                  <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. <i>Number of persons employed \r\n                                              or intended to be employed in the \r\n                                              office or shop premises at the \r\n                                              above address in the following \r\n                                              types of work place (where \r\n                                              applicable).</i></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                                              Male&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Female</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) \r\n                                              Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Shop \r\n                                              (retail)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) Wholesale department or \r\n                                              warehouse&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) Catering establishment&nbsp; open \r\n                                              to \r\n                                              public&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) Staff \r\n                                              canteen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) Fuel storage \r\n                                              depot&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Total&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. <i>How many of the total are \r\n                                              (or will be) employed on floors \r\n                                              other than ground floor?</i> \r\n                                              ....................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. <i>Of the total stated in reply \r\n                                              to question 3 are any (or will any \r\n                                              be), housed in separate building? \r\n                                              (Yes/No</i>) \r\n                                              .......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. <i>Is the employer the owner of \r\n                                              the building(s) or part of the \r\n                                              building(s) containing the \r\n                                              premises? (Yes/No</i>) \r\n                                              .....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. <i>If not, state the name and \r\n                                              address of the owner(s) or \r\n                                              person(s) to whom rent is paid</i> \r\n                                              .....................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ...................................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. <i>Welfare Facilities</i>:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No. of sanitary conveniences \r\n                                              provided:</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                                              Male \r\n                                              ...............................................................&nbsp; \r\n                                              Female </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Details of amenities provided:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) Washing facilities: (Yes/No) \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                                              (b) Supply of drinking water: \r\n                                              (Yes/No) \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                                              (c) Accommodation for clothing: \r\n                                              Yes/No) \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                                              (d) Canteen/Messroom:&nbsp; (Yes/No) \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                                              (e) First Aid Box/Ambulance Room: \r\n                                              (Yes/No) \r\n                                              ............................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. <i>Fire Precautions</i>:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Means of escape in case of fire \r\n                                              provided (e.g. Number and type of \r\n                                              doors, etc. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fire fighting equipment (e.g. type \r\n                                              of fire extinguishers) provided\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ....................................................................................................................................Whether \r\n                                              Fire Alarm has been installed: \r\n                                              (Yes/No) \r\n                                              ........................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date \r\n                                              ................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 108.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of employer or person \r\n                                              authorised to sign on his behalf</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">\r\n                                              FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 25)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PROCESSES REQUIRING PROVISION OF \r\n                                              SUITABLE GOGGLES OR EFFECTIVE \r\n                                              SCREENS</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Dry grinding of metals, or \r\n                                              articles of metal, applied by hand \r\n                                              to a revolving wheel or disc \r\n                                              driven by mechanical power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Turning (external or internal) \r\n                                              of non-ferrous metals, or of cast \r\n                                              iron, or of articles of such \r\n                                              metals or such iron, where the \r\n                                              work is done dry, other than \r\n                                              precision turning where the use of \r\n                                              goggles or a screen would \r\n                                              seriously interfere with the work, \r\n                                              or turning by means of hand tools.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Welding or cutting of metals by \r\n                                              means of an electrical, \r\n                                              oxyacetylene or similar process.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. The following processes when \r\n                                              carried on by means of hand tools \r\n                                              or other portable tools:&#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) fettling of metal castings \r\n                                              involving the removal of metal;</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) cutting out or cutting off \r\n                                              (not including drilling or \r\n                                              punching back) of cold rivets or \r\n                                              bolts from boilers or other plant \r\n                                              or from ships;</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) chipping and scaling of ships'' \r\n                                              plates;</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) breaking or dressing of stone, \r\n                                              concrete or slag.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 328');
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(108, 'GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 (ACT 324)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1323" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 \r\n                                              (ACT 324)</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 the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Membership of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Functions of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Terms of membership</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Meetings of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Staff</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Funds of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Accounts and audit</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Remuneration</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Power to make legislative \r\n                                              instrument</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. 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: 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 \r\n                                              TWENTY-FOURTH</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 GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, \r\n                                              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 and \r\n                                              incorporate the Grains Development \r\n                                              Board, to provide for its \r\n                                              functions and maintenance and to \r\n                                              provide for connected or \r\n                                              incidental matters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT : 17th 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 the \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) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate which shall be \r\n                                              known as the Grains Development \r\n                                              Board (hereinafter referred to as \r\n                                              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 its \r\n                                              corporate name.</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                                              property and to dispose of such \r\n                                              property and to enter into any \r\n                                              contract or other transactions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where there is any hindrance \r\n                                              to the acquisition of any property \r\n                                              under subsection (3) of this \r\n                                              section, the property may be \r\n                                              acquired for the Board under the \r\n                                              State Property and Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (C.A. 6) or as the case may \r\n                                              be, under the State Lands Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 125) and each such Act \r\n                                              shall, as the case may be, apply \r\n                                              with respect to any such \r\n                                              acquisition with such modification \r\n                                              as may be necessary to provide for \r\n                                              the vesting of the property \r\n                                              acquired thereunder in the Board \r\n                                              and for the cost of such \r\n                                              acquisition to be defrayed 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 2&#8212;Membership 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&#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) the person appointed Executive \r\n                                              Secretary under section 6 of this \r\n                                              Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Agriculture;</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) four other members to be \r\n                                              appointed from among farming, \r\n                                              business, financial, consumer and \r\n                                              other interests whose \r\n                                              representation on the Board may be \r\n                                              found necessary by the Board; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) two other members to be \r\n                                              appointed from farmers'' \r\n                                              associations organised in \r\n                                              accordance with subsection (1)(b) \r\n                                              of section 3 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All members of the Board \r\n                                              including the Chairman shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              on the advice of 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 3&#8212;Functions 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 functions of the Board \r\n                                              shall be&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to undertake the \r\n                                              multiplication of improved seeds \r\n                                              and their supply to farmers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to organise grain and legume \r\n                                              farmers and farmers'' associations \r\n                                              through which credit and \r\n                                              production requisites can be \r\n                                              channelled to the producers, and \r\n                                              to assist the farmers'' \r\n                                              associations to market their \r\n                                              produce until such time as they \r\n                                              can manage most of the services \r\n                                              themselves;</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 creation of marketing \r\n                                              facilities for grain and legumes \r\n                                              crops;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) to collect statistical data on \r\n                                              grains and legumes for the purpose \r\n                                              of planning the production of \r\n                                              these crops to meet local demands \r\n                                              and for export; 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) to co-ordinate and assist \r\n                                              research into problems of grains \r\n                                              and legumes and the organisation \r\n                                              of extension work on them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Board shall \r\n                                              have power to 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) to develop lands suitable for \r\n                                              large scale production of grain \r\n                                              and legume crops, and give them \r\n                                              out in viable farm units to \r\n                                              farmers on such conditions of \r\n                                              tenure that will help the Board to \r\n                                              achieve its objects and assure the \r\n                                              farmers of security of tenure; 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) to mobilise funds from local \r\n                                              and foreign sources for the \r\n                                              purpose of running &quot;small credit&quot; \r\n                                              schemes for the farmers'' \r\n                                              associations that produce grains \r\n                                              and legumes.</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;Terms of Membership.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chairman and members of \r\n                                              the Board shall hold office for \r\n                                              three years and shall be eligible \r\n                                              for re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member, including the \r\n                                              Chairman may resign his&nbsp; \r\n                                              membership of the Board by notice \r\n                                              in writing addressed to the \r\n                                              President through the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) 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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings 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 ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such times and places as the \r\n                                              Chairman may decide but shall meet \r\n                                              at least once in every month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman may, and shall on \r\n                                              request in writing of not less \r\n                                              than five members of the Board, \r\n                                              call an extraordinary meeting of \r\n                                              the Board at such time and place \r\n                                              as he may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman if present, shall \r\n                                              preside at every meeting of the \r\n                                              Board, and in his absence any \r\n                                              member of the Board designated by \r\n                                              the Chairman shall preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If no member of the Board is \r\n                                              so designated the members of the \r\n                                              Board present shall elect one of \r\n                                              their number to preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The quorum at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to other provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, all questions proposed \r\n                                              at a meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              the members present and voting and \r\n                                              where the votes are equal the \r\n                                              Chairman or the person presiding \r\n                                              shall have a second or casting \r\n                                              vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The Board may, and shall, if \r\n                                              the Minister thinks fit, request \r\n                                              the attendance of any person to \r\n                                              act as adviser at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board and that person while so \r\n                                              attending shall have all the \r\n                                              powers of a member except that he \r\n                                              is not to vote on any question and \r\n                                              his presence at the meeting is not \r\n                                              to count towards the constitution \r\n                                              of a quorum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The validity of any act or \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \r\n                                              its members or any defect in the \r\n                                              appointment of a member thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) Subject to the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this section the \r\n                                              Board may regulate its own \r\n                                              procedure.</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;Staff.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may, subject to such \r\n                                              limitation as to number as may be \r\n                                              imposed on it by the Minister, \r\n                                              appoint and employ such officers \r\n                                              and staff including the Executive \r\n                                              Secretary as it may think \r\n                                              necessary for the proper discharge \r\n                                              of its functions under this Act \r\n                                              and there shall be paid to such \r\n                                              officers and staff such salaries \r\n                                              or remuneration as the Minister \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance, \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Public officers with suitable \r\n                                              qualifications may be transferred \r\n                                              or seconded to the Board upon such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister, determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board may also engage the \r\n                                              services of such consultants, \r\n                                              advisers and other persons and \r\n                                              upon such conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister 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 7&#8212;Funds 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 funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              include&#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 grants received from the \r\n                                              Government by the Board for the \r\n                                              discharge of its 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) any loans granted to the Board \r\n                                              by the Government or any other \r\n                                              body or person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any money accruing to the \r\n                                              Board in the course of the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \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 gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All moneys received by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the Board shall be \r\n                                              deposited to the credit of the \r\n                                              Board in a bank approved 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 8&#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 Board shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of accounts and prepare \r\n                                              proper records in relation thereto \r\n                                              all of which shall be in such form \r\n                                              as the Auditor-General may \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall submit to the \r\n                                              Minister such report of the \r\n                                              Board''s financial affairs as the \r\n                                              Minister may at any time require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Board shall be submitted to the \r\n                                              Auditor-General within three \r\n                                              months after the end of every \r\n                                              financial year and the \r\n                                              Auditor-General shall cause them \r\n                                              to be audited as required by \r\n                                              article 135 of the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Auditor-General may make \r\n                                              to the Board or to the Minister \r\n                                              such reports as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may consider \r\n                                              necessary.</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;Remuneration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No remuneration shall be paid to a \r\n                                              member of the Board by reason of \r\n                                              his membership of the Board, but a \r\n                                              member shall be reimbursed for \r\n                                              travelling, transport and \r\n                                              subsistence expenses approved by \r\n                                              the Board and incurred by him in \r\n                                              attending a meeting of the Board \r\n                                              or an authorised conference abroad \r\n                                              on behalf of the 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;Power to make \r\n                                              Legislative Instrument.</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 such provision not \r\n                                              inconsistent with this Act, as \r\n                                              appears to him to be necessary to \r\n                                              give effect to the provisions and \r\n                                              principles of this Act and may \r\n                                              include in any such instrument \r\n                                              provisions relating to any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              functions of the 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 11&#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&#8212;</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&nbsp; Agriculture.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Financial year&quot; means the \r\n                                              financial year of the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 324');
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(109, 'GHANA LIBRARY BOARD ACT, 1970 (ACT 327)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1291" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GHANA LIBRARY BOARD ACT, 1970 (ACT \r\n                                              327)</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 Ghana Library \r\n                                              Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Membership of Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Functions of 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</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Committees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Appointment of Officers and \r\n                                              Employees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Vesting of Assets, etc.of \r\n                                              Former Library Board in the New \r\n                                              Library Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Regional Advisory Committees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Functions of Regional Advisory \r\n                                              Committees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Funds of Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Payment into Bank</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Accounts and Audit</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Annual Report</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Rules</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              TWENTY-SEVENTH</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 GHANA LIBRARY BOARD 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 re-enact the Gold Coast \r\n                                              Library Board Ordinance (Cap. 118) \r\n                                              with amendments and to provide for \r\n                                              other purposes connected \r\n                                              therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 30th 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 Ghana \r\n                                              Library 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, \r\n                                              for the purposes of this Act a \r\n                                              Board to be known as the Ghana \r\n                                              Library Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Ghana Library Board, \r\n                                              hereafter referred to in this Act \r\n                                              as the &quot;Board&quot;, shall be a body \r\n                                              corporate with perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal, and \r\n                                              may sue and be sued in its \r\n                                              corporate name.</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 the power \r\n                                              for the discharge of its functions \r\n                                              to acquire and hold any movable or \r\n                                              immovable property, to dispose of \r\n                                              such property by lease or \r\n                                              otherwise and to enter into any \r\n                                              contract or other 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 2&#8212;Membership 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 consist of a \r\n                                              Chairman and the following members \r\n                                              all of whom shall be appointed by \r\n                                              the President under article 49 of \r\n                                              the Constitution:&#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 representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Education,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for 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) a representative of the \r\n                                              Department of Library Studies, \r\n                                              University 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                                              (d) a representative of the \r\n                                              Institute of Adult Education of \r\n                                              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) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry of Local Administration,</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) a representative of the \r\n                                              Conference of Heads of Assisted \r\n                                              Secondary Schools in Ghana,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) a representative of the \r\n                                              National Teachers'' Training \r\n                                              Council 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                                              (h) a representative of the \r\n                                              Department of Social Welfare,</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                                              a representative of the Ministry \r\n                                              responsible for Information,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) three persons representing the \r\n                                              religious bodies in Ghana \r\n                                              appointed in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Education \r\n                                              acting on the advice of the \r\n                                              religious bodies,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) the Director of Library \r\n                                              Services,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for Cultural \r\n                                              Affairs,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (m) one other person appointed in \r\n                                              consultation with the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Education, 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                                              (n) a representative of the \r\n                                              Elementary School Teachers'' \r\n                                              Association nominated by the Ghana \r\n                                              National Association of Teachers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The members of the Board shall \r\n                                              hold office for two years and \r\n                                              shall 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 3&#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                                              The functions of the Board shall \r\n                                              be&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to establish, equip, manage \r\n                                              and maintain public libraries in \r\n                                              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) to take all such steps as may \r\n                                              be necessary to discharge such \r\n                                              functions; 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) to give effect to the \r\n                                              principles and provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Meetings of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) At every meeting of the Board, \r\n                                              the Chairman shall preside and in \r\n                                              his absence the members shall \r\n                                              elect a Chairman from among the \r\n                                              number of members present at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) Every question \r\n                                              before the Board at any meeting \r\n                                              shall be decided by a majority of \r\n                                              the votes of the members present.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Eight members shall form a \r\n                                              quorum.</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 Chairman at any such \r\n                                              meeting shall have an original as \r\n                                              well as 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 Board shall meet for the \r\n                                              despatch of business at such times \r\n                                              and places as the Chairman may \r\n                                              from time to time appoint, but \r\n                                              shall meet at least once in every \r\n                                              three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Chairman may at any time, \r\n                                              and shall on the request in \r\n                                              writing of three members of the \r\n                                              Board, call a special meeting of \r\n                                              the Board. If the Chairman is \r\n                                              absent from Ghana or ill or \r\n                                              otherwise incapacitated, the \r\n                                              Director of Library Services \r\n                                              shall, on being so requested in \r\n                                              writing by three members of the \r\n                                              Board, call a special meeting of \r\n                                              the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The validity of any act of the \r\n                                              Board shall not be affected by \r\n                                              reason of the existence of any \r\n                                              vacancy among its members, or any \r\n                                              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 5&#8212;Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board may appoint special \r\n                                              committees consisting of such \r\n                                              number of persons as it may think \r\n                                              fit&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to whom it may delegate any of \r\n                                              its administrative functions, 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) to discharge any function, \r\n                                              subject to the other provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, which may be referred to \r\n                                              such committees by the 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 Officers \r\n                                              and Employees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              there shall be a Director of \r\n                                              Library Services, who shall be&#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) appointed by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Education upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as he \r\n                                              may determine with approval of the \r\n                                              Cabinet; 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) as hereinbefore provided, a \r\n                                              member of the Board and its 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) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section the \r\n                                              Board 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) from time to time appoint, \r\n                                              upon such terms and conditions \r\n                                              (including remuneration) as it may \r\n                                              think fit such officers (except \r\n                                              the Director of Library Services) \r\n                                              and employees as it may deem \r\n                                              necessary for the proper and \r\n                                              efficient conduct of the functions \r\n                                              of 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                                              (b) grant pensions, gratuities or \r\n                                              retiring allowances to any \r\n                                              officers or employees and may \r\n                                              require officers and employees to \r\n                                              contribute to any pension or \r\n                                              superannuation scheme; 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) pay travelling and other \r\n                                              allowances to its members, members \r\n                                              of Regional Advisory Committees \r\n                                              and of any other committee \r\n                                              appointed under the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act in connection with \r\n                                              attendance at meetings of the \r\n                                              Board or of such committees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The terms and conditions of \r\n                                              appointment of officers, of \r\n                                              pensions and superannuation \r\n                                              scheme, the termination of \r\n                                              appointment of officers (including \r\n                                              the said Director) and the rate of \r\n                                              travelling and other allowances \r\n                                              for members of the Board and of \r\n                                              committees appointed under this \r\n                                              Act shall in every case be subject \r\n                                              to the approval of the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Vesting of Assets, etc. \r\n                                              of Former Library Board in the New \r\n                                              Library Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All rights assets and property \r\n                                              vested in, or in any manner held \r\n                                              on behalf of or for the purposes \r\n                                              of the former Library Board \r\n                                              (hereinafter referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              former Library Board&quot;) established \r\n                                              under the Gold Coast Library Board \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 118) as \r\n                                              subsequently amended, immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act, shall, after such \r\n                                              commencement similarly vest in or \r\n                                              be held on behalf of or for the \r\n                                              purposes of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All liabilities and \r\n                                              obligations subsisting against the \r\n                                              former Library Board immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act, shall thereafter similarly \r\n                                              continue to subsist against the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every contract in respect of \r\n                                              any matter, being a contract \r\n                                              between the former Board and any \r\n                                              other party immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              thereafter similarly continue to \r\n                                              subsist between the Board and such \r\n                                              other party.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any person in the employment \r\n                                              of the former Library Board \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, shall, \r\n                                              thereafter and subject to any \r\n                                              direction given by the Government, \r\n                                              continue in the employment of the \r\n                                              Board in the post and on the terms \r\n                                              in and on which he was employed by \r\n                                              the former Library Board and shall \r\n                                              not be made to suffer arbitrary \r\n                                              dismissal.</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; Regional Advisory \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) The Board shall establish in \r\n                                              each Region of Ghana a Regional \r\n                                              Advisory Committee which shall be \r\n                                              constituted as follows:&#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 Regional Education Officer \r\n                                              or his representative, who shall \r\n                                              be 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 \r\n                                              Regional Administrative Committee;</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 Local \r\n                                              Authority in the area of authority \r\n                                              in which the Regional Library is \r\n                                              situated;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a prominent citizen normally \r\n                                              resident in the appropriate Region \r\n                                              appointed 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                                              (e) the Regional Librarian who \r\n                                              shall serve as Secretary;</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) a representative of the \r\n                                              Conference of Heads of Secondary \r\n                                              Schools;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) a representative of the \r\n                                              National Teacher Training Council;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) a representative of the Centre \r\n                                              for Civil Education; and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              a representative of the Elementary \r\n                                              School Teachers'' Association \r\n                                              nominated by the Ghana National \r\n                                              Association of Teachers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Each of the members of the \r\n                                              Regional Advisory Committee listed \r\n                                              in subsections (1) (b), (c) and \r\n                                              (d) of this section shall hold \r\n                                              office for two years and 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                                              (3) Each Regional Advisory \r\n                                              Committee shall meet at least once \r\n                                              in every three months at such \r\n                                              times and places as the Chairman \r\n                                              may appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Functions of Regional \r\n                                              Advisory Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The functions of the Regional \r\n                                              Advisory Committee shall be&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to advise on the development \r\n                                              of library services at the \r\n                                              regional level;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to encourage the use of \r\n                                              existing library services in the \r\n                                              Regions; 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) to discharge any other duties \r\n                                              that may from time to time be \r\n                                              assigned to them by the Board in \r\n                                              respect of its functions under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Funds 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 funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              include&#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 moneys raised by the Board \r\n                                              for general purposes;</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 moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Board either from the Ghana \r\n                                              Government or from any Council, \r\n                                              within the meaning of the Local \r\n                                              Government Act, 1961 (Act 54), \r\n                                              either by way of grant-in-aid or \r\n                                              endowment 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                                              (c) all charges, dues or amounts \r\n                                              received 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                                              (d) all interest on moneys \r\n                                              invested 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                                              (e) all donations accruing to the \r\n                                              Board for the general purposes of \r\n                                              the Board from any other sources; \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 moneys accruing to \r\n                                              the Board in the course of the \r\n                                              operations of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              be applied by the Board towards \r\n                                              the furtherance of its functions \r\n                                              provided for in 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 11&#8212;Payment into Bank.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All sums of money received on \r\n                                              account of the Board may be paid \r\n                                              into such bank or banks as may be \r\n                                              approved by the Board for the \r\n                                              credit of the Board''s general \r\n                                              current or deposit account, so, \r\n                                              however, that the Board may invest \r\n                                              as it deems fit, any moneys not \r\n                                              required for current use.</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;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The accounts of the Board up to \r\n                                              the 30th day of June in each year \r\n                                              shall be audited by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General or an auditor to \r\n                                              be approved by him and a copy of \r\n                                              the accounts so audited shall, not \r\n                                              later than the 30th day of \r\n                                              September next following, be \r\n                                              published in the Gazette and shall \r\n                                              thereafter be submitted to the \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              So soon as may be after the 30th \r\n                                              day of June in every year, the \r\n                                              Board shall prepare a report of \r\n                                              its activities during the year, \r\n                                              and such report shall be published \r\n                                              in such manner as the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Education may \r\n                                              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;Rules.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may make rules \r\n                                              subject to the approval of the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Education, generally for the \r\n                                              better carrying out of 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                                              (2) In particular and without \r\n                                              prejudice to the generality of the \r\n                                              foregoing, such rules may provide&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) for regulating the use of any \r\n                                              library under the management 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                                              (b) for protecting any such \r\n                                              library and the fittings, \r\n                                              furniture and contents thereof \r\n                                              from injury;</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 giving of a guarantee \r\n                                              or security by any person using \r\n                                              such library; 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) for fees and penalties to be \r\n                                              paid by any person borrowing books \r\n                                              from such library.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              rule made under the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence and shall, \r\n                                              on summary conviction, be liable \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding fifty new \r\n                                              cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Gold Coast Library Board \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 118), subsequently \r\n                                              amended is hereby repealed:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that any statutory \r\n                                              instrument made thereunder and in \r\n                                              force immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall be \r\n                                              deemed on and after such \r\n                                              commencement to be a statutory \r\n                                              instrument made under this Act, \r\n                                              unless otherwise repealed or \r\n                                              amended under this Act.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 327');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(110, 'GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE CORPORATION ACT, 1965 (ACT 310)', '<table>\n<tr>\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1287" height="64">\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1965 (ACT 310)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1965 (AMENDMENT) \n                                              DECREE, 1968 (NLCD 247)1.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1969 (AMENDMENT) \n                                              DECREE, 1969 (NLCD 391)2.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              LOCAL ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1971 \n                                              (ACT 359).3</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;1. Establishment of Corporation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;2. Objects of Corporation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;3. Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;4. Execution of functions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;5. Meetings of Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;6. Chief Executive.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;7. Corporation to be run on \n                                              practices in public utility \n                                              enterprises.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;8. Borrowing powers.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;9. Assets and reserves.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              10. Liability and responsibility.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              11. Accounts.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              12. Audit.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              13. Auditor''s report.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              14. Regulations.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              15. Relations with local \n                                              authorities, etc.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              16. Exemption from tax.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              17. Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              18. Repeal.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              19. Commencement.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND TENTH</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              THE GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1965</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to establish and \n                                              incorporate the Ghana Water and \n                                              Sewerage Corporation, to provide \n                                              for its functions and maintenance, \n                                              to repeal the Waterworks Ordinance \n                                              (Cap. 67) and to provide for \n                                              matters connected therewith or \n                                              incidental thereto.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 22nd October, 1965</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \n                                              the National Assembly in this \n                                              present Parliament assembled as \n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of \n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \n                                              body corporate to be known as the \n                                              Ghana water and Sewerage \n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall, by the \n                                              name assigned to it by subsection \n                                              (1), be a body corporate and shall \n                                              have perpetual succession and a \n                                              common seal, may sue and be sued \n                                              in such name and may for the \n                                              purposes of this Act enter into \n                                              contracts and other transactions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The Corporation shall have the \n                                              power, for the discharge of its \n                                              functions conferred by or under \n                                              this Act, to acquire and hold any \n                                              movable or immovable property and \n                                              to sell, lease, mortgage or \n                                              otherwise alienate or dispose of \n                                              any such property.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Objects of Corporation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The objects of the Corporation \n                                              shall be&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) the provision, distribution \n                                              and conservation of the supply of \n                                              water in Ghana for public, \n                                              domestic and industrial purposes; \n                                              and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the establishment, operation \n                                              and control of sewerage systems of \n                                              such purposes.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \n                                              generality of subsection (1), the \n                                              powers of the Corporation shall \n                                              include, in relation to all or any \n                                              of the aforesaid objects &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) the preparation of long-term \n                                              plans in consultation with the \n                                              appropriate co-ordinating \n                                              authority established by the \n                                              President;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the conduct of research \n                                              relative to water, sewerage, and \n                                              connected subjects;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) the making of engineering \n                                              surveys and plans;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) the construction and operation \n                                              of works;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) the setting of standards \n                                              relative to water supply and \n                                              sewerage in collaboration with \n                                              appropriate authorities selected \n                                              for the purposes of this Act by \n                                              the President;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) the determination of adequate \n                                              rates, charges or fees, and \n                                              effective methods for collection \n                                              thereof, for water and sewerage \n                                              services furnished to all classes \n                                              of users; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) the conduct of other related \n                                              or incidental activities.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) For the purpose of carrying \n                                              out any of its objects the \n                                              Corporation may, by its officers, \n                                              other employees or agents&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) after giving notice to the \n                                              owner or occupier of any land or \n                                              premises, enter upon any such land \n                                              or premises and thereon dig \n                                              trenches, lay pipes and do other \n                                              acts reasonably necessary for \n                                              carrying out such objects; and\n                                              </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) enter any road or place to \n                                              which the public have access for \n                                              carrying out such objects:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that the Corporation \n                                              shall do as little damage as \n                                              possible in the exercise of its \n                                              powers under this section, and \n                                              shall compensate for any damage \n                                              caused by the exercise of such \n                                              powers, and the liability for, and \n                                              the amount of, the compensation \n                                              shall, in case of difference, be \n                                              settled in accordance with the \n                                              provisions of the Arbitration Act, \n                                              1961 (Act 38).</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The governing body of the \n                                              Corporation shall be a Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Board shall consist of&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) a chairman who shall be \n                                              appointed by the National \n                                              Liberation Council,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the person appointed as the \n                                              Managing Director of the \n                                              Corporation by National Liberation \n                                              Council, or his representative,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) the Principal Secretary of the \n                                              Ministry responsible for the \n                                              Corporation, or his \n                                              representative,</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) the Principal Secretary of the \n                                              Ministry of Economic Affairs, or \n                                              his representative, and </span>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) three other persons all of \n                                              whom shall be appointed by the \n                                              National Liberation Council. [As \n                                              substituted by teh Ghana Water and \n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \n                                              391) s(1) ].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3)&nbsp; The Chairman and members of \n                                              the Board appointed under \n                                              subsection (2)(e) of this section \n                                              shall hold office for three \n                                              years.&nbsp; The appointment of such \n                                              members may be renewed from time \n                                              to time. [As substituted by the \n                                              Ghana Water and Sewerage \n                                              Corporation Act, 1965 (Amendment) \n                                              Decree, 1969 (NLCD 391) (2)].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) No person shall be qualified \n                                              to be a member of the Board who is \n                                              a member of any assembly or other \n                                              body having for the time being \n                                              authority to enact laws which have \n                                              effect throughout Ghana.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) No person shall be qualified \n                                              to be a member of the Board if \n                                              having been declared as insolvent \n                                              or a bankrupt under any law in \n                                              force in Ghana or in any other \n                                              country is an undischarged \n                                              insolvent or bankrupt.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) The Chairman and the members \n                                              of the Board appointed under \n                                              subsection (2) (e) of this section \n                                              shall be persons who have had \n                                              experience of, and have \n                                              demonstrated competence in one or \n                                              more of the following fields, that \n                                              is to say, public utility \n                                              operation and practice, industry, \n                                              trade, finance, science and \n                                              administration, and no such person \n                                              shall be an employee of the \n                                              Corporation and not more than one \n                                              of such persons shall be a person \n                                              employed by the Government. [As \n                                              inserted by Ghana Water and \n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act 1965 \n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \n                                              391) s. (3)].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The Board may pay to its \n                                              members other than the Managing \n                                              Director, such subsistence, \n                                              travelling and other allowances at \n                                              such rates as the Minister may \n                                              approve.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) So to do of any member of the \n                                              Board, other than the Managing \n                                              Director, may be terminated at any \n                                              time by the President if he is of \n                                              opinion that it is in the interest \n                                              of the Corporation so to do. The \n                                              Managing Director shall be \n                                              appointed for such period and on \n                                              such terms and conditions as the \n                                              President may think fit. [As \n                                              amended by the Ghana Water and \n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \n                                              391) s. (4)].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6) The Chairman and any member of \n                                              the Board appointed under \n                                              subsection (2) (e) of this \n                                              section, may resign his office by \n                                              notice in writing addressed to the \n                                              National Liberation Council and \n                                              any such person may be removed \n                                              from office by the National \n                                              Liberation Council&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) if he becomes a person of \n                                              unsound mind;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) if he is declared insolvent or \n                                              bankrupt under any law in force in \n                                              Ghana or in any other country;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) if he suspends payment or \n                                              compounds with his creditors;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) if he is absent from three \n                                              consecutive meetings of the Board \n                                              without such reason as would \n                                              appear to the National Liberation \n                                              Council to be sufficient;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) if he is sentenced to death or \n                                              to imprisonment for a term \n                                              exceeding twelve months without \n                                              the option&nbsp; of a fine or is \n                                              convicted of an offence involving \n                                              dishonesty;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) if he is guilty of serious \n                                              misconduct in relation to his \n                                              duties as Chairman or member of \n                                              the Board; or</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) if in the case of a person \n                                              possessed of professional \n                                              qualifications, he is disqualified \n                                              or suspended, otherwise than at \n                                              his own request, from practising \n                                              his profession in Ghana or in any \n                                              other country by order of any \n                                              competent authority made in \n                                              respect of him personally. [As \n                                              substituted by the Ghana Water and \n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \n                                              391) s.(5)].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6A) Where the office of the \n                                              Chairman or a member of the Board \n                                              appointed under subsection (2) (e) \n                                              of this section becomes vacant \n                                              before expiration of his term of \n                                              office as prescribed under \n                                              subsection (3) of this section (as \n                                              amended) the National Liberation \n                                              Council shall without prejudice to \n                                              the provisions of subsection (7) \n                                              of this section appoint another \n                                              person in his place and to hold \n                                              office for the unexpired portion \n                                              of his term of office.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6B) Where it appears to the \n                                              National Liberation Council that \n                                              any member of the Board is unable, \n                                              owing to his absence from Ghana, \n                                              or illness or any other sufficient \n                                              cause, to perform the duties of \n                                              his office under this Act, the \n                                              National Liberation Council may \n                                              appoint another person to hold \n                                              office in his place until such \n                                              time as the National Liberation \n                                              Council is satisfied that the \n                                              member is able to perform his \n                                              duties or until the term of such \n                                              member expires, whichever first \n                                              occurs. [As inserted by the Ghana \n                                              Water and Sewerage Corporation \n                                              Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1969 \n                                              (NLCD 391) s.(5)]. </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (7) Every member shall, on ceasing \n                                              to be a member, be eligible for \n                                              re-appointment.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Execution of Functions.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Corporation shall be \n                                              responsible for the execution of \n                                              its functions in accordance with \n                                              the provisions of this Act, being \n                                              guided by the Minister in matters \n                                              of general policy.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings of Board.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Board shall meet for the \n                                              despatch of its business at such \n                                              times and at such places as the \n                                              Chairman thereof may appoint, so, \n                                              however, that the Board shall meet \n                                              at least once every month.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) At every meeting of the Board \n                                              at which he is present, the \n                                              Chairman shall preside and in his \n                                              absence, a member of the Board \n                                              appointed by the members present \n                                              from among themselves, shall \n                                              preside.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) Questions proposed at a \n                                              meeting of the Board shall be \n                                              determined by a simple majority of \n                                              members present and voting and in \n                                              the event of an equality of votes \n                                              the person presiding shall have a \n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The quorum at any meeting of \n                                              the Board shall be four.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (5) The Board may make bye-laws or \n                                              other instruments, not \n                                              inconsistent with this Act for the \n                                              purpose of regulating its business \n                                              or any other matter falling within \n                                              the scope of its functions.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (6) The Board may, at any time, \n                                              co-opt any person or persons to \n                                              act as adviser or advisers at any \n                                              of its meetings, so, however, that \n                                              no person so co-opted shall be \n                                              entitled to vote at any such \n                                              meeting on any matter for decision \n                                              by the Board.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (7) The validity of any \n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \n                                              its members or by any defect in \n                                              the appointment of any of them.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Chief&nbsp; Executive.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Subject to such directions as may \n                                              be given by the Board on matters \n                                              of general policy, the Managing \n                                              Director thereof shall be the \n                                              chief executive officer of the \n                                              Corporation and shall, subject to \n                                              such directions, be charged with \n                                              the conduct of its business, its \n                                              administration and organisation, \n                                              and with the selection, control, \n                                              and dismissal of all the staff and \n                                              employees of the Corporation and \n                                              with the determination of their \n                                              conditions of service.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Corporation to be run on \n                                              Practice in Public Utility \n                                              Enterprises.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Corporation shall cause its \n                                              affairs to be managed in \n                                              accordance with the practices \n                                              observed in public utility \n                                              enterprises and in particular \n                                              shall cause its functions under \n                                              this Act to be carried out so as \n                                              to ensure that, taking one year \n                                              with another, its revenues are \n                                              equal to or greater than its \n                                              outgoings.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Borrowing Powers.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Corporation may obtain \n                                              loans and other credit facilities \n                                              on the guarantee of the Government \n                                              from the National Investment Bank \n                                              or from such other Bank as the \n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \n                                              may approve.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Apart from the powers of the \n                                              Corporation under subsection (1) \n                                              of this section, the Corporation \n                                              may, with the prior approval of \n                                              the Minister responsible for \n                                              Finance, borrow money from any \n                                              other source.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) For the purposes of any \n                                              technical arrangements in \n                                              connection with the raising of any \n                                              loan under subsection (2) of this \n                                              section, the Corporation shall, if \n                                              the National Investment Bank \n                                              agrees, use the services of that \n                                              Bank.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Assets and Reserves.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) There shall be vested in the \n                                              Corporation such assets as may be \n                                              transferred to the Corporation by \n                                              the Minister by executive \n                                              instrument and such other assets \n                                              as may be transferred to it by \n                                              other persons.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Corporation may receive \n                                              grants from the Government for \n                                              development and as working \n                                              capital.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The Corporation shall \n                                              establish and maintain by annual \n                                              payments from its earnings a \n                                              depreciation fund for the \n                                              replacement of fixed assets which \n                                              become worn out or become \n                                              obsolete, and shall establish such \n                                              capital sinking funds as may be \n                                              required for expansion and \n                                              development financing.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Liability and \n                                              Responsibility.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall be \n                                              responsible for such liabilities \n                                              and contracts as may have been \n                                              incurred or entered into by any \n                                              other person or authority before \n                                              the date of the commencement of \n                                              this Act in respect of any object \n                                              of the Corporation and specified \n                                              in an executive instrument made by \n                                              the Minister under this subsection \n                                              and any matters relating to such \n                                              liabilities and contracts shall be \n                                              carried out on and after that date \n                                              by the Corporation as if the \n                                              Corporation were such other person \n                                              or authority.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall continue \n                                              in employment any employees of \n                                              such other person or authority on \n                                              and after that date on such terms \n                                              and conditions as may be fixed by \n                                              the Corporation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Accounts.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall keep \n                                              proper books of account and proper \n                                              records in relation thereto.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Subject to such directions as \n                                              to form as the Minister \n                                              responsible for Finance, and the \n                                              Minister may jointly give, the \n                                              Corporation shall prepare, in \n                                              respect of each financial year, a \n                                              statement of accounts which shall \n                                              include&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) a balance sheet, a statement \n                                              of income and expenditure and a \n                                              statement containing such \n                                              information as had the Corporation \n                                              been a company registered under \n                                              the Companies Code (Act 179) would \n                                              be required to be laid before the \n                                              company by the directors at an \n                                              annual meeting; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) such other information in \n                                              respect of the financial affairs \n                                              of the Corporation as the Minister \n                                              or the Minister responsible for \n                                              Finance may require.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (3) The Corporation shall, as soon \n                                              as possible, but within three \n                                              months after the termination of \n                                              each financial year, submit an \n                                              annual report to the Minister, in \n                                              such form as the Minister may \n                                              prescribe, which shall include the \n                                              statements of account specified in \n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \n                                              the Minister shall as soon as \n                                              practicable lay the report before \n                                              the National Assembly.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (4) The Corporation shall submit \n                                              to the Minister such report of its \n                                              financial affairs as the Minister \n                                              may at any time require.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Audit.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The books and accounts of the \n                                              Corporation shall be audited each \n                                              year by the Auditor-General or an \n                                              auditor appointed by him.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Auditor-General shall, not \n                                              later than three months after the \n                                              termination of each financial year \n                                              forward to the Minister a copy of \n                                              the audited accounts of the \n                                              Corporation for the financial year \n                                              immediately preceding.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Auditor''s Report.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) The Auditor-General or the \n                                              auditor appointed by him shall \n                                              report annually to the Minister \n                                              the result of his examination of \n                                              the accounts and financial \n                                              statement of the Corporation, and \n                                              the report shall state whether in \n                                              his opinion&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) proper books of accounts have \n                                              been kept by the Corporation;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) the financial statement of the \n                                              Corporation &#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \n                                              was prepared on a basis consistent \n                                              with that of the preceding year \n                                              and is in agreement with the books \n                                              of accounts;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (ii) in the case of the balance \n                                              sheet, give a true and fair view \n                                              of the state of the Corporation''s \n                                              affairs as at the end of the \n                                              financial year; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (iii) in the case of the statement \n                                              of income and expenses, gives a \n                                              true and fair view of the income \n                                              and expenses or profit and loss of \n                                              the Corporation for the financial \n                                              year;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              and the Auditor-General or the \n                                              auditor appointed by him shall \n                                              call the attention of the Minister \n                                              to any other matter falling within \n                                              the scope of his examination \n                                              which, in his opinion, should be \n                                              brought to the attention of the \n                                              National Assembly.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Auditor-General or the \n                                              auditor appointed by him, shall \n                                              from time to time make to the \n                                              Corporation or to the Minister \n                                              such other reports as he may deem \n                                              necessary or as the Minister \n                                              responsible for Finance or the \n                                              Minister may require.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Board may, with the approval \n                                              of the Minister, by legislative \n                                              instrument, make regulations&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (a) in respect of such matters as \n                                              are required under this Act to be \n                                              prescribed;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (b) fixing water rates, sewerage \n                                              charges, and other fees necessary \n                                              for giving effect to any matter \n                                              specified in this Act;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (c) for the prevention of the \n                                              waste of water;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (d) for the suspension of water \n                                              supply;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (e) for the prevention of the \n                                              pollution of water;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (f) for the inspection of any \n                                              appliances whereby or in \n                                              connection with which water is \n                                              supplied or sewerage systems are \n                                              established;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (g) for the conditions of service \n                                              of the staff of the Corporation, \n                                              including conditions for the \n                                              establishment of a Provident Fund \n                                              or Pension Fund Scheme; and</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (h) for any other matter for \n                                              carrying out the principles and \n                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Relations with Local \n                                              Authorities, Etc.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) A council within the meaning \n                                              of the Local Administration Act, \n                                              1971 (Act 359) shall exercise any \n                                              object conferred or deemed to be \n                                              conferred under that Act, subject \n                                              to such directions as may be given \n                                              by the Corporation, if such object \n                                              is connected with or incidental to \n                                              an object of the Corporation \n                                              specified in section 2 of this \n                                              Act.[As amended by the Local \n                                              Administration Act, 1971 (Act \n                                              359), sch. to s.118]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall have \n                                              preference over other authorities \n                                              in the use of water resources for \n                                              public, domestic and industrial \n                                              purposes and if there is any doubt \n                                              as to the meaning of the \n                                              expression &quot;public, domestic and \n                                              industrial purposes&quot; in section 2 \n                                              of this Act, such doubt shall be \n                                              resolved by the Minister whose \n                                              decision shall be final.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Exemption from Tax.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Corporation shall be exempt \n                                              from the payment of income tax or \n                                              any other prescribed tax.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In this Act unless the context \n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Corporation&quot; means the \n                                              Corporation established under \n                                              section 1 of this Act; </span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &nbsp;''financial year'' means the \n                                              financial year of the Government. \n                                              [As substituted by the Ghana Water \n                                              and Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \n                                              (Amendment)&nbsp; Decree, 1968 (NLCD \n                                              247) s. 1].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister to \n                                              whom the functions under this Act \n                                              have been assigned by the \n                                              President.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) Notwithstanding anything in \n                                              the principal enactment before the \n                                              commencement of this Decree the \n                                              period beginning with the \n                                              commencement of the principal \n                                              enactment and ending on the 31st \n                                              day of December, 1966 shall for \n                                              all purposes be deemed to have \n                                              been the first financial year of \n                                              the Water and Sewerage \n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) For the purposes of the \n                                              definition of the financial year \n                                              of the said Corporation as \n                                              substituted by paragraph 1 of this \n                                              Decree the period beginning with \n                                              the 1st day of January, 1968 and \n                                              ending on the 30th day of June, \n                                              1968 shall be deemed to be a \n                                              financial year. [Inserted and to \n                                              be cited as Ghana Water and \n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \n                                              247) s.2].</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              The Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 67) \n                                              is hereby repealed:</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Provided that any statutory \n                                              instrument made under that \n                                              Ordinance, and in force on the day \n                                              immediately before the date of \n                                              commencement of this Act shall, \n                                              until such instrument is amended \n                                              or rescinded, continue in force \n                                              under the corresponding provisions \n                                              of this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act shall come into force on \n                                              such date as may be fixed by the \n                                              President by legislative \n                                              instrument.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n          ', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 310');
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(111, 'GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 (ACT 324)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1294" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1970 \r\n                                              (ACT 324)</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 the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Membership of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Functions of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Terms of membership</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Meetings of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Staff</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Funds of the Board</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Accounts and audit</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Remuneration</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Power to make legislative \r\n                                              instrument</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. 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: 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 \r\n                                              TWENTY-FOURTH</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 GRAINS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, \r\n                                              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 and \r\n                                              incorporate the Grains Development \r\n                                              Board, to provide for its \r\n                                              functions and maintenance and to \r\n                                              provide for connected or \r\n                                              incidental matters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT : 17th 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 the \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) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate which shall be \r\n                                              known as the Grains Development \r\n                                              Board (hereinafter referred to as \r\n                                              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 its \r\n                                              corporate name.</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                                              property and to dispose of such \r\n                                              property and to enter into any \r\n                                              contract or other transactions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where there is any hindrance \r\n                                              to the acquisition of any property \r\n                                              under subsection (3) of this \r\n                                              section, the property may be \r\n                                              acquired for the Board under the \r\n                                              State Property and Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (C.A. 6) or as the case may \r\n                                              be, under the State Lands Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 125) and each such Act \r\n                                              shall, as the case may be, apply \r\n                                              with respect to any such \r\n                                              acquisition with such modification \r\n                                              as may be necessary to provide for \r\n                                              the vesting of the property \r\n                                              acquired thereunder in the Board \r\n                                              and for the cost of such \r\n                                              acquisition to be defrayed 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 2&#8212;Membership 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&#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) the person appointed Executive \r\n                                              Secretary under section 6 of this \r\n                                              Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Agriculture;</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) four other members to be \r\n                                              appointed from among farming, \r\n                                              business, financial, consumer and \r\n                                              other interests whose \r\n                                              representation on the Board may be \r\n                                              found necessary by the Board; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) two other members to be \r\n                                              appointed from farmers'' \r\n                                              associations organised in \r\n                                              accordance with subsection (1)(b) \r\n                                              of section 3 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All members of the Board \r\n                                              including the Chairman shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              on the advice of 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 3&#8212;Functions 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 functions of the Board \r\n                                              shall be&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to undertake the \r\n                                              multiplication of improved seeds \r\n                                              and their supply to farmers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to organise grain and legume \r\n                                              farmers and farmers'' associations \r\n                                              through which credit and \r\n                                              production requisites can be \r\n                                              channelled to the producers, and \r\n                                              to assist the farmers'' \r\n                                              associations to market their \r\n                                              produce until such time as they \r\n                                              can manage most of the services \r\n                                              themselves;</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 creation of marketing \r\n                                              facilities for grain and legumes \r\n                                              crops;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) to collect statistical data on \r\n                                              grains and legumes for the purpose \r\n                                              of planning the production of \r\n                                              these crops to meet local demands \r\n                                              and for export; 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) to co-ordinate and assist \r\n                                              research into problems of grains \r\n                                              and legumes and the organisation \r\n                                              of extension work on them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Board shall \r\n                                              have power to 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) to develop lands suitable for \r\n                                              large scale production of grain \r\n                                              and legume crops, and give them \r\n                                              out in viable farm units to \r\n                                              farmers on such conditions of \r\n                                              tenure that will help the Board to \r\n                                              achieve its objects and assure the \r\n                                              farmers of security of tenure; 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) to mobilise funds from local \r\n                                              and foreign sources for the \r\n                                              purpose of running &quot;small credit&quot; \r\n                                              schemes for the farmers'' \r\n                                              associations that produce grains \r\n                                              and legumes.</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;Terms of Membership.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chairman and members of \r\n                                              the Board shall hold office for \r\n                                              three years and shall be eligible \r\n                                              for re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member, including the \r\n                                              Chairman may resign his&nbsp; \r\n                                              membership of the Board by notice \r\n                                              in writing addressed to the \r\n                                              President through the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) 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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings 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 ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such times and places as the \r\n                                              Chairman may decide but shall meet \r\n                                              at least once in every month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman may, and shall on \r\n                                              request in writing of not less \r\n                                              than five members of the Board, \r\n                                              call an extraordinary meeting of \r\n                                              the Board at such time and place \r\n                                              as he may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman if present, shall \r\n                                              preside at every meeting of the \r\n                                              Board, and in his absence any \r\n                                              member of the Board designated by \r\n                                              the Chairman shall preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) If no member of the Board is \r\n                                              so designated the members of the \r\n                                              Board present shall elect one of \r\n                                              their number to preside at the \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The quorum at every meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to other provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, all questions proposed \r\n                                              at a meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              the members present and voting and \r\n                                              where the votes are equal the \r\n                                              Chairman or the person presiding \r\n                                              shall have a second or casting \r\n                                              vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The Board may, and shall, if \r\n                                              the Minister thinks fit, request \r\n                                              the attendance of any person to \r\n                                              act as adviser at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board and that person while so \r\n                                              attending shall have all the \r\n                                              powers of a member except that he \r\n                                              is not to vote on any question and \r\n                                              his presence at the meeting is not \r\n                                              to count towards the constitution \r\n                                              of a quorum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The validity of any act or \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \r\n                                              its members or any defect in the \r\n                                              appointment of a member thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) Subject to the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this section the \r\n                                              Board may regulate its own \r\n                                              procedure.</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;Staff.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may, subject to such \r\n                                              limitation as to number as may be \r\n                                              imposed on it by the Minister, \r\n                                              appoint and employ such officers \r\n                                              and staff including the Executive \r\n                                              Secretary as it may think \r\n                                              necessary for the proper discharge \r\n                                              of its functions under this Act \r\n                                              and there shall be paid to such \r\n                                              officers and staff such salaries \r\n                                              or remuneration as the Minister \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance, \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Public officers with suitable \r\n                                              qualifications may be transferred \r\n                                              or seconded to the Board upon such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister, determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Board may also engage the \r\n                                              services of such consultants, \r\n                                              advisers and other persons and \r\n                                              upon such conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may, in consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister 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 7&#8212;Funds 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 funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              include&#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 grants received from the \r\n                                              Government by the Board for the \r\n                                              discharge of its 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) any loans granted to the Board \r\n                                              by the Government or any other \r\n                                              body or person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any money accruing to the \r\n                                              Board in the course of the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \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 gifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All moneys received by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the Board shall be \r\n                                              deposited to the credit of the \r\n                                              Board in a bank approved 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 8&#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 Board shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of accounts and prepare \r\n                                              proper records in relation thereto \r\n                                              all of which shall be in such form \r\n                                              as the Auditor-General may \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall submit to the \r\n                                              Minister such report of the \r\n                                              Board''s financial affairs as the \r\n                                              Minister may at any time require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Board shall be submitted to the \r\n                                              Auditor-General within three \r\n                                              months after the end of every \r\n                                              financial year and the \r\n                                              Auditor-General shall cause them \r\n                                              to be audited as required by \r\n                                              article 135 of the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Auditor-General may make \r\n                                              to the Board or to the Minister \r\n                                              such reports as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may consider \r\n                                              necessary.</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;Remuneration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No remuneration shall be paid to a \r\n                                              member of the Board by reason of \r\n                                              his membership of the Board, but a \r\n                                              member shall be reimbursed for \r\n                                              travelling, transport and \r\n                                              subsistence expenses approved by \r\n                                              the Board and incurred by him in \r\n                                              attending a meeting of the Board \r\n                                              or an authorised conference abroad \r\n                                              on behalf of the 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;Power to make \r\n                                              Legislative Instrument.</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 such provision not \r\n                                              inconsistent with this Act, as \r\n                                              appears to him to be necessary to \r\n                                              give effect to the provisions and \r\n                                              principles of this Act and may \r\n                                              include in any such instrument \r\n                                              provisions relating to any matter \r\n                                              falling within the scope of the \r\n                                              functions of the 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 11&#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&#8212;</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&nbsp; Agriculture.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Financial year&quot; means the \r\n                                              financial year of the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 324');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(112, 'HOSPITAL FEES ACT, 1971 (ACT 387)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1298" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial">HOSPITAL \r\n                                              FEES ACT, 1971 (ACT 387)</font></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF \r\n                                              SECTIONS</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;1. Hospital \r\n                                              Fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;2. General \r\n                                              exemptions from hospital fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;3. Exemptions \r\n                                              for particular services</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;4. Exemptions \r\n                                              for particular classes of persons</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;5. Increased \r\n                                              fees payable in certain cases</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;6. Persons \r\n                                              liable to pay fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;7. Manner of \r\n                                              payment of fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;8. Recovery of \r\n                                              fees</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;9. Evidence</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">10. False \r\n                                              representations</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">11. Regulations</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">12. \r\n                                              Interpretation</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">13. Repeals</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">14. \r\n                                              Commencement.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial">THE THREE \r\n                                              HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVENTH</font></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b><font face="Arial">ACT OF THE \r\n                                              PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF \r\n                                              GHANA</font></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ENTITLED</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">THE HOSPITAL \r\n                                              FEES ACT,&nbsp; 1971</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">AN ACT&nbsp; to \r\n                                              regulate the fees payable in \r\n                                              respect of hospital services, and \r\n                                              for matters connected therewith.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">DATE OF ASSENT: \r\n                                              6th October, 1971</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">BE IT ENACTED&nbsp; \r\n                                              by the President and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              1&#8212;Hospital Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, any \r\n                                              person who receives services at a \r\n                                              hospital shall pay for those \r\n                                              services the prescribed basic \r\n                                              fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Except as \r\n                                              provided by this Act and \r\n                                              regulations made thereunder, no \r\n                                              person shall be liable to pay any \r\n                                              fees in respect of services \r\n                                              rendered to him in a hospital.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              2&#8212;General Exemptions from Hospital \r\n                                              Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">No fees shall \r\n                                              be paid in respect of services \r\n                                              rendered in a hospital to&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) any person \r\n                                              certified in writing by a medical \r\n                                              officer to be unable to pay those \r\n                                              fees on the ground of poverty;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) any person \r\n                                              suffering from such disease or \r\n                                              condition as may be prescribed;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) any pupil \r\n                                              or student receiving full-time \r\n                                              education in a recognised \r\n                                              institution;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(d) any \r\n                                              prescribed class of persons \r\n                                              working or studying within the \r\n                                              Health Service;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(e) any person \r\n                                              requested by the medical officer \r\n                                              concerned to attend or come to a \r\n                                              hospital for admission for the \r\n                                              purpose of teaching;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(f) any person \r\n                                              for the time being in lawful \r\n                                              custody;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(g) any \r\n                                              certified psychiatric patient;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(h) any other \r\n                                              prescribed class of persons.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              3&#8212;Exemptions for Particular \r\n                                              Services.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid in respect of any \r\n                                              medical examination or report \r\n                                              required by any department of \r\n                                              state, or in connection with the \r\n                                              official duties of any employee of \r\n                                              a department of state, or in \r\n                                              connection with the entry of any \r\n                                              person into a department of state \r\n                                              or his departure therefrom.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person \r\n                                              receiving medical attention in a \r\n                                              hospital in respect of any medical \r\n                                              report relating to him.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person in \r\n                                              respect of any prescribed \r\n                                              laboratory examination carried out \r\n                                              on him during out-patient \r\n                                              attendance.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person in \r\n                                              respect of X-ray films taken for \r\n                                              the purposes of tuberculosis \r\n                                              control.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(5) No fees \r\n                                              shall be paid by any person other \r\n                                              than a non-resident alien&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) in respect \r\n                                              of any casualty treatment given \r\n                                              which does not involve admission \r\n                                              into hospital; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) in respect \r\n                                              of treatment involving splints or \r\n                                              other similar appliances.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              4&#8212;Exemptions for Particular \r\n                                              Classes of Persons.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) No fees \r\n                                              other than the fees prescribed for \r\n                                              accommodation and maintenance \r\n                                              shall be paid in respect of \r\n                                              services rendered in a hospital \r\n                                              to&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) any person \r\n                                              who is not gainfully employed and \r\n                                              who is under the age of eighteen \r\n                                              years or over the age of \r\n                                              sixty-five years;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) any person \r\n                                              other than a non-resident alien in \r\n                                              respect of ante-natal care at a \r\n                                              health post, rural health centre \r\n                                              or clinic, or any other hospital \r\n                                              specified by the Director of \r\n                                              Medical Services by notice \r\n                                              published in the Gazette;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) any \r\n                                              maternity patient who has had four \r\n                                              or more child births;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(d) any \r\n                                              maternity patient referred to a \r\n                                              hospital from a clinic or health \r\n                                              centre;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(e) any \r\n                                              maternity patient referred to a \r\n                                              hospital by a registered midwife \r\n                                              or registered medical \r\n                                              practitioner.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) No fees in \r\n                                              respect of accommodation or \r\n                                              maintenance shall be paid where \r\n                                              any person referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) is exempted from \r\n                                              such payment by any provision of \r\n                                              section 2.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) \r\n                                              Notwithstanding the provisions of \r\n                                              subsections (1) and (2) of this \r\n                                              section where a patient requests \r\n                                              for special amenities such patient \r\n                                              shall pay such fees as may be \r\n                                              prescribed.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              5&#8212;Increased Fees Payable in \r\n                                              Certain Cases.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Where services \r\n                                              are rendered in a hospital to any \r\n                                              person who is&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a) a private \r\n                                              patient; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(b) a \r\n                                              non-resident alien; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(c) a member of \r\n                                              the diplomatic staff of a country \r\n                                              which does not give reciprocal \r\n                                              medical coverage to Ghanaian \r\n                                              diplomatic staff accredited to \r\n                                              that country or Ghanaians resident \r\n                                              in that country; or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(d) the wife or \r\n                                              child of a person referred to in \r\n                                              paragraph (c),</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">and such person \r\n                                              is liable to pay any fee under the \r\n                                              foregoing provisions of this Act, \r\n                                              the fee payable shall be not less \r\n                                              than such fee as shall be payable \r\n                                              by a Ghanaian diplomat accredited \r\n                                              to or resident in the country of \r\n                                              that person.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              6&#8212;Persons Liable to Pay Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Subject to \r\n                                              the provision of this section, the \r\n                                              person liable to pay any fee under \r\n                                              this Act shall be the person in \r\n                                              respect of whom the service was \r\n                                              rendered.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) \r\n                                              Notwithstanding subsection (1), \r\n                                              where it is a term in the \r\n                                              conditions of service of any \r\n                                              person employed by the Government \r\n                                              that such person shall be entitled \r\n                                              to receive any free medical \r\n                                              attention, such person shall to \r\n                                              that extent not be liable for the \r\n                                              payment of fees under this Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              7&#8212;Manner of Payment of Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) The fees \r\n                                              payable under this Act shall be \r\n                                              paid to the hospital revenue \r\n                                              officer at the hospital where the \r\n                                              fees were incurred, upon the issue \r\n                                              by that officer of a bill \r\n                                              specifying the fees to be paid.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              hospital revenue officer shall \r\n                                              issue an official receipt to every \r\n                                              person making a payment under this \r\n                                              Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) Any \r\n                                              hospital revenue officer who \r\n                                              fails, at the time of receiving a \r\n                                              payment under this Act, to issue \r\n                                              an official receipt to the person \r\n                                              making that payment, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding two thousand new cedis \r\n                                              or to imprisonment not exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months or to both.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              8&#8212;Recovery of Fees.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">A hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer or any other \r\n                                              person appointed by the Minister \r\n                                              may sue for the recovery of any \r\n                                              fees payable under this Act which \r\n                                              are unpaid together with any costs \r\n                                              properly incurred.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              9&#8212;Evidence.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">In any \r\n                                              proceedings for the recovery of \r\n                                              any fees payable under this Act, \r\n                                              an account signed by the hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer setting out the \r\n                                              amount claimed from the defendant \r\n                                              in the proceedings shall be \r\n                                              admissible in evidence without \r\n                                              proof of the signature, and shall \r\n                                              be prima facie evidence of the \r\n                                              amount due.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              10&#8212;False Representations.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) Any person \r\n                                              who by a false representation \r\n                                              obtains without payment or at a \r\n                                              reduced rate of payment any \r\n                                              medicine, surgical appliance, \r\n                                              attendance or treatment at a \r\n                                              hospital shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on conviction \r\n                                              to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred new cedis.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Any person \r\n                                              who commits any of the acts \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall, whether or not he is \r\n                                              prosecuted, be liable to pay for \r\n                                              such medicine, surgical appliance, \r\n                                              attendance or treatment at the \r\n                                              prescribed rates, and in respect \r\n                                              of such payment shall not be \r\n                                              entitled to the benefit of any \r\n                                              exemption under this Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              11&#8212;Regulations.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">The Minister \r\n                                              may with the approval of the \r\n                                              Cabinet by legislative instrument \r\n                                              make regulations prescribing \r\n                                              anything that is to be prescribed \r\n                                              for the purposes of this Act, \r\n                                              granting further exemptions in \r\n                                              respect of any class of persons or \r\n                                              any form of treatment, or \r\n                                              otherwise for giving effect to the \r\n                                              provisions and purposes of this \r\n                                              Act.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              12&#8212;Interpretation.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) In this \r\n                                              Act,&#8212;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;department of \r\n                                              state&quot; includes the Civil Service, \r\n                                              the Judicial Service, the Teaching \r\n                                              Service, the Police Service, the \r\n                                              Prisons Service, the Armed Forces \r\n                                              of Ghana, and any other prescribed \r\n                                              service;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;hospital&quot; \r\n                                              means any government-controlled \r\n                                              hospital, dispensary, health \r\n                                              centre, clinic, mental or \r\n                                              psychiatric hospital or other \r\n                                              government medical institution at \r\n                                              which medical treatment is \r\n                                              available;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;hospital \r\n                                              revenue officer&quot; means the officer \r\n                                              responsible for the collection of \r\n                                              fees at a hospital;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;medical \r\n                                              officer concerned&quot; means a medical \r\n                                              officer wholly or partly \r\n                                              responsible for the medical care \r\n                                              of a patient at a hospital;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;Minister&quot; \r\n                                              means the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Health;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;non-resident \r\n                                              alien&quot; means an alien who does not \r\n                                              have a residence permit entitling \r\n                                              him to remain in Ghana for six \r\n                                              months or more, or who is not \r\n                                              lawfully exempted from having a \r\n                                              residence permit;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;prescribed&quot; \r\n                                              means prescribed by regulations \r\n                                              made under section 11;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;private \r\n                                              patient&quot; means a patient who \r\n                                              requests and is prepared to pay \r\n                                              for special attention and \r\n                                              amenities in lieu of the attention \r\n                                              and amenities ordinarily \r\n                                              appropriate to his case;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;special \r\n                                              amenities&quot; means the accommodation \r\n                                              and maintenance of a patient in a \r\n                                              ward designated by the Director of \r\n                                              Medical Services as an amenity \r\n                                              ward, in which the patient enjoys \r\n                                              personal facilities for washing \r\n                                              and toilet and where special diets \r\n                                              and other facilities are provided \r\n                                              at extra cost.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where there \r\n                                              is any doubt as to whether an \r\n                                              institution at which treatment is \r\n                                              available is government-controlled \r\n                                              so as to be a &quot;hospital&quot; within \r\n                                              the meaning of this Act, the \r\n                                              Director of Medical Services, \r\n                                              after consultation with the \r\n                                              Minister, may resolve such doubt \r\n                                              by notice published in the \r\n                                              Gazette.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              13&#8212;Repeals.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">The Hospital \r\n                                              Fees Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. 360) \r\n                                              and the Hospital Fees Decree, 1969 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Act, 1970 (Act 325) \r\n                                              are hereby repealed.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Section \r\n                                              14&#8212;Commencement.</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">This Act shall \r\n                                              be deemed to come into force on \r\n                                              the 1st day of October, 1971.</font></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 387');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(113, 'LIQUOR LICENSING ACT, 1970 (ACT 331)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1300" 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                                              LIQUOR LICENSING ACT, 1970 (ACT \r\n                                              331)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;MANUFACTURE OF SPIRITS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Licence to manufacture spirits</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Inspection of stills</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SALE OF SPIRITS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Licence to sell spirits</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Akpeteshie</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Stock book to be kept</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Invoices</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Storage of spirits</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;SALE OF WINE AND BEER</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Licence to sell wine and beer</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Young persons to be excluded</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Power to demand name and \r\n                                              address</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Police Officers</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Offences</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Liability of employer</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Limitation of actions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Sale without licence in \r\n                                              special cases</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Repeals and savings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule&#8212;Fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule&#8212;Fees</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Third Schedule&#8212;Duty per gallon</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fourth Schedule&#8212;Fee</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE LIQUOR LICENSING 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 consolidate the law \r\n                                              relating to liquor licensing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 2nd July, 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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;MANUFACTURE OF SPIRITS</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;Licence to Manufacture \r\n                                              Spirits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall manufacture or \r\n                                              commence to manufacture spirits \r\n                                              except under and in accordance \r\n                                              with a distiller''s licence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may, after consultation \r\n                                              with the Minister, by executive \r\n                                              instrument direct that any \r\n                                              distiller or group of distillers \r\n                                              of refined spirit nominated in the \r\n                                              instrument be placed under the \r\n                                              control of the Excise Ordinance, \r\n                                              1953 (No. 31).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The fees per annum payable for \r\n                                              a distiller''s licence shall be \r\n                                              those set out in the First \r\n                                              Schedule.</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;Inspection of Stills.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An Inspector may enter at any \r\n                                              time any premises in respect of \r\n                                              which a distiller''s licence is in \r\n                                              force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any police officer in uniform \r\n                                              may enter at any time any premises \r\n                                              on which he has reasonable grounds \r\n                                              to suspect that spirits have been \r\n                                              or are being manufactured in \r\n                                              contravention of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person empowered to enter \r\n                                              premises under this section 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) inspect the premises and any \r\n                                              still, spirits or other article \r\n                                              therein;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) require any person on the \r\n                                              premises to give any information \r\n                                              in his possession as to the \r\n                                              activities carried on in the \r\n                                              premises and the person by whom \r\n                                              they are carried on;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) take away a sample not \r\n                                              exceeding one-third of a pint from \r\n                                              any container of liquid found on \r\n                                              the premises.</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                                              (1) The Minister may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) for the issue of distillers'' \r\n                                              licences by the Minister, and the \r\n                                              conditions attached to and \r\n                                              duration of such licences;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) for the method of collection \r\n                                              of the fees payable therefor;</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) designating persons to act as \r\n                                              Inspector for the purposes of \r\n                                              section 2;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) altering or revoking the fees \r\n                                              set out in the First Schedule;</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) otherwise for carrying out the \r\n                                              principles and purposes of this \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                                              (f) for materials and apparatus \r\n                                              for distilling akpeteshie;</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) for the storage of akpeteshie \r\n                                              for purposes of maturity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Regulations made under this \r\n                                              section may authorise the \r\n                                              inclusion in a distiller''s licence \r\n                                              of a condition requiring that \r\n                                              spirits manufactured under the \r\n                                              licence be offered for sale to any \r\n                                              statutory corporation or other \r\n                                              person named for that purpose in \r\n                                              the regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#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&#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) contravenes section 1 (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) obstructs or fails to comply \r\n                                              with a requirement of any \r\n                                              Inspector or police officer in the \r\n                                              exercise of his powers under \r\n                                              section 2; 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) contravenes any condition \r\n                                              included in a distiller''s licence,</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 summary conviction to a \r\n                                              fine not exceeding five hundred \r\n                                              new cedis or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one year, or to both and \r\n                                              any apparatus and spirits in \r\n                                              relation to which the offence was \r\n                                              committed shall be forfeited and \r\n                                              disposal of as the Court may \r\n                                              direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In proceedings under this \r\n                                              section a document purporting to \r\n                                              state the results of an analysis \r\n                                              carried out by direction of the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Health \r\n                                              shall be prima facie evidence of \r\n                                              the facts stated therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SALE OF SPIRITS</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;Licence to sell Spirits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), no \r\n                                              person shall sell spirits on any \r\n                                              premises or in the open, except \r\n                                              under and in accordance with one \r\n                                              of the following licences&#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 wholesale licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits in quantities of not less \r\n                                              than two gallons at a time, not to \r\n                                              be consumed on the premises, to \r\n                                              any person who holds a spirit \r\n                                              licence;</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 store licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits for consumption on or off \r\n                                              the premises;</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 hotel licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits within a hotel;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a restaurant licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits to be consumed with a meal \r\n                                              in a restaurant;</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) an occasional licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits on a special occasion at a \r\n                                              specified place;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) a bar licence to sell spirits \r\n                                              for consumption on the premises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Spirits manufactured by the \r\n                                              holder of a distiller''s licence \r\n                                              may be sold by him&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) wholesale, on the premises on \r\n                                              which they were manufactured and \r\n                                              in any store remote from those \r\n                                              premises; 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) retail, in any such store, \r\n                                              subject to such conditions, if \r\n                                              any, as the Comptroller of Customs \r\n                                              and Excise may impose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The fees payable for a licence \r\n                                              under subsection (1) shall be \r\n                                              those set out in the Second \r\n                                              Schedule.</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;Akpeteshie.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall sell \r\n                                              akpeteshie under any spirit \r\n                                              licence unless the licence is \r\n                                              expressly endorsed to authorise \r\n                                              the licensee to sell akpeteshie.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A spirit licence may be \r\n                                              limited to the sale of akpeteshie.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No spirit licence shall be \r\n                                              required for the sale of \r\n                                              akpeteshie to any statutory \r\n                                              corporation or other person \r\n                                              prescribed by regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A distiller of refined spirit \r\n                                              shall have a first option on the \r\n                                              purchase of all products of a \r\n                                              distiller of akpeteshie.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The rate per gallon of the \r\n                                              duty payable on akpeteshie \r\n                                              produced shall be that set out in \r\n                                              the Third Schedule;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no duty shall be \r\n                                              payable on the sale by a \r\n                                              manufacturer of akpeteshie of his \r\n                                              products to a manufacturer of \r\n                                              refined spirit. </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;Stock Book to be Kept.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every licensee shall enter \r\n                                              into a stock book to be kept by \r\n                                              him for that purpose a true record \r\n                                              of all spirits bought and sold by \r\n                                              him, and shall within seven days \r\n                                              after the expiration of every \r\n                                              month render to the police officer \r\n                                              in charge of the district in which \r\n                                              the licensee sells spirits a true \r\n                                              and accurate return in the form \r\n                                              prescribed by regulations, \r\n                                              showing&#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 quantity of each \r\n                                              description of spirits on hand at \r\n                                              the commencement of that month;</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 quantity of each \r\n                                              description of spirits bought or \r\n                                              sold by him during that month and \r\n                                              the names of persons from whom \r\n                                              such quantity was bought; 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 stock of each description \r\n                                              of spirits remaining hand on the \r\n                                              last day of the immediately \r\n                                              preceding month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No licensee shall render a \r\n                                              return which is false or lacking \r\n                                              in any material particular.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any police officer not below \r\n                                              the rank of Inspector, and any \r\n                                              police officer authorised in \r\n                                              writing by a police officer not \r\n                                              below the rank of Inspector, may \r\n                                              at any time between the hours of 8 \r\n                                              a.m. and 6 p.m. inspect the \r\n                                              stock-in-trade of any licensee and \r\n                                              require him to produce his stock \r\n                                              book for the purpose of comparing \r\n                                              the entries therein with such \r\n                                              stock-in-trade, and may seize any \r\n                                              spirits found in excess of the \r\n                                              stock shown in the stock book.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall not apply to locally \r\n                                              manufactured spirits.</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;Invoices.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A licensee shall retain and \r\n                                              produce on demand for inspection \r\n                                              by a police officer not below the \r\n                                              rank of Inspector all invoices \r\n                                              issued in respect of all purchases \r\n                                              of spirits.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A licensee who sells spirits \r\n                                              to a purchaser in any quantity \r\n                                              except in tots shall cause to be \r\n                                              issued to that purchaser an \r\n                                              invoice bearing&#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 name and address of that \r\n                                              purchaser;</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 number of the licensee''s \r\n                                              licence;</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 date of purchase,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the licensee shall retain the \r\n                                              duplicate of the invoice and shall \r\n                                              on demand produce it to a police \r\n                                              officer not below the rank of \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall not apply to locally \r\n                                              manufactured spirits.</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;Storage of Spirits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              licensee shall not store spirits \r\n                                              in any place other than his place \r\n                                              of 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 10&#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&#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) prescribing the method and \r\n                                              form of application for a licence \r\n                                              to sell spirits and the authority \r\n                                              to which the application is to be \r\n                                              made;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) prescribing the procedure \r\n                                              relating to the grant of a \r\n                                              licence, including the \r\n                                              consideration of objections to the \r\n                                              grant, and appeals to the Minister \r\n                                              from a grant or a refusal to grant \r\n                                              a licence;</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) prescribing the form and \r\n                                              duration of the licence, the \r\n                                              method of collection of fees \r\n                                              payable therefor, the conditions \r\n                                              to be observed by a licensee and \r\n                                              the duties of a licensee;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) providing for the transfer of \r\n                                              a licence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) prescribing permitted hours \r\n                                              and providing for all matters in \r\n                                              relation thereto;</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) prescribing the time at or \r\n                                              within which the duty on \r\n                                              akpeteshie produced is to be paid, \r\n                                              the method of collection of such \r\n                                              duty, and the repayment of any \r\n                                              duty paid in error contrary to the \r\n                                              proviso to section 6(5);</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) altering or revoking any of \r\n                                              the fees set out in the Second and \r\n                                              Third Schedules;</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) providing for or prescribing \r\n                                              any other matter or thing which \r\n                                              the Minister considers expedient \r\n                                              for giving effect to the \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 11&#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 \r\n                                              section 5 (1), 6 (1) or 9 or any \r\n                                              condition included in a licence to \r\n                                              sell spirits shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of section 7 or 8 shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence and liable \r\n                                              on summary conviction to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding five hundred new \r\n                                              cedis or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one year, or to both, \r\n                                              and any spirits seized under \r\n                                              section 7 in relation to which the \r\n                                              offence was committed may be \r\n                                              forfeited and disposed of as the \r\n                                              Court may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In the event of a second \r\n                                              conviction of a licensed person \r\n                                              under this section, his licence \r\n                                              shall be suspended for a year, and \r\n                                              in the event of a third or \r\n                                              subsequent conviction under this \r\n                                              section he shall be disqualified \r\n                                              from holding any such licence for \r\n                                              such period, not less than five \r\n                                              years in each case, as the Court \r\n                                              shall direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A conviction for an offence \r\n                                              under this section shall be \r\n                                              endorsed on the licence, if any, \r\n                                              of the offender.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;SALE OF WINE AND BEER</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;Licence to sell Wine \r\n                                              and Beer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall sell wine or \r\n                                              beer on any premises or in the \r\n                                              open, except under and in \r\n                                              accordance with one of the \r\n                                              following licences&#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 spirit licences granted \r\n                                              under section 5;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) an off-licence to sell wine \r\n                                              and beer not to be consumed on the \r\n                                              premises;</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 on-licence to sell wine and \r\n                                              beer which may be consumed on the \r\n                                              premises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The fee payable for a licence \r\n                                              to sell wine and beer shall for \r\n                                              every store be that set out in the \r\n                                              Fourth Schedule. </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;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument make regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prescribing or providing for, \r\n                                              in respect of licences to sell \r\n                                              wine and beer, all such matters as \r\n                                              may be prescribed or provided for \r\n                                              under section 10 in respect of \r\n                                              licences to sell spirits;</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) altering or revoking the fee \r\n                                              set out in the Fourth Schedule.</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;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 \r\n                                              section 12 (1) or any condition \r\n                                              included in a licence to sell wine \r\n                                              and beer shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subsections (3) and (4) of \r\n                                              section 11 shall apply in the \r\n                                              event of a conviction under this \r\n                                              section as they apply to a \r\n                                              conviction under section 11.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Young Persons to be \r\n                                              Excluded.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No holder of a licence to sell \r\n                                              spirits, wine or beer shall allow \r\n                                              any person under the apparent age \r\n                                              of eighteen years to be at any \r\n                                              time in the bar of the licenced \r\n                                              premises during permitted hours.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any licensee who contravenes \r\n                                              this section, and any person who \r\n                                              causes or procures any person \r\n                                              under the apparent age of eighteen \r\n                                              years to enter or to be in the bar \r\n                                              of any licensed premises during \r\n                                              the permitted hours, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              fifty new cedis and in default of \r\n                                              payment to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If a person under the apparent \r\n                                              age of eighteen years is found in \r\n                                              the bar of any licensed premises \r\n                                              during permitted hours, the holder \r\n                                              of the licence shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have committed an offence under \r\n                                              this section unless he shows that \r\n                                              he had used all due care to \r\n                                              prevent that person from being \r\n                                              admitted to the bar or the young \r\n                                              person had attained the age of \r\n                                              eighteen years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No licensee under this Act \r\n                                              shall sell any spirit, wine or \r\n                                              beer to any drunken person or \r\n                                              permit any disorderly or improper \r\n                                              conduct on his premises or any \r\n                                              part of the premises attached \r\n                                              thereto.</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;Power to Demand Name \r\n                                              and Address.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any police officer in uniform \r\n                                              may demand the name and address of \r\n                                              any person found after the \r\n                                              permitted hours on any premises \r\n                                              licensed for the sale of spirits, \r\n                                              wine or beer, and, if he has \r\n                                              reasonable ground to suspect that \r\n                                              the name or address given is \r\n                                              false, he may require evidence of \r\n                                              its correctness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who fails upon \r\n                                              demand to give his name and \r\n                                              address, or satisfactory evidence \r\n                                              of such name and address, may be \r\n                                              arrested by the police officer \r\n                                              without warrant and taken as soon \r\n                                              as practicable before a \r\n                                              magistrate.</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;Police Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No licensee under the Act shall \r\n                                              sell akpeteshie, spirits, beer or \r\n                                              wine to any police officer in \r\n                                              uniform.</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;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              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) when required to give his name \r\n                                              and address under section 16, \r\n                                              fails to do so or gives a false \r\n                                              name or address; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) not being an inmate, servant \r\n                                              or lodger, on premises licensed \r\n                                              for the sale of spirits, wine or \r\n                                              beer, or otherwise lawfully \r\n                                              permitted to be upon such \r\n                                              premises, is found on such \r\n                                              premises after the permitted hours \r\n                                              without reasonable excuse; 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) by falsely representing \r\n                                              himself to be a lodger, buys or \r\n                                              obtains, or attempts to buy or \r\n                                              obtain, spirits, wine or beer at \r\n                                              any premises after the permitted \r\n                                              hours,</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 twenty new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Liability of Employer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              master or employer shall be liable \r\n                                              for an offence committed under \r\n                                              sections 4, 11, 14 or 18 by his \r\n                                              servant or agent in the course of \r\n                                              his employment.</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;Limitation of Actions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No prosecution shall be commenced \r\n                                              under this Act after the \r\n                                              expiration of six months from the \r\n                                              date 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 21&#8212;Sale without Licence in \r\n                                              Special Cases.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nothing in this Act contained \r\n                                              shall prevent&#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 executor or administrator \r\n                                              of a deceased licensee or the \r\n                                              assignee or trustee of any \r\n                                              licensee who becomes insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt before the expiration of \r\n                                              his license, from selling any \r\n                                              spirits, wine or beer coming to \r\n                                              them in that capacity in the \r\n                                              premises specified in the licence; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the executor or administrator \r\n                                              of any person not licensed who \r\n                                              dies leaving among his assets or \r\n                                              estate a private stock of spirits, \r\n                                              wine or beer not exceeding fifty \r\n                                              gallons from selling it; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any person from selling his \r\n                                              private stock of spirits, wine or \r\n                                              beer not exceeding twenty-five \r\n                                              gallons at any sale of his effects \r\n                                              on leaving Ghana; or </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) any officer of or person \r\n                                              authorised by any court from \r\n                                              selling any spirits, wine or beer \r\n                                              seized or taken in execution under \r\n                                              due process of 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 22&#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">&quot;akpeteshie&quot; \r\n                                              means spirits manufactured in \r\n                                              Ghana by the distillation of a \r\n                                              fermented liquid in a simple pot \r\n                                              still;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;bar&quot; means any open drinking bar \r\n                                              on licensed premises or any part \r\n                                              of the licensed premises \r\n                                              exclusively or mainly used for the \r\n                                              sale and consumption of spirits, \r\n                                              wine or beer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;beer&quot; includes any description of \r\n                                              beer, and any liquor made or sold \r\n                                              as a description of beer or as a \r\n                                              substitute for beer and which \r\n                                              contains more than one per cent of \r\n                                              pure alcohol, but does not include \r\n                                              pito and other similar locally \r\n                                              brewed liquors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;blend&quot; means to mix the products \r\n                                              of two or more distillers to \r\n                                              obtain a uniform product;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;compound&quot; means to mix an \r\n                                              ingredient or material&nbsp; with \r\n                                              spirits, but does not include \r\n                                              methylating; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;distiller&quot; means any person who \r\n                                              produces spirits by the \r\n                                              distillation of fermented spirits \r\n                                              or by the distillation of \r\n                                              fermented spirits or by chemical \r\n                                              means and includes any person who \r\n                                              rectifies, compounds, blends or \r\n                                              methylates;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;licensee&quot; means a person holding \r\n                                              a licence to sell spirits, wine or \r\n                                              beer under this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;methylate&quot; \r\n                                              means to mix non-potable methyl \r\n                                              alcohol&nbsp; and other substances with \r\n                                              spirits to render them \r\n                                              non-potable;</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 Industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;permitted hours&quot; means the hours \r\n                                              during which any licensed premises \r\n                                              are by regulations allowed to be \r\n                                              open for the sale of spirits, wine \r\n                                              or beer under this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;premises&quot; includes any store, \r\n                                              hotel or restaurant and&nbsp; the \r\n                                              curtilage thereof and any yard \r\n                                              attached thereto;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;rectify&quot; means to purify spirits \r\n                                              by&nbsp; distillation,filtration or \r\n                                              other means;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;refined spirits&quot; means spirits \r\n                                              produced by rectifying akpeteshie;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;sell&quot; includes to dispose&nbsp; of by \r\n                                              barter, exchange or in any other \r\n                                              manner for valuable consideration;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;spirits&quot; means akpeteshie, \r\n                                              brandy, gin, liqueur, rum,whisky \r\n                                              and all other distilled liquors \r\n                                              and includes all liquors mixed \r\n                                              with spirits and all mixtures, \r\n                                              compounds or preparations made \r\n                                              with spirits, but does not include \r\n                                              alcohols other than ethyl alcohol \r\n                                              and potable methyl alcohol and \r\n                                              medical preparations containing \r\n                                              alcohol;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;store&quot; includes a house, shop and \r\n                                              every other building not being a \r\n                                              hotel, bar or restaurant;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;wine&quot; does not include palm wine.</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;Repeals and Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following enactments are \r\n                                              hereby repealed&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor Licences (Spirits) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 220).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor Licences (Wine and Beer) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 221).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Young Persons (Exclusion from \r\n                                              Licensed Premises) Ordinance (No. \r\n                                              48 of 1952).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor (Northern Territories) \r\n                                              Ordinance (No. 26 of 1953).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Liquor Licences Act, 1959 (No. \r\n                                              19).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Manufacture and Sale of Spirits \r\n                                              Act, 1962 (Act 154).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Manufacture and Sale of Spirits \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1967 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              209).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Manufacture and Sale of Spirits \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (N.L.C.D. \r\n                                              219).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of \r\n                                              the Manufacture and Sale of \r\n                                              Spirits Act, 1962 (Act 154), all \r\n                                              statutory instruments made \r\n                                              thereunder and in force \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              the corresponding provision of \r\n                                              this Act, until revoked, modified \r\n                                              or otherwise altered.</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                                              (Section 1 (3))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FEES</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; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              N¢&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Fee for distiller''s licence&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              40.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Fee for distillers nominated \r\n                                              under section \r\n                                              1(2):&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) distiller who methylates \r\n                                              only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              10.00&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                                              (b) distiller who compounds or \r\n                                              blends only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              20.00&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                                              (c) distiller who rectifies \r\n                                              only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              40.00&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                                              (d) full distiller \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              60.00&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">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 5 (3))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FEES</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                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              N¢&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. For a wholesale licence&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              100.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50.00 half-yearly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. For a store licence&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              80.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.00 half-yearly &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. For a hotel licence&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              120.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              60.00 half-yearly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. For a restaurant licence&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              80.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.00 half-yearly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. For an occasional \r\n                                              licence&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              10.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. For a bar licence&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              80.00 yearly or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40.00 half-yearly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. For an extension of \r\n                                              hours&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              1.00 for each </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              additional hour&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -324.0pt; margin-left: 324.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. For a wholesale licence limited \r\n                                              to the sale of akpeteshie \r\n                                              only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10.00 yearly\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 324.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              or 5.00 half-yearly</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 324.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. For a store licence limited to \r\n                                              the sale of akpeteshie only&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10.00 yearly </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 288.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              or 5.00 half-yearly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </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                                              THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 6)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DUTY PER GALLON</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              40 Np</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The duty on part of a gallon shall \r\n                                              be in proportion for any part of a \r\n                                              gallon. The strength of the \r\n                                              spirits shall be determined by the \r\n                                              Sykes'' hydrometer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 12 (2))</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FEE</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              N¢12.00 for a yearly licence and \r\n                                              N¢6.00 for a half-yearly licence.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n   \r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 331');
