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(99, 'VISITING FORCES ACT, 1962 (ACT 117)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1356" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VISITING FORCES ACT, 1962 (ACT \r\n                                              117)</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                                              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. Exercise of powers by service \r\n                                              courts and authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Primary right of civil courts \r\n                                              to exercise jurisdiction, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Restriction of jurisdiction of \r\n                                              civil courts and service courts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Waiver of primary right to \r\n                                              exercise jurisdiction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Summoning of witnesses.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Offences liable to be committed \r\n                                              by witnesses, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Privileges of members of \r\n                                              service courts, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Effect of certificate of \r\n                                              service authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Due constitution of service \r\n                                              courts, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Assistance by home force to \r\n                                              service courts and authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Detention of sentenced members \r\n                                              of visiting forces.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Certain provisions of Criminal \r\n                                              Code not to apply to visiting \r\n                                              forces.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Rank of members of visiting \r\n                                              forces, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Interpretation.</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 SEVENTEENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE VISITING FORCES ACT, 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 service courts \r\n                                              and authorities, of sending states \r\n                                              to which visiting forces belong, \r\n                                              to exercise jurisdiction and other \r\n                                              powers over members of such \r\n                                              forces, to provide for certain \r\n                                              matters relating to the \r\n                                              administration of such forces and \r\n                                              to make provision for matters \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: 12th June, 1962.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Exercise of Powers by \r\n                                              Service Courts and Authorities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the other provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, when a visiting force is \r\n                                              present in Ghana or on board any \r\n                                              ship or aircraft of Ghana, the \r\n                                              service courts and service \r\n                                              authorities of the sending state \r\n                                              may exercise within Ghana, or on \r\n                                              board any such ship or aircraft, \r\n                                              in relation to members of that \r\n                                              force, all such powers as are \r\n                                              conferred upon them by the law of \r\n                                              the sending state.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Primary Right of Civil \r\n                                              Courts to Exercise Jurisdiction, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in respect of offences \r\n                                              mentioned in subsection (2), the \r\n                                              civil courts shall have the \r\n                                              primary right to exercise \r\n                                              jurisdiction in respect of any act \r\n                                              or omission constituting an \r\n                                              offence against any law in force \r\n                                              in Ghana alleged to have been \r\n                                              committed by a member of a \r\n                                              visiting force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) With respect to the alleged \r\n                                              commission by a member of a \r\n                                              visiting force of an offence \r\n                                              relating to&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the property or security of \r\n                                              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                                              (b) the person or property of \r\n                                              another member of the visiting \r\n                                              force;</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 person or property of a \r\n                                              dependent of another member of the \r\n                                              visiting force; 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                                              (d) an act done or anything \r\n                                              omitted by the performance of \r\n                                              official duty,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the service courts of the visiting \r\n                                              force shall have the primary right \r\n                                              to exercise jurisdiction:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where the offence of \r\n                                              a member of a visiting force \r\n                                              relates to paragraph (d), and has \r\n                                              been committed against a civilian \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Defence shall decide whether a \r\n                                              service or civil court shall have \r\n                                              the primary right to exercise \r\n                                              jurisdiction in the trial of such \r\n                                              offence and the court selected by \r\n                                              him shall have the primary right \r\n                                              to exercise such jurisdiction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              .(3) This section shall have \r\n                                              effect subject to any Agreement \r\n                                              between the Republic of Ghana in \r\n                                              respect of a visiting force and \r\n                                              the sending state to which such \r\n                                              force belongs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Added by Act 233 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 3&#8212;Restriction of \r\n                                              Jurisdiction of Civil Courts and \r\n                                              Service Courts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a member of a visiting \r\n                                              force has been tried by a service \r\n                                              court of that visiting force and \r\n                                              has been convicted or acquitted, \r\n                                              he shall not be tried again by a \r\n                                              civil court for the same offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a member of a visiting \r\n                                              force has been tried by a civil \r\n                                              court and has been convicted or \r\n                                              acquitted, he shall not be tried \r\n                                              again within Ghana for the same \r\n                                              offence by a service court of that \r\n                                              visiting force; but nothing in \r\n                                              this subsection shall prevent that \r\n                                              service court from trying within \r\n                                              Ghana a member of the visiting \r\n                                              force for any violation of rules \r\n                                              of discipline arising from an act \r\n                                              or omission that constituted an \r\n                                              offence for which he was tried by \r\n                                              the civil court.</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;Waiver of Primary Right \r\n                                              to Exercise Jurisdiction. </span>\r\n                                              </b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where under section 2 a civil \r\n                                              court or a service court of a \r\n                                              visiting force has the primary \r\n                                              right to exercise jurisdiction, \r\n                                              the court having the primary right \r\n                                              has the right to deal with charges \r\n                                              against the alleged offender in \r\n                                              the first instance, but that right \r\n                                              may be waived. </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                                              Whether or not that right is to be \r\n                                              waived and any other matter \r\n                                              relating to the waiver of that \r\n                                              right shall be determined in \r\n                                              accordance with regulations made \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Added by Act 233 s.2]</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 5&#8212;Summoning of Witnesses.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person required to give \r\n                                              evidence before a service court \r\n                                              shall be summoned only by a \r\n                                              District Magistrate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A District Magistrate shall \r\n                                              summon, in the manner prescribed \r\n                                              by the President or any other \r\n                                              person authorised in that behalf \r\n                                              by him, a witness to appear before \r\n                                              a service court when requested so \r\n                                              to do by&#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 authority by whom the \r\n                                              service court was convened;</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 officer presiding at the \r\n                                              service court; 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) an officer designated by the \r\n                                              presiding officer referred to in \r\n                                              the paragraph immediately \r\n                                              preceding.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person summoned under \r\n                                              subsection (2) may be required to \r\n                                              bring with him and produce at a \r\n                                              service court any documents in his \r\n                                              possession or under his control \r\n                                              relating to the matters in issue \r\n                                              before the service court:</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 he shall not be \r\n                                              required to bring with him and \r\n                                              produce a document in respect of \r\n                                              which he could have claimed \r\n                                              privilege if the court to which he \r\n                                              had been summoned was a civil \r\n                                              court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A witness summoned or \r\n                                              attending to give evidence before \r\n                                              a service court shall be entitled \r\n                                              to receive from the visiting force \r\n                                              such fees and allowances for his \r\n                                              expenses of attendance as he would \r\n                                              have received if his evidence had \r\n                                              been given in a civil court.</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;Offences Liable to be \r\n                                              Committed by Witnesses, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on being duly summoned as a \r\n                                              witness under section 5 and after \r\n                                              payment or tender of the fees and \r\n                                              expenses of his attendance, makes \r\n                                              default in attending; 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 in attendance as a \r\n                                              witness before a service court, \r\n                                              refuses to&#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                                              take an oath or affirmation \r\n                                              legally required of him,</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) produce any documents in his \r\n                                              power or under his control legally \r\n                                              required to be produced by him, or\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) answer any question that \r\n                                              legally requires an answer;</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) uses insulting or threatening \r\n                                              language before a service court, \r\n                                              or causes any interference or \r\n                                              disturbance in its proceedings, or \r\n                                              prints observations or uses words \r\n                                              likely to influence improperly the \r\n                                              members of or witnesses before \r\n                                              that service court or to bring \r\n                                              that service court into disrepute, \r\n                                              or in any other manner whatsoever \r\n                                              displays contempt of that service \r\n                                              court; 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                                              (d) being in attendance as counsel \r\n                                              before a service court commits an \r\n                                              act which if committed before a \r\n                                              civil court would constitute a \r\n                                              contempt of the civil court,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              the service court may, by a \r\n                                              certificate setting forth the \r\n                                              facts thereof, refer the offence \r\n                                              of that person to a civil court \r\n                                              that has power to punish witnesses \r\n                                              and counsel guilty of like \r\n                                              offences if committed in that \r\n                                              civil court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A civil court to which an \r\n                                              offence mentioned in this section \r\n                                              has been referred shall cause to \r\n                                              be brought before it the person \r\n                                              certified to have committed that \r\n                                              offence, and shall enquire into \r\n                                              the facts set forth in the \r\n                                              certificate mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (1), and, after \r\n                                              examination of any witnesses who \r\n                                              may be produced for or against the \r\n                                              person so accused and after \r\n                                              hearing any statement that may be \r\n                                              offered in defence, shall, if it \r\n                                              seems just, punish the person in \r\n                                              like manner as if he had committed \r\n                                              the offence in a proceeding in \r\n                                              that civil court.</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;Privileges of Members of \r\n                                              Service Courts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The members of any service court \r\n                                              exercising jurisdiction under this \r\n                                              Act and witnesses appearing before \r\n                                              that court shall enjoy the like \r\n                                              immunities and privileges as are \r\n                                              enjoyed by members of, and \r\n                                              witnesses before, a court-martial \r\n                                              exercising jurisdiction under the \r\n                                              law for the time being in force \r\n                                              relating to the Armed Forces 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 8&#8212;Effect of Certificate of \r\n                                              Service Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              certificate of a service authority \r\n                                              of a sending state, stating that \r\n                                              anything alleged to have been done \r\n                                              or omitted by a member of a \r\n                                              visiting force of that state was \r\n                                              or was not done in the performance \r\n                                              of official duty shall be \r\n                                              receivable in evidence in any \r\n                                              civil court and shall be prima \r\n                                              facie evidence of that fact.</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;Due Constitution of \r\n                                              Service Courts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purposes of a legal \r\n                                              proceedings within Ghana, where a \r\n                                              sentence has, whether within or \r\n                                              without Ghana, been passed upon a \r\n                                              member of a visiting force by a \r\n                                              service court&#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 court shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been properly constituted;</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 proceedings of the court \r\n                                              shall be deemed to have been \r\n                                              regularly conducted; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the sentence shall be deemed \r\n                                              to be within the jurisdiction of \r\n                                              the court and in accordance with \r\n                                              the law of the sending state and, \r\n                                              if executed according to the tenor \r\n                                              thereof, shall be deemed to have \r\n                                              been lawfully executed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member of a visiting force \r\n                                              who is detained in custody&#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) under a sentence mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (1) ; 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) pending the determination by a \r\n                                              service court of a charge brought \r\n                                              against him,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall for the purposes of legal \r\n                                              proceedings within Ghana be deemed \r\n                                              to be in lawful custody.</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 legal \r\n                                              proceedings within Ghana, a \r\n                                              certificate under the hand of the \r\n                                              officer commanding a visiting \r\n                                              force that a member of that force \r\n                                              is being detained in either of the \r\n                                              circumstances described in \r\n                                              subsection (2) shall be conclusive \r\n                                              evidence of the cause of his \r\n                                              detention, but not of his being \r\n                                              such a member, and a certificate \r\n                                              under the hand of such an officer \r\n                                              that the persons specified in the \r\n                                              certificate sat as a service court \r\n                                              of the sending state shall be \r\n                                              conclusive evidence of that fact.</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;Assistance by Home \r\n                                              Force to Service Courts and \r\n                                              Authorities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purpose of enabling the \r\n                                              service courts and service \r\n                                              authorities of the sending state \r\n                                              to exercise more effectively the \r\n                                              powers conferred upon them by this \r\n                                              Act, the President, if so \r\n                                              requested by the sending state, \r\n                                              may from time to time by general \r\n                                              or special orders to a home force, \r\n                                              direct the members thereof to \r\n                                              arrest members of the visiting \r\n                                              force alleged to have been guilty \r\n                                              of offences against the law of the \r\n                                              sending state and to hand over any \r\n                                              person so arrested to the \r\n                                              appropriate authorities of the \r\n                                              visiting force.</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;Detention of Sentenced \r\n                                              Members of Visiting Forces.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A member of a visiting force, \r\n                                              if sentenced by a service court of \r\n                                              the sending state to imprisonment \r\n                                              or detention may, under the \r\n                                              authority of the President, given \r\n                                              at the request of the sending \r\n                                              state, be temporarily detained in \r\n                                              custody in a detention barrack in \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a member of a visiting \r\n                                              force is in custody in a detention \r\n                                              barrack in Ghana under subsection \r\n                                              (1), the laws for the time being \r\n                                              in force relating to the reception \r\n                                              of prisoners from and their return \r\n                                              to the service authorities of the \r\n                                              home forces, their treatment while \r\n                                              in custody in such detention \r\n                                              barrack, and the circumstances in \r\n                                              which they are to be released, \r\n                                              shall, with the necessary \r\n                                              modifications, apply in relation \r\n                                              to the member of the visiting \r\n                                              force in like manner as those laws \r\n                                              apply to a member of a home force.</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;Certain Provisions of \r\n                                              Criminal Code not to Apply to \r\n                                              Visiting Forces.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of the Criminal \r\n                                              Code (Act 29) relating to military \r\n                                              training and exercises and to the \r\n                                              carrying of offensive weapons \r\n                                              shall not apply to a member of a \r\n                                              visiting force acting in the \r\n                                              course of his official duty.</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;Rank of Members of \r\n                                              Visiting Forces, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In so far as powers of command \r\n                                              depend on rank, a member of a \r\n                                              visiting force who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) is acting with any part of a \r\n                                              home force; 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) is a member of a body of a \r\n                                              visiting force which is acting \r\n                                              with any part of a home force,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall have the same powers as a \r\n                                              member of such home force of like \r\n                                              rank.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the whole or any part of a \r\n                                              home force is required to act with \r\n                                              any other military, naval or air \r\n                                              force, the President may place the \r\n                                              home force, or such part thereof, \r\n                                              under the command of the officer \r\n                                              commanding a visiting force, if \r\n                                              that officer is senior in rank to \r\n                                              all the officers of the home force \r\n                                              or such part thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any part of a home force \r\n                                              is acting in co-operation with any \r\n                                              other force, the commander of that \r\n                                              part of the home force may, in \r\n                                              agreement with the commander of \r\n                                              that other force, define the \r\n                                              powers of command and the order of \r\n                                              precedence of the officers, \r\n                                              warrant officers, non-commissioned \r\n                                              officers, chief petty officers, \r\n                                              petty officers and leading seamen \r\n                                              of the home force in relation to \r\n                                              an officer, warrant officer, \r\n                                              non-commissioned officer, chief \r\n                                              petty officer, petty officer or \r\n                                              leading seaman of such other force \r\n                                              who is of the same or equivalent \r\n                                              rank.</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;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [Added by Act 233 s.3]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulations may be made by the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Defence \r\n                                              by legislative instrument for&#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) such matters as are required \r\n                                              to be made by regulation under \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the modification, adaptation \r\n                                              or amendment relating to inquests \r\n                                              in operation in Ghana in so far as \r\n                                              such enactment is to be applicable \r\n                                              to a visiting force; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) giving effect to any Agreement \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 2 and carry out the \r\n                                              principles and provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Interpretation.</span></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 refers&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;civil court&quot; means a court in \r\n                                              Ghana having jurisdiction in \r\n                                              criminal matters;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;home force&quot; means the Army, Navy \r\n                                              or Air Force of Ghana or any part \r\n                                              thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;sending state&quot; means the state to \r\n                                              which a visiting force belongs;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;service authority&quot; means any \r\n                                              army, navy or air force authority;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;service court&quot; means any army, \r\n                                              navy or air force court and \r\n                                              includes a service court of \r\n                                              inquiry, and any officer of a \r\n                                              visiting force who is empowered by \r\n                                              the sending state to review the \r\n                                              proceedings of a service court of \r\n                                              the sending state or to \r\n                                              investigate charges or himself to \r\n                                              dispose of charges; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;visiting force&quot; means any or all \r\n                                              of the following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any body, contingent, \r\n                                              detachment or member of the army, \r\n                                              navy or air force of any state \r\n                                              that, with the consent of the \r\n                                              President, is lawfully present in \r\n                                              Ghana or on board any ship or \r\n                                              aircraft of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any civilian&#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                                              accompanying such body, contingent \r\n                                              or detachment;</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) in the employment of or \r\n                                              performing any service for, such \r\n                                              body, contingent or detachment, \r\n                                              and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) who is not a stateless \r\n                                              person nor a citizen of, nor \r\n                                              ordinarily resident in, Ghana; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any dependant of any such \r\n                                              member or civilian accompanying \r\n                                              him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 117');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(100, 'VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1961 (ACT 46)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1357" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VOLTA</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              RIVER DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1961 (ACT \r\n                                              46)</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;THE VOLTA RIVER AUTHORITY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Establishment of the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Status of the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Constitution of the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Members of the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Chief Executive.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Resignation and Re-appointment \r\n                                              of Members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Proceedings of the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Employees of the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Authority to Institute Training \r\n                                              Programme.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF \r\n                                              THE AUTHORITY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Primary Functions of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Flow of Water and Flooding.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Powers in Relation to \r\n                                              Transmission System.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Health Safeguards.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Authority to have Local \r\n                                              Government Functions and Planning \r\n                                              Powers over Akosombo Township and \r\n                                              Lakeside Area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Additional Powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Research and Records.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Incidental Powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Authority to Co-operate with \r\n                                              Other Public Authorities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Statutory Powers to be \r\n                                              Exercised Consistently with this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Directions to the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;FINANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Authority to Aim at Making \r\n                                              Profit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Borrowing Powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Investment by the Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Exemption From Income Tax.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Government to Re-imburse \r\n                                              Authority for Certain Measures.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Accounts and Audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;ACQUISITION OF LAND AND \r\n                                              RESETTLEMENT MEASURES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Filling of the Lake and \r\n                                              Acquisition of Land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Compensation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Resettlement Measures.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Defraying Expenses Incurred \r\n                                              Under this Part.</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                                              31. Guarantees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Annual Report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Power to Make Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Protection of Officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE FORTY-SIXTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT ACT, \r\n                                              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                                              establishment of an Authority \r\n                                              charged with the duties of \r\n                                              generating electricity by means of \r\n                                              the water power of the river \r\n                                              Volta, and by other means, and of \r\n                                              supplying electricity through a \r\n                                              transmission system; for the \r\n                                              construction of a dam and power \r\n                                              station near Akosombo, and for the \r\n                                              creation of a lake by the damming \r\n                                              of the river; for giving the \r\n                                              Authority power to administer \r\n                                              certain lands liable to be \r\n                                              inundated and lands adjacent \r\n                                              thereto, and for dealing with the \r\n                                              resettlement of people living in \r\n                                              the lands to be inundated; for \r\n                                              charging the Authority with \r\n                                              certain incidental \r\n                                              responsibilities; and for purposes \r\n                                              connected with the matters \r\n                                              aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 26th April, 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;THE VOLTA RIVER 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 1&#8212;Establishment of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be established an \r\n                                              authority to be called the Volta \r\n                                              River Authority (referred to in \r\n                                              this Act as the Authority) charged \r\n                                              with the duties and \r\n                                              responsibilities hereinafter \r\n                                              specified.</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;Status of the Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority shall be a body \r\n                                              corporate with perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal which \r\n                                              shall be officially and judicially \r\n                                              noticed, and may sue and be sued \r\n                                              in its corporate name, and for and \r\n                                              in connection with the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act may acquire and dispose \r\n                                              of land and personal property and \r\n                                              enter into contracts and other \r\n                                              transactions.</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;Constitution of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall consist&nbsp; \r\n                                              of a Chairman, the Chief&nbsp; \r\n                                              Executive appointed under section \r\n                                              5 of this Act and six other \r\n                                              persons of whom one, who shall \r\n                                              have had experience in financial \r\n                                              matters may be appointed as \r\n                                              Finance Member, and two shall be \r\n                                              appointed to represent major \r\n                                              consumers of the electrical power \r\n                                              to be generated by the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to section 5 of this \r\n                                              Act, the Chairman and other&nbsp; \r\n                                              members of the Authority shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in accordance with the advice of \r\n                                              the Prime Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) At every meeting of the \r\n                                              Authority at which he is present, \r\n                                              the Chairman shall preside and in \r\n                                              his absence a member elected by \r\n                                              the members present from among \r\n                                              themselves shall preside. [As \r\n                                              substituted by the Volta River \r\n                                              Development (Amendment) Act 1970 \r\n                                              (Act 338) 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 4&#8212;Members of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All the members of the \r\n                                              Authority other than the Chairman \r\n                                              and the Chief Executive shall, \r\n                                              subject to subsection (2), hold \r\n                                              office for a period of three \r\n                                              years:</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 first such \r\n                                              members to be appointed, other \r\n                                              than those appointed to represent \r\n                                              major consumers of electrical \r\n                                              power, shall serve for the \r\n                                              following periods, which shall be \r\n                                              specified when they are appointed, \r\n                                              that is to say, two such members \r\n                                              shall serve for two years and the \r\n                                              remaining two for one year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The appointment of any such \r\n                                              member may be terminated at any \r\n                                              time by the President if he is of \r\n                                              opinion that it is necessary in \r\n                                              the interests of the Authority to \r\n                                              do so.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the terms and conditions \r\n                                              of appointment of such members \r\n                                              shall be determined by the \r\n                                              President from time to time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Chief Executive.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall have an \r\n                                              officer to be known as the Chief \r\n                                              Executive.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chief Executive shall be a \r\n                                              person nominated by the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council and appointed \r\n                                              by the Authority, and shall hold \r\n                                              office upon such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as the Authority may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chief Executive shall \r\n                                              devote his full time to the \r\n                                              affairs of the 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 general control \r\n                                              of the Authority on matters of \r\n                                              policy, the Chief Executive shall \r\n                                              be charged with the direction of \r\n                                              the business of the Authority, and \r\n                                              of its administration and \r\n                                              organisation, and with the \r\n                                              employment, control and dismissal \r\n                                              of all the Authority''s staff and \r\n                                              workpeople. [As substituted by the \r\n                                              Volta River Development Act 1961 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1968 (NLCD 268) \r\n                                              s. 2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Resignation and \r\n                                              Re-appointment of Members.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any member, other than the \r\n                                              Chief Executive may at any time \r\n                                              resign his appointment by notice \r\n                                              in writing to the President. [As \r\n                                              amended by the Volta River \r\n                                              Development Act 1961 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Act 1962 (Act 95) s. 1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every member shall, on ceasing \r\n                                              to be a member, be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Proceedings of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority may make, add \r\n                                              to, amend and revoke standing \r\n                                              orders, not being inconsistent \r\n                                              with this Act, to provide for the \r\n                                              application of the Authority''s \r\n                                              seal to legal documents, the \r\n                                              proper conduct of the business and \r\n                                              of the meetings of the Authority \r\n                                              or any committee thereof, \r\n                                              including the manner in which any \r\n                                              matter is to be determined on \r\n                                              behalf of the Authority, and the \r\n                                              standing orders for the time being \r\n                                              in force shall be observed by the \r\n                                              Authority and its committees and \r\n                                              members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A quorum of the members of the \r\n                                              Authority shall be four. The \r\n                                              Chairman shall have an original \r\n                                              and a casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The validity of any \r\n                                              proceedings of the Authority shall \r\n                                              not be affected by any vacancy \r\n                                              amongst the members thereof, or by \r\n                                              any defect in the appointment of a \r\n                                              member 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 8&#8212;Employees of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall employ \r\n                                              such staff and workpeople as may \r\n                                              be necessary for the discharge of \r\n                                              its functions, on such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as it may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) It is hereby declared that the \r\n                                              terms and conditions referred to \r\n                                              in subsection (1) need not be the \r\n                                              same as those relating to the \r\n                                              Civil Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Authority to Institute \r\n                                              Training Programme.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority shall, so far as may \r\n                                              be consistent with the proper \r\n                                              discharge of its functions, \r\n                                              institute arrangements for the \r\n                                              training of Ghanaians in \r\n                                              administrative, technical, \r\n                                              managerial and other capacities, \r\n                                              with a view to securing the \r\n                                              benefit of their knowledge and \r\n                                              experience in the conduct of the \r\n                                              Authority''s operations, and with a \r\n                                              view to all branches of the \r\n                                              Authority''s activities being, in \r\n                                              due course, in Ghanaian hands.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES 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 10&#8212;Primary Functions of \r\n                                              the 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 it shall be the duty of \r\n                                              the Authority to plan, execute and \r\n                                              manage the Volta river development \r\n                                              which comprises&#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 generation of electrical \r\n                                              power for the operation of an \r\n                                              aluminum industry, and for general \r\n                                              industrial and domestic uses in \r\n                                              Ghana, by such means as the \r\n                                              Authority may think fit, and in \r\n                                              particular in the first instance, \r\n                                              by the construction and operation \r\n                                              of a dam and hydroelectric \r\n                                              generating station in the vicinity \r\n                                              of Akosombo;</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 construction and operation \r\n                                              of a transmission system for the \r\n                                              distribution of the electrical \r\n                                              power generated by the Authority;</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 supply of the electrical \r\n                                              power generated by the Authority \r\n                                              to&#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                                              any Government department or \r\n                                              public corporation responsible for \r\n                                              the supply of electrical power to \r\n                                              the public;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) the township of Akosombo; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) any other consumer in Ghana \r\n                                              or elsewhere under any \r\n                                              arrangements agreed upon between \r\n                                              the Government, the Authority and \r\n                                              the Electricity Corporation of \r\n                                              Ghana;. [As substituted by the \r\n                                              Volta River Development \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law 1987, (PNDCL \r\n                                              171)].</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 provision, when and so far \r\n                                              as practical, of facilities and \r\n                                              assistance for the development of \r\n                                              the lake as a source of fish, and \r\n                                              as a route for the transportation \r\n                                              of goods and passengers, and in \r\n                                              any other manner; 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) the development of the \r\n                                              lakeside area for the health and \r\n                                              well-being of the inhabitants, and \r\n                                              people living adjacent thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority may also own, \r\n                                              maintain, and operate vessels or \r\n                                              craft of any kind and size for the \r\n                                              purpose of transporting goods and \r\n                                              passengers along the lake and may \r\n                                              charge fares for the said \r\n                                              services. [As inserted by The \r\n                                              Volta River Development Act 1961 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 211 \r\n                                              s. 1(b)].</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;Flow of Water and \r\n                                              Flooding.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall so control \r\n                                              the dam as to prevent, so far as \r\n                                              is practicable&#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 harmful penetration of \r\n                                              salt water up the River Volta to a \r\n                                              greater degree than was normal at \r\n                                              minimum river flow preceding the \r\n                                              construction of the dam;</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 level of the lake from \r\n                                              rising to a height greater than \r\n                                              280 feet above mean sea level; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) such a flow of water past the \r\n                                              dam as may cause flooding \r\n                                              downstream from the dam above the \r\n                                              levels which were normal preceding \r\n                                              the construction of the dam.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority shall take all \r\n                                              reasonable measures to give \r\n                                              warning of possible flooding from \r\n                                              the lake or from the River Volta \r\n                                              downstream from the dam.</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;Powers in Relation to \r\n                                              Transmission System.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of constructing \r\n                                              and operating the transmission \r\n                                              system referred to in paragraph \r\n                                              (b) of section 10 of this Act, or \r\n                                              of preventing damage or \r\n                                              obstruction thereto, the Authority \r\n                                              shall have all the powers of the \r\n                                              Chief Engineer set out in section \r\n                                              3 of the Electricity Supply \r\n                                              (Control) Ordinance (Cap. 66), to \r\n                                              be exercised by itself, its \r\n                                              workmen and agents, and be subject \r\n                                              to the limitations and the duties \r\n                                              there provided; and every person \r\n                                              who has any estate or interest in \r\n                                              any lands injuriously affected by \r\n                                              exercise of the powers conferred \r\n                                              by this section shall be entitled \r\n                                              to compensation to be settled, \r\n                                              awarded and paid in accordance (as \r\n                                              nearly as may be) with the \r\n                                              provisions relating to \r\n                                              compensation which are contained \r\n                                              in the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Health Safeguards.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Authority to take all reasonable \r\n                                              measures, in co-operation with the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for health, \r\n                                              and with local authorities, to \r\n                                              safeguard the health and safety of \r\n                                              its employees and persons engaged \r\n                                              on the construction of works \r\n                                              referred to in section 10 of this \r\n                                              Act and their families and \r\n                                              dependents, and the inhabitants of \r\n                                              Akosombo township and the lakeside \r\n                                              area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority shall, in and \r\n                                              over the lake and the lakeside \r\n                                              area, and in the township of \r\n                                              Akosombo, be the authority for \r\n                                              executing the provisions of the \r\n                                              Mosquitoes Ordinance (Cap. 75), \r\n                                              and shall have the powers referred \r\n                                              to in section 3 of that Ordinance; \r\n                                              and all amounts recovered under \r\n                                              that Ordinance by the Authority \r\n                                              shall be paid to the credit of the \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 14&#8212;Authority to have Local \r\n                                              Government Functions and Planning \r\n                                              Powers Over Akosombo Township and \r\n                                              Lakeside Area.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The President may by executive \r\n                                              instrument make such provision as \r\n                                              he thinks fit for constituting the \r\n                                              Authority as the local authority \r\n                                              for the township of Akosombo and \r\n                                              the lakeside area, and for \r\n                                              applying to the Authority, in its \r\n                                              capacity as such, and with such \r\n                                              modifications as may be expedient, \r\n                                              the enactments relating to local \r\n                                              government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority may, in \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for town and country \r\n                                              planning, exercise all the powers \r\n                                              of that Minister in relation to \r\n                                              town and country planning in the \r\n                                              township of Akosombo and the \r\n                                              lakeside area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Authority shall take \r\n                                              measures to enhance the natural \r\n                                              beauty of the lakeside area by the \r\n                                              planting of trees and otherwise; \r\n                                              and shall be responsible for the \r\n                                              development of Akosombo township \r\n                                              in such a manner as to prevent the \r\n                                              growth of slum or other conditions \r\n                                              likely to be injurious to the \r\n                                              health or wellbeing of the \r\n                                              inhabitants.</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;Additional Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may on terms to be \r\n                                              agreed between the Government and \r\n                                              the Authority and for the better \r\n                                              discharge by the Authority of its \r\n                                              functions under this Act require \r\n                                              the Authority for such period as \r\n                                              he may specify to perform any \r\n                                              function of a Minister or any \r\n                                              public authority or any body of \r\n                                              which the Government is in control \r\n                                              or over which it has powers of \r\n                                              direction, in relation to the \r\n                                              township of Akosombo and the \r\n                                              lakeside 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 16&#8212;Research and Records.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority shall with a view to \r\n                                              facilitating present or future \r\n                                              research or planning, maintain and \r\n                                              preserve such records relating to \r\n                                              its functions as it shall consider \r\n                                              proper; and shall have power to \r\n                                              engage in research, and to assist \r\n                                              others to engage in research, in \r\n                                              respect of any matter relating to \r\n                                              those functions and to publish \r\n                                              such records and the results of \r\n                                              any research in which it may \r\n                                              engage.</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;Incidental Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority may carry on any \r\n                                              activity which is reasonably \r\n                                              requisite or convenient for or in \r\n                                              connection with the discharge of \r\n                                              its functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Authority to Co-operate \r\n                                              with Other Public Authorities.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In the discharge of its functions \r\n                                              the Authority shall co-operate \r\n                                              fully with all Government \r\n                                              departments and agencies and other \r\n                                              public 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 19&#8212;Statutory Powers to be \r\n                                              Exercised Consistently with this \r\n                                              Act. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall exercise shall \r\n                                              exercise any statutory power or \r\n                                              duty inconsistently with the \r\n                                              exercise of any powers or duties \r\n                                              conferred on the Authority by or \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Directions to the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may after \r\n                                              consultation with the Authority, \r\n                                              give to the Authority in any \r\n                                              matter of exceptional public \r\n                                              importance, directions of a \r\n                                              general character not being \r\n                                              inconsistent with the provisions \r\n                                              of this Act nor with the \r\n                                              contractual or other legal \r\n                                              obligations of the Authority as to \r\n                                              the exercise by the Authority of \r\n                                              its functions under this Act, and \r\n                                              the Authority shall give effect to \r\n                                              any such directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#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 21&#8212;Authority to Aim at \r\n                                              Making Profit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Authority to conduct its affairs \r\n                                              on sound commercial lines, and in \r\n                                              particular, so to carry out its \r\n                                              functions under this Act as to \r\n                                              ensure that, taking one year with \r\n                                              another, its revenues are greater \r\n                                              than its outgoings properly \r\n                                              chargeable to revenue account.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority shall charge to \r\n                                              revenue account all charges which \r\n                                              in the normal conduct of a \r\n                                              business are proper to be charged \r\n                                              to revenue account, including in \r\n                                              particular, proper provision for \r\n                                              depreciation of assets, or for \r\n                                              renewal of assets, and in addition \r\n                                              all interest on borrowings, \r\n                                              repayments to be made each year in \r\n                                              respect of loans incurred by the \r\n                                              Authority to the extent that such \r\n                                              repayments exceed provision for \r\n                                              depreciation, and proper \r\n                                              allocations to reserve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to the power \r\n                                              of the Authority to establish \r\n                                              appropriate reserves for \r\n                                              replacements or other purposes, \r\n                                              the Authority shall establish and \r\n                                              out of its profits make payments \r\n                                              to a reserve for the purpose of \r\n                                              expanding its activities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Authority shall fix the \r\n                                              rates at which it supplies the \r\n                                              electrical power generated by it \r\n                                              so as to ensure that it is able to \r\n                                              comply with the requirements 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 22&#8212;Borrowing Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In order to enable the \r\n                                              Authority to meet expenditure of a \r\n                                              capital nature (including \r\n                                              provision for working capital) for \r\n                                              the discharge of its functions \r\n                                              under this Act, and in particular \r\n                                              for the financing of the \r\n                                              operations referred to in section \r\n                                              10 of this Act, the Authority may \r\n                                              borrow on such terms and in such \r\n                                              currencies as may be agreed \r\n                                              between it and any lender, such \r\n                                              sums as it may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority may borrow \r\n                                              temporarily, by way of overdraft \r\n                                              or otherwise, such sums as it may \r\n                                              require for meeting its current \r\n                                              obligations or discharging its \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Authority may charge its \r\n                                              assets, undertakings and revenues \r\n                                              with the repayment of any money \r\n                                              borrowed together with interest \r\n                                              thereon and may issue debentures, \r\n                                              bonds or other securities in order \r\n                                              to secure the repayment of any \r\n                                              money so borrowed together with \r\n                                              interest thereon and may do all \r\n                                              other things necessary in \r\n                                              connection with or incidental to \r\n                                              such borrowings as are authorised \r\n                                              by this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President may, from time \r\n                                              to time, prescribe the maximum \r\n                                              sums which the Authority may \r\n                                              borrow under either or both of \r\n                                              subsections (1) and (2).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Investment by the \r\n                                              Republic.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) During the ten years following \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act the \r\n                                              Republic shall invest in the Volta \r\n                                              River development such sums, not \r\n                                              exceeding thirty-five million \r\n                                              pounds, as the Authority may \r\n                                              require for the discharge of its \r\n                                              functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The payment of the said \r\n                                              thirty-five million pounds is \r\n                                              hereby charged on the Consolidated \r\n                                              Fund, and shall be made to the \r\n                                              Authority in such instalments and \r\n                                              at such times as may be agreed \r\n                                              between the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for finance and the Authority.[As \r\n                                              amended by The Volta River \r\n                                              Development (Amendment) Act 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 95) s. 2 ].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) By way of return on the said \r\n                                              investment the Authority may pay \r\n                                              to the Accountant-General, out of \r\n                                              income remaining available when \r\n                                              the charges referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (2) and (3) of section \r\n                                              21 of this Act have been provided \r\n                                              for, such sums as the Authority \r\n                                              after consulting the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for finance, thinks \r\n                                              proper having regard to its future \r\n                                              financial requirements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) When the Authority is of the \r\n                                              opinion that its financial \r\n                                              position justifies it the \r\n                                              Authority may, by agreement with \r\n                                              the Republic, repay in such \r\n                                              amounts and at such times as may \r\n                                              be agreed part or all of the \r\n                                              capital sum invested by the \r\n                                              Republic under the provisions of \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Sums received under \r\n                                              subsections (3) and (4) shall be \r\n                                              paid into the Consolidated Fund. \r\n                                              [As amended by The Volta River \r\n                                              Development (Amendment) Act 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 95) s. 2 ].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Exemption from Income \r\n                                              Tax.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority shall be exempted \r\n                                              from the tax imposed by the Income \r\n                                              Tax Ordinance, 1943 (No. 27).</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;Government to Reimburse \r\n                                              Authority for Certain Measures.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Republic shall pay to the \r\n                                              Authority the net cost of any \r\n                                              measures undertaken by it under \r\n                                              sections 13 to 15 of this Act the \r\n                                              necessity for which is not \r\n                                              attributable to the creation of \r\n                                              the lake or other activities 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 26&#8212;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority 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) cause proper accounts and \r\n                                              other records in relation thereto \r\n                                              to be kept;</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) prepare an annual statement of \r\n                                              accounts in such form and \r\n                                              containing such particulars as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may from time to \r\n                                              time direct, or as may be required \r\n                                              to satisfy its undertakings or \r\n                                              engagements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The accounts of the Authority \r\n                                              shall be audited by an independent \r\n                                              auditor to be appointed annually \r\n                                              by the Authority subject to the \r\n                                              approval of the Auditor-General, \r\n                                              and the auditor shall make a \r\n                                              report in each year on the \r\n                                              accounts audited by him.&nbsp; The \r\n                                              remuneration of the auditor shall \r\n                                              be determined by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for finance and shall \r\n                                              be paid out of the funds of the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Authority''s financial year \r\n                                              shall end on the last day of \r\n                                              December in each year, and the \r\n                                              period between the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act and the last day of \r\n                                              December shall be the Authority''s \r\n                                              first financial year. [As amended \r\n                                              by The Volta River Development \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act 1962 (Act 95) s. \r\n                                              3].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;ACQUISITION OF LAND AND \r\n                                              RESETTLEMENT MEASURES</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;Filling of the Lake and \r\n                                              Acquisition of Land.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall, upon the \r\n                                              completion of the dam, so operate \r\n                                              the dam as to cause the lake to \r\n                                              fill by the accumulation of water \r\n                                              in the area upstream of the dam.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The National Liberation \r\n                                              Council shall cause to be acquired \r\n                                              lands which in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Authority:&#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) may require to be inundated by \r\n                                              the filling of the lake together \r\n                                              with any other land not extending \r\n                                              beyond one mile from the shores of \r\n                                              the lake at its maximum fill;</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) may be required for the \r\n                                              development of Akosombo township;</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) may be required for the use of \r\n                                              persons being resettled as a \r\n                                              result of the inundation of their \r\n                                              lands by the filling of the lake;</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) are necessary to acquire for \r\n                                              the proper discharge of the \r\n                                              Authority''s functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All lands acquired under \r\n                                              paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section \r\n                                              shall immediately after their \r\n                                              acquisition vest in the Authority \r\n                                              without any further assurance than \r\n                                              this subsection free from any \r\n                                              incumbrances whatsoever and the \r\n                                              Authority shall have power to \r\n                                              sell, transfer, exchange, let or \r\n                                              demise or otherwise dispose of all \r\n                                              or any of them to or with any \r\n                                              person and on such terms as it \r\n                                              shall consider necessary for the \r\n                                              proper discharge of its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Notwithstanding the provisions \r\n                                              of&nbsp; any enactment under which the \r\n                                              same were acquired all lands \r\n                                              falling under both or either of \r\n                                              the descriptions set out in \r\n                                              paragraphs (b) and (d) of \r\n                                              subsection (2), of this section \r\n                                              being lands which have been \r\n                                              acquired at any time before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Decree and \r\n                                              vested in the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council immediately before such \r\n                                              commencement are hereby vested in \r\n                                              the Authority and shall be subject \r\n                                              to the powers conferred on the \r\n                                              Authority by subsection (3) of \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any land acquired under \r\n                                              paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section may be transferred, \r\n                                              exchanged, let, demised or \r\n                                              otherwise disposed of by the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council to or \r\n                                              with any person whether or not \r\n                                              that person is included among the \r\n                                              persons being resettled and upon \r\n                                              such terms as may be necessary for \r\n                                              the promotion of the well-being of \r\n                                              the resettlement areas and the \r\n                                              inhabitants of those areas.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) No legal proceedings shall lie \r\n                                              against the Authority as a result \r\n                                              of the inundation of any lands \r\n                                              caused by the filling&nbsp; of the \r\n                                              lake. [As substituted by The Volta \r\n                                              River Development Act 1961 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 211) \r\n                                              s. 2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Compensation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Claims to compensation in respect \r\n                                              of land acquired by virtue of \r\n                                              section 27 of this Act shall be \r\n                                              governed by the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (CA 6), \r\n                                              subject to the following \r\n                                              modifications&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of the State Lands \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 125) (relating to \r\n                                              the acquisition of land) shall, \r\n                                              subject to the following and such \r\n                                              other modifications as may be \r\n                                              required by the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, apply to all lands acquired \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of section \r\n                                              27:&#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 market value of any \r\n                                              property so acquired shall be the \r\n                                              amount which that&nbsp; property might \r\n                                              have been expected to realise if \r\n                                              sold in the open market by a \r\n                                              willing seller to a willing buyer \r\n                                              on the sixth day of March, 1957;</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) compensation may be paid in \r\n                                              money or in the case of lands \r\n                                              acquired under paragraph (a) of \r\n                                              subsection (2) of section 27 in \r\n                                              non-monetary assistance towards \r\n                                              settlement or both and no person \r\n                                              shall be entitled to dispute the \r\n                                              compensation offered to him by \r\n                                              reason only that it is not in \r\n                                              money, whether in whole or in \r\n                                              part;</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) lands subject to the \r\n                                              Administration of Lands Act, 1962 \r\n                                              (Act 123) may be acquired under \r\n                                              this Act. [As substituted by The \r\n                                              Volta River Development Act 1961 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD 211) \r\n                                              s. 3] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Resettlement Measures.</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                                              social welfare (referred to in \r\n                                              this section as the Minister) \r\n                                              shall be charged with the duty of \r\n                                              taking all reasonable measures to \r\n                                              assist in the resettlement of the \r\n                                              people inhabiting lands liable to \r\n                                              be inundated and lands adjacent \r\n                                              thereto which are needed by the \r\n                                              Authority for the discharge of its \r\n                                              functions, and it shall be the \r\n                                              responsibility of the Minister to \r\n                                              ensure, so far as is practicable, \r\n                                              that no person suffers undue \r\n                                              hardship or is deprived of \r\n                                              necessary public amenities, as a \r\n                                              result of his resettlement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Repealed by The Volta River \r\n                                              Development Act 1967 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree 1967 (NLCD 211 s. 4)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Defraying Expenses \r\n                                              Incurred Under this Part.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Expenses incurred in pursuance of \r\n                                              this Part of this Act shall be \r\n                                              defrayed, as to the first three \r\n                                              million pounds by the Authority, \r\n                                              as to the next million pounds by \r\n                                              the Authority and the Government \r\n                                              equally, and as to any excess over \r\n                                              four million pounds by the \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              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 31&#8212;Guarantees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the name and on behalf of \r\n                                              the Republic, the President may in \r\n                                              writing guarantee the performance \r\n                                              of any obligation undertaken by \r\n                                              the Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Moneys payable under any such \r\n                                              guarantee are hereby charged on \r\n                                              the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 32&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority shall annually, not \r\n                                              later than six months after the \r\n                                              end of its financial year, present \r\n                                              to the President a report dealing \r\n                                              generally with the activities and \r\n                                              operations of the Authority during \r\n                                              the preceding financial year and \r\n                                              containing:&#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                                              such information with regard to \r\n                                              the proceedings and policy of the \r\n                                              Authority as the Authority \r\n                                              considers may properly be given \r\n                                              without detriment to the interests \r\n                                              of the undertaking of the \r\n                                              Authority; 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                                              (ii) a copy of the statement of \r\n                                              accounts referred to in section 26 \r\n                                              of this Act, together with a copy \r\n                                              of the report made by the auditor \r\n                                              on that statement or on the \r\n                                              accounts,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the report shall not later \r\n                                              than seven months after the end of \r\n                                              the Authority''s financial year be \r\n                                              laid before the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Power to Make \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prohibiting, restricting or \r\n                                              regulating the use of the lake and \r\n                                              the lakeside 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) prohibiting, restricting or \r\n                                              regulating the abstraction of \r\n                                              water from the River Volta or the \r\n                                              lake otherwise than for the \r\n                                              purpose only of obtaining water \r\n                                              for domestic use in any village, \r\n                                              town or house situate within the \r\n                                              catchment area of the River Volta;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) for the protection of any \r\n                                              transmission lines erected by the \r\n                                              Authority or any works or \r\n                                              apparatus connected therewith;</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) imposing penalties on persons \r\n                                              trespassing on any land in the \r\n                                              ownership or possession of the \r\n                                              Authority;</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) prohibiting, restricting or \r\n                                              regulating the movement of motor \r\n                                              or other traffic on or in the \r\n                                              vicinity of the dam;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) for the better discharge of \r\n                                              the Authority''s duties under \r\n                                              section 13 of this Act; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) generally for the purpose of \r\n                                              enabling the better discharge by \r\n                                              the Authority of its functions \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any regulations made under \r\n                                              this section may, in addition to \r\n                                              the penalties which can be imposed \r\n                                              by virtue of section 9 of the \r\n                                              Statutory Instruments Act, 1959 \r\n                                              (No. 52), impose in the case of \r\n                                              continuous offences, a fine of £G5 \r\n                                              for each day during which the \r\n                                              offence continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In lieu of prohibiting, \r\n                                              restricting or regulating any \r\n                                              activity, regulations made under \r\n                                              this section may prohibit, \r\n                                              restrict or regulate such \r\n                                              activities without a licence to be \r\n                                              granted by the Authority.&nbsp; Such \r\n                                              regulations may prescribe the \r\n                                              forms to be used and fees to be \r\n                                              paid for such licences, and may \r\n                                              provide for the delegation of the \r\n                                              power to grant licences to a local \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Proceedings for offences \r\n                                              against any regulations made under \r\n                                              this section shall not be \r\n                                              instituted except by the \r\n                                              Attorney-General, or by, or with \r\n                                              the consent of, 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 34&#8212;Protection of Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No matter or thing done by any \r\n                                              officer or employee of the \r\n                                              Authority shall, if the matter or \r\n                                              thing be done bona fide for the \r\n                                              purpose of executing any provision \r\n                                              of this Act, subject such officer \r\n                                              or employee or any person acting \r\n                                              by his directions, personally, to \r\n                                              any civil liability.</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;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 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;abstract&quot; includes divert, or by \r\n                                              any means cause to flow;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Akosombo \r\n                                              township&quot; means such area as the \r\n                                              President may by executive \r\n                                              instrument specify in that behalf;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the dam&quot; means the dam referred \r\n                                              to in paragraph (a) of section 10 \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;the lake&quot; means the lake to be \r\n                                              created as a result of the \r\n                                              construction of the dam, as the \r\n                                              waters thereof extend from time to \r\n                                              time (including any islands \r\n                                              therein);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the lakeside area&quot; means such of \r\n                                              the lands referred to in paragraph \r\n                                              (a) of subsection (2) of section \r\n                                              27 of this Act as are not for the \r\n                                              time being comprised in the lake;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the river Volta&quot; means the \r\n                                              following rivers so far as they \r\n                                              are within Ghana, that is to say, \r\n                                              the Volta, the Black Volta, the \r\n                                              White Volta, the Red Volta, and \r\n                                              the Oti river, and includes all \r\n                                              rivers, streams and watercourses \r\n                                              which are tributaries whether \r\n                                              direct or indirect of any of the \r\n                                              aforesaid rivers, or whose waters \r\n                                              flow directly or indirectly into \r\n                                              the lake, but does not include any \r\n                                              part of the lake;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;supply&quot; in relation to electrical \r\n                                              power includes maintaining \r\n                                              potential, whether or not the \r\n                                              power so supplied is taken.</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 the Rivers \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 266), and any \r\n                                              other enactment the lake shall not \r\n                                              be deemed to be a river; and \r\n                                              section 10 of the Rivers Ordinance \r\n                                              shall not apply to any part of the \r\n                                              River Volta upstream of the lake.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; Officers of the Authority \r\n                                              shall, for the purposes of the \r\n                                              Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29) and \r\n                                              the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 \r\n                                              (Act 30) be deemed to be public \r\n                                              officers.</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;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into force on \r\n                                              such day as the President may, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;amended \r\n                                              by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962 (ACT 95).1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1961 \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              211).2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT ACT 1961, \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              268).3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1970 (ACT 338).4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              VOLTA RIVER DEVELOPMENT \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1987 (PNDCL \r\n                                              171).5</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"></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="71" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 46');
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Sections 5 and 6 of Act 25 not \r\n                                              to apply to certain agreements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Financial agreements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Validity of certain agreements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Interpretation.</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                                              Second 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 NINETY-SIXTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"\r\n coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe"\r\n filled="f" stroked="f">\r\n <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>\r\n <v:formulas>\r\n  <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 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justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE VOLTA RIVER PROJECT \r\n                                              (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) 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 exempt certain \r\n                                              agreements relating to the Volta \r\n                                              River Project from the provisions \r\n                                              of sections 5 and 6 of the \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (Act 25) and \r\n                                              to provide for certain financial \r\n                                              matters connected with the \r\n                                              Project.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 20th January, 1962</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Sections 5 and 6 of Act \r\n                                              25 not to Apply to Certain \r\n                                              Agreements.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of sections 5 and 6 \r\n                                              of the Contracts Act, 1960 (Act \r\n                                              25) shall not apply to the \r\n                                              agreements specified in the First \r\n                                              Schedule hereto, except as \r\n                                              otherwise expressly provided \r\n                                              therein.</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;Financial Agreements.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the name and on behalf of \r\n                                              the Republic, the President may in \r\n                                              writing so far as may seem to him \r\n                                              expedient in the public interest \r\n                                              to do so&#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 into agreements \r\n                                              providing for the guarantee of any \r\n                                              obligations undertaken by the \r\n                                              Volta Aluminium Company Limited; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) enter into agreements \r\n                                              providing for loans by the \r\n                                              Government of Ghana to the Volta \r\n                                              Aluminium Company Limited, as \r\n                                              provided in Article 8 of the \r\n                                              Master Agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Moneys payable under any \r\n                                              agreement referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) are hereby charged \r\n                                              on the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Validity of Certain \r\n                                              Agreements.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No provision of any agreement \r\n                                              specified in the Second Schedule \r\n                                              hereto shall be illegal or void by \r\n                                              reason of any existing provision \r\n                                              or rule of the laws of Ghana other \r\n                                              than the Constitution. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#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, the &quot;Master \r\n                                              Agreement&quot; means the Master \r\n                                              Agreement entered into between the \r\n                                              Government of Ghana and the Volta \r\n                                              Aluminium Company Limited in the \r\n                                              terms approved by the National \r\n                                              Assembly in January, 1962.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Agreements specified in \r\n                                              the Schedules hereto shall have \r\n                                              the same meanings as in the Master \r\n                                              Agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Master Agreement.</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 Power Contract.</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 Smelter Site Lease.</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 Water Agreement.</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 Port Agreement.</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 Currency Agreement.</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 Voting Trust Arrangements.</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 Subscription Agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></i></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; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Master Agreement.</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 Power Contract.</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 Smelter Site Lease.</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 Water Agreement.</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 Port Agreement.</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 Currency Agreement.</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 Voting Trust Arrangements.</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 Subscription Agreement.</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 Long Term Tolling Contracts.</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 Valco Current Accounts Trust.</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 Management and Technical \r\n                                              Assistance Agreement.</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 Exim-Valco Loan Agreement.</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 IBRD. Loan Agreement.</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 AID. Loan Agreement.</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 Exim-Authority Loan Agreement.</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 U.K. Loan Agreement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any guarantee of any of the \r\n                                              preceding Agreements specified in \r\n                                              this Schedule or of any part of \r\n                                              such Agreements by the Government \r\n                                              of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 18th \r\n                                              July, 1969.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="71" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="782" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 96');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(102, 'WHOLESALE FISH MARKETING ACT, 1963 (ACT 156)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1355" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHOLESALE FISH MARKETING ACT, 1963 \r\n                                              (ACT 156)</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                                              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.&nbsp; Fish marketing zones.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Marketing of fish landed in a \r\n                                              fish marketing zone.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp; Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; Customs Ordinance.</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;Area of Port of Elmina</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 FIFTY-SIXTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE WHOLESALE FISH MARKETING ACT, \r\n                                              1963</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish fish marketing \r\n                                              zones and to regulate the \r\n                                              wholesale marketing of fish landed \r\n                                              in those zones and for purposes \r\n                                              connected with the matters \r\n                                              aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 3rd January, 1963</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Fish Marketing Zones.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Act each \r\n                                              of the following areas shall be a \r\n                                              fish marketing zone, that is to \r\n                                              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)&nbsp; the area of the port of \r\n                                              Takoradi as delimited by the Ports \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 115);</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; the area of the port of Tema \r\n                                              as delimited by the said Ports \r\n                                              Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the area of the port of Elmina \r\n                                              as delimited in the Schedule to \r\n                                              this Act; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) any other area specified as a \r\n                                              fish marketing zone by the \r\n                                              Minister by executive instrument \r\n                                              published in the Gazette.</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;Marketing of Fish Landed \r\n                                              in Fish Marketing Zone.</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 next following \r\n                                              subsection no fish landed in a \r\n                                              fish marketing zone shall, in the \r\n                                              first instance, be offered for \r\n                                              sale or sold except in a market \r\n                                              designated by the Minister as the \r\n                                              wholesale fish market for that \r\n                                              zone (hereinafter referred to as a \r\n                                              &quot;wholesale market&quot;).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister may grant an \r\n                                              exemption from the preceding \r\n                                              subsection as respects&#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 fish landed as aforesaid \r\n                                              for the purpose of being \r\n                                              despatched to a cannery or other \r\n                                              fish processing factory; 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 fish which is landed as \r\n                                              aforesaid having been frozen and \r\n                                              packed on board the fishing \r\n                                              vessel, and which is to be \r\n                                              despatched to a cold store outside \r\n                                              the zone for distribution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any exemption granted by the \r\n                                              Minister under the last preceding \r\n                                              subsection shall be in writing and \r\n                                              may be, either absolute or subject \r\n                                              to such conditions as the Minister \r\n                                              thinks fit, including a condition \r\n                                              requiring the person to whom the \r\n                                              exemption is granted to pay to any \r\n                                              person specified in the exemption \r\n                                              a fee or other charge. Any such \r\n                                              fee or other charge shall be \r\n                                              recoverable as a civil debt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any designation made by the \r\n                                              Minister under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section shall be published in \r\n                                              the Gazette and shall be given \r\n                                              such other publicity in the fish \r\n                                              marketing zone concerned as the \r\n                                              Minister may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) offers for sale or sells any \r\n                                              fish in contravention of this \r\n                                              section; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) contravenes any condition \r\n                                              attached to an exemption granted \r\n                                              under this section (other than a \r\n                                              condition requiring the payment of \r\n                                              a fee or other charge),</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding two hundred pounds or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding six months or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;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                                              providing for any of the following \r\n                                              matters, 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                                              organisation, management and \r\n                                              operation of any wholesale market;</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 registration of any person \r\n                                              using a wholesale market, the \r\n                                              cancellation of any such \r\n                                              registration and any matters \r\n                                              incidental thereto or connected \r\n                                              therewith;</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) notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of section 2 of \r\n                                              this Act, the transfer of fish \r\n                                              landed in one fish marketing zone \r\n                                              to another such zone;</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 imposition of charges in \r\n                                              respect of fish offered for sale \r\n                                              or sold in a wholesale market, or \r\n                                              in respect of fish transferred \r\n                                              from one such market to another, \r\n                                              or in respect of fish kept or \r\n                                              stored in such a market;</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 making, for such purposes \r\n                                              and subject to such conditions and \r\n                                              limitations as may be prescribed \r\n                                              by the regulations, of bye-laws by \r\n                                              any person appointed by the \r\n                                              Minister to be responsible for the \r\n                                              management and operation of a \r\n                                              wholesale market, including \r\n                                              bye-laws imposing penalties for \r\n                                              the breach of a bye-law or \r\n                                              requiring the payment of any fee \r\n                                              or other charge:</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&nbsp; no regulation made \r\n                                              under this paragraph shall &#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                                              authorise the making of a bye-law \r\n                                              imposing as a penalty a fine \r\n                                              exceeding twenty-five pounds or, \r\n                                              in default of payment of such \r\n                                              fine, a term of imprisonment \r\n                                              exceeding three months;</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) permit any bye-law to have \r\n                                              effect unless that bye-law has \r\n                                              been approved by the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) any other matter in respect of \r\n                                              which the Minister considers it \r\n                                              necessary or expedient to make \r\n                                              regulations for the purpose of \r\n                                              giving effect to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#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;fish&quot; means any aquatic animal \r\n                                              (including shellfish, crustaceans, \r\n                                              turtles and aquatic mammals), and \r\n                                              any reference to fish landed in a \r\n                                              fish marketing zone shall be \r\n                                              construed as a reference only to \r\n                                              fish landed in such a zone from a \r\n                                              motor fishing vessel (whether or \r\n                                              not the actual landing involves \r\n                                              the transfer of the fish from the \r\n                                              motor fishing vessel to any other \r\n                                              craft of any description);</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 fisheries; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;motor fishing vessel&quot; does not \r\n                                              include a canoe propelled by an \r\n                                              outboard motor.</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;Customs Ordinance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It is hereby declared that nothing \r\n                                              in this Act shall be construed as \r\n                                              derogating from the powers \r\n                                              conferred upon any person under \r\n                                              the Customs Ordinance (Cap. 167).</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                                              AREA OF PORT OF ELMINA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All that piece of land at Elmina \r\n                                              in the Cape Coast District of the \r\n                                              Central Region of Ghana the \r\n                                              boundary whereof commencing at a \r\n                                              pillar marked SGW. 37/59/11 which \r\n                                              pillar is approximately 50 feet \r\n                                              south-west of the western corner \r\n                                              of St. George''s Castle and is 77.8 \r\n                                              feet on a bearing of 33º&nbsp; 53'' &#8212; \r\n                                              which bearing together with all \r\n                                              further bearings hereinafter \r\n                                              mentioned is referred to the \r\n                                              Meridian of 1º West Longitude&#8212;from \r\n                                              a pillar marked GCS. CP. 9/25/61 \r\n                                              which pillar is approximately 120 \r\n                                              feet south-west of the \r\n                                              south-western corner of the bridge \r\n                                              (Benya Lagoon) runs on a bearing \r\n                                              of 323º&nbsp; 03'' for 63.9 feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked SGW. 37/59/12 and \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of 263º 08'' \r\n                                              for 1132.3 feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              GCS.CP/9/25/63 and thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of 263º 56'' for 565.8 feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked SGW. 37/59/1 \r\n                                              and thence on a bearing of 358º \r\n                                              58'' for 426.6 feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked SGW. 37/592 which pillar is \r\n                                              at the northern edge of the Benya \r\n                                              Lagoon and thence on a bearing of \r\n                                              82º 56'' for 319.5 feet on a pillar \r\n                                              marked GCG. CP. 3B/33/8 which \r\n                                              pillar marks the south western \r\n                                              corner of Sanitary Site No. 3 and \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of 179º 29'' \r\n                                              for 12.0 feet to a point on a \r\n                                              retaining wall which wall forms \r\n                                              the northern edge of the said \r\n                                              Benya Lagoon and thence follows \r\n                                              the said retaining wall in a \r\n                                              general direction of the aforesaid \r\n                                              retaining wall for approximately \r\n                                              500 feet to a pillar marked SGW/37/59/13 \r\n                                              and thence follows the aforesaid \r\n                                              retaining wall on a bearing of \r\n                                              107º 20'' for 201.5 feet to a \r\n                                              pillar marked SGW. 37/59/14 and \r\n                                              thence follows the said retaining \r\n                                              wall on a bearing of 97º 29'' for \r\n                                              462.4 feet to a pillar marked SGW. \r\n                                              37/59/3 and thence on a bearing of \r\n                                              29º 54'' for 117.2 feet following \r\n                                              the said retaining wall to a \r\n                                              pillar marked SGW. 37/59/4 and \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of 92º 45'' for \r\n                                              88.1 feet to a pillar marked SGW. \r\n                                              37/59/5 and thence on a bearing of \r\n                                              157º 33'' for 88.1 feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked SGW. 37/59/6A and thence on \r\n                                              a bearing of 49º 59'' for 345.9 \r\n                                              feet to a pillar marked SGW. \r\n                                              37/59/7 and thence follows the Low \r\n                                              Water mark in a north easterly \r\n                                              direction for approximately 210 \r\n                                              feet and thence follows the said \r\n                                              Low Water mark of the Gulf of \r\n                                              Guinea in a general direction of \r\n                                              the Low Water mark for \r\n                                              approximately 2870 feet to a point \r\n                                              approximately 116 feet due south \r\n                                              from a pillar marked SGW. 37/59/15 \r\n                                              and thence on a bearing of 180º \r\n                                              for approximately 2340 feet to a \r\n                                              point and thence on a bearing of \r\n                                              270º for approximately 900 feet to \r\n                                              a pillar marked SGW. 37/59/16 and \r\n                                              thence on a bearing of 328º 37'' \r\n                                              for 66.5 feet to a pillar marked \r\n                                              SGW. 37/59/8 which pillar is on \r\n                                              the break water and thence on a \r\n                                              bearing of 237º 01'' for 262.3 feet \r\n                                              to a pillar marked SGW. 37/59/9 \r\n                                              and thence on a bearing of 221º \r\n                                              40'' for 279.7 feet to a pillar \r\n                                              marked SGW. 37/59/10 and thence on \r\n                                              a bearing of 196º 57'' for 55.5 \r\n                                              feet to the point of commencement \r\n                                              thus enclosing an area of 68.400 \r\n                                              acres be the same several \r\n                                              dimension little more or less as \r\n                                              the same premises are more \r\n                                              particularly delineated and shewn \r\n                                              edged pink on a Cadastral Plan \r\n                                              numbered Y. 844.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 156');

INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(104, 'WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (PROTECTION) ACT, 1958 \n\n(NO. 41 OF 1958)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1334" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION \r\n                                              (PROTECTION) ACT, 1958 </span></b>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (NO. 41 OF 1958)</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                                              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. Short title</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Improper use of WHO emblem or \r\n                                              name prohibited</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Penalties</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                                              GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No. 41 of 1958.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Assented to in Her Majesty''s Name \r\n                                              and on Her Majesty''s behalf this \r\n                                              18th day of December, 1958.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Governor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to make provision for the \r\n                                              prevention of abuse of the World \r\n                                              Health Organisation''s official \r\n                                              seal, emblem and name. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [18th December, 1958]</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 Queen''s Most \r\n                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the \r\n                                              advice and consent of the National \r\n                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled, and by the \r\n                                              authority of the same 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;Short Title</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act may be cited as the World \r\n                                              Health Organisation (Protection) \r\n                                              Act, 1958.</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;Improper Use of WHO \r\n                                              Emblem or Name Prohibited.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall not be lawful for any \r\n                                              person, without the authority &nbsp;of \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              health, to use for any purpose \r\n                                              whatsoever any of the following, \r\n                                              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 design in the Schedule to \r\n                                              this Act which is the official \r\n                                              seal and emblem of the World \r\n                                              Health Organisation, or </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 designation &quot;World Health \r\n                                              Organisation&quot; or any abbreviation \r\n                                              of that designation.</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;Penalties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If any person contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of the foregoing&nbsp; \r\n                                              section he shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and shall be liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding one hundred pounds, and \r\n                                              to forfeit any goods upon or in \r\n                                              connection with which the seal, \r\n                                              emblem or designation was used.</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                                              EMBLEME de l''Organisation Mondiale \r\n                                              de la Sante (OMS)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EMBLEM of the World Health \r\n                                              Organisation (WHO)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Certified true copy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This printed impression has been \r\n                                              carefully compared by me with the \r\n                                              Bill which has passed the National \r\n                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a \r\n                                              true and correctly printed copy of \r\n                                              the said Bill.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              K. B. AYENSU</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', '');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(105, 'BAST FIBRES DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 (ACT 326)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1370" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BAST FIBRES DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, \r\n                                              1970 (ACT 326)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <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. Establishment of Bast Fibres \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Functions of Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Composition and Tenure of \r\n                                              Office of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Meetings of Board.&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Executive Secretary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Appointment of Consultant.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Officers and Employees of \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Assets and Funds of Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Accounts, etc. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Board to make Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Exemption from Taxes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA 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 BAST FIBRES DEVELOPMENT BOARD \r\n                                              ACT, 1970</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish the Bast \r\n                                              Fibres Development Board and to \r\n                                              provide for other matters \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: 22nd April, 1970.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Presidential \r\n                                              Commission and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of Bast \r\n                                              Fibres Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate to be known as the \r\n                                              Bast Fibres Development Board, \r\n                                              hereafter in this Act referred to \r\n                                              as the &quot;Board&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall have perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal and \r\n                                              may sue and be sued in the name \r\n                                              assigned to it by subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board shall have power, \r\n                                              for the discharge of any of its \r\n                                              functions to acquire and hold any \r\n                                              movable or immovable property, to \r\n                                              dispose of such property, and to \r\n                                              enter into any contract or \r\n                                              transaction.</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;Functions of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall be responsible \r\n                                              for the development on a \r\n                                              commercial scale of the bast fibre \r\n                                              industry in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the foregoing \r\n                                              subsection the Board may under \r\n                                              that subsection carry out the \r\n                                              following activities:&#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 cultivation or the \r\n                                              arrangement for the cultivation on \r\n                                              a commercial scale, of bast \r\n                                              fibres;</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 processing, handling and \r\n                                              grading of bast fibres;</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 purchase, sale, \r\n                                              distribution and exportation of \r\n                                              bast fibres;</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 importation when and as it \r\n                                              thinks fit of unprocessed bast \r\n                                              fibres into Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the determination and \r\n                                              guarantee, from time to time, of \r\n                                              the prices at which bast fibres \r\n                                              shall be purchased by the Board;</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 withholding of assistance \r\n                                              at its discretion from growers who \r\n                                              have contravened any provision of \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) the undertaking of research or \r\n                                              the arrangement of research in \r\n                                              respect of the problems affecting \r\n                                              the bast fibre industry for the \r\n                                              improvement and utilisation of \r\n                                              bast fibre products;</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 giving of advice on all \r\n                                              technical, social and economic \r\n                                              matters connected with the general \r\n                                              development of the bast fibre \r\n                                              industry, and</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 discharge of any other \r\n                                              function which is incidental to or \r\n                                              related to the discharge of any of \r\n                                              the above-mentioned functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board may from time to \r\n                                              time in writing give to any person \r\n                                              connected with the bast fibre \r\n                                              industry such directions as the \r\n                                              Board may consider necessary for \r\n                                              promoting the development on a \r\n                                              commercial scale of the bast fibre \r\n                                              industry in Ghana and it shall be \r\n                                              the duty of any such person to \r\n                                              comply with 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 3&#8212;Composition and Tenure \r\n                                              of Office of the Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall consist of the \r\n                                              following persons who shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in accordance with the advice of \r\n                                              the Prime Minister:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a Chairman,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a representative of the Cocoa \r\n                                              Marketing Board,</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 representative of the \r\n                                              Crops-Research Institute, Kumasi,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) two representatives of the \r\n                                              banking institutions in Ghana, one \r\n                                              of whom shall be from the \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank,</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) one representative of the \r\n                                              Ghana Industrial Holding \r\n                                              Corporation,</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) one representative of the \r\n                                              Grains Development Board,</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) two representatives of bast \r\n                                              fibre growers,</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 Regional Agricultural \r\n                                              Officer, Ashanti, and</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 person appointed as Executive \r\n                                              Secretary under section 5 of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member of the Board other \r\n                                              than a member appointed under \r\n                                              paragraph (g) or (h) of subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section shall hold \r\n                                              office for a period of three \r\n                                              years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A member of the Board whose \r\n                                              term of office expires shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A member, including the \r\n                                              Chairman, may be removed from \r\n                                              membership of the Board only when \r\n                                              he&#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) becomes a person of unsound \r\n                                              mind;</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) is absent from three \r\n                                              consecutive meetings of the Board \r\n                                              without permission;</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) is proved guilty of serious \r\n                                              misconduct in relation to his \r\n                                              duties as Chairman or member of \r\n                                              the Board;</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) is sentenced to death or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term exceeding \r\n                                              12 months without the option of a \r\n                                              fine or is convicted of an offence \r\n                                              involving dishonesty;</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) is declared insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt under any law in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country; 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                                              (f) (if he were a person possessed \r\n                                              of professional qualifications) is \r\n                                              disqualified or suspended, \r\n                                              otherwise than at his own request, \r\n                                              from practising his profession in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country by \r\n                                              order of any competent authority \r\n                                              made in respect of him personally.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall hold office on such terms \r\n                                              and conditions relating to the \r\n                                              payment of remuneration and \r\n                                              allowances as may be determined by \r\n                                              the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) A member of the Board other \r\n                                              than a member appointed under \r\n                                              paragraph (h) or (i) of subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section may resign his \r\n                                              appointment by giving one month''s \r\n                                              notice in writing addressed to the \r\n                                              President through the Prime \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Meetings of Board.&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall meet for the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions at such \r\n                                              times and places as the Chairman \r\n                                              may appoint, so however, that the \r\n                                              Board shall meet at intervals, not \r\n                                              exceeding three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman shall preside at \r\n                                              all meetings of the Board, and in \r\n                                              his absence a member of the Board \r\n                                              appointed by the members present \r\n                                              from among themselves shall \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Questions proposed at a \r\n                                              meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              members present and voting and in \r\n                                              the event of an equality of votes, \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five.</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;Executive Secretary.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Cabinet, appoint \r\n                                              an Executive Secretary on such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may determine, and for a period of \r\n                                              five years which may be renewed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Executive Secretary shall \r\n                                              be responsible for the day to day \r\n                                              management and administration of \r\n                                              the activities of the Board and \r\n                                              shall act subject to such general \r\n                                              directions as may be given by the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Appointment of \r\n                                              Consultant.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Government may appoint a \r\n                                              consultant to the Board on such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as it may \r\n                                              deem fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The consultant shall, inter \r\n                                              alia, be responsible for \r\n                                              organising the bast fibre industry \r\n                                              in the country on a commercial \r\n                                              scale.</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;Officers and Employees \r\n                                              of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall employ officers \r\n                                              and employees on such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as it may deem fit for \r\n                                              the discharge of its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Assets and Funds of \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The assets and funds of the \r\n                                              Board shall consist of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) all lands, buildings, \r\n                                              equipment, stores, furniture, \r\n                                              tools and machinery purchased by \r\n                                              the Board or granted to the Board \r\n                                              by the Government or by any person \r\n                                              for the proper discharge of its \r\n                                              functions;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) all sums granted to the Board \r\n                                              from time to time by the \r\n                                              Government with the prior approval \r\n                                              of the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) all sums granted to the Board \r\n                                              by foreign governments or foreign \r\n                                              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                                              (d) income derived from the sale \r\n                                              of bast fibres, 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) any other money or property \r\n                                              which may in any manner become \r\n                                              payable to or vested in the Board \r\n                                              in respect of any matter \r\n                                              incidental to its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board may borrow from any \r\n                                              banking institution, corporation, \r\n                                              local authority or other person \r\n                                              such amounts as it may require for \r\n                                              the discharge of its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Accounts, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall in such form a \r\n                                              s the Auditor-General may approve, \r\n                                              keep proper books of accounts and \r\n                                              proper records in relation \r\n                                              thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The financial year of the \r\n                                              Board shall be the period of \r\n                                              twelve months ending on the 31st \r\n                                              day of March in each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Executive Secretary shall \r\n                                              prepare the budget estimates for \r\n                                              any new financial year and present \r\n                                              such estimates to the Board for \r\n                                              its approval not later than two \r\n                                              months before the end of the \r\n                                              preceding financial year of the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Accounts prepared under \r\n                                              section 9 of this Act shall be \r\n                                              submitted annually to the \r\n                                              Auditor-General by the Board and \r\n                                              the Auditor-General shall cause \r\n                                              the accounts to be audited as \r\n                                              required by article 135 of the \r\n                                              Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall, not later \r\n                                              than the 31st day of July \r\n                                              immediately succeeding the end of \r\n                                              the previous financial year, \r\n                                              forward to the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Agriculture a \r\n                                              report of its activities during \r\n                                              the preceding financial year \r\n                                              together with an audited statement \r\n                                              of accounts in respect of that \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The said Minister shall \r\n                                              transmit copies of the said report \r\n                                              and audited statement as soon as \r\n                                              may be practicable upon receipt \r\n                                              thereof to the Cabinet.</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;Board 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 Board may with the prior \r\n                                              approval of the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Agriculture and \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, by legislative instrument \r\n                                              make regulations in respect&nbsp; of \r\n                                              all or any of the following \r\n                                              matters:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the cultivation, processing, \r\n                                              handling, grading and storage of \r\n                                              bast fibres;</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 purchase, sale and \r\n                                              utilisation of bast fibres which \r\n                                              the Board deems to be in the best \r\n                                              interest of the country and the \r\n                                              local bast fibre industry;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the importation and \r\n                                              exportation of bast fibres;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) any matter for the purpose of \r\n                                              carrying out the principles and \r\n                                              provisions 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;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of this Act or any \r\n                                              regulation made thereunder shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence and shall \r\n                                              on summary conviction be liable to \r\n                                              a fine not exceeding two hundred \r\n                                              new cedis or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding one \r\n                                              year or to both such fine and \r\n                                              imprisonment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of an offence \r\n                                              committed under this Act by a body \r\n                                              of persons&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where the body of persons is a \r\n                                              body corporate other than a \r\n                                              partnership every director and \r\n                                              officer of that body corporate \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be guilty of \r\n                                              the offence; 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 the body of persons is a \r\n                                              partnership every partner of that \r\n                                              partnership shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              guilty of that offence:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no such person shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence under this Act, if he \r\n                                              proves that the offence was \r\n                                              committed without his knowledge or \r\n                                              that he exercised all due \r\n                                              diligence to prevent the \r\n                                              commission of the offence.</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;Exemption from taxes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall be exempted from \r\n                                              the payment of all taxes and \r\n                                              duties for a period not exceeding \r\n                                              ten years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 326');
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(106, 'CHIEFTAINCY ACT, 1971 (ACT 370)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1375" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY ACT, 1971 (ACT 370)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1982 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 25)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) DECREE, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 166)2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) (NO.2) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1973 (NRCD 226)3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1993 \r\n                                              (PNDCL 307)4</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                                              1. National House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Functions and committees of \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Matters for consideration and \r\n                                              advice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Standing Orders of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Meetings of the National House \r\n                                              of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGIONAL HOUSES OF CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Regional Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Election of President of \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Existing Regional Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs to continue.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Functions and committees of \r\n                                              Regional Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Regional House of Chiefs to \r\n                                              make Standing Orders.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Meetings of Regional Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;TRADITIONAL COUNCILS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. President of Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Membership.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Jurisdiction in chieftaincy \r\n                                              disputes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Duty of persons to assist \r\n                                              Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;DIVISIONAL COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Division.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Divisional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Functions of Divisional \r\n                                              Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING \r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Judicial functions of National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs. Article 154 (3) \r\n                                              (a) of Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Original and appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction of Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs. Article 155 (1).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Evidence, etc. before judicial \r\n                                              committees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Security for costs, etc. in \r\n                                              proceedings before judicial \r\n                                              committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. General provisions relating to \r\n                                              judicial proceedings before Houses \r\n                                              of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Certain Appeals to operate as \r\n                                              stay of execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Proceedings before a \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28A. Vacancies in Judicial \r\n                                              Committees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Preservation of Stool property \r\n                                              affected by Disputes, etc</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Enforcement of judgment of \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs or Traditional \r\n                                              Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Protection of parties, counsel \r\n                                              and witnesses.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              32. Obstruction of proceedings, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              33. Right to bring proceedings for \r\n                                              destoolment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              34. Proceedings in chieftaincy \r\n                                              matters to be recorded in writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              35. Applications to two tribunals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;STOOL PROPERTY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              36. What is stool property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              37. Alienation of stool property \r\n                                              requires consent of Traditional \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              38. Prohibition upon execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              39. Recovery of stool property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;CUSTOMARY LAW</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40. National House of Chiefs to \r\n                                              promote development of customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              41. Functions of Traditional \r\n                                              Councils relating to customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              42. Declaration of customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              43. Alteration of customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              44. Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              affected by same rule of customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              45. Assimilation of customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              46. Effect of assimilation. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              47. Power to include transitional \r\n                                              provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VIII&#8212;CHIEFS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              48. Who is a chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              49. Categories of chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50. National Register of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              51. Enstoolments, destoolments, \r\n                                              etc. of chiefs to be reported to \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              52. Prohibition of persons \r\n                                              purporting to act as chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              53. Certain offences in connection \r\n                                              with chiefs.</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                                              54. Staff of Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              55. Functions of Registrar to a \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              56. Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              57. Funds of Houses of Chiefs and \r\n                                              Traditional Councils.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              58. Estimates of Houses of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              59. Accounts and audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60. Power of Minister to give \r\n                                              financial instructions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              61. Actions by or against Houses \r\n                                              of Chiefs and Traditional \r\n                                              Councils, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              62. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              63. Saving of rights of allegiance \r\n                                              and rights over land, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              64. Stool Lands account for each \r\n                                              Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              65. Annual statement of accounts \r\n                                              to be submitted to stools.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              66. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              67. Repeals and savings and \r\n                                              transitional provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTIETH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE CHIEFTAINCY ACT, 1971</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to amend the statute law on \r\n                                              chieftaincy in order to bring it \r\n                                              into conformity with the \r\n                                              provisions of the Constitution and \r\n                                              to make other provisions relating \r\n                                              to chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 17th September, \r\n                                              1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS</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;National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The membership of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall be composed \r\n                                              of five chiefs from each Region of \r\n                                              Ghana elected by the House of \r\n                                              Chiefs of the Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have a President who shall \r\n                                              be Head of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall be a chief \r\n                                              elected by the members of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs from \r\n                                              among their number.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) There shall also be a \r\n                                              Vice-President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs who shall be a \r\n                                              chief elected by the said House \r\n                                              from among their number and who \r\n                                              shall act as the Head of that \r\n                                              House in the absence of the \r\n                                              President and shall perform the \r\n                                              functions of the President in the \r\n                                              absence of the President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              shall supervise any election of a \r\n                                              person as President, \r\n                                              Vice-President or member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs and he or \r\n                                              any public officer nominated by \r\n                                              him in writing shall be the \r\n                                              returning officer for any such \r\n                                              election.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The body known immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act as the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be deemed to be the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Any person holding the office \r\n                                              of President or Vice-President of \r\n                                              the said House or who was a member \r\n                                              of that House immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              be deemed to have been duly \r\n                                              elected for the purposes of this \r\n                                              Act with effect from the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) A person elected President or \r\n                                              Vice-President or member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs shall \r\n                                              hold office for three years but \r\n                                              shall upon the expiration of his \r\n                                              term of office be eligible for \r\n                                              re-election, so however that no \r\n                                              person shall be eligible to hold \r\n                                              office as President for more than \r\n                                              two terms in succession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be President or Vice- President \r\n                                              of the National House of Chiefs&#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 he has been sentenced to \r\n                                              death or to a term of imprisonment \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months without \r\n                                              option of a fine or has been \r\n                                              convicted of an offence involving \r\n                                              dishonesty or moral turpitude and \r\n                                              in each case has not been granted \r\n                                              a free pardon; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if he is adjudged to be a \r\n                                              person of unsound mind; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if having been declared as an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law for the time being in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country he \r\n                                              is an undischarged insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt; 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                                              (d) if being a person possessed of \r\n                                              professional qualifications, he is \r\n                                              disqualified from practising his \r\n                                              profession by the order of any \r\n                                              competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally, not \r\n                                              being an order made at his own \r\n                                              request or within five years \r\n                                              previously: </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that a person shall not \r\n                                              be deemed to be disqualified under \r\n                                              paragraph (a) of this subsection \r\n                                              if 5 years or more have elapsed \r\n                                              since the date of the conviction \r\n                                              or the end of the sentence \r\n                                              whichever is the later.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (11) Where a vacancy occurs in the \r\n                                              office of the President, \r\n                                              Vice-President or a member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs the \r\n                                              Registrar of that House shall \r\n                                              notify the Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              in writing of the occurrence of \r\n                                              that vacancy within 14 days of \r\n                                              such occurrence and the Electoral \r\n                                              Commissioner shall, by notice \r\n                                              published in the Local Government \r\n                                              Bulletin and in such other manner \r\n                                              as the Electoral Commissioner may \r\n                                              think fit summon a meeting of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs or the \r\n                                              respective Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs as the case may be, within \r\n                                              twenty-one days after being \r\n                                              notified of the vacancy for the \r\n                                              election of a President, \r\n                                              Vice-President or a member of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs as the \r\n                                              case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (12) The Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              may by legislative instrument make \r\n                                              such rules as he may think \r\n                                              appropriate for regulating the \r\n                                              conduct of elections of the \r\n                                              President, Vice-President and \r\n                                              members of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</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;Functions and Committees \r\n                                              of National House of Chiefs.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have the functions conferred \r\n                                              on it by article 154 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and also such other \r\n                                              functions as are conferred on it \r\n                                              by this Act or as may be conferred \r\n                                              on it from time to time by 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) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs may appoint such committees \r\n                                              comprising such persons as it may \r\n                                              determine to assist it in the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions and \r\n                                              subject as aforesaid may delegate \r\n                                              to any such committee such of its \r\n                                              functions as it may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Standing Orders made under \r\n                                              section 4 of this Act may regulate \r\n                                              the composition, tenure of office \r\n                                              and procedure of such committees \r\n                                              and may also make such other \r\n                                              provision in relation to such \r\n                                              committees as may appear to the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs to be \r\n                                              expedient.</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;Matters for \r\n                                              Consideration and Advice.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National House of Chiefs shall \r\n                                              be responsible for advising any \r\n                                              person or authority charged by the \r\n                                              Constitution or any other \r\n                                              enactment with any responsibility \r\n                                              for any matter relating to \r\n                                              chieftaincy.</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;Standing Orders of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              make Standing Orders for the \r\n                                              regulation and orderly conduct of \r\n                                              its business.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall meet for the dispatch of its \r\n                                              business at such place and time as \r\n                                              that House may determine but shall \r\n                                              meet not less than twice in any \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall also call a \r\n                                              special meeting of the House upon \r\n                                              a request made in writing in that \r\n                                              behalf and signed by the President \r\n                                              of that House or not less than \r\n                                              one-half of the total number of \r\n                                              members of the House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted at \r\n                                              any meeting of the National House \r\n                                              of Chiefs at which there are \r\n                                              present less than one-half of the \r\n                                              total number of members of the \r\n                                              House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall, if present \r\n                                              at any meeting of the House, \r\n                                              preside at that meeting and in his \r\n                                              absence the Vice-President shall \r\n                                              preside and in the absence of the \r\n                                              Vice-President a member of the \r\n                                              House elected by the members \r\n                                              present from among their number \r\n                                              shall preside at that meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any question arising for \r\n                                              decision by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be determined by the \r\n                                              votes of the majority of the \r\n                                              members present and voting, and in \r\n                                              the event of an equality of votes \r\n                                              the President or other person \r\n                                              presiding at that meeting shall \r\n                                              have 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                                              Provided that standing orders of \r\n                                              the National House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              provide for the participation in \r\n                                              the proceedings of the said House \r\n                                              by a member through a \r\n                                              representative and the casting of \r\n                                              votes by proxy or by any other \r\n                                              means of representation permitted \r\n                                              by customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The validity of the \r\n                                              proceedings at any meeting of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy in the \r\n                                              office of the President or \r\n                                              Vice-President or in the \r\n                                              membership of that House or by any \r\n                                              defect in the appointment or \r\n                                              election of any person holding \r\n                                              such office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;REGIONAL HOUSES OF CHIEFS</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;Regional Houses of \r\n                                              Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established \r\n                                              for each Region of Ghana a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall consist of such members as \r\n                                              may be specified in relation \r\n                                              thereto by legislative instrument \r\n                                              made by the President acting in \r\n                                              consultation with the Prime \r\n                                              Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) There shall be a President of \r\n                                              each Regional House of Chiefs who \r\n                                              shall,</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) be the Head of that House,</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 Ashanti \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs, be the \r\n                                              Asantehene, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) in the case of any other \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs, be a \r\n                                              chief elected in the manner \r\n                                              specified by an instrument made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) There shall also be a \r\n                                              Vice-President of each such House \r\n                                              who shall be a chief elected by \r\n                                              the members of that House from \r\n                                              their number and shall act as Head \r\n                                              of that House in the absence of \r\n                                              the President and shall perform \r\n                                              the functions of the President in \r\n                                              the absence of the President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A President other than the \r\n                                              President of the Ashanti Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and a \r\n                                              Vice-President shall hold office \r\n                                              for three years and shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-election so \r\n                                              however that no person shall be \r\n                                              eligible for election as President \r\n                                              for more than two terms in \r\n                                              succession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where the seat of a member of \r\n                                              a Regional House of Chiefs becomes \r\n                                              vacant and his successor is \r\n                                              required by an instrument made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section to be drawn from a \r\n                                              specified group of Chiefs&#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 Registrar of the said \r\n                                              House shall notify the Electoral \r\n                                              Commissioner in writing of the \r\n                                              occurrence of the vacancy within \r\n                                              fourteen days of such occurrence;</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 meeting of the group shall \r\n                                              be convened by the Electoral \r\n                                              Commissioner by a notice published \r\n                                              in the Local Government Bulletin;</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) subject to the following \r\n                                              subsection, the meeting shall \r\n                                              proceed to the election of a new \r\n                                              member, who shall be taken to be \r\n                                              elected if he secures a simple \r\n                                              majority of the votes cast;</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 Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              shall cause to be published in the \r\n                                              Local Government Bulletin notice \r\n                                              of the result of the election \r\n                                              which notice shall be signed by \r\n                                              him or any public officer \r\n                                              authorised by him in writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) An election shall not be held \r\n                                              under subsection (6) of this \r\n                                              section if less than one-half of \r\n                                              the chiefs in the group are \r\n                                              present and 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) an insufficient number of \r\n                                              chiefs is present, 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) no chief obtains a majority of \r\n                                              votes cast,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the new member shall be nominated \r\n                                              by the Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              from among the chiefs in the group \r\n                                              to which the election relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) A new member elected or \r\n                                              nominated under subsection (6) or \r\n                                              (7) of this section shall hold \r\n                                              office for two years and shall \r\n                                              then vacate his seat and any such \r\n                                              member vacating his seat shall be \r\n                                              eligible to fill the vacancy.</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;Election of President of \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the office of the President \r\n                                              of a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              becomes vacant and his successor \r\n                                              is required by an instrument made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of section 6 \r\n                                              of this Act to be elected from \r\n                                              among the members or a specified \r\n                                              group of 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) the Registrar of the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall notify the \r\n                                              Electoral Commissioner in writing \r\n                                              of the occurrence of the vacancy \r\n                                              within fourteen days after the \r\n                                              said occurrence,</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 meeting of the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall be convened \r\n                                              by the Electoral Commissioner by \r\n                                              notice published in the Local \r\n                                              Government Bulletin,</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) subject to subsection (3) of \r\n                                              section 11 of this Act the meeting \r\n                                              shall proceed to the election \r\n                                              under the supervision of the \r\n                                              Electoral Commissioner or any \r\n                                              public officer authorised by him \r\n                                              in writing, by secret ballot of \r\n                                              the President, who shall be taken \r\n                                              to be elected if he secures a \r\n                                              simple majority of the votes cast,</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 Electoral Commissioner \r\n                                              shall publish the result of the \r\n                                              election in the Local Government \r\n                                              Bulletin giving the total number \r\n                                              of votes cast and the number cast \r\n                                              in favour of the successful \r\n                                              candidate.</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;Existing Regional Houses \r\n                                              of Chiefs to Continue.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Regional Houses of Chiefs \r\n                                              in existence immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be the Regional \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs 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) Until an instrument is made \r\n                                              under subsection (2) of section 6 \r\n                                              of this Act prescribing the \r\n                                              membership of any Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs, the membership of that \r\n                                              House shall be as it was \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person holding the office \r\n                                              of Head or Deputy Head (howsoever \r\n                                              called) or member of any such \r\n                                              House of Chiefs immediately before \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act, \r\n                                              shall continue to hold such office \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act so however that any such \r\n                                              person holding office as Head or \r\n                                              Deputy Head shall after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act be \r\n                                              referred to as the President or \r\n                                              Vice-President respectively of \r\n                                              that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a person to whom \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              applies is required by this Act to \r\n                                              be elected he shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been duly elected with effect \r\n                                              from the commencement of this Act.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Functions and Committees \r\n                                              of Regional Houses of Chiefs.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The authority of a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall apply within \r\n                                              its Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have in relation to its \r\n                                              Region the functions conferred on \r\n                                              it by article 155 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and also such other \r\n                                              functions as are conferred on it \r\n                                              by this Act or as may be conferred \r\n                                              on it from time to time by 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                                              (3) If any matter is referred to \r\n                                              it by the National Assembly or the \r\n                                              Minister or any authority charged \r\n                                              by any enactment with \r\n                                              responsibility for any matter \r\n                                              relating to chieftaincy a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall give \r\n                                              consideration to the matter and \r\n                                              report on it as may be required.</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 a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs may appoint such committees \r\n                                              comprising such persons as it may \r\n                                              determine to assist it in the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions, and \r\n                                              subject as aforesaid may delegate \r\n                                              to any such committee such of its \r\n                                              functions as it may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Standing Orders made under \r\n                                              section 10 of this Act may \r\n                                              regulate the composition, tenure \r\n                                              of office and procedure of such \r\n                                              committees and may also make such \r\n                                              other provision in relation to \r\n                                              such committees as may appear to \r\n                                              the House of Chiefs making the \r\n                                              Standing Orders to be expedient.</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;Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs to Make Standing Orders.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Each Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              make Standing Orders for the \r\n                                              regulation and orderly conduct of \r\n                                              its business.</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;Meetings of Regional \r\n                                              Houses of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall meet for the dispatch of its \r\n                                              business at such place and time as \r\n                                              that House may determine but shall \r\n                                              meet not less than twice in any \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Registrar of each Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall also call a \r\n                                              special meeting of the House upon \r\n                                              a request made in that behalf and \r\n                                              signed by the President of that \r\n                                              House or not less than one-half of \r\n                                              the total number of members of \r\n                                              that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted at \r\n                                              any meeting of a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs at which there are present \r\n                                              less than one-half of the total \r\n                                              number of members of that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The President of each Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs shall, if present \r\n                                              at any meeting of the House, \r\n                                              preside at that meeting and in his \r\n                                              absence the Vice-President or in \r\n                                              the absence of the Vice-President \r\n                                              a member of the House elected by \r\n                                              the members present from among \r\n                                              their number shall preside at that \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any question arising for \r\n                                              decision by any Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be determined by the \r\n                                              votes of the majority of persons \r\n                                              present and voting and in the \r\n                                              event of an equality of votes the \r\n                                              President or other person \r\n                                              presiding at that meeting shall \r\n                                              have 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                                              Provided that Standing Orders of \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              provide for participation in the \r\n                                              proceedings of the said House by a \r\n                                              member through a representative \r\n                                              and the casting of votes by proxy \r\n                                              or by any other means of \r\n                                              representation permitted by \r\n                                              customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The validity of the \r\n                                              proceedings at any meeting of a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy in the \r\n                                              office of President or \r\n                                              Vice-President of or in the \r\n                                              membership of the House or by any \r\n                                              defect in the appointment or \r\n                                              election of any person holding \r\n                                              such office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Traditional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a Traditional \r\n                                              Council for each traditional area \r\n                                              and the Traditional Councils in \r\n                                              existence immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in existence for the \r\n                                              traditional areas in respect of \r\n                                              which they existed immediately \r\n                                              before the said commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The name of every Traditional \r\n                                              Council shall be shown in the \r\n                                              National Register of Chiefs \r\n                                              maintained under section 50 of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;President of Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except in the case of a joint \r\n                                              Council, the Paramount Chief of a \r\n                                              traditional area or, in the case \r\n                                              of the Kumasi traditional area, \r\n                                              the Asantehene shall be the \r\n                                              President of the Traditional \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of a joint \r\n                                              Council, the President shall be \r\n                                              such of the Paramount Chiefs \r\n                                              exercising jurisdiction in the \r\n                                              traditional area in question as \r\n                                              the Minister may acting on the \r\n                                              advice of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs by notice published in the \r\n                                              Local Government Bulletin direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Membership.</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 section, a Traditional \r\n                                              Council shall consist, in addition \r\n                                              to the President, of the persons \r\n                                              shown in the National Register of \r\n                                              Chiefs as the members thereof.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to subsection (4) of \r\n                                              this section, the membership of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in the first \r\n                                              instance shall be the same as the \r\n                                              membership of that Council \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) As soon as practicable after \r\n                                              any change occurs in the \r\n                                              membership of a Traditional \r\n                                              Council the Council shall notify \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              thereof which shall in turn notify \r\n                                              the National House of Chiefs and, \r\n                                              subject to the following \r\n                                              subsection, the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall cause the said \r\n                                              Register to be altered \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs is satisfied after \r\n                                              consultation with the appropriate \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs that any \r\n                                              person should, or that any person \r\n                                              should not, be a member of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council, the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs may amend the \r\n                                              Register accordingly.</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;Jurisdiction in \r\n                                              Chieftaincy Disputes.</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 and to any appeal \r\n                                              therefrom, a Traditional Council \r\n                                              shall have exclusive jurisdiction \r\n                                              to hear and determine any cause or \r\n                                              matter affecting chieftaincy which \r\n                                              arises within its area, not being \r\n                                              one to which the Asantehene or a \r\n                                              Paramount Chief is a party.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The jurisdiction conferred by \r\n                                              this section shall be exercised in \r\n                                              accordance with Part V of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Meetings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Meetings of a Traditional \r\n                                              Council shall be held at such \r\n                                              times and places as the President \r\n                                              of the Council may appoint, or in \r\n                                              his absence, inability, or refusal \r\n                                              to act, as may be demanded by not \r\n                                              less than one-half of the members \r\n                                              of the Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the President is from \r\n                                              any cause unable to attend a \r\n                                              meeting the Chief next in \r\n                                              seniority on the Council shall \r\n                                              preside over the meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted if \r\n                                              less than one-half of the total \r\n                                              number of members are present.</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;Duty of Persons to \r\n                                              Assist Traditional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of every \r\n                                              person who, under customary law, \r\n                                              is required to perform any \r\n                                              specific duty when so required by \r\n                                              the appropriate Traditional \r\n                                              Council, to assist in carrying out \r\n                                              the functions imposed upon the \r\n                                              Council at customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person who fails without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse to comply with a \r\n                                              requirement under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢100.00. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;DIVISIONAL COUNCILS</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;Division.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              division is any area which is \r\n                                              specified in the National Register \r\n                                              of Chiefs as a division.</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;Divisional Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a division falls within \r\n                                              a traditional area the Traditional \r\n                                              Council concerned may create in \r\n                                              respect of that division a \r\n                                              Divisional Council which shall \r\n                                              comprise such members as that \r\n                                              Traditional Council may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a Division does not fall \r\n                                              within a traditional area the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs of the \r\n                                              Region in which the division falls \r\n                                              may create a Divisional Council in \r\n                                              respect of that division, \r\n                                              comprising such members as the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Meetings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a President of \r\n                                              a Divisional Council who shall be \r\n                                              such person as may&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of a Divisional \r\n                                              Council created under subsection \r\n                                              (1) of section 19, be determined \r\n                                              by the Traditional Council \r\n                                              concerned, 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 Council \r\n                                              created under subsection (2) of \r\n                                              section 19, be determined by the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Meetings of Divisional Council \r\n                                              shall be held at such times and \r\n                                              places as the President may \r\n                                              appoint or as may be demanded by \r\n                                              not less than one-half of the \r\n                                              members of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the President is from \r\n                                              any cause unable to attend a \r\n                                              meeting a member of the Council \r\n                                              elected by the members present \r\n                                              from among their number shall \r\n                                              preside at that meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No business except that of \r\n                                              adjournment shall be transacted if \r\n                                              less than one-half of the total \r\n                                              number of members are present.</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;Functions of Divisional \r\n                                              Councils.</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, acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              Traditional Council concerned or \r\n                                              where there is no Traditional \r\n                                              Council for the area, acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs assign \r\n                                              functions to a Divisional Council \r\n                                              including functions with respect \r\n                                              to any cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the function of hearing \r\n                                              and determining any cause or \r\n                                              matter affecting chieftaincy has \r\n                                              been conferred on a Divisional \r\n                                              Council under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act relating to the exercise \r\n                                              by a Traditional Council of that \r\n                                              function shall, with the necessary \r\n                                              modifications, apply to the \r\n                                              Divisional Council as they apply \r\n                                              to a Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING \r\n                                              CHIEFTAINCY</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;Judicial Functions of \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs. Article \r\n                                              154 (3) (a) of Constitution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have appellate jurisdiction \r\n                                              in any matter relating to \r\n                                              chieftaincy which has been \r\n                                              determined by the House of Chiefs \r\n                                              in a Region from which appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction there shall be an \r\n                                              appeal with the leave of the \r\n                                              Supreme Court or the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs to the Supreme \r\n                                              Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person aggrieved by any \r\n                                              judgment or order of a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs in the exercise of \r\n                                              its original or appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction may appeal to the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs as of \r\n                                              right, against such judgment or \r\n                                              order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The appellate jurisdiction \r\n                                              conferred on the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be exercised by a \r\n                                              judicial committee of that House \r\n                                              comprising five persons appointed \r\n                                              by that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A judicial committee shall be \r\n                                              assisted by counsel who shall&nbsp; be \r\n                                              a lawyer of not less than seven \r\n                                              years'' standing as a lawyer \r\n                                              appointed by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs on the recommendation&nbsp; of \r\n                                              the Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) An appeal to the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs against a judgment \r\n                                              or order of a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs shall be lodged within \r\n                                              thirty days after the decision \r\n                                              appealed against:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs or the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs may if it appears to it \r\n                                              just so to do extend such period \r\n                                              for a further period expiring not \r\n                                              later than two months from the \r\n                                              date of the decision appealed \r\n                                              against.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Upon any such appeal the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              section, confirm, reverse or vary \r\n                                              the decision appealed against, or \r\n                                              remit the matter or any part \r\n                                              thereof for reconsideration by the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs from \r\n                                              whose decision the appeal is \r\n                                              brought and in each case subject \r\n                                              to such&nbsp; conditions or directions \r\n                                              as the National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              may consider fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Original and Appellate \r\n                                              Jurisdiction of Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs. Article 155(1).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Each Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have the following original \r\n                                              and appellate jurisdiction:&#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) original jurisdiction in all \r\n                                              matters relating to a paramount \r\n                                              stool or the occupant of a \r\n                                              paramount stool, 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) appellate jurisdiction to hear \r\n                                              and determine subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of clause (3) of \r\n                                              article 105 of the Constitution \r\n                                              appeals from the highest \r\n                                              Traditional Councils within the \r\n                                              area of authority of the \r\n                                              Traditional Authority within which \r\n                                              they are established, in respect \r\n                                              of the nomination, election, \r\n                                              appointment, installation or \r\n                                              deposition of any person as a \r\n                                              Chief.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each such House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall also have jurisdiction to \r\n                                              hear and determine appeals against \r\n                                              any judgment or order given or \r\n                                              made by any Traditional Council in \r\n                                              any other cause or matter \r\n                                              affecting chieftaincy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person aggrieved by any \r\n                                              judgment or order made by a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in any cause \r\n                                              or matter affecting chieftaincy \r\n                                              may appeal to the House of Chiefs \r\n                                              of the Region as of right against \r\n                                              the judgment or order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The original and appellate \r\n                                              jurisdiction conferred on each \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs shall be \r\n                                              exercised by a judicial committee \r\n                                              of that House comprising three \r\n                                              persons appointed by that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A judicial committee appointed \r\n                                              under this section shall be \r\n                                              assisted by Counsel who shall be a \r\n                                              lawyer of not less than five \r\n                                              years'' standing as a lawyer \r\n                                              appointed by the Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs on the recommendation of \r\n                                              the Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any appeal to a Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs against a judgment or \r\n                                              order of a Traditional Council \r\n                                              shall be lodged within thirty days \r\n                                              after the judgment or order \r\n                                              appealed against unless the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs upon \r\n                                              application made to it within \r\n                                              thirty days after the expiration \r\n                                              of the period within hich an \r\n                                              appeal may be lodged under this \r\n                                              subsection, grants an extension of \r\n                                              time within which to lodge an \r\n                                              appeal.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Chieftaincy (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 166), s.1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Upon any such appeal a \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs may, \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              section confirm, reverse or vary \r\n                                              the decision appealed against or \r\n                                              remit the matter or any part \r\n                                              thereof for reconsideration to the \r\n                                              Traditional Council from which the \r\n                                              appeal is brought and in each case \r\n                                              subject to such conditions or \r\n                                              directions as the Regional House \r\n                                              of Chiefs may consider fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Evidence, Etc. Before \r\n                                              Judicial Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A judicial committee may \r\n                                              receive in evidence any matter \r\n                                              (including hearsay) which tends to \r\n                                              prove or disprove any fact \r\n                                              relevant to the subject matter \r\n                                              before the committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any such committee may in \r\n                                              connection with any such matter do \r\n                                              all or any of the following acts \r\n                                              as may be done by the High Court \r\n                                              in proceedings before the High \r\n                                              Court:&#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 presumptions of law or \r\n                                              fact,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) take cognisance of matters \r\n                                              which are so notorious or clearly \r\n                                              established that evidence of their \r\n                                              existence is deemed unnecessary,</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) draw inferences from facts \r\n                                              already in evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              this section a judicial committee \r\n                                              shall not make any finding of fact \r\n                                              or draw any inference from any \r\n                                              fact based solely on hearsay \r\n                                              evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any party to proceedings \r\n                                              before a judicial committee may \r\n                                              appear in person or by counsel and \r\n                                              any other person required or \r\n                                              entitled to appear may appear \r\n                                              either in person or with leave of \r\n                                              the committee by counsel.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The following provisions of \r\n                                              this section shall apply for the \r\n                                              purpose of ascertainment of \r\n                                              customary law in proceedings \r\n                                              before a judicial committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any question as to the \r\n                                              existence or content of a rule of \r\n                                              customary law is a question of law \r\n                                              for the committee and not a \r\n                                              question of fact.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) If the committee entertains \r\n                                              any doubt as to the existence or \r\n                                              content of a rule of customary law \r\n                                              relevant in any proceedings after \r\n                                              considering such submissions \r\n                                              thereon as may be made by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the parties and \r\n                                              consulting such reported cases, \r\n                                              textbooks and other sources as may \r\n                                              be appropriate, the committee \r\n                                              shall adjourn the proceedings to \r\n                                              enable an enquiry to take place \r\n                                              under the next subsection.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The inquiry shall be held as \r\n                                              part of the proceedings in such \r\n                                              manner as the committee considers \r\n                                              expedient, and the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act relating to the \r\n                                              attendance and testimony of \r\n                                              witnesses shall apply for the \r\n                                              purpose of the tendering of \r\n                                              opinions to the committee at the \r\n                                              inquiry, but shall apply subject \r\n                                              to such modifications as may \r\n                                              appear to the committee to be \r\n                                              necessary: </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\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: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the decision as to the persons \r\n                                              who are to be heard at the inquiry \r\n                                              shall be one for the committee, \r\n                                              after hearing such submissions \r\n                                              thereon as may be made by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the parties;</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 committee may request any \r\n                                              authority or body possessing \r\n                                              knowledge of the customary law in \r\n                                              question to state its opinion \r\n                                              which may be laid before the \r\n                                              inquiry in written form.</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;Security for Costs, \r\n                                              Etc. in Proceedings Before \r\n                                              Judicial Committee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A judicial committee may \r\n                                              require the applicant in \r\n                                              proceedings before it to give \r\n                                              security for costs of the \r\n                                              application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In every case determined by a \r\n                                              judicial committee the costs shall \r\n                                              be in the discretion of the \r\n                                              committee.</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 the \r\n                                              recovery of costs, a certificate \r\n                                              of the committee setting forth the \r\n                                              particulars may be filed without \r\n                                              payment of any fee with the High \r\n                                              Court and when so filed shall be \r\n                                              accepted by that Court as \r\n                                              sufficient evidence of the facts \r\n                                              so certified and costs imposed \r\n                                              under this section may be taxed as \r\n                                              if imposed by the High Court.</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;General Provisions \r\n                                              Relating to Judicial Proceedings \r\n                                              Before Houses&nbsp;&nbsp; of Chiefs.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              or a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall have in relation to any \r\n                                              appeal coming before it all the \r\n                                              powers of the tribunal from which \r\n                                              the appeal is brought. </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 the \r\n                                              judicial power of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs, each such house \r\n                                              shall have such powers, rights and \r\n                                              privileges as are vested in the \r\n                                              High Court of Justice or a Judge \r\n                                              thereof at a trial in respect of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) enforcing the attendance of \r\n                                              witnesses and examining them on \r\n                                              oath, affirmation or otherwise,</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) compelling the production of \r\n                                              documents, and the issue of a \r\n                                              commission or request to examine \r\n                                              witnesses abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act the practice and \r\n                                              procedure of the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs and of a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs in the exercise of their \r\n                                              judicial functions shall be \r\n                                              regulated by rules made in \r\n                                              consultation with the respective \r\n                                              House by the Rules of Court \r\n                                              Committee established by Article \r\n                                              121 of the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A member of any judicial \r\n                                              committee appointed under this Act \r\n                                              or the Counsel thereto shall not \r\n                                              be liable to any action or suit in \r\n                                              respect of any matter or thing \r\n                                              done by him in the performance of \r\n                                              his functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any member of such Committee \r\n                                              or the Counsel thereto shall in \r\n                                              relation to the exercise of any \r\n                                              function under this Act be deemed \r\n                                              to be a public officer for the \r\n                                              purposes of the Criminal Code, \r\n                                              1960 (Act 29). </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) A person who does anything in \r\n                                              relation to the exercise of the \r\n                                              judicial functions of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs or a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs which if done in \r\n                                              relation to the High Court will \r\n                                              constitute a contempt of that \r\n                                              court shall be guilty of contempt \r\n                                              of that House.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where it appears to a judicial \r\n                                              committee that any person has \r\n                                              committed contempt of the House of \r\n                                              Chiefs by which that committee was \r\n                                              appointed it shall certify that \r\n                                              fact to the High Court and the \r\n                                              High Court shall after inquiring \r\n                                              into the matter take steps for the \r\n                                              punishment of the person in \r\n                                              question if it is satisfied that \r\n                                              he is guilty of contempt, and \r\n                                              shall otherwise acquit that \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The functions of any counsel \r\n                                              appointed to assist any judicial \r\n                                              committee under section 22 or 23 \r\n                                              of this Act shall be to advise the \r\n                                              committee on all matters of law, \r\n                                              including in particular, evidence, \r\n                                              procedure and interpretation of \r\n                                              documents and statutes.</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;Certain Appeals to \r\n                                              Operate as Stay of Execution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An appeal to the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs or a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs against a final judgment or \r\n                                              order shall operate as a stay of \r\n                                              execution of the judgment or order \r\n                                              appealed against, and any other \r\n                                              order made consequentially upon it \r\n                                              unless the appellate tribunal \r\n                                              otherwise directs.[As substituted \r\n                                              by Chieftaincy (Amendment) (No.2) \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD 226)]. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Proceedings Before a \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the exercise of the \r\n                                              jurisdiction conferred upon it by \r\n                                              section 15 of this Act, a \r\n                                              Traditional Council shall, subject \r\n                                              to the provisions of this section \r\n                                              conduct its proceedings according \r\n                                              to customary law, but for the \r\n                                              purpose of compelling the \r\n                                              attendance of parties and \r\n                                              witnesses and the production of \r\n                                              documents, a Traditional Council \r\n                                              shall have the like powers as are \r\n                                              possessed by a District Court in \r\n                                              the exercise of its civil \r\n                                              jurisdiction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The said jurisdiction shall be \r\n                                              exercised by a judicial committee \r\n                                              of the Traditional Council \r\n                                              comprising three or five persons \r\n                                              appointed by that Council; and \r\n                                              accordingly the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act relating to proceedings and \r\n                                              functions of a judicial committee \r\n                                              of a Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall, with such modifications as \r\n                                              may be prescribed by the Minister \r\n                                              by regulations made under section \r\n                                              62 of this Act apply to \r\n                                              proceedings and functions of a \r\n                                              judicial committee of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A Traditional Council may in \r\n                                              respect of any cause or matter \r\n                                              affecting chieftaincy determined \r\n                                              by it make any award of a civil \r\n                                              nature including any award of \r\n                                              amends to an injured person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              be deemed to authorise a \r\n                                              Traditional Council to punish any \r\n                                              person by imposing a fine or \r\n                                              awarding a term of imprisonment, \r\n                                              and, subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Part VI of this Act, and except in \r\n                                              the case of stool property, no \r\n                                              award shall be made which would \r\n                                              involve the delivery or disposal \r\n                                              of property or the payment of \r\n                                              money exceeding N¢400.00 in value.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A Traditional Council shall, \r\n                                              within thirty days after deciding \r\n                                              any cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy report its decision to \r\n                                              the Regional House of Chiefs in \r\n                                              the Region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28A&#8212;Vacancies in Judicial \r\n                                              Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Except as provided in \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              where a vacancy occurs in the \r\n                                              membership of a judicial committee \r\n                                              of the National House of Chiefs, \r\n                                              or a Regional House of Chiefs, or \r\n                                              a Traditional Council, otherwise \r\n                                              than as a result of the expiration \r\n                                              of the term of office of its \r\n                                              members, the appropriate House or \r\n                                              Council may fill the vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the proceedings of a \r\n                                              judicial committee have not been \r\n                                              completed before the filling of a \r\n                                              vacancy under subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section the judicial \r\n                                              committee as reconstituted after \r\n                                              the filling of the vacancy shall \r\n                                              adopt the proceedings of the \r\n                                              judicial committee as previously \r\n                                              constituted in the cause or matter \r\n                                              in question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where at the time of the \r\n                                              expiration of the term of office \r\n                                              of members of the National House \r\n                                              of Chiefs or a Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs or a Traditional Council \r\n                                              under this Act, there is pending \r\n                                              before the judicial committee of \r\n                                              the appropriate House or Council \r\n                                              of which they are members any \r\n                                              part-heard appeal or any cause or \r\n                                              matter relating to chieftaincy \r\n                                              such members shall for the purpose \r\n                                              of completing the hearing and \r\n                                              determination of the appeal or \r\n                                              cause or matter continue to hold \r\n                                              office for a further period of not \r\n                                              more than three months after their \r\n                                              term of office has expired. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Chieftaincy \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1982 (PNDCL 25)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Preservation of Stool \r\n                                              Property Affected by Disputes, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Commissioner responsible \r\n                                              for chieftaincy matters may in \r\n                                              consultation with the Traditional \r\n                                              Council of the area, by executive \r\n                                              instrument, published in the \r\n                                              Gazette, order any person to take \r\n                                              possession of any stool property \r\n                                              in any of the following \r\n                                              circumstances:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where the stool property is \r\n                                              affected by pending proceedings in \r\n                                              respect of a cause or matter \r\n                                              affecting chieftaincy;</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 the Commissioner is \r\n                                              satisfied on reasonable grounds \r\n                                              that there is a pending dispute \r\n                                              affecting the stool property and \r\n                                              that it is in the interest of \r\n                                              public order or it is necessary \r\n                                              for the preservation of the stool \r\n                                              property to take possession of the \r\n                                              stool property;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) where a chief has abdicated or \r\n                                              has in pursuance of any \r\n                                              proceedings in respect of any \r\n                                              cause or matter affecting \r\n                                              chieftaincy been destooled and he \r\n                                              has failed to hand over the stool \r\n                                              property to the person who under \r\n                                              customary law is entitled to \r\n                                              recieve such stool property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who takes \r\n                                              possession of stool property under \r\n                                              this section shall, as soon as \r\n                                              practicable prepare an inventory \r\n                                              of such stool property and \r\n                                              transmit a copy of the inventory \r\n                                              to the said Commissioner together \r\n                                              with a signed certificate of its \r\n                                              correctness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the need for the \r\n                                              retention of any property taken \r\n                                              possession of under this section \r\n                                              has passed, the Commissioner \r\n                                              shall, order the restoration of \r\n                                              the property to the stool \r\n                                              concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any person who wilfully \r\n                                              obstructs a person ordered under \r\n                                              this section to take possession of \r\n                                              any stool property or who wilfully \r\n                                              obstructs the restoration of stool \r\n                                              property ordered by the \r\n                                              Commissioner under subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section shall be guilty of \r\n                                              a misdemeanour.[As substituted by \r\n                                              the Chieftaincy (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD 166), s.2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Enforcement of Judgment \r\n                                              of Houses of Chiefs or Traditional \r\n                                              Councils.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Upon an application made by a \r\n                                              party to any proceedings before a \r\n                                              judicial committee of a House of \r\n                                              Chiefs in whose favour a judgment \r\n                                              or order was made by that \r\n                                              committee, that committee shall \r\n                                              forward a copy of the judgment or \r\n                                              order to the High Court with a \r\n                                              request for execution and upon the \r\n                                              payment by the applicant of the \r\n                                              necessary fees the High Court \r\n                                              shall take such steps and issue \r\n                                              such process as may be necessary \r\n                                              for the purpose of the execution \r\n                                              of the said judgment or order as \r\n                                              it would take or issue if it were \r\n                                              a judgment or order of that court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Upon an application made by a \r\n                                              party to the proceedings before a \r\n                                              judicial committee of a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in whose \r\n                                              favour a judgment or order was \r\n                                              made by the Council, that Council \r\n                                              shall forward a copy of the \r\n                                              judgment or order of the Council \r\n                                              in those proceedings, to the \r\n                                              Circuit Court having jurisdiction \r\n                                              in the traditional area in \r\n                                              question with a request for \r\n                                              execution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Upon the payment by the \r\n                                              applicant of the necessary fees \r\n                                              the said Circuit Court shall take \r\n                                              such steps and issue such process \r\n                                              as may be necessary for the \r\n                                              purpose of the execution of the \r\n                                              judgment or order as it would take \r\n                                              or issue if it were a judgment or \r\n                                              order of that court.</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;Protection of Parties, \r\n                                              Counsel and Witnesses.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any party, counsel or witness \r\n                                              before a judicial committee shall \r\n                                              enjoy the same protection in \r\n                                              respect of statements made by him \r\n                                              in the course of and for the \r\n                                              purposes of the proceedings of the \r\n                                              said tribunal as he would have \r\n                                              enjoyed before the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any witness before a judicial \r\n                                              committee shall have the same \r\n                                              privileges as he would have had \r\n                                              before the High Court.</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;Obstruction of \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                                              Subject to section 31 of this Act, \r\n                                              any person who in proceedings \r\n                                              before a judicial committee and \r\n                                              without lawful excuse (proof of \r\n                                              which shall be on him)&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) fails when required by the \r\n                                              said committee to produce or \r\n                                              deliver up any document, answer \r\n                                              any question or sign any document, \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) wilfully obstructs the \r\n                                              proceedings of the said committee \r\n                                              at any stage thereof,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              shall, on summary conviction be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢200.00 or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 33&#8212;Right to bring \r\n                                              Proceedings for Destoolment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              entitled by this Act to institute \r\n                                              proceedings for the destoolment of \r\n                                              a Chief unless he is entitled to \r\n                                              do so under customary law.</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;Proceedings in \r\n                                              Chieftaincy Matters to be Recorded \r\n                                              in Writing.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The proceedings of a National or \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs and a \r\n                                              Traditional Council in any cause \r\n                                              or matter affecting chieftaincy \r\n                                              shall be recorded in writing.</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;Applications to Two \r\n                                              Tribunals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where under this Act an \r\n                                              application is required to be made \r\n                                              either to one tribunal or another, \r\n                                              the application shall first be \r\n                                              made to the lower tribunal but if \r\n                                              that tribunal refuses the \r\n                                              application the applicant shall \r\n                                              then be entitled to have the \r\n                                              application determined by the \r\n                                              higher tribunal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;STOOL 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 36&#8212;What is Stool Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Stool property consists of the \r\n                                              following&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the stool itself and all the \r\n                                              insignia of the stool;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) such other movable property \r\n                                              and land as was handed over or \r\n                                              declared as stool property to the \r\n                                              Chief on his installation;</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 property movable or \r\n                                              immovable acquired as stool \r\n                                              property after the installation of \r\n                                              the Chief.</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;Alienation of Stool \r\n                                              Property Requires Consent of \r\n                                              Traditional Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In addition to the consent and \r\n                                              concurrence of the Lands \r\n                                              Commission required by clause (3) \r\n                                              of article 164 of the \r\n                                              Constitution, any transaction \r\n                                              purporting to alienate or pledge \r\n                                              any stool property whether movable \r\n                                              or immovable shall be voidable \r\n                                              unless made or entered into with \r\n                                              the consent of the Traditional \r\n                                              Council concerned.</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;Prohibition Upon \r\n                                              Execution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No stool property whether movable \r\n                                              or immovable shall be seized in \r\n                                              execution at the suit of any \r\n                                              person except with the written \r\n                                              consent of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 39&#8212;Recovery of Stool \r\n                                              Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a judicial committee makes \r\n                                              any order for the delivery up of \r\n                                              stool property any person who \r\n                                              fails to comply with that order \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding N¢200.00 or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months or to both \r\n                                              and also to a further fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢10.00 for each day for \r\n                                              which the offence continues.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VII&#8212;CUSTOMARY LAW</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;National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs to Promote the Development \r\n                                              of Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              shall, subject to clause (2) of \r\n                                              article 126 of the Constitution, \r\n                                              undertake the progressive study, \r\n                                              interpretation and codification of \r\n                                              customary law with a view to \r\n                                              evolving, in appropriate cases a \r\n                                              unified system of rules of \r\n                                              customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 41&#8212;Functions of \r\n                                              Traditional Councils Relating to \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If a Traditional Council considers \r\n                                              the customary law which is in \r\n                                              force within its area to be \r\n                                              uncertain or considers it \r\n                                              desirable that it should be \r\n                                              modified or assimilated by the \r\n                                              common law the Council shall make \r\n                                              representations on the matter to \r\n                                              the House of Chiefs in the region.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 42&#8212;Declaration of \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              may, either after receiving \r\n                                              representations from a Traditional \r\n                                              Council or on its own initiative, \r\n                                              and shall if so requested in \r\n                                              writing by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs draft a declaration of what \r\n                                              in its opinion is the customary \r\n                                              law rule relating to any subject \r\n                                              in force in its region or any part \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A draft prepared under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and if the said \r\n                                              House after considering it and \r\n                                              after consultation with the \r\n                                              Regional House of Chiefs concerned \r\n                                              is satisfied that the draft either \r\n                                              as submitted or with such \r\n                                              modifications as it considers \r\n                                              necessary is a correct statement \r\n                                              of the customary rule in question, \r\n                                              it shall submit a request in \r\n                                              writing to the President to the \r\n                                              effect that that statement of the \r\n                                              customary law rule be given effect \r\n                                              to in the area in question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The President may upon \r\n                                              receiving a request made by the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              after consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument giving effect to the \r\n                                              recommendations submitted to him \r\n                                              by the said House, and providing \r\n                                              that the rule in question shall \r\n                                              have effect within the area in \r\n                                              question in the form set out in \r\n                                              the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 43&#8212;Alteration of Customary \r\n                                              Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A Regional House of Chiefs may \r\n                                              either after receiving \r\n                                              representations from a Traditional \r\n                                              Council or on its own initiative, \r\n                                              and shall if so requested in \r\n                                              writing by the National House of \r\n                                              Chiefs, draft a statement of \r\n                                              alterations it thinks desirable in \r\n                                              any customary law rule in force in \r\n                                              its region or any part thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A draft prepared under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and if the said \r\n                                              House is satisfied after \r\n                                              consultation with the Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs concerned, that \r\n                                              effect should be given to the \r\n                                              draft, either as submitted or with \r\n                                              such modifications as it considers \r\n                                              necessary, it shall submit a \r\n                                              request in writing to the \r\n                                              President to the effect that that \r\n                                              statement of the rule as modified \r\n                                              by the draft be given effect in \r\n                                              the area in question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The President may, upon \r\n                                              receiving a request made by the \r\n                                              National House of Chiefs under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              after consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument giving effect to the \r\n                                              recommendations submitted to him \r\n                                              by the said House under the said \r\n                                              subsection (2) and providing that \r\n                                              the rule shall have effect within \r\n                                              the area in question in the form \r\n                                              set out therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 44&#8212;Regional House of \r\n                                              Chiefs Affected by Same Rule of \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a question affecting the \r\n                                              customary law is common to more \r\n                                              than one Regional House of Chiefs \r\n                                              there shall be a joint committee \r\n                                              of the Houses of Chiefs affected \r\n                                              to consider that question.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The joint committee mentioned \r\n                                              in subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be made up of a committee of \r\n                                              each House set up for the purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The joint committee under this \r\n                                              section shall have the same \r\n                                              authority as if the question \r\n                                              before it were before a Regional \r\n                                              House of Chiefs, and the \r\n                                              provisions of this Part shall \r\n                                              apply accordingly. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 45&#8212;Assimilation of \r\n                                              Customary Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The National House of Chiefs \r\n                                              may on its own initiative and \r\n                                              shall, upon request so to do, made \r\n                                              to it in writing by the President \r\n                                              or by a joint committee referred \r\n                                              to in section 44 of this Act \r\n                                              comprising representatives of all \r\n                                              the Regional Houses of Chiefs, \r\n                                              consider whether a rule of \r\n                                              customary law should be \r\n                                              assimilated by the common law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If after considering such \r\n                                              evidence and representations as \r\n                                              may be submitted to it and \r\n                                              carrying out such investigations \r\n                                              as it may think fit the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs is of the opinion \r\n                                              that the rule should be \r\n                                              assimilated by the common law, it \r\n                                              shall draft a declaration \r\n                                              describing the rule, with such \r\n                                              modifications as it may consider \r\n                                              desirable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A draft prepared under \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section \r\n                                              shall be submitted to the \r\n                                              President who may after \r\n                                              consultation with the Chief \r\n                                              Justice make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument giving effect to the \r\n                                              recommendations of the National \r\n                                              House of Chiefs and declaring the \r\n                                              rule to be assimilated in the form \r\n                                              specified in the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 46&#8212;Effect of Assimilation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a rule is declared to be \r\n                                              assimilated under subsection (3) \r\n                                              of section 45 of this Act, it may \r\n                                              be referred to as a common law \r\n                                              rule of customary origin.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A common law rule of customary \r\n                                              origin shall apply to every issue \r\n                                              within its scope whether or not \r\n                                              that issue would if assimilation \r\n                                              had not taken place, have been \r\n                                              determined according to the common \r\n                                              law or any system of customary \r\n                                              law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where an issue falls to be \r\n                                              determined by a combination of two \r\n                                              or more rules, nothing in this \r\n                                              Part shall prevent any rule of \r\n                                              common law or customary law which \r\n                                              is not within the scope of a \r\n                                              relevant common law rule of \r\n                                              customary origin from being \r\n                                              applied, in accordance with \r\n                                              paragraph 64 of the Courts Decree, \r\n                                              1966 (N.L.C.D. 84) in combination \r\n                                              with the said rule of customary \r\n                                              origin.</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 Part, in applying a common \r\n                                              law rule of customary origin the \r\n                                              court may have regard to such \r\n                                              textbooks and other sources \r\n                                              indicating the content of the rule \r\n                                              as would be available if it had \r\n                                              not been assimilated, and shall \r\n                                              treat the rule in the same way as \r\n                                              any other common law rule.</span></p>\r\n                                    