              aforesaid or directions as to the \r\n                                              terms on which they are to accept \r\n                                              gold or external currency or \r\n                                              directions requiring them to offer \r\n                                              their gold or external currency \r\n                                              for sale to the Bank of Ghana on \r\n                                              such terms as may be specified in \r\n                                              any such directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 37&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In this Act, unless the \r\n                                              context otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;authorised dealer&quot; means a person \r\n                                              prescribed in that behalf under \r\n                                              section 1(1) of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;authorised depositary&quot; means a \r\n                                              person prescribed in that behalf \r\n                                              under section 11 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;bearer certificate&quot; means a \r\n                                              certificate of title to securities \r\n                                              by the delivery of which (with or \r\n                                              without endorsement) the title to \r\n                                              the securities is transferable;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;certificate of title to \r\n                                              securities&quot; means any document of \r\n                                              title whereby a person recognises \r\n                                              the title of another to securities \r\n                                              issued or to be issued by the \r\n                                              first-mentioned person, and in the \r\n                                              case of any such document with \r\n                                              coupons (whether attached or on \r\n                                              separate coupon sheets) includes \r\n                                              any coupons which have not been \r\n                                              detached;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;coupon&quot; means a coupon \r\n                                              representing dividends or interest \r\n                                              on a security;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;currency note&quot; means a note which \r\n                                              is or has at any time been legal \r\n                                              tender, whether the note is whole \r\n                                              or mutilated;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;external currency&quot; means the \r\n                                              currency of any country other than \r\n                                              Ghana, and any reference to \r\n                                              external currency includes a \r\n                                              reference to external currency \r\n                                              notes, external currency drafts \r\n                                              and any right to receive external \r\n                                              currency in respect of a credit or \r\n                                              balance at a bank;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;external currency draft&quot; has the \r\n                                              meaning assigned to it by section \r\n                                              1(4) of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;external resident&quot; means a person \r\n                                              resident outside Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Ghana resident&quot; means a person \r\n                                              resident in Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;gold&quot; means gold coin or gold \r\n                                              bullion;</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 Finance;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;policy of assurance&quot; means any \r\n                                              policy securing the payment of a \r\n                                              capital sum or annuity on the \r\n                                              occurrence of a specified event \r\n                                              which is certain to happen and \r\n                                              includes&#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 policy by which the \r\n                                              payment of money is assured on \r\n                                              death (except death by accident \r\n                                              only) or the happening of any \r\n                                              contingency dependent on human \r\n                                              life; 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) any policy securing the \r\n                                              payment of an immediate annuity;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the reference in this \r\n                                              definition to the occurrence of a \r\n                                              specified event which is certain \r\n                                              to happen shall include the \r\n                                              occurrence, which is certain to \r\n                                              happen, of one of specified events \r\n                                              none of which by itself is certain \r\n                                              to happen;</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 38 \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;secondary securities&quot; has the \r\n                                              meaning ascribed to it by section \r\n                                              22 of this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;securities&quot; means shares, stock, \r\n                                              bonds, notes (other than \r\n                                              promissory notes), debentures, \r\n                                              debenture stock, units under a \r\n                                              unit trust scheme and shares in an \r\n                                              oil royalty;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;unit trust scheme&quot; means any \r\n                                              arrangements made for the purpose, \r\n                                              or having the effect, of providing \r\n                                              for persons having funds available \r\n                                              for investment, facilities for the \r\n                                              participation by them, as \r\n                                              beneficiaries under a trust, in \r\n                                              profits or income arising from the \r\n                                              acquisition, holding, management \r\n                                              or disposal of any property \r\n                                              whatsoever;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any provision of this Act \r\n                                              (however worded) the effect of \r\n                                              which is to prohibit the doing of \r\n                                              any act where a person to or by \r\n                                              whom the act is to be done or who \r\n                                              stands in a specified relation to \r\n                                              any property possesses any \r\n                                              specified attribute as to \r\n                                              residence or otherwise shall, \r\n                                              where the act is done to or by two \r\n                                              or more persons or, as the case \r\n                                              may be, where two or more persons \r\n                                              stand jointly in that relation to \r\n                                              the property, operate to prohibit \r\n                                              the doing of that act if any of \r\n                                              those persons possess that \r\n                                              attribute; and any provision of \r\n                                              this Act imposing an obligation on \r\n                                              any person to do an act if he \r\n                                              possesses any specified attribute \r\n                                              as to residence or otherwise \r\n                                              shall, in relation to any act \r\n                                              which can only be done by two or \r\n                                              more persons jointly&#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 all those persons \r\n                                              possess that attribute, operate to \r\n                                              impose a joint obligation on all \r\n                                              of them to do the 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                                              (b) where some only of them \r\n                                              possess that attribute, operate to \r\n                                              impose a separate obligation on \r\n                                              each one of them who possesses \r\n                                              that attribute to do all he can to \r\n                                              secure the doing of the act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Nothing in this Act shall be \r\n                                              construed as requiring the \r\n                                              Minister to pay any sum otherwise \r\n                                              than in Ghana currency or \r\n                                              otherwise than in Ghana, and any \r\n                                              provision of this Act requiring \r\n                                              the Minister to pay any sum to any \r\n                                              person shall, where that sum is in \r\n                                              an external currency, be construed \r\n                                              as a provision that the Minister \r\n                                              shall pay to that person the \r\n                                              amount in Ghana currency which he \r\n                                              would have received for the \r\n                                              external currency if he had sold \r\n                                              it to an authorised dealer in \r\n                                              pursuance of an offer made under \r\n                                              section 3 of this Act at the time \r\n                                              when the said sum is paid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The obligations and \r\n                                              prohibitions imposed by this Act \r\n                                              shall, subject to the express \r\n                                              limitations contained therein, \r\n                                              apply to all persons, \r\n                                              notwithstanding that they are not \r\n                                              in Ghana and are not citizens of \r\n                                              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 38&#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 \r\n                                              prescribing anything that is to be \r\n                                              prescribed under this Act or \r\n                                              otherwise making provision for the \r\n                                              purposes 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 39&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The 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                                              The Exchange Control Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 206);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Exchange Control (Amendment) \r\n                                              Ordinance, 1952 (No. 21);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 55 (4) of the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana Ordinance, 1957 (No. 34).</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                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of the \r\n                                              Interpretation Act, 1960 (CA 4) as \r\n                                              to repeals, any direction, \r\n                                              permission or consent given under \r\n                                              the Exchange Control Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 206) shall operate as nearly \r\n                                              as may be as if it had been given \r\n                                              under 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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 40&#8212;Act binds Republic.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act binds the Republic, but \r\n                                              (without prejudice to any express \r\n                                              terms) no term shall be implied in \r\n                                              any contract entered into by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the Republic that the \r\n                                              Government will ensure that a \r\n                                              consent required by or under this \r\n                                              Act is given or that any other \r\n                                              function conferred by or under \r\n                                              this Act is exercised in a \r\n                                              particular way.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall be deemed to have \r\n                                              come into operation on 5th July, \r\n                                              1961.</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                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EXTERNAL COMPANIES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The bodies corporate in \r\n                                              question are bodies corporate not \r\n                                              incorporated under the law of \r\n                                              Ghana in the case of which any of \r\n                                              the following conditions is \r\n                                              fulfilled&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that the body corporate is by \r\n                                              any means controlled (whether \r\n                                              directly or indirectly) by Ghana \r\n                                              residents;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that more than one-half of the \r\n                                              sums which, on a liquidation \r\n                                              thereof, would be receivable by \r\n                                              holders of share or loan capital \r\n                                              would be receivable directly or \r\n                                              indirectly by or for the benefit \r\n                                              of Ghana residents;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n         