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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              VISITING FORCES ACT, 1962 (ACT 
                                              117)</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. Exercise of powers by service 
                                              courts and authorities.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. Primary right of civil courts 
                                              to exercise jurisdiction, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. Restriction of jurisdiction of 
                                              civil courts and service courts.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. Waiver of primary right to 
                                              exercise jurisdiction.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. Summoning of witnesses.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              6. Offences liable to be committed 
                                              by witnesses, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. Privileges of members of 
                                              service courts, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. Effect of certificate of 
                                              service authority.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              9. Due constitution of service 
                                              courts, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              10. Assistance by home force to 
                                              service courts and authorities.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              11. Detention of sentenced members 
                                              of visiting forces.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              12. Certain provisions of Criminal 
                                              Code not to apply to visiting 
                                              forces.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              13. Rank of members of visiting 
                                              forces, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              14. Regulations.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              15. Interpretation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE 
                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ENTITLED</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              THE VISITING FORCES ACT, 1962</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AN ACT to enable service courts 
                                              and authorities, of sending states 
                                              to which visiting forces belong, 
                                              to exercise jurisdiction and other 
                                              powers over members of such 
                                              forces, to provide for certain 
                                              matters relating to the 
                                              administration of such forces and 
                                              to make provision for matters 
                                              connected therewith.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 12th June, 1962.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and 
                                              the National Assembly in this 
                                              present Parliament assembled as 
                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 1&#8212;Exercise of Powers by 
                                              Service Courts and Authorities.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Subject to the other provisions of 
                                              this Act, when a visiting force is 
                                              present in Ghana or on board any 
                                              ship or aircraft of Ghana, the 
                                              service courts and service 
                                              authorities of the sending state 
                                              may exercise within Ghana, or on 
                                              board any such ship or aircraft, 
                                              in relation to members of that 
                                              force, all such powers as are 
                                              conferred upon them by the law of 
                                              the sending state.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 2&#8212;Primary Right of Civil 
                                              Courts to Exercise Jurisdiction, 
                                              Etc.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Except in respect of offences 
                                              mentioned in subsection (2), the 
                                              civil courts shall have the 
                                              primary right to exercise 
                                              jurisdiction in respect of any act 
                                              or omission constituting an 
                                              offence against any law in force 
                                              in Ghana alleged to have been 
                                              committed by a member of a 
                                              visiting force.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) With respect to the alleged 
                                              commission by a member of a 
                                              visiting force of an offence 
                                              relating to&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the property or security of 
                                              the sending state;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the person or property of 
                                              another member of the visiting 
                                              force;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) the person or property of a 
                                              dependent of another member of the 
                                              visiting force; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) an act done or anything 
                                              omitted by the performance of 
                                              official duty,</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              the service courts of the visiting 
                                              force shall have the primary right 
                                              to exercise jurisdiction:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that where the offence of 
                                              a member of a visiting force 
                                              relates to paragraph (d), and has 
                                              been committed against a civilian 
                                              the Minister responsible for 
                                              Defence shall decide whether a 
                                              service or civil court shall have 
                                              the primary right to exercise 
                                              jurisdiction in the trial of such 
                                              offence and the court selected by 
                                              him shall have the primary right 
                                              to exercise such jurisdiction.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .(3) This section shall have 
                                              effect subject to any Agreement 
                                              between the Republic of Ghana in 
                                              respect of a visiting force and 
                                              the sending state to which such 
                                              force belongs.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [Added by Act 233 s.1]</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 3&#8212;Restriction of 
                                              Jurisdiction of Civil Courts and 
                                              Service Courts.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where a member of a visiting 
                                              force has been tried by a service 
                                              court of that visiting force and 
                                              has been convicted or acquitted, 
                                              he shall not be tried again by a 
                                              civil court for the same offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where a member of a visiting 
                                              force has been tried by a civil 
                                              court and has been convicted or 
                                              acquitted, he shall not be tried 
                                              again within Ghana for the same 
                                              offence by a service court of that 
                                              visiting force; but nothing in 
                                              this subsection shall prevent that 
                                              service court from trying within 
                                              Ghana a member of the visiting 
                                              force for any violation of rules 
                                              of discipline arising from an act 
                                              or omission that constituted an 
                                              offence for which he was tried by 
                                              the civil court.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 4&#8212;Waiver of Primary Right 
                                              to Exercise Jurisdiction. </span>
                                              </b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where under section 2 a civil 
                                              court or a service court of a 
                                              visiting force has the primary 
                                              right to exercise jurisdiction, 
                                              the court having the primary right 
                                              has the right to deal with charges 
                                              against the alleged offender in 
                                              the first instance, but that right 
                                              may be waived. </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Whether or not that right is to be 
                                              waived and any other matter 
                                              relating to the waiver of that 
                                              right shall be determined in 
                                              accordance with regulations made 
                                              under this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [Added by Act 233 s.2]</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 5&#8212;Summoning of Witnesses.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) A person required to give 
                                              evidence before a service court 
                                              shall be summoned only by a 
                                              District Magistrate.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) A District Magistrate shall 
                                              summon, in the manner prescribed 
                                              by the President or any other 
                                              person authorised in that behalf 
                                              by him, a witness to appear before 
                                              a service court when requested so 
                                              to do by&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the authority by whom the 
                                              service court was convened;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the officer presiding at the 
                                              service court; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) an officer designated by the 
                                              presiding officer referred to in 
                                              the paragraph immediately 
                                              preceding.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) A person summoned under 
                                              subsection (2) may be required to 
                                              bring with him and produce at a 
                                              service court any documents in his 
                                              possession or under his control 
                                              relating to the matters in issue 
                                              before the service court:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that he shall not be 
                                              required to bring with him and 
                                              produce a document in respect of 
                                              which he could have claimed 
                                              privilege if the court to which he 
                                              had been summoned was a civil 
                                              court.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) A witness summoned or 
                                              attending to give evidence before 
                                              a service court shall be entitled 
                                              to receive from the visiting force 
                                              such fees and allowances for his 
                                              expenses of attendance as he would 
                                              have received if his evidence had 
                                              been given in a civil court.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 6&#8212;Offences Liable to be 
                                              Committed by Witnesses, Etc.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Every person who&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) on being duly summoned as a 
                                              witness under section 5 and after 
                                              payment or tender of the fees and 
                                              expenses of his attendance, makes 
                                              default in attending; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) being in attendance as a 
                                              witness before a service court, 
                                              refuses to&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              take an oath or affirmation 
                                              legally required of him,</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) produce any documents in his 
                                              power or under his control legally 
                                              required to be produced by him, or
                                              </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) answer any question that 
                                              legally requires an answer;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) uses insulting or threatening 
                                              language before a service court, 
                                              or causes any interference or 
                                              disturbance in its proceedings, or 
                                              prints observations or uses words 
                                              likely to influence improperly the 
                                              members of or witnesses before 
                                              that service court or to bring 
                                              that service court into disrepute, 
                                              or in any other manner whatsoever 
                                              displays contempt of that service 
                                              court; or </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) being in attendance as counsel 
                                              before a service court commits an 
                                              act which if committed before a 
                                              civil court would constitute a 
                                              contempt of the civil court,</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              shall be guilty of an offence and 
                                              the service court may, by a 
                                              certificate setting forth the 
                                              facts thereof, refer the offence 
                                              of that person to a civil court 
                                              that has power to punish witnesses 
                                              and counsel guilty of like 
                                              offences if committed in that 
                                              civil court.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) A civil court to which an 
                                              offence mentioned in this section 
                                              has been referred shall cause to 
                                              be brought before it the person 
                                              certified to have committed that 
                                              offence, and shall enquire into 
                                              the facts set forth in the 
                                              certificate mentioned in 
                                              subsection (1), and, after 
                                              examination of any witnesses who 
                                              may be produced for or against the 
                                              person so accused and after 
                                              hearing any statement that may be 
                                              offered in defence, shall, if it 
                                              seems just, punish the person in 
                                              like manner as if he had committed 
                                              the offence in a proceeding in 
                                              that civil court.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 7&#8212;Privileges of Members of 
                                              Service Courts, Etc.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The members of any service court 
                                              exercising jurisdiction under this 
                                              Act and witnesses appearing before 
                                              that court shall enjoy the like 
                                              immunities and privileges as are 
                                              enjoyed by members of, and 
                                              witnesses before, a court-martial 
                                              exercising jurisdiction under the 
                                              law for the time being in force 
                                              relating to the Armed Forces of 
                                              Ghana.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 8&#8212;Effect of Certificate of 
                                              Service Authority.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A 
                                              certificate of a service authority 
                                              of a sending state, stating that 
                                              anything alleged to have been done 
                                              or omitted by a member of a 
                                              visiting force of that state was 
                                              or was not done in the performance 
                                              of official duty shall be 
                                              receivable in evidence in any 
                                              civil court and shall be prima 
                                              facie evidence of that fact.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 9&#8212;Due Constitution of 
                                              Service Courts, Etc.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) For the purposes of a legal 
                                              proceedings within Ghana, where a 
                                              sentence has, whether within or 
                                              without Ghana, been passed upon a 
                                              member of a visiting force by a 
                                              service court&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the court shall be deemed to 
                                              have been properly constituted;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the proceedings of the court 
                                              shall be deemed to have been 
                                              regularly conducted; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) the sentence shall be deemed 
                                              to be within the jurisdiction of 
                                              the court and in accordance with 
                                              the law of the sending state and, 
                                              if executed according to the tenor 
                                              thereof, shall be deemed to have 
                                              been lawfully executed.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) A member of a visiting force 
                                              who is detained in custody&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) under a sentence mentioned in 
                                              subsection (1) ; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) pending the determination by a 
                                              service court of a charge brought 
                                              against him,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              shall for the purposes of legal 
                                              proceedings within Ghana be deemed 
                                              to be in lawful custody.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) For the purposes of legal 
                                              proceedings within Ghana, a 
                                              certificate under the hand of the 
                                              officer commanding a visiting 
                                              force that a member of that force 
                                              is being detained in either of the 
                                              circumstances described in 
                                              subsection (2) shall be conclusive 
                                              evidence of the cause of his 
                                              detention, but not of his being 
                                              such a member, and a certificate 
                                              under the hand of such an officer 
                                              that the persons specified in the 
                                              certificate sat as a service court 
                                              of the sending state shall be 
                                              conclusive evidence of that fact.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 10&#8212;Assistance by Home 
                                              Force to Service Courts and 
                                              Authorities.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              For the purpose of enabling the 
                                              service courts and service 
                                              authorities of the sending state 
                                              to exercise more effectively the 
                                              powers conferred upon them by this 
                                              Act, the President, if so 
                                              requested by the sending state, 
                                              may from time to time by general 
                                              or special orders to a home force, 
                                              direct the members thereof to 
                                              arrest members of the visiting 
                                              force alleged to have been guilty 
                                              of offences against the law of the 
                                              sending state and to hand over any 
                                              person so arrested to the 
                                              appropriate authorities of the 
                                              visiting force.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 11&#8212;Detention of Sentenced 
                                              Members of Visiting Forces.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) A member of a visiting force, 
                                              if sentenced by a service court of 
                                              the sending state to imprisonment 
                                              or detention may, under the 
                                              authority of the President, given 
                                              at the request of the sending 
                                              state, be temporarily detained in 
                                              custody in a detention barrack in 
                                              Ghana.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where a member of a visiting 
                                              force is in custody in a detention 
                                              barrack in Ghana under subsection 
                                              (1), the laws for the time being 
                                              in force relating to the reception 
                                              of prisoners from and their return 
                                              to the service authorities of the 
                                              home forces, their treatment while 
                                              in custody in such detention 
                                              barrack, and the circumstances in 
                                              which they are to be released, 
                                              shall, with the necessary 
                                              modifications, apply in relation 
                                              to the member of the visiting 
                                              force in like manner as those laws 
                                              apply to a member of a home force.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 12&#8212;Certain Provisions of 
                                              Criminal Code not to Apply to 
                                              Visiting Forces.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The provisions of the Criminal 
                                              Code (Act 29) relating to military 
                                              training and exercises and to the 
                                              carrying of offensive weapons 
                                              shall not apply to a member of a 
                                              visiting force acting in the 
                                              course of his official duty.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 13&#8212;Rank of Members of 
                                              Visiting Forces, Etc.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) In so far as powers of command 
                                              depend on rank, a member of a 
                                              visiting force who&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) is acting with any part of a 
                                              home force; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) is a member of a body of a 
                                              visiting force which is acting 
                                              with any part of a home force,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              shall have the same powers as a 
                                              member of such home force of like 
                                              rank.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) If the whole or any part of a 
                                              home force is required to act with 
                                              any other military, naval or air 
                                              force, the President may place the 
                                              home force, or such part thereof, 
                                              under the command of the officer 
                                              commanding a visiting force, if 
                                              that officer is senior in rank to 
                                              all the officers of the home force 
                                              or such part thereof.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where any part of a home force 
                                              is acting in co-operation with any 
                                              other force, the commander of that 
                                              part of the home force may, in 
                                              agreement with the commander of 
                                              that other force, define the 
                                              powers of command and the order of 
                                              precedence of the officers, 
                                              warrant officers, non-commissioned 
                                              officers, chief petty officers, 
                                              petty officers and leading seamen 
                                              of the home force in relation to 
                                              an officer, warrant officer, 
                                              non-commissioned officer, chief 
                                              petty officer, petty officer or 
                                              leading seaman of such other force 
                                              who is of the same or equivalent 
                                              rank.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 14&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [Added by Act 233 s.3]</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Regulations may be made by the 
                                              Minister responsible for Defence 
                                              by legislative instrument for&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) such matters as are required 
                                              to be made by regulation under 
                                              this Act;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the modification, adaptation 
                                              or amendment relating to inquests 
                                              in operation in Ghana in so far as 
                                              such enactment is to be applicable 
                                              to a visiting force; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) giving effect to any Agreement 
                                              referred to in subsection (3) of 
                                              section 2 and carry out the 
                                              principles and provisions of this 
                                              Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 15&#8212;Interpretation.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In this Act, unless the context 
                                              otherwise refers&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;civil court&quot; means a court in 
                                              Ghana having jurisdiction in 
                                              criminal matters;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;home force&quot; means the Army, Navy 
                                              or Air Force of Ghana or any part 
                                              thereof;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;sending state&quot; means the state to 
                                              which a visiting force belongs;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;service authority&quot; means any 
                                              army, navy or air force authority;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;service court&quot; means any army, 
                                              navy or air force court and 
                                              includes a service court of 
                                              inquiry, and any officer of a 
                                              visiting force who is empowered by 
                                              the sending state to review the 
                                              proceedings of a service court of 
                                              the sending state or to 
                                              investigate charges or himself to 
                                              dispose of charges; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;visiting force&quot; means any or all 
                                              of the following:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) any body, contingent, 
                                              detachment or member of the army, 
                                              navy or air force of any state 
                                              that, with the consent of the 
                                              President, is lawfully present in 
                                              Ghana or on board any ship or 
                                              aircraft of Ghana;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) any civilian&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              accompanying such body, contingent 
                                              or detachment;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) in the employment of or 
                                              performing any service for, such 
                                              body, contingent or detachment, 
                                              and </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) who is not a stateless 
                                              person nor a citizen of, nor 
                                              ordinarily resident in, Ghana; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) any dependant of any such 
                                              member or civilian accompanying 
                                              him.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
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