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                                              LANDS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) 
                                              ACT, 1963 (ACT 161)</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              1. Application of State Lands Act, 
                                              1962 (Act 125).</span></p>
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                                              2. Declaration and claims under 
                                              the State Property and Contracts 
                                              Act, 1960 (CA 6).</span></p>
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                                              3. Prescription of fees under the 
                                              Concessions Act, 1962 (Act 124), 
                                              and the Minerals Act, 1962 (Act 
                                              126).</span></p>
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                                              4. Commencement of the Land 
                                              Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122).</span></p>
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                                              5. Amendment of Section 5 of the 
                                              Concessions Act, 1962.</span></p>
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                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>
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                                              Schedule</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              THE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST</span></p>
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                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE 
                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>
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                                              ENTITLED</span></p>
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                                              THE LANDS (MISCELLANEOUS 
                                              PROVISIONS) ACT, 1963</span></b></p>
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                                              Preamble</span></p>
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                                              AN ACT to apply the State Lands 
                                              Act, 1962 (Act 125), to land held 
                                              on behalf of the Republic by 
                                              virtue of other enactments; to 
                                              make provision with respect to 
                                              procedure in cases of acquisition 
                                              of land commenced under the State 
                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 
                                              (CA 6), but not completed; to 
                                              provide for the prescribing of 
                                              fees by regulations made under the 
                                              Concessions Act, 1962 (Act 124), 
                                              and the Minerals Act, 1962 (Act 
                                              126); to make provision in 
                                              relation to the commencement of 
                                              the Land Registry Act, 1962 (Act 
                                              122); and to amend section 5 of 
                                              the Concessions Act, 1962.</span></p>
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                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 22nd March, 1963</span></p>
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                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and 
                                              National Assembly in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              Section 1&#8212;Application of State 
                                              Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125).</span></b></p>
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                                              The provisions of sections 5 and 6 
                                              of the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 
                                              125), (which sections relate 
                                              respectively to the grant of 
                                              leases and licences by the 
                                              President and the making of 
                                              regulations by the Minister) shall 
                                              apply in relation to any land 
                                              vested in the President by or by 
                                              virtue of the State Property and 
                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6) 
                                              (hereinafter referred to as &quot;the 
                                              Act of 1960&quot;), or any other 
                                              enactment, other than the 
                                              enactments specified in the 
                                              Schedule hereto, as they apply in 
                                              relation to land acquired under 
                                              the said State Lands Act.</span></p>
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                                              Section 2&#8212;Declaration and claims 
                                              under the State Property and 
                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6).</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of 
                                              this section, where a declaration 
                                              has been made by the President 
                                              under section 4 of the Act of 1960 
                                              in respect of any land but no 
                                              proceedings have been commenced in 
                                              the High Court under section 14 of 
                                              that Act for the grant of a 
                                              certificate of title to that land, 
                                              that declaration shall,</span></p>
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                                              (a) in the case of a declaration 
                                              which relates to land to which the 
                                              Administration of Lands Act, 1962 
                                              (Act 123), applies, be deemed to 
                                              be a notice, published on the date 
                                              of commencement of this Act 
                                              (hereinafter referred to as &quot;the 
                                              relevant date&quot;), under subsection 
                                              (2) of section 10 of that Act 
                                              (which subsection relates to the 
                                              publication of notices concerning 
                                              land authorised by the President 
                                              to be occupied or used under 
                                              subsection (1) of that section), 
                                              and the provisions of that section 
                                              shall apply accordingly subject to 
                                              the following modifications, that 
                                              is to say,</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              where compensation has been agreed 
                                              for the purposes of the Act of 
                                              1960, no payments or compensation 
                                              shall be required by virtue of the 
                                              said section 10;</span></p>
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                                              (ii) where compensation has not 
                                              been agreed as aforesaid, the 
                                              President shall publish a notice 
                                              in the Gazette giving particulars 
                                              of any payments which it is 
                                              intended to make under that 
                                              section;</span></p>
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                                              (b) in any other case, be deemed 
                                              to be a declaration made by the 
                                              President on the relevant date 
                                              under section 1 of the said State 
                                              Lands Act, and the provisions of 
                                              that Act shall apply accordingly.</span></p>
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                                              (2) Where any claim duly made 
                                              under subsection (1) of section 8 
                                              of the Act of 1960 is, on the 
                                              relevant date, under dispute but 
                                              has not been referred to the High 
                                              Court under section 9 of that Act, 
                                              that claim shall,</span></p>
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                                              (a) where it arises out of a 
                                              declaration to which paragraph (a) 
                                              of the foregoing subsection 
                                              applies, be treated as if it had 
                                              been made by a person to whom 
                                              subsection (4) of section 10 of 
                                              the said Administration of Lands 
                                              Act applies;</span></p>
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                                              (b) where it arises out of a 
                                              declaration to which paragraph (b) 
                                              of the foregoing subsection 
                                              applies, be treated as a claim 
                                              duly made on the relevant date 
                                              under section 4 of the said State 
                                              Lands Act, and the provisions of 
                                              the last-mentioned Act shall apply 
                                              to that claim accordingly, subject 
                                              to the modification that the 
                                              reference in subsection (3) of the 
                                              said section 4 to the date of the 
                                              publication of the instrument 
                                              shall be construed for the 
                                              purposes of the claim as a 
                                              reference to the date on which the 
                                              declaration giving rise to the 
                                              claim was made under section 4 of 
                                              the Act of 1960.</span></p>
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                                              Section 3&#8212;Prescription of fees 
                                              under the Concessions Act, 1962 
                                              (Act 124), and the Minerals Act, 
                                              1962 (Act 126).</span></b></p>
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                                              For the removal of doubt it is 
                                              hereby declared that the power 
                                              vested in the Minister to make 
                                              regulations by paragraph (c) of 
                                              subsection (1) of section 14 of 
                                              the Concessions Act, 1962 (Act 
                                              124), and by subsection (2) of 
                                              section 11 of the Minerals Act, 
                                              1962 (Act 126), shall be deemed 
                                              always to have included the power 
                                              to prescribe fees in those 
                                              regulations.</span></p>
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                                              Section 4&#8212;Commencement of the Land 
                                              Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122).</span></b></p>
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                                              The power conferred on the 
                                              Minister by section 37 of the Land 
                                              Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122), to 
                                              appoint, by legislative 
                                              instrument, a day on which that 
                                              Act is to come into operation, 
                                              shall be deemed always to have 
                                              included a power to appoint 
                                              different days for the coming into 
                                              operation of different provisions 
                                              of that Act.</span></p>
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                                              Section 5&#8212;Amendment of Section 5 
                                              of the Concessions Act, 1962.</span></b></p>
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                                              Section 5 of the Concessions Act, 
                                              1962 (which relates to the 
                                              cancellation of concessions by the 
                                              President) is hereby amended by 
                                              the substitution in subsection (4) 
                                              of that section for the words &quot;the 
                                              cancellation of the concession by 
                                              the President&quot;, of the words &quot;the 
                                              transmission of the application to 
                                              the Tribunal by the Minister&quot;.</span></p>
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                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>
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                                              (Section 1)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              The Ashanti Stool Lands Act, 1958 
                                              (No. 28).</span></p>
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                                              The Stool Lands Act, 1960 (Act 
                                              27).</span></p>
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                                              The Administration of Lands Act, 
                                              1962 (Act 123).</span></p>
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                                              The Concessions Act, 1962 (Act 
                                              124).</span></p>
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                                              The Minerals Act, 1962 (Act 126).</span></td>
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