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Acts prejudicial to Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Address of agent of foreign \r\n                                              power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Wrongful communication, etc., \r\n                                              of information.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Unauthorized use of uniforms; \r\n                                              falsification of reports, forgery, \r\n                                              personation and false documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Interfering with officers of \r\n                                              the police or members of the Armed \r\n                                              Forces.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Production of telegrams.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Harbouring spies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Attempts, incitements, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Arrest without warrant.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Search warrants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Consent of Attorney-General to \r\n                                              prosecutions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Trial of offences committed \r\n                                              outside Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Place of offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. 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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND FIRST</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"\r\n coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe"\r\n filled="f" stroked="f">\r\n <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>\r\n <v:formulas>\r\n  <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>\r\n  <v:f 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            <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATE SECRETS ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT respecting State Secrets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 20th February, \r\n                                              1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:—</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—Acts Prejudicial to \r\n                                              Republic.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who, for any \r\n                                              purpose prejudicial to the safety \r\n                                              or interests of the Republic—</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) approaches, inspects, passes \r\n                                              over, or is in the neighbourhood \r\n                                              of, or enters any prohibited \r\n                                              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                                              (b) makes any sketch, plan, model \r\n                                              or note that is calculated to be \r\n                                              or might be or is intended to be \r\n                                              directly or indirectly useful to a \r\n                                              foreign power; 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) obtains, collects, records, or \r\n                                              publishes or communicates in \r\n                                              whatever manner to any other \r\n                                              person any secret official code \r\n                                              word, or password, or any sketch, \r\n                                              plan, model, article, or note, or \r\n                                              other document or information that \r\n                                              is calculated to be or might be or \r\n                                              is intended to be directly or \r\n                                              indirectly useful to a foreign \r\n                                              power; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) It shall not be necessary, on \r\n                                              a prosecution under this section, \r\n                                              to show that the accused person \r\n                                              was guilty of any particular act \r\n                                              tending to show a purpose \r\n                                              prejudicial to the safety or \r\n                                              interests of the Republic, and, \r\n                                              notwithstanding that no such act \r\n                                              is proved against him, he may be \r\n                                              convicted if, from the \r\n                                              circumstances of the case, or his \r\n                                              conduct, or his known character as \r\n                                              proved, it appears that his \r\n                                              purpose was a purpose prejudicial \r\n                                              to the safety or interests of the \r\n                                              Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any sketch, plan, model, \r\n                                              article, note, document or \r\n                                              information relating to or used in \r\n                                              any prohibited place, or anything \r\n                                              in such a place, or any secret \r\n                                              official code word or password is \r\n                                              made, obtained, collected, \r\n                                              recorded, published or \r\n                                              communicated by any person other \r\n                                              than a person acting under lawful \r\n                                              authority, it shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been made, obtained, \r\n                                              collected, recorded, published or \r\n                                              communicated for a purpose \r\n                                              prejudicial to the safety or \r\n                                              interests of the Republic unless \r\n                                              the contrary is proved by the \r\n                                              person accused.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) In any proceedings against a \r\n                                              person for an offence under this \r\n                                              section, the fact that he has been \r\n                                              in communication with, or \r\n                                              attempted to communicate with, an \r\n                                              agent of a foreign power, whether \r\n                                              within or without Ghana, shall be \r\n                                              evidence that he has, for a \r\n                                              purpose prejudicial to the safety \r\n                                              or interests of the Republic \r\n                                              obtained or attempted to obtain \r\n                                              information that is calculated to \r\n                                              be or might be or is intended to \r\n                                              be directly or indirectly useful \r\n                                              to a foreign power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, but without prejudice to \r\n                                              the generality of the foregoing \r\n                                              provisions,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a person shall, unless he \r\n                                              proves the contrary, be deemed to \r\n                                              have been in communication with an \r\n                                              agent of a foreign power if,\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              he has, either within or without \r\n                                              Ghana, visited the address of an \r\n                                              agent of a foreign power or \r\n                                              consorted or associated with such \r\n                                              agent; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) either within or without \r\n                                              Ghana, the name or&nbsp; address of, or \r\n                                              any other information regarding \r\n                                              such an agent has been found in \r\n                                              his possession, or has been \r\n                                              supplied by him to any other \r\n                                              person, or has been obtained by \r\n                                              him from any other person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the foregoing \r\n                                              provisions any act done without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse by a public \r\n                                              officer which amounts to a failure \r\n                                              to perform in a proper manner any \r\n                                              duty imposed upon him as such \r\n                                              under this Act or which is \r\n                                              otherwise prejudicial to the \r\n                                              efficient operation of this Act \r\n                                              shall constitute an offence under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) A public officer who commits \r\n                                              an offence under the immediately \r\n                                              preceding subsection shall be \r\n                                              liable to any of the following \r\n                                              penalties, that is to say,</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) dismissal, that is termination \r\n                                              of appointment with forfeiture of \r\n                                              all retirement benefits;</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) removal, that is termination \r\n                                              of appointment with or without a \r\n                                              reduction in retirement benefits;</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) reduction in rank, that is \r\n                                              removal to another grade with an \r\n                                              immediate reduction of salary;</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) reduction of salary, that is \r\n                                              an immediate adjustment of salary \r\n                                              to a lower point on the salary \r\n                                              scale attached to the post in \r\n                                              question;</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) deferment of increment, that \r\n                                              is a postponement of the date on \r\n                                              which the next increment is due, \r\n                                              with corresponding postponements \r\n                                              in subsequent years;</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) stoppage of increment, that is \r\n                                              non-payment for a specified period \r\n                                              of an increment otherwise due;</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) in the case of persons holding \r\n                                              category D posts, suspension from \r\n                                              duty with consequent loss of pay \r\n                                              and allowances for a period not \r\n                                              exceeding fourteen days;</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) reprimand.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The President shall be the \r\n                                              disciplinary authority for the \r\n                                              purposes of subsection (7) of this \r\n                                              section but may at any time \r\n                                              delegate the exercise of his \r\n                                              disciplinary authority to any \r\n                                              person so appointed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2—Address of Agent of \r\n                                              Foreign Power.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any address, whether within or \r\n                                              without Ghana, reasonably \r\n                                              suspected of being an address used \r\n                                              for the receipt of communications \r\n                                              intended for an agent of a foreign \r\n                                              power, or any address at which \r\n                                              such an agent resides, or to which \r\n                                              he resorts for the purpose of \r\n                                              giving or receiving \r\n                                              communications, or at which he \r\n                                              carries on any business, shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be the address of an \r\n                                              agent of a foreign power, and \r\n                                              communications addressed to the \r\n                                              address to be communications with \r\n                                              the agent.</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—Wrongful Communication, \r\n                                              Etc., of Information.</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, having in his \r\n                                              possession, or control, any secret \r\n                                              official code word, or password, \r\n                                              or any sketch, plan, model, \r\n                                              article, note, document or \r\n                                              information that relates to or is \r\n                                              used in a prohibited place or \r\n                                              anything in such a place, or that \r\n                                              has been made or obtained in \r\n                                              contravention of this Act, or that \r\n                                              has been entrusted in confidence \r\n                                              to him by any person holding \r\n                                              office under the Republic or owing \r\n                                              to his position as a person who \r\n                                              holds or has held office under the \r\n                                              Republic, or as a person who holds \r\n                                              or has held a contract made on \r\n                                              behalf of the Republic, or a \r\n                                              contract the performance of which \r\n                                              in whole or in part is carried out \r\n                                              in a prohibited place, or as a \r\n                                              person who is or has been employed \r\n                                              under a person who holds or has \r\n                                              held such an office or contract,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) communicates the code word, \r\n                                              password, sketch, plan, model, \r\n                                              article, note, document or \r\n                                              information to any person, other \r\n                                              than a person to whom he is \r\n                                              authorized to communicate with, or \r\n                                              a person to whom it is in the \r\n                                              interest of the Republic his duty \r\n                                              to communicate it;</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) uses the information in his \r\n                                              possession for the benefit of any \r\n                                              foreign power or in any other \r\n                                              manner;</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) retains the sketch, plan, \r\n                                              model, article, note, or document \r\n                                              in his possession or control when \r\n                                              he has no right to retain it or \r\n                                              when it is contrary to his duty to \r\n                                              retain it or fails to comply with \r\n                                              all directions issued by lawful \r\n                                              authority with regard to the \r\n                                              return or disposal thereof; 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) fails to take reasonable care \r\n                                              of, or so conducts himself as to \r\n                                              endanger the safety of, the \r\n                                              sketch, plan, model, article, note \r\n                                              document, secret official code \r\n                                              word or password or information, \r\n                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who, having in his \r\n                                              possession or control any sketch, \r\n                                              plan, model, article, note, \r\n                                              document or information that \r\n                                              relates to munitions of war, \r\n                                              communicates it directly or \r\n                                              indirectly to any foreign power, \r\n                                              or in any other manner prejudicial \r\n                                              to the safety or interests of the \r\n                                              Republic, commits an offence under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who receives any \r\n                                              secret official code word, or \r\n                                              password, or sketch, plan, model, \r\n                                              article, note, document or \r\n                                              information, knowing or having \r\n                                              reasonable grounds to believe, at \r\n                                              the time when he receives it, that \r\n                                              the code word, password, sketch, \r\n                                              plan, model, article, note, \r\n                                              document or information is \r\n                                              communicated to him in \r\n                                              contravention of this Act, commits \r\n                                              an offence under this Act, unless \r\n                                              he proves that the communication \r\n                                              to him of the code word, password, \r\n                                              sketch, plan, model, article, \r\n                                              note, document or information was \r\n                                              contrary to his desire.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any person who 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                                              (a) retains for any purpose \r\n                                              prejudicial to the safety or \r\n                                              interests of the Republic any \r\n                                              official document, whether or not \r\n                                              completed or issued for use, when \r\n                                              he has no right to retain it, or \r\n                                              when it is contrary to his duty to \r\n                                              retain it, or fails to comply with \r\n                                              any directions issued by any \r\n                                              Government department or any \r\n                                              person authorized by such \r\n                                              department with regard to the \r\n                                              return or disposal thereof; 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) allows any other person to \r\n                                              have possession of any official \r\n                                              document issued for his use alone, \r\n                                              or communicates any secret \r\n                                              official code word or password so \r\n                                              issued, or, without lawful \r\n                                              authority or excuse, has in his \r\n                                              possession any official document \r\n                                              or secret official code word or \r\n                                              password issued for the use of \r\n                                              some person other than himself, or \r\n                                              on obtaining possession of any \r\n                                              official document by finding or \r\n                                              otherwise, neglects or fails to \r\n                                              restore it to the person or \r\n                                              authority by whom or for whose use \r\n                                              it was issued, or to a police \r\n                                              constable, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4—Unauthorized Use of \r\n                                              Uniforms; Falsification of \r\n                                              Reports, Forgery, Personation and \r\n                                              False Documents.</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, for the \r\n                                              purpose of gaining admission, or \r\n                                              of assisting any other person to \r\n                                              gain admission, to a prohibited \r\n                                              place, or for any other purpose \r\n                                              prejudicial to the safety or \r\n                                              interests of the Republic,</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) uses or wears, without lawful \r\n                                              authority, any naval, army, air \r\n                                              force, police or other official \r\n                                              uniform or any uniform so nearly \r\n                                              resembling the same as to be \r\n                                              calculated to deceive, or falsely \r\n                                              represents himself to be a person \r\n                                              who is or has been entitled to use \r\n                                              or wear any such uniform;</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) orally, or in writing in any \r\n                                              declaration or application, or in \r\n                                              any document signed by him or on \r\n                                              his behalf, knowingly makes or \r\n                                              connives at the making of any \r\n                                              false statement or any omission;</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) forges, alters, or tampers \r\n                                              with any passport or any naval, \r\n                                              army, air force, police or \r\n                                              official pass, permit, \r\n                                              certificate, licence or other \r\n                                              document of a similar character \r\n                                              (hereinafter in this section \r\n                                              referred to as an official \r\n                                              document), or uses or has in his \r\n                                              possession any such forged, \r\n                                              altered, or irregular official \r\n                                              document;</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) personates, or falsely \r\n                                              represents himself to be a person \r\n                                              holding, or in the employment of a \r\n                                              person holding office under the \r\n                                              Republic, or to be or not to be a \r\n                                              person to whom an official \r\n                                              document or secret official code \r\n                                              word or password has been duly \r\n                                              issued or communicated, or with \r\n                                              intent to obtain an official \r\n                                              document, secret official code \r\n                                              word or password, whether for \r\n                                              himself or any other person, \r\n                                              knowingly makes any false \r\n                                              statement; 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                                              (e) uses, or has in his possession \r\n                                              or under his control, without the \r\n                                              authority of the Government \r\n                                              department or the authority \r\n                                              concerned, any die, seal, or stamp \r\n                                              of or belonging to, or used, made, \r\n                                              or provided by any Government \r\n                                              department, or by any diplomatic, \r\n                                              naval, army, or air force \r\n                                              authority appointed by or acting \r\n                                              under the authority of the \r\n                                              President, or any die, seal or \r\n                                              stamp, so nearly resembling any \r\n                                              such die, seal or stamp as to be \r\n                                              calculated to deceive, or \r\n                                              counterfeits any such die, seal or \r\n                                              stamp, or uses, or has in his \r\n                                              possession, or under his control, \r\n                                              any such counterfeited die, seal \r\n                                              or stamp,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who, without lawful \r\n                                              authority or excuse, manufactures \r\n                                              or sells, or has in his possession \r\n                                              for sale, any such die, seal or \r\n                                              stamp as aforesaid, commits an \r\n                                              offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5—Interfering with \r\n                                              Officers of the Police or Members \r\n                                              of the Armed Forces.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person in the vicinity of any \r\n                                              prohibited place shall obstruct, \r\n                                              knowingly mislead or otherwise \r\n                                              interfere with or impede any \r\n                                              constable or police officer, or \r\n                                              any member of the Armed Forces \r\n                                              engaged on guard, sentry, patrol, \r\n                                              or other similar duty in relation \r\n                                              to the prohibited place, and every \r\n                                              person who acts in contravention \r\n                                              of, or fails to comply with, this \r\n                                              provision, commits an offence \r\n                                              under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6—Production of Telegrams.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where it appears to the \r\n                                              Attorney-General that such a \r\n                                              course is expedient in the public \r\n                                              interest, he may, by warrant under \r\n                                              his hand, require any person who \r\n                                              owns or controls any telegraphic \r\n                                              cable or wire, or any apparatus \r\n                                              for wireless telegraphy, used for \r\n                                              the sending or receipt of \r\n                                              telegrams to or from any place out \r\n                                              of Ghana, to produce to him, or to \r\n                                              any person named in the warrant, \r\n                                              the originals and transcripts, \r\n                                              either of all telegrams, or of \r\n                                              telegrams of any specified class \r\n                                              or description, or of telegrams \r\n                                              sent from or addressed to any \r\n                                              specified person or place, sent to \r\n                                              or received from any place out of \r\n                                              Ghana by means of any such cable, \r\n                                              wire, or apparatus and all other \r\n                                              papers relating to any such \r\n                                              telegram as aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who, on being \r\n                                              required to produce any such \r\n                                              original or transcript or paper as \r\n                                              aforesaid, refuses or neglects to \r\n                                              do so commits an offence under \r\n                                              this Act, and is for each offence, \r\n                                              liable on summary conviction to \r\n                                              imprisonment, with or without hard \r\n                                              labour, for a term not exceeding \r\n                                              three months, or to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding two hundred pounds, or \r\n                                              to both such imprisonment and \r\n                                              fine.</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—Harbouring Spies. </span>\r\n                                              </b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who knowingly harbours \r\n                                              any person whom he knows, or has \r\n                                              reasonable grounds for supposing, \r\n                                              to be a person who is about to \r\n                                              commit or who has committed an \r\n                                              offence under this Act, or \r\n                                              knowingly permits to meet or \r\n                                              assemble in any premises in his \r\n                                              occupation or under his control \r\n                                              any such persons, and every person \r\n                                              who, having harboured any such \r\n                                              person, or permitted to meet or \r\n                                              assemble in any premises in his \r\n                                              occupation or under his control \r\n                                              any such persons, wilfully omits \r\n                                              or refuses to disclose to a senior \r\n                                              police officer any information \r\n                                              that it is in his power to give in \r\n                                              relation to any such person, \r\n                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8—Attempts, Incitements, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who attempts to commit \r\n                                              any offence under this Act, or \r\n                                              solicits or incites or endeavours \r\n                                              to persuade another person to \r\n                                              commit an offence, or aids or \r\n                                              abets or does any act preparatory \r\n                                              to the commission of an offence \r\n                                              under this Act, commits an offence \r\n                                              under this Act and is liable to \r\n                                              the same punishment, and to be \r\n                                              proceeded against in the same \r\n                                              manner, as if he had committed the \r\n                                              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 9—Arrest without Warrants.</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 is found \r\n                                              committing an offence under this \r\n                                              Act, or who is reasonably \r\n                                              suspected of having committed, or \r\n                                              having attempted to commit, or \r\n                                              being about to commit, such an \r\n                                              offence, may be arrested without a \r\n                                              warrant and detained by any \r\n                                              constable or police officer for a \r\n                                              period not exceeding seventy-two \r\n                                              hours.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person arrested under the \r\n                                              provisions of the preceding \r\n                                              subsection shall be brought before \r\n                                              a District Magistrate on the \r\n                                              expiry of the period of \r\n                                              seventy-two hours whether or not \r\n                                              the police enquiries are \r\n                                              completed.</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—Search Warrants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If a District Magistrate is \r\n                                              satisfied by information on oath \r\n                                              that there is reasonable ground \r\n                                              for suspecting that an offence \r\n                                              under this Act has been or is \r\n                                              about to be committed, he may \r\n                                              grant a search warrant authorizing \r\n                                              any constable named therein, to \r\n                                              enter at any time any premises or \r\n                                              place named in the warrant, if \r\n                                              necessary by force, and to search \r\n                                              the premises or place and every \r\n                                              person found therein, and to seize \r\n                                              any sketch, plan, model, article, \r\n                                              note or document, or anything that \r\n                                              is evidence of an offence under \r\n                                              this Act having been or being \r\n                                              about to be committed, that he may \r\n                                              find on the premises or place or \r\n                                              on any such person, and with \r\n                                              regard to or in connection with \r\n                                              which he has reasonable grounds \r\n                                              for suspecting that an offence \r\n                                              under this Act has been or is \r\n                                              about to be committed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where it appears to a senior \r\n                                              police officer that the case is \r\n                                              one of great emergency and that in \r\n                                              the interest of the Republic \r\n                                              immediate action is necessary, he \r\n                                              may by a written order under his \r\n                                              hand give to any constable the \r\n                                              like authority as may be given by \r\n                                              the warrant of a District \r\n                                              Magistrate under this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11—Consent of \r\n                                              Attorney-General to Prosecution.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A prosecution for an offence \r\n                                              under this Act shall not be \r\n                                              instituted except by or with the \r\n                                              consent of the Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person charged with an \r\n                                              offence under this Act may be \r\n                                              arrested, or a warrant for his \r\n                                              arrest may be issued and executed, \r\n                                              and any such person may be \r\n                                              remanded in custody or on bail, \r\n                                              notwithstanding that the consent \r\n                                              of the Attorney-General to the \r\n                                              institution of a prosecution for \r\n                                              the offence has not been obtained, \r\n                                              but no further or other \r\n                                              proceedings shall be taken until \r\n                                              that consent has been obtained.</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—Trials Of Offences \r\n                                              Committed Outside Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An act, omission or thing that \r\n                                              would, by reason of this Act, be \r\n                                              punishable as an offence if \r\n                                              committed in Ghana, shall, if \r\n                                              committed outside Ghana be an \r\n                                              offence against this Act, triable \r\n                                              and punishable in Ghana, in the \r\n                                              following cases:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where the offender at the time \r\n                                              of the commission was a citizen of \r\n                                              the Republic of Ghana within the \r\n                                              meaning of the Ghana Nationality \r\n                                              Act, 1961 (Act 62);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where any code word, password, \r\n                                              sketch, plan, model, article, \r\n                                              note, document, information or \r\n                                              other thing whatsoever in respect \r\n                                              of which an offender is charged \r\n                                              was obtained by him, or depends \r\n                                              upon information that he obtained, \r\n                                              while owing allegiance to the \r\n                                              President or the Republic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13—Place of Offence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purposes of the trial \r\n                                              of a person for an offence under \r\n                                              this Act, the offence shall be \r\n                                              deemed to have been committed \r\n                                              either at the place in which the \r\n                                              same actually was committed, or at \r\n                                              any place in Ghana in which the \r\n                                              offender may be found.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In addition and without \r\n                                              prejudice to any powers that a \r\n                                              Court may possess to order the \r\n                                              exclusion of the public from any \r\n                                              proceedings if, in the course of \r\n                                              proceedings before the Court \r\n                                              against any person for an offence \r\n                                              under this Act or the proceedings \r\n                                              on appeal, application is made by \r\n                                              the prosecution, on the ground \r\n                                              that the publication of any \r\n                                              evidence to be given or of any \r\n                                              statement to be made in the course \r\n                                              of the proceedings would be \r\n                                              prejudicial to the interests of \r\n                                              the Republic, that all or any \r\n                                              portion of the public shall be \r\n                                              excluded during any part of the \r\n                                              hearing, the Court may make an \r\n                                              order to that effect, but the \r\n                                              passing of sentence shall in any \r\n                                              case take place in public.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the person guilty of an \r\n                                              offence under this Act is a \r\n                                              company or corporation, every \r\n                                              director and officer of the \r\n                                              company or corporation shall be \r\n                                              guilty of the like offence unless \r\n                                              he proved that the act or omission \r\n                                              constituting the offence took \r\n                                              place without his knowledge or \r\n                                              consent.</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—Penalties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where no specific penalty is \r\n                                              provided in this Act, any person \r\n                                              who is guilty of an offence under \r\n                                              this Act shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              guilty of an indictable offence \r\n                                              and shall be liable on conviction \r\n                                              on indictment to imprisonment for \r\n                                              a term not exceeding fourteen \r\n                                              years; but such person may, at the \r\n                                              election of the Attorney-General, \r\n                                              be prosecuted summarily in the \r\n                                              manner provided by the provisions \r\n                                              of the Criminal Procedure Code \r\n                                              1960 (Act 30) relating to summary \r\n                                              convictions, and, if so \r\n                                              prosecuted, is punishable by fine \r\n                                              not exceeding five hundred pounds, \r\n                                              or by imprisonment not exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months, or by both such \r\n                                              fine and imprisonment.</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—Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In this Act, unless the \r\n                                              context otherwise requires</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;agent of a foreign power&quot; \r\n                                              includes any person who is or has \r\n                                              been or is reasonably suspected of \r\n                                              being or having been employed by a \r\n                                              foreign power either directly or \r\n                                              indirectly for the purpose of \r\n                                              committing an act whether within \r\n                                              or without Ghana prejudicial to \r\n                                              the safety or interests of the \r\n                                              Republic or who has or is \r\n                                              reasonably suspected of having \r\n                                              either within or without Ghana, \r\n                                              committed, or attempted to commit \r\n                                              such an act in the interest of a \r\n                                              foreign power;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;document&quot; includes part of a \r\n                                              document;</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 internal security;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;model&quot; includes design, pattern \r\n                                              and specimen;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;munitions of war&quot; means arms, \r\n                                              ammunition, implements or \r\n                                              munitions of war, army, naval or \r\n                                              air stores, or any articles deemed \r\n                                              capable of being converted into, \r\n                                              or made useful in the production \r\n                                              thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;offence under this Act&quot; includes \r\n                                              any act, omission, or other thing \r\n                                              that is punishable hereunder;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;office under the Republic&quot; \r\n                                              includes any office or employment \r\n                                              in or under any department or \r\n                                              branch of the Government and any \r\n                                              office or employment in, on or \r\n                                              under any board, commission, \r\n                                              corporation or other body that is \r\n                                              an agent of the Government; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;prohibited place&quot; means</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                                              any work of defence belonging to \r\n                                              or occupied or used by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the Republic including \r\n                                              arsenals, naval, army or air force \r\n                                              establishments or stations, \r\n                                              factories, dockyards, mines, \r\n                                              minefields, camps, ships, \r\n                                              aircraft, telegraph, telephone, \r\n                                              wireless or signal stations or \r\n                                              offices, and places used for the \r\n                                              purpose of building, repairing, \r\n                                              making or storing any munitions of \r\n                                              war or any sketches, plans, \r\n                                              models, or documents relating \r\n                                              thereto, or for the purpose of \r\n                                              getting any metals, oil or \r\n                                              minerals of use in time of war;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) any place not belonging to \r\n                                              the Republic where any munitions \r\n                                              of war or any sketches, models, \r\n                                              plans or documents relating \r\n                                              thereto, are being made, repaired, \r\n                                              gotten or stored under contract \r\n                                              with, or with any person acting on \r\n                                              behalf of the Republic;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) any place that is for the \r\n                                              time being declared by an \r\n                                              executive instrument by the \r\n                                              President to be a prohibited place \r\n                                              on the ground that information \r\n                                              with respect thereto or damage \r\n                                              thereto would be useful to a \r\n                                              foreign power;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;sketch&quot; includes any mode of \r\n                                              representing any place or thing;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;senior police officer&quot; means any \r\n                                              officer of the Police Service not \r\n                                              below the rank of Assistant \r\n                                              Superintendent or any person upon \r\n                                              whom the powers of a senior police \r\n                                              officer are for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act conferred by the \r\n                                              President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Expressions referring to \r\n                                              communicating or receiving include \r\n                                              any communicating or receiving, \r\n                                              whether in whole or in part, and \r\n                                              whether the sketch, plan, model, \r\n                                              article, note, document or \r\n                                              information itself or the \r\n                                              substance, effect, or description \r\n                                              thereof only is communicated or \r\n                                              received; expressions referring to \r\n                                              obtaining or retaining any sketch, \r\n                                              plan, model, article, note, or \r\n                                              document, include the copying or \r\n                                              causing to be copied the whole or \r\n                                              any part of any sketch, plan, \r\n                                              model, article, note, or document; \r\n                                              and expressions referring to the \r\n                                              communication of any sketch, plan, \r\n                                              model, article, note or document \r\n                                              include the transfer or \r\n                                              transmission of the sketch, plan, \r\n                                              model, article, note or document.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16—Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Official Secrets (Northern and \r\n                                              Upper Regions) Ordinance (Cap. 62) \r\n                                              and section 192 of the Criminal \r\n                                              Code (Act 29) are hereby repealed.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="71" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="782" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 101');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(92, 'STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1963 (ACT 215)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1366" 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                                              STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1963 \r\n                                              (ACT 215)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Repeal of obsolete, spent or \r\n                                              unnecessary Enactments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Consequential provisions \r\n                                              relating to Enactments specified \r\n                                              in Paragraph 1 of the Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Transfer of certain Moneys to \r\n                                              the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. 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;Enactment repealed</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule&#8212;Enactments \r\n                                              referred to in section 4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1963</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to revise the statute law \r\n                                              by repealing obsolete, spent or \r\n                                              unnecessary enactments and for \r\n                                              purposes connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 10th December, \r\n                                              1963.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Repeal of Obsolete, \r\n                                              Spent or Unnecessary Enactments.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The enactments specified in the \r\n                                              First Schedule to this Act (which \r\n                                              enactments have become obsolete, \r\n                                              spent or unnecessary) are hereby \r\n                                              repealed.</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;Consequential Provisions \r\n                                              Relating to Enactments Specified \r\n                                              in Paragraph 1 of the Schedule.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The share of the Government of \r\n                                              Ghana in relation to any assets, \r\n                                              liabilities or any property which, \r\n                                              immediately before the coming into \r\n                                              operation of this Act, were vested \r\n                                              in any institute or council \r\n                                              established by or under any of the \r\n                                              repealed enactments specified in \r\n                                              paragraph 1 of the First Schedule \r\n                                              to this Act shall vest in the \r\n                                              Ghana Academy of Sciences \r\n                                              established by the Ghana Academy \r\n                                              of Sciences Instrument, 1963 (E.I. \r\n                                              5).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to such directions as \r\n                                              may be given by the President&#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 employees of any such \r\n                                              institute or council shall, after \r\n                                              the coming into operation of this \r\n                                              Act, continue as employees of the \r\n                                              Ghana Academy of Sciences so far \r\n                                              as this may be practicable; 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) every contract subsisting \r\n                                              between such institute or council \r\n                                              and any other person immediately \r\n                                              before the coming into operation \r\n                                              of this Act shall be deemed to \r\n                                              subsist between the Ghana Academy \r\n                                              of Sciences and any such person.</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 be deemed to have come into \r\n                                              operation on the first day of \r\n                                              January, 1963.</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;Transfer of Certain \r\n                                              Moneys to the Consolidated Fund.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any moneys which, immediately \r\n                                              before the coming into operation \r\n                                              of this Act, remained in the trust \r\n                                              fund established by the \r\n                                              Agricultural and Horticultural \r\n                                              Trust Fund Ordinance (Cap. 161) \r\n                                              shall be transferred to the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund and shall form \r\n                                              part of it.</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;Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding the repeal of the \r\n                                              Administration (Ashanti) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 110) and the Administration \r\n                                              (Northern Territories) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 111), any statutory \r\n                                              instrument made under either of \r\n                                              the said Ordinances 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                                              either of the enactments specified \r\n                                              in the Second Schedule to this \r\n                                              Act. </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                                              ENACTMENT REPEALED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Institute for Trypanosomiasis \r\n                                              Research (Ghana Status) Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 81).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              West African Institute of \r\n                                              Industries, Arts and Social \r\n                                              Science Ordinance (Cap. 116).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              West African Cocoa Research \r\n                                              Institute Ordinance (Cap. 164)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              West African Council for Medical \r\n                                              Research (Ghana Status) Ordinance, \r\n                                              1954 (No. 39).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              West African Institute for Oil \r\n                                              Palm Research (Ghana Status) \r\n                                              Ordinance, 1955 (No. 11).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Statute Law Revision Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 3).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Ashanti Advisory Council (Ashanti) \r\n                                              Ordinance, (Cap. 100).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Administration (Ashanti) \r\n                                              Ordinance, (Cap. 110).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Administration (Northern \r\n                                              Territories) Ordinance (Cap. 111).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Agricultural and Horticultural \r\n                                              Trust Fund Ordinance (Cap. 161).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Importation of Textiles (Quotas) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 171).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Importation of Textiles Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 172).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Importation of Textiles Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 173).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation of Docks Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 243).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1952-53 Appropriation Ordinance, \r\n                                              1952 (No. 9).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Gold Coast Amateur Sports Council \r\n                                              Ordinance, 1952 (No. 14).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1950-51 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation Ordinance, 1952 (No. \r\n                                              25).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Kofi Sechere (Detention and \r\n                                              Removal) (Repeal) Ordinance, 1952 \r\n                                              (No. 31).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1951-52 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation Ordinance, 1952 (No. \r\n                                              53).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Imports and Exports Restriction \r\n                                              (Repeal) Ordinance, 1953 (No. 8).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1953-54 Appropriation Ordinance, \r\n                                              1953 (No. 15).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Pensions (J. A. R. Forster) \r\n                                              Ordinance, 1953 (No. 18).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Geneva and Gin (Restriction of \r\n                                              Importation) (Repeal) Ordinance, \r\n                                              1953 (No. 37).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Kumasi Town Council (Extension and \r\n                                              Validation) Ordinance, 1953 (No. \r\n                                              38).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1952-53 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation Ordinance, 1953 (No. \r\n                                              41).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Agricultural Loans Board (Repeal) \r\n                                              Ordinance, 1954 (No. 3).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1954-55 Appropriation Ordinance, \r\n                                              1954 (No. 8).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Legislation (Amendment) (Executive \r\n                                              Council) Ordinance, 1954 (No. 24).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Revised Edition of the Ordinance \r\n                                              (1952-1954) Supplementary \r\n                                              Ordinance,&nbsp; 1954 (No. 36).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1953-54 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation Ordinance, 1954 (No. \r\n                                              44).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1955-56 Appropriation Ordinance, \r\n                                              1955 (No. 7).&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1954-55 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation Ordinance, 1955 (No. \r\n                                              8).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1954-55 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation (No. 2) Ordinance, \r\n                                              1955 (No. 28).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1955-56 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation Ordinance, 1955 (No. \r\n                                              29).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1956-57 Appropriation Ordinance, \r\n                                              1956 (No. 32).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1955-56 Supplementary \r\n                                              Appropriation (No. 2) Ordinance, \r\n                                              1957 (No. 24).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1957-58 Appropriation Act, 1957 \r\n                                              (No. 6).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Golden Stool of Ashanti \r\n                                              (Detention and Deportation of \r\n                                              Desecrators) Repeal Act, 1957 (No. \r\n                                              33).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Supplementary Appropriation \r\n                                              (1956-57) Act, 1958 (No. 4).\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1958-59 Appropriation Act,&nbsp; (No. \r\n                                              24).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Supplementary Appropriation&nbsp; Act, \r\n                                              1959 (No. 28). </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Kumasi Municipal Council \r\n                                              (Validation of Powers) Act, 1959 \r\n                                              (No. 86).</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                                              &nbsp;SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENACTMENTS REFERRED TO IN SECTION \r\n                                              4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Town and Country Planning \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 84).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Local Government Act, 1961 (Act \r\n                                              54).</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', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 215');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(93, 'STATUTORY CORPORATIONS ACT, 1964 (ACT 232)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1365" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTORY CORPORATIONS ACT, 1964 \r\n                                              (ACT 232)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              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. Power to establish statutory \r\n                                              corporations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Matters for which an instrument \r\n                                              may provide.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. General powers of a \r\n                                              corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Dissolution of a corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Existing corporations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Marketing Corporations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6A.Restriction of execution etc \r\n                                              against statutory corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6B.Miscellaneous provisions \r\n                                              relating to accounts and audits of \r\n                                              statutory corporations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Repeal and saving.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATUTORY CORPORATIONS ACT, \r\n                                              1964</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 with amendments \r\n                                              the Statutory Corporations Act, \r\n                                              1961 (Act 41), to make provision \r\n                                              as respects the continuance of \r\n                                              existing statutory corporations; \r\n                                              and for purposes connected with \r\n                                              the matters aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 6th April, 1964</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Power to Establish \r\n                                              Statutory Corporations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, provide for the \r\n                                              establishment as a body corporate&#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) of an existing organisation or \r\n                                              body, not being already a body \r\n                                              corporate; 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) of a new organisation or body:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that an existing \r\n                                              organisation or body shall not be \r\n                                              so established unless it was \r\n                                              originally constituted by or under \r\n                                              the authority of a Minister or is \r\n                                              required to act in accordance with \r\n                                              directions given by a Minister or \r\n                                              is otherwise under Government \r\n                                              control.</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;Matters for which an \r\n                                              Instrument may Provide.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) An instrument made under the \r\n                                              foregoing section may make \r\n                                              provision for such incidental or \r\n                                              supplementary matters as appear to \r\n                                              the President to be necessary or \r\n                                              expedient for or in connection \r\n                                              with the establishment and \r\n                                              functioning of the corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The incidental or \r\n                                              supplementary matters referred to \r\n                                              in the foregoing subsection \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) the name of the corporation \r\n                                              and the composition and functions \r\n                                              of the corporation and its \r\n                                              governing body;</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 staff of the corporation \r\n                                              (including the transfer to the \r\n                                              corporation of public officers), \r\n                                              their remuneration, pensions and \r\n                                              allowances;</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 application or continued \r\n                                              application as respects any person \r\n                                              employed by the corporation of any \r\n                                              enactment relating to pensions, \r\n                                              with or without modifications;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the provision of finance for \r\n                                              the corporation, including the \r\n                                              provision thereof out of moneys \r\n                                              provided by the National Assembly \r\n                                              or charged upon the Consolidated \r\n                                              Fund;</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 exemption of the property \r\n                                              and activities of the corporation \r\n                                              from any tax, rate or duty, \r\n                                              subject to the prior approval of \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              administering the enactment which \r\n                                              authorises the tax, rate or duty;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the application of any \r\n                                              enactment relating to the \r\n                                              compulsory acquisition of land or \r\n                                              any other property, with or \r\n                                              without modifications; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) the making of bye-laws or \r\n                                              other instruments by the \r\n                                              corporation to regulate matters \r\n                                              falling within the scope of its \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where provision is made in an \r\n                                              instrument for the transfer of \r\n                                              public officers to a corporation, \r\n                                              the employment of such officers by \r\n                                              the corporation shall be deemed to \r\n                                              be approved employment for the \r\n                                              purposes of any enactment relating \r\n                                              to the transfer of such officers \r\n                                              from the Public Service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where an existing organisation \r\n                                              or body is established as a \r\n                                              corporation by an instrument made \r\n                                              under section 1 of this Act, then, \r\n                                              without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section the instrument may \r\n                                              provide for transferring to the \r\n                                              corporation the assets and \r\n                                              liabilities of the existing \r\n                                              organisation or body.</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;General Powers of a \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every corporation established \r\n                                              under this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) shall have perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) may sue and be sued in its own \r\n                                              name;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the instrument by which it was \r\n                                              established shall have power, for \r\n                                              any purpose which, in the opinion \r\n                                              of its governing body, is \r\n                                              necessary or expedient for or in \r\n                                              connection with the proper \r\n                                              exercise of the functions of the \r\n                                              corporation, to acquire and hold \r\n                                              any movable or immoveable \r\n                                              property, to sell, lease, mortgage \r\n                                              or otherwise alienate or dispose \r\n                                              of any such property, and to enter \r\n                                              into any other transaction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Dissolution of a \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The President may by legislative \r\n                                              instrument dissolve a corporation \r\n                                              established or continued in \r\n                                              existence under this Act or a \r\n                                              corporation established by any \r\n                                              instrument made under the \r\n                                              Statutory Corporations Act, 1961 \r\n                                              (Act 41), and may make such \r\n                                              provision as appears to him to be \r\n                                              necessary or expedient for winding \r\n                                              up the affairs of the corporation.</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;Existing Corporations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any corporation established by \r\n                                              an Act and any corporation \r\n                                              established by an instrument made \r\n                                              under the said Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations Act, 1961, being in \r\n                                              either case a corporation which is \r\n                                              in existence immediately before \r\n                                              the coming into operation of this \r\n                                              Act, shall on and after the \r\n                                              relevant date continue in \r\n                                              existence as a corporation \r\n                                              established by an instrument made \r\n                                              under section 1 of this Act; and \r\n                                              accordingly any Act or instrument \r\n                                              by which such a corporation is \r\n                                              established shall on the relevant \r\n                                              date be deemed to be repealed or \r\n                                              revoked (as the case may be).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purpose of continuing \r\n                                              any such corporation in existence \r\n                                              the President shall have power, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, to make \r\n                                              such provisions as appear to him \r\n                                              necessary or expedient for that \r\n                                              purpose and any instrument made \r\n                                              for such purpose shall be deemed \r\n                                              to be an instrument made under \r\n                                              section 1 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section a corporation shall be \r\n                                              regarded as being continued in \r\n                                              existence, notwithstanding that \r\n                                              the name or the&nbsp; composition of \r\n                                              the corporation is changed, if the \r\n                                              object and functions of the \r\n                                              corporation as continued remain \r\n                                              substantially the same as the \r\n                                              objects and functions of the \r\n                                              corporation as originally \r\n                                              established.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) In this section the expression \r\n                                              &quot;the relevant date&quot; means the date \r\n                                              of the coming into operation of a \r\n                                              legislative instrument made for \r\n                                              the purpose mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Marketing Corporations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the case of a corporation \r\n                                              established or continued in \r\n                                              existence under this Act, being a \r\n                                              corporation which has as one of \r\n                                              its objects the regulation of the \r\n                                              marketing or export of any \r\n                                              foodstuff, product or article, the \r\n                                              President shall, without prejudice \r\n                                              to his powers under section 1 or \r\n                                              section 5 of this Act, have power, \r\n                                              in the instrument establishing or \r\n                                              continuing in existence the \r\n                                              corporation,&#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 provide for the manner in \r\n                                              which the price of such foodstuff, \r\n                                              product or article is to be \r\n                                              determined;</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 provide that no person \r\n                                              shall sell or buy such foodstuff, \r\n                                              product or article except in \r\n                                              accordance with the terms of the \r\n                                              instrument; 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 make such other provisions \r\n                                              as appear to him to be necessary \r\n                                              or expedient for the purpose of \r\n                                              enabling the corporation \r\n                                              effectively to perform its \r\n                                              functions in connection with the \r\n                                              regulation of such marketing or \r\n                                              export; and for that purpose to \r\n                                              make provisions affecting persons \r\n                                              generally or any class or \r\n                                              description of person specified in \r\n                                              the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An instrument made under the \r\n                                              foregoing subsection may create \r\n                                              offences for the contravention of \r\n                                              any of its provisions and may \r\n                                              provide a penalty therefor, so \r\n                                              however, that the penalty for any \r\n                                              one such offence shall not exceed, \r\n                                              in the case of a fine, one \r\n                                              thousand pounds, or in the case of \r\n                                              imprisonment, a term of one year, \r\n                                              or both such fine and \r\n                                              imprisonment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6A&#8212;Restriction of \r\n                                              Execution, etc. against Statutory \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In any action, suit or other \r\n                                              proceeding against a statutory \r\n                                              corporation (whether established \r\n                                              by or under this Act or by or \r\n                                              under any other enactment), no \r\n                                              execution or attachment or process \r\n                                              in the nature thereof shall be \r\n                                              issued against that statutory \r\n                                              corporation without the fiat of \r\n                                              the Attorney-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An application for the \r\n                                              Attorney-General''s fiat under this \r\n                                              section shall be in writing \r\n                                              accompanied by a copy of the \r\n                                              relevant judgment and such other \r\n                                              information as the \r\n                                              Attorney-General may request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the Attorney-General \r\n                                              grants his fiat a copy thereof \r\n                                              shall be filed in the Court in \r\n                                              relation to whose judgment the \r\n                                              fiat was sought and a copy shall \r\n                                              be served on the person on whose \r\n                                              behalf the application for the \r\n                                              fiat was made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) As far as practicable, an \r\n                                              application for a fiat under this \r\n                                              section shall be dealt with by the \r\n                                              Attorney-General within one month \r\n                                              after receipt thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the Attorney-General \r\n                                              refuses to grant his fiat under \r\n                                              this section any money which may \r\n                                              by the judgment in question be \r\n                                              awarded against the statutory \r\n                                              corporation shall be paid by the \r\n                                              corporation from its funds. [As \r\n                                              Inserted by the Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations Act, 1964 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree 1972 (NRCD 120) s. 1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6B&#8212;Miscellaneous \r\n                                              Provisions Relating to Accounts \r\n                                              and Audit of Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following provisions of \r\n                                              this section shall apply to every \r\n                                              statutory corporation whose \r\n                                              accounts are required by law to be \r\n                                              audited by the Auditor-General \r\n                                              whether the corporation was \r\n                                              established under this Act or by \r\n                                              or under any other enactment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless the provisions of the \r\n                                              enactment by or under which the \r\n                                              corporation was established or \r\n                                              under which the corporation exists \r\n                                              expressly states otherwise, every \r\n                                              statutory corporation shall cause \r\n                                              to be prepared and submitted to \r\n                                              the Auditor-General for the \r\n                                              purposes of audit by him its draft \r\n                                              accounts not later than three \r\n                                              months after the expiry of the \r\n                                              financial year of the Corporation \r\n                                              to which it relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General to notify the \r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for the \r\n                                              corporation, the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Finance, the Board \r\n                                              or other governing body of the \r\n                                              corporation as well as the \r\n                                              Managing Director or other Chief \r\n                                              Executive of the Corporation, of \r\n                                              any failure by any corporation to \r\n                                              comply with the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where any statutory \r\n                                              corporation fails to submit a \r\n                                              draft of its accounts within the \r\n                                              period prescribed by subsection \r\n                                              (2) of this section, the \r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for the \r\n                                              corporation or the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Finance acting in \r\n                                              consultation with the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for the corporation \r\n                                              (if any) may, in writing, direct \r\n                                              that all the emoluments or any \r\n                                              part thereof of all or any of the \r\n                                              officers responsible for the \r\n                                              preparation and submission of the \r\n                                              draft accounts of the corporation \r\n                                              in question, or of any other \r\n                                              officer in respect of whom the \r\n                                              Commissioner giving the direction \r\n                                              is satisfied that he is \r\n                                              responsible for or has materially \r\n                                              contributed to the failure of the \r\n                                              corporation to comply with the \r\n                                              said subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section, should be withheld until \r\n                                              such time as the draft accounts of \r\n                                              the corporation are duly submitted \r\n                                              to the Auditor-General or such \r\n                                              earlier time as the said \r\n                                              Commissioner may specify and such \r\n                                              direction shall be complied with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The liability of any person to \r\n                                              be dealt with under subsection (4) \r\n                                              of this section shall be without \r\n                                              prejudice to any other liability \r\n                                              of such person whether criminal or \r\n                                              civil.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Except where the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Finance otherwise \r\n                                              directs, no person shall employ \r\n                                              any person who is or was the \r\n                                              accountant of any statutory \r\n                                              corporation or who is or was in \r\n                                              any way responsible for the \r\n                                              keeping or preparation and \r\n                                              submission of the accounts of any \r\n                                              statutory corporation for the \r\n                                              purpose of audit by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General, unless there is \r\n                                              produced to him a certificate \r\n                                              issued by the corporation in \r\n                                              question to the effect that the \r\n                                              person to be employed has, to the \r\n                                              satisfaction of the said \r\n                                              corporation, done all that he was \r\n                                              required to do with respect to the \r\n                                              preparation and submission for \r\n                                              audit by the Auditor-General of \r\n                                              the accounts of the corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) 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 any direction \r\n                                              given under subsection (4) of this \r\n                                              section, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) contravenes the provisions of \r\n                                              subsection (6) of this section,</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 ¢1,000.00 or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding one year or to both. [As \r\n                                              Inserted by the Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 209) s. 1].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Section 6B of the Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations Act, 1965 (Act 232) \r\n                                              as inserted by this Decree shall \r\n                                              apply to the corporations referred \r\n                                              to in subsection (1) of that \r\n                                              section, as if in the case of the \r\n                                              accounts of those corporations for \r\n                                              any financial year of each \r\n                                              corporation which has expired \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Decree, the time within the draft \r\n                                              accounts of the corporation is \r\n                                              required to be submitted to the \r\n                                              Auditor- General by section (2) of \r\n                                              the said section is a period not \r\n                                              later than six months after the \r\n                                              date of publication of this Decree \r\n                                              in the Gazette. [As inserted and \r\n                                              to cited as the Statutory \r\n                                              Corporations (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 209) s. 2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Repeal and Saving.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Statutory Corporations \r\n                                              Act, 1961 (Act 41), is hereby \r\n                                              repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding the said \r\n                                              repeal any instrument made under \r\n                                              that Act and in force immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act shall continue in force until \r\n                                              revoked under section 4 or section \r\n                                              5 of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTORY CORPORATIONS ACT, 1964 \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1972 (NRCD \r\n                                              120)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECRREE 1973 (NRCD 209)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTORY CORPORATIONS (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECRREE 1973 (NRCD 209).2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td width="777" height="50"><p align="center"></table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 232');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(94, 'STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1959 (NO. 52 OF 1959)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1352" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1959 \r\n                                              (NO. 52 OF 1959)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Short Title, Commencement and \r\n                                              Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Statutory Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Legislative Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Executive Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Making of Instruments in \r\n                                              Advance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Limitation of Power to Modify \r\n                                              Acts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Multiple Exercise of Powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Instruments Required to be \r\n                                              Laid before Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Instruments Subject to \r\n                                              Annulment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Reckoning of Time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Commencement of Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Amendment and Revocation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Citation of Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Effect of Failure to Publish \r\n                                              or Lay before Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Power to make Instruments for \r\n                                              Purposes of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17A. Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              NO. 52 OF 1959</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Assented to in Her Majesty''s Name \r\n                                              and on Her Majesty''s behalf this \r\n                                              11th day of November, 1959.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Governor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to amend the law relating \r\n                                              to instruments made under \r\n                                              statutory powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Commencement. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              [11th November, 1959, subject to \r\n                                              section 1(2).]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Queen''s Most \r\n                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the \r\n                                              advice and consent of the National \r\n                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled, and by the \r\n                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Short Title, \r\n                                              Commencement and Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; This Act may be cited as the \r\n                                              Statutory Instruments Act, 1959.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Sections 4, 5, 8 and 17 of \r\n                                              this Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such date as the \r\n                                              Attorney-General may by order \r\n                                              appoint.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Except where otherwise \r\n                                              expressly provided, this Act shall \r\n                                              apply in relation to Acts and \r\n                                              statutory instruments whether \r\n                                              passed or made before or after the \r\n                                              passing of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No. 29 of 1957.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; Sections 12, 13 and 14 of the \r\n                                              Interpretation Act, 1957 are \r\n                                              hereby repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5)&nbsp; In so far as they apply in \r\n                                              relation to statutory instruments, \r\n                                              the following provisions of the \r\n                                              Interpretation Act, 1957 are also \r\n                                              hereby repealed, namely, sections \r\n                                              4 to 10, subsection (2) of section \r\n                                              11 and section 25.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Act&quot; includes an Ordinance and an \r\n                                              Order of Her Majesty in Council;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Assembly&quot; means the National \r\n                                              Assembly;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;enactment&quot; means a provision \r\n                                              contained in an Act, but does not \r\n                                              include any provision laying down \r\n                                              the legislative powers of \r\n                                              Parliament;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;instrument&quot; has its natural \r\n                                              meaning and shall not be construed \r\n                                              by reference to the definition \r\n                                              thereof contained in section 3 of \r\n                                              the Interpretation Act, 1957.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Statutory Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An instrument made (whether \r\n                                              directly or indirectly) under a \r\n                                              power conferred by an enactment \r\n                                              shall be known as a statutory \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Legislative Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Attorney-General may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument declare \r\n                                              that statutory instruments made \r\n                                              under enactments specified therein \r\n                                              are legislative in character and \r\n                                              of sufficient importance to \r\n                                              justify separate publication.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Statutory instruments made \r\n                                              under enactments specified under \r\n                                              subsection (1) or under powers \r\n                                              expressed to be exercisable by \r\n                                              legislative instrument shall be \r\n                                              known as legislative instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; Legislative instruments shall \r\n                                              be published by the Government \r\n                                              Printer and, if a legislative \r\n                                              instrument is published otherwise \r\n                                              than in the Gazette, a notice of \r\n                                              its publication shall be inserted \r\n                                              as soon as may be in the Gazette.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Executive Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Statutory instruments other than \r\n                                              legislative instruments or \r\n                                              instruments of a judicial \r\n                                              character shall be known as \r\n                                              executive instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Making of Instruments in \r\n                                              Advance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              section 13 of this Act, a \r\n                                              statutory instrument may be made \r\n                                              under an enactment contained in \r\n                                              any Act at any time after the \r\n                                              passing of the Act notwithstanding \r\n                                              that the said enactment has not \r\n                                              come into operation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Limitation of Power to \r\n                                              Modify Acts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An enactment conferring power to \r\n                                              make a statutory instrument shall \r\n                                              not be taken to authorise the \r\n                                              inclusion in the instrument of any \r\n                                              provision amending, repealing or \r\n                                              conflicting with any enactment \r\n                                              except as may be expressly stated \r\n                                              in the enactment conferring the \r\n                                              said power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Multiple Exercise of \r\n                                              Powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; A statutory instrument may be \r\n                                              made&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; by one authority under two or \r\n                                              more separate powers;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) by two or more authorities \r\n                                              jointly under one or more separate \r\n                                              powers vested in each of them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) One statutory instrument may \r\n                                              be made under powers variously \r\n                                              expressed as powers to make rules, \r\n                                              regulations or other different \r\n                                              descriptions of legislative \r\n                                              instrument or under powers \r\n                                              variously expressed as powers to \r\n                                              make orders, directions or other \r\n                                              different descriptions of \r\n                                              executive instrument, and the \r\n                                              provisions of the instrument may \r\n                                              be described as being of one of \r\n                                              those descriptions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This subsection shall apply in \r\n                                              relation to a power expressed \r\n                                              merely as a power to make a \r\n                                              legislative instrument or an \r\n                                              executive instrument as it applies \r\n                                              in relation to a power expressed \r\n                                              as a power to make a particular \r\n                                              description of legislative \r\n                                              instrument or executive \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              authorise the making of a \r\n                                              legislative instrument partly \r\n                                              under a power to make an executive \r\n                                              instrument or the making of an \r\n                                              executive instrument partly under \r\n                                              a power to make a legislative \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There may be included in a \r\n                                              statutory instrument containing a \r\n                                              prohibition or requirement, a \r\n                                              provision where a person failing \r\n                                              to comply with that prohibition or \r\n                                              requirement is made liable to \r\n                                              penalties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any penalty prescribed for an \r\n                                              offence by virtue of this section \r\n                                              shall not exceed a fine of ¢5 \r\n                                              million or imprisonment for one \r\n                                              year or both; and in the case of a \r\n                                              continuing offence, an additional \r\n                                              penalty not exceeding ¢100,000.00 \r\n                                              in respect of each day on which \r\n                                              the offence continues may be \r\n                                              prescribed by the instrument. [As \r\n                                              Substituted by the Statutory \r\n                                              Instruments (Amendment) Act, 1997 \r\n                                              (Act 539)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Instruments Required to \r\n                                              be Laid before Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where by any Act a statutory \r\n                                              instrument is required to be laid \r\n                                              before the Assembly after being \r\n                                              made, a copy of the instrument \r\n                                              shall be so laid in accordance \r\n                                              with Standing Orders of the \r\n                                              Assembly at least seven days \r\n                                              before the instrument is to come \r\n                                              into operation:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if a Minister \r\n                                              notifies the Speaker that it is \r\n                                              essential that an instrument \r\n                                              should come into operation before \r\n                                              the preceding provisions of this \r\n                                              section can be complied with, \r\n                                              those provisions need not be \r\n                                              complied with but a copy of the \r\n                                              instrument shall be laid as \r\n                                              aforesaid as soon as is \r\n                                              practicable after it has been \r\n                                              made, whether or not it has \r\n                                              already come into operation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Instruments Subject to \r\n                                              Annulment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where by any Act a statutory \r\n                                              instrument is declared to be \r\n                                              subject to annulment by the \r\n                                              Assembly&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; the instrument shall be laid \r\n                                              before the Assembly after being \r\n                                              made; and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if within twenty days \r\n                                              beginning with the day on which \r\n                                              the instrument is so laid the \r\n                                              Assembly resolves that the \r\n                                              instrument be annulled the \r\n                                              instrument shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              revoked, but without prejudice to \r\n                                              the making of a further \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Reckoning of Time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In reckoning any period of seven \r\n                                              or twenty days for the purpose of \r\n                                              either of the two last preceding \r\n                                              sections, no account shall be \r\n                                              taken of any time during which the \r\n                                              Assembly is dissolved or prorogued \r\n                                              or is adjourned for more than \r\n                                              three days.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Commencement of \r\n                                              Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A statutory instrument shall \r\n                                              come into operation on the date \r\n                                              specified in that behalf in the \r\n                                              instrument or if no date is so \r\n                                              specified, then&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of a legislative \r\n                                              instrument made after the coming \r\n                                              into operation of section 4 of \r\n                                              this Act, [As Inserted by Official \r\n                                              Publication Act, 1959 (No. 85 of \r\n                                              1959) s. 4a].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in any case, on the date on \r\n                                              which thee instrument is made: [As \r\n                                              Substituted by Official \r\n                                              Publication Act, 1959 (No. 85 of \r\n                                              1959) S. 4b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that (No. 85 of 1959) is \r\n                                              made after passing but before the \r\n                                              coming into operation of the \r\n                                              enactment under which it is made, \r\n                                              the instrument whether or not it \r\n                                              is previously published, shall not \r\n                                              come into operation before the \r\n                                              date on which the said enactment \r\n                                              comes into operation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A statutory instrument may \r\n                                              provide that it shall come into \r\n                                              operation on a date earlier than \r\n                                              the making thereof, not being a \r\n                                              date earlier than the coming into \r\n                                              operation of the enactment under \r\n                                              which it is made:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no person shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be guilty of an offence \r\n                                              under the instrument in respect of \r\n                                              anything done or omitted to be \r\n                                              done before the making thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Amendment and \r\n                                              Revocation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an Act confers power to \r\n                                              make a statutory instrument, the \r\n                                              Act shall, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires, be deemed also \r\n                                              to confer power, exercisable by \r\n                                              the like authority and in the like \r\n                                              manner, to amend or revoke the \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Repealed by the Interpretation \r\n                                              Act, (CA 4), s. 34)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a statutory instrument \r\n                                              is amended by an Act or further \r\n                                              statutory instrument the \r\n                                              Attorney-General may authorise the \r\n                                              reprinting of the whole or a part \r\n                                              of the instrument in a form which \r\n                                              gives effect to the amendments \r\n                                              thereto; and when published by \r\n                                              authority the instrument or part \r\n                                              thereof as so reprinted shall be \r\n                                              conclusive evidence of the \r\n                                              provisions of the amended \r\n                                              instrument or part. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Citation of Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be sufficient for all \r\n                                              purposes to cite a statutory \r\n                                              instrument made on or after the \r\n                                              first day of January, 1960, either \r\n                                              by the title set out at the head \r\n                                              of the instrument on publication \r\n                                              or by the number allotted to the \r\n                                              instrument on publication and the \r\n                                              calender year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If an incorrect title is given \r\n                                              to an instrument so made on \r\n                                              publication the authority by whom \r\n                                              the instrument was made may by \r\n                                              notice in the Gazette correct the \r\n                                              title, and subsection (1) shall \r\n                                              thereafter have effect as if the \r\n                                              corrected title had been set out \r\n                                              at the head of the instrument on \r\n                                              publication.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Effect of Failure to \r\n                                              Publish or Lay before Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Failure to observe any requirement \r\n                                              imposed by this or any other Act \r\n                                              as to the publication of a \r\n                                              statutory instrument or the laying \r\n                                              thereof before the Assembly shall \r\n                                              not invalidate the instrument, but \r\n                                              the Assembly may at any time \r\n                                              resolve that an instrument as \r\n                                              respects which any such \r\n                                              requirement has not been observed \r\n                                              shall be deemed never to have come \r\n                                              into operation or shall be deemed \r\n                                              to be revoked.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Power to make \r\n                                              Instruments for Purposes of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Attorney-General may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) amend the provisions or any \r\n                                              Act conferring power to make \r\n                                              statutory instruments, being an \r\n                                              Act passed before the coming into \r\n                                              operation of this section, so as \r\n                                              to bring those provisions into \r\n                                              conformity with this Act or \r\n                                              otherwise for the purposes of this \r\n                                              Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) make such other provision as \r\n                                              appears expedient for the purposes \r\n                                              of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; An instrument made under this \r\n                                              section shall be subject to \r\n                                              annulment by the Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17A&#8212;Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Statutory Instruments (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1991(PNDCL 249).[Inserted and \r\n                                              to be cited as&nbsp; the Statutory \r\n                                              Instruments (Amendment) Act, 1997 \r\n                                              (Act 539), s.2] </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This printed impression has been \r\n                                              carefully compared by me with the \r\n                                              Bill which has passed the National \r\n                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a \r\n                                              true and correctly printed copy of \r\n                                              the said Bill.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              K. B. AYENSU.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS ACT, 1959 \r\n                                              (NO. 85 OF 1959)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              INTERPRETATION ACT, 1960 (C.A. 4)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1997 (ACT 539)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal"></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', '');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(95, 'SURVEY ACT, 1962 (ACT 127)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1372" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SURVEY ACT, 1962 (ACT 127)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              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;GEOLOGICAL AND SOIL SURVEY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Geological Survey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Soil Survey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Notice to be given to Owner of \r\n                                              Land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Penalty for Contravening Part \r\n                                              I.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;DEMARCATION AND SURVEY OF \r\n                                              LANDS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Official Surveyors and Licensed \r\n                                              Surveyors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5A. Licensed Surveyors to Pay \r\n                                              Practising Fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. No Unqualified Person to Survey \r\n                                              Land for the Purpose of Preparing \r\n                                              Plans or to Certify Plans.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Register of Licensed Surveyors.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Licensed Surveyors to Report \r\n                                              Annually.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Records to be Entered in \r\n                                              Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Errors in Survey Work.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Power to Direct Survey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Power to Enter on Lands.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Notice to Procure Attendance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Clearing of Boundary Line.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Compensation for Damage done \r\n                                              by Clearance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Erection of Boundary Marks.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Power to Place Boundary Marks \r\n                                              under Charge of Owners and \r\n                                              Occupiers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Power to Re-Erect and Repair \r\n                                              Boundary Marks.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Duties of Local Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Penalty for Destroying, Etc., \r\n                                              Boundary Marks. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Penalty for Refusing or \r\n                                              Neglecting to Comply with Orders, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22. Penalty for Obstructing \r\n                                              Survey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Penalty for \r\n                                              Non-Standardisation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE SURVEY ACT, 1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to consolidate with \r\n                                              amendments the law relating to \r\n                                              geological, soil and land survey.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 20th June, 1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;GEOLOGICAL AND SOIL SURVEY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Geological Survey</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial">.</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;Geological Survey.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Director of Geological Survey \r\n                                              and every officer of the \r\n                                              Geological Survey Department shall \r\n                                              have the power 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) going to any part of the \r\n                                              surface of any land or any \r\n                                              underground passages or workings \r\n                                              thereunder in order to make \r\n                                              surveys, take samples, make \r\n                                              borings and do and cause to be \r\n                                              done all things necessary for \r\n                                              carrying out the geological survey \r\n                                              of such land or for making any \r\n                                              report thereon; 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) calling for the production of, \r\n                                              inspecting and taking copies or \r\n                                              extracts from, any books, papers, \r\n                                              plans and documents dealing with \r\n                                              prospecting or the operation of \r\n                                              mining on any land which is the \r\n                                              subject of a mining concession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Soil Survey</span></i></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;Soil Survey.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every public officer whose duties \r\n                                              include the survey of soil and who \r\n                                              is authorised by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for soil survey shall \r\n                                              have the power of going to any \r\n                                              part of the surface of any land in \r\n                                              order to make survey, make \r\n                                              borings, dig, take samples and do \r\n                                              and cause to be done all things \r\n                                              necessary for carrying out a soil \r\n                                              survey on such land or making any \r\n                                              report thereon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General Provisions</span></i></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;Notice to be Given to \r\n                                              Owner of Land.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              reasonable notice in writing of an \r\n                                              intention to exercise any of the \r\n                                              powers mentioned in section 1 or 2 \r\n                                              of this Act shall be given to the \r\n                                              local authority in the area who in \r\n                                              turn shall inform the owner or the \r\n                                              person in possession of the land.</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;Penalty for Contravening \r\n                                              Part I.</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) without reasonable excuse \r\n                                              obstructs, resists or interferes \r\n                                              with any of the officers mentioned \r\n                                              in either section 1(a) or section \r\n                                              2 of this Act while such officer \r\n                                              is performing his functions under \r\n                                              this Part; 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) refuses or neglects to produce \r\n                                              any documents required under \r\n                                              section 1(b) of this Act, shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;DEMARCATION AND SURVEY OF \r\n                                              LANDS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Qualification and Registration of \r\n                                              Surveyors</span></i></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;Official Surveyors and \r\n                                              Licensed Surveyors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister to whom functions \r\n                                              under this Act are assigned by the \r\n                                              President (hereinafter in this \r\n                                              Part referred to as the Minister) \r\n                                              may appoint official surveyors, \r\n                                              and the Chief Survey Officer may, \r\n                                              with the prior approval of the \r\n                                              Minister, license private \r\n                                              surveyors, whose functions shall \r\n                                              be to demarcate boundaries and to \r\n                                              make surveys of lands.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5A&#8212;Licensed Surveyors to \r\n                                              Pay Practising Fee.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A surveyor licensed under \r\n                                              section 5 of this Act shall not \r\n                                              perform any functions specified in \r\n                                              that section or section 6, unless \r\n                                              he complies with subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this&nbsp; section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every surveyor referred to \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall pay an annual fee of ¢20.00 \r\n                                              to the Chief Survey Officer on or \r\n                                              before the 31st day of January of \r\n                                              each year:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the fee for the year \r\n                                              1974 shall be paid on or before \r\n                                              the 30th day of September, 1974.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any such surveyor who performs \r\n                                              any functions in contravention of \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              shall be liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              ¢200.00 or to imprisonment for a \r\n                                              term not exceeding six months, and \r\n                                              shall not be entitled to recover \r\n                                              either by civil action or \r\n                                              otherwise, any fee, reward or \r\n                                              disbursement on account of or in \r\n                                              relation to any act done by him in \r\n                                              the course of such practice.[As \r\n                                              inserted by the Survey (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1974 (NRCD 283), s.1]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;No Unqualified Person to \r\n                                              Survey Land for the Purpose of \r\n                                              Preparing Plans or to Certify \r\n                                              Plans</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person other than an \r\n                                              official surveyor, a licensed \r\n                                              surveyor, or any public officer \r\n                                              making or preparing any plan in \r\n                                              the course of his duties as such \r\n                                              shall survey any land for the \r\n                                              purpose of preparing any plan for \r\n                                              attachment to any instrument of \r\n                                              conveyance, leases, assignment, \r\n                                              charge, or transfer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person other than an \r\n                                              official surveyor or a licensed \r\n                                              surveyor shall certify any plan.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person contravening the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred pounds or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding six months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              apply to the mere copying of a \r\n                                              plan.</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;Register of Licensed \r\n                                              Surveyors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A register of licensed \r\n                                              surveyors shall be kept by the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer at Accra; and \r\n                                              all regulations made under this \r\n                                              Part shall be communicated by the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer to every \r\n                                              licensed surveyor on the register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every licensed surveyor shall \r\n                                              keep a copy of such regulations up \r\n                                              to date, and shall produce the \r\n                                              same for inspection by an official \r\n                                              surveyor when called upon so to \r\n                                              do.</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;Licensed Surveyors to \r\n                                              Report Annually.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every licensed surveyor shall \r\n                                              before the 15th day of January in \r\n                                              each year report in writing to the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer at Accra, his \r\n                                              full name and postal address, for \r\n                                              entry in the register, and shall \r\n                                              also likewise so report any \r\n                                              subsequent changes of address or \r\n                                              name that may from time to time \r\n                                              take place.</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;Records to be Entered in \r\n                                              Register.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              record shall be made in the \r\n                                              register referred to in section 7 \r\n                                              of this Act against the name of \r\n                                              any licensed surveyor&#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) who has performed any \r\n                                              creditable work or service under \r\n                                              the Government or public bodies; \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) whose licence has been revoked \r\n                                              or suspended.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              System of Work</span></i></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;Errors in Survey Work.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If the work of a licensed \r\n                                              surveyor has not been performed in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Part of this Act and \r\n                                              regulations made thereunder or the \r\n                                              work is found to contain errors, \r\n                                              the Chief Survey Officer 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) call upon the licensed \r\n                                              surveyor to do the work in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act and regulations made \r\n                                              thereunder, or to rectify the \r\n                                              error, as the case may be; 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) call upon another licensed \r\n                                              surveyor to rectify the error.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an error is rectified \r\n                                              under subsection (1)(b) of this \r\n                                              section the Chief Survey Officer \r\n                                              shall call upon the licensed \r\n                                              surveyor responsible for the error \r\n                                              to pay the expenses of the \r\n                                              rectification.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) If the licensed surveyor \r\n                                              mentioned in subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section fails forthwith to \r\n                                              pay the expenses, the Chief Survey \r\n                                              Officer may as nominal plaintiff \r\n                                              by suit recover with the costs of \r\n                                              the suit the expenses of \r\n                                              rectification.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A certificate signed by the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer certifying \r\n                                              the amount of the expenses \r\n                                              referred to in subsection (2) of \r\n                                              this section shall, without proof \r\n                                              of signature be a prima facie \r\n                                              evidence of the amount due.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A licensed surveyor who \r\n                                              wilfully renders a false \r\n                                              certificate on a plan prepared \r\n                                              under this Act and regulations \r\n                                              made thereunder shall be liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              one hundred pounds or to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term not \r\n                                              exceeding six months.</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;Power to Direct Survey.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chief Survey Officer may, \r\n                                              whenever he thinks fit so to do, \r\n                                              direct that the boundaries of any \r\n                                              land shall be demarcated, or that \r\n                                              a survey shall be made of any \r\n                                              land, or both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Power to Enter on \r\n                                              Lands.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any official or licensed surveyor \r\n                                              may with his agents, servants, and \r\n                                              workmen, enter upon any land which \r\n                                              he is appointed to demarcate or \r\n                                              survey, and may make all enquires \r\n                                              and do or cause to be done all \r\n                                              things necessary for effecting the \r\n                                              demarcation of the boundaries and \r\n                                              the survey of such land.</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;Notice to Procure \r\n                                              Attendance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A surveyor, demarcating or \r\n                                              surveying a land, may cause a \r\n                                              notice to be served on any person \r\n                                              owning, occupying, or otherwise \r\n                                              interested in, any land abutting \r\n                                              thereon, or on any person employed \r\n                                              on or connected with the \r\n                                              management or cultivation of such \r\n                                              land, requiring such persons to \r\n                                              attend personally, or by agent, \r\n                                              before him at such time and place \r\n                                              as may be stated in such notice, \r\n                                              for the purpose of pointing out \r\n                                              the boundaries of such land, or of \r\n                                              affording such information as may \r\n                                              be needed for the purpose of \r\n                                              survey or demarcation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The surveyor may issue a \r\n                                              notice calling upon any person who \r\n                                              in his opinion is able to give any \r\n                                              information respecting the \r\n                                              boundaries of the land, or in \r\n                                              whose possession or power any \r\n                                              document relating to such \r\n                                              boundaries is alleged to be, to \r\n                                              attend before him and give such \r\n                                              information or produce such \r\n                                              document on the date and at a \r\n                                              place specified in the notice.</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;Clearing of Boundary \r\n                                              Line.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person desiring his land \r\n                                              to be either demarcated or \r\n                                              surveyed or both may apply to the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer to have the \r\n                                              land demarcated, surveyed or both, \r\n                                              as the case may be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chief Survey Officer may \r\n                                              require a person making an \r\n                                              application under subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section to clear any \r\n                                              boundary or other line for the \r\n                                              purpose of the demarcation or \r\n                                              survey of the land by cutting down \r\n                                              and removing any trees, bush, \r\n                                              fences, or growing crops.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chief Survey Officer may \r\n                                              when he thinks it necessary employ \r\n                                              labour for the purpose of clearing \r\n                                              any boundary or line mentioned in \r\n                                              subsection (2), in such a case, \r\n                                              the cost of labour shall be borne \r\n                                              by the applicant.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A certificate signed by the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer certifying \r\n                                              the cost of labour shall without \r\n                                              proof of signature be a prima \r\n                                              facie evidence of the cost of \r\n                                              labour.</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;Compensation for Damage \r\n                                              Done by Clearance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where compensation is claimed \r\n                                              as a result of a clearance of any \r\n                                              line in accordance with a \r\n                                              direction of the Chief Survey \r\n                                              Officer under section 11 of this \r\n                                              Act the surveyor shall assess the \r\n                                              value of any trees, bush, fences, \r\n                                              or growing crops which may have \r\n                                              been cut down or removed, and pay \r\n                                              or tender to the owners thereof \r\n                                              the amount of compensation which \r\n                                              in his opinion may be allowed \r\n                                              therefor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any dispute arising concerning \r\n                                              the sufficiency of the amount so \r\n                                              paid or tendered shall be finally \r\n                                              determined by the District \r\n                                              Magistrate of the district upon \r\n                                              application made to him for that \r\n                                              purpose by either of the disputing \r\n                                              parties.</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;Erection of Boundary \r\n                                              Marks.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              surveyor may, if the boundaries of \r\n                                              a land under survey have not \r\n                                              already been correctly marked in \r\n                                              the prescribed manner by the owner \r\n                                              of the land, mark out the \r\n                                              boundaries of the land according \r\n                                              to the manner of marking \r\n                                              prescribed by regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Power to Place Boundary \r\n                                              Marks Under Charge of Owners and \r\n                                              Occupiers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chief Survey Officer may \r\n                                              cause a notice to be served on any \r\n                                              owner or occupier and place under \r\n                                              his charge any boundary marks \r\n                                              erected on the boundary of his \r\n                                              land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every owner or occupier shall \r\n                                              preserve any boundary marks placed \r\n                                              under his charge and shall give \r\n                                              immediate notice to the Chief \r\n                                              Survey Officer if the marks are \r\n                                              damaged, destroyed, removed, or \r\n                                              require repairs.</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;Power to Re-Erect and \r\n                                              Repair Boundary Marks.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever the Chief Survey \r\n                                              Officer becomes aware that any \r\n                                              boundary mark has been damaged, \r\n                                              destroyed, removed, or requires \r\n                                              repair, he may cause the mark to \r\n                                              be re-erected, restored, or \r\n                                              repaired.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chief Survey Officer may \r\n                                              by suit recover with the costs of \r\n                                              the suit all expenses incurred in \r\n                                              respect of the re-erection, \r\n                                              restoration, or repair from the \r\n                                              owner or occupier who was bound to \r\n                                              preserve the mark.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A certificate signed by the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer certifying \r\n                                              the amount of such expenses shall \r\n                                              without proof of signature be \r\n                                              prima facie evidence of the amount \r\n                                              due.</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;Duties of Local \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every local authority shall,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) endeavour to prevent the \r\n                                              destruction, damage, or alteration \r\n                                              of any boundary mark within the \r\n                                              limits of its jurisdiction; 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) whenever it becomes aware that \r\n                                              any such mark has been destroyed, \r\n                                              damaged or altered, report \r\n                                              immediately to the nearest Survey \r\n                                              Division such destruction, damage, \r\n                                              or alteration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Penalties.</span></i></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;Penalty for Destroying, \r\n                                              Etc., Boundary Marks. </span></b>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who wilfully or \r\n                                              unlawfully destroys, moves, or \r\n                                              alters a boundary mark, or who \r\n                                              wilfully destroys, moves, or \r\n                                              alters a survey mark, shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred pounds or to imprisonment \r\n                                              for any term not exceeding six \r\n                                              months, or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Penalty for Refusing or \r\n                                              Neglecting to Comply with Orders, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who fails to comply \r\n                                              with any order, contained in any \r\n                                              notice duly served upon him under \r\n                                              this Act shall be liable to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Penalty for Obstructing \r\n                                              Survey.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If any person wilfully obstructs, \r\n                                              hinders or resists any official or \r\n                                              licensed surveyor in the execution \r\n                                              of his duty in ascertaining and \r\n                                              marking out of boundaries of any \r\n                                              land under the provisions of this \r\n                                              Part, or any workman or other \r\n                                              person acting under the direction \r\n                                              of such surveyor, he shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred pounds.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Penalty for \r\n                                              Non-Standardisation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any licensed surveyor who is at \r\n                                              any time found on inspection by \r\n                                              the Chief Survey Officer or his \r\n                                              representative to be ignorant of \r\n                                              any error of his steel tape or \r\n                                              chain, or to be working with a \r\n                                              tape or chain not properly \r\n                                              compared with an authorised \r\n                                              standard in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of this Part shall be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding ten \r\n                                              pounds for each occasion on which \r\n                                              such offence is committed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General Provisions</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, make Regulations,\r\n                                              </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 forms of \r\n                                              certificate for the certification \r\n                                              of plans by licensed surveyors;</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 submission of \r\n                                              applications for, and the grant \r\n                                              of, a surveyor''s 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) for the method of survey and \r\n                                              supervision of survey work;</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) prescribing fees for survey \r\n                                              work for official and licensed \r\n                                              surveyors;</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) for any matter, including \r\n                                              fees, which is to be prescribed or \r\n                                              is to be provided for by \r\n                                              regulations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) for the conduct and holding of \r\n                                              examinations; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) for giving full 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 25&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;cadastral plan&quot; means a map or \r\n                                              plan purporting to show boundaries \r\n                                              of land with accuracy, and giving \r\n                                              exact measurements by which the \r\n                                              boundaries may be demarcated on \r\n                                              the ground, such map or plan being \r\n                                              made in conformity with the result \r\n                                              of a survey carried out by an \r\n                                              official surveyor or licensed \r\n                                              surveyor to be certified by him, \r\n                                              and requiring, whether made by an \r\n                                              official surveyor or by a licensed \r\n                                              surveyor, to be approved by the \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer or any person \r\n                                              appointed by him for that purpose;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;certified plan&quot; means a map or \r\n                                              plan purporting to show boundaries \r\n                                              of land with accuracy, and giving \r\n                                              exact measurements by which the \r\n                                              boundaries may be demarcated or \r\n                                              redemarcated on the ground, such \r\n                                              plan being certified by a licensed \r\n                                              surveyor in accordance with this \r\n                                              Part;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;plan&quot; includes a map.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The following enactments are \r\n                                              hereby repealed&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Survey Ordinance (Cap. 132).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Geological Survey (Facilities) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 148).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Soil Survey (Facilities) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 156).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every statutory instrument \r\n                                              made or every licence or \r\n                                              certificate granted under an \r\n                                              enactment repealed by this Act and \r\n                                              in force immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made or \r\n                                              granted under the corresponding \r\n                                              provision of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SURVEY (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1974 (NRCD \r\n                                              283)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&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">&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', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 127');
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(96, 'FARM LANDS (PROTECTION) ACT, 1962 (ACT 107)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1318" height="64">\r\n                                              &nbsp;<p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial"><center>\r\n                                              FARM LANDS (PROTECTION) ACT, 1962 \r\n                                              (ACT 107)</center></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Extinguishing Title to Land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Power to Confer Valid Title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE FARM LANDS (PROTECTION) ACT, \r\n                                              1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to protect farmers whose \r\n                                              titles to land are found to be \r\n                                              defective.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 24th February, \r\n                                              1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Extinguishing Title to \r\n                                              Land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where a person, in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as a farmer, acquires \r\n                                              land after the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act for the purposes of \r\n                                              farming and does not farm a part \r\n                                              or the whole of that land for a \r\n                                              period of eight years from the \r\n                                              date of the acquisition, his title \r\n                                              to the whole of the land or that \r\n                                              portion that has not been farmed \r\n                                              shall be deemed for all purposes \r\n                                              to have been extinguished.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Power to Confer Valid \r\n                                              Title.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where a farmer has, in good \r\n                                              faith, at any time after the \r\n                                              thirty-first day of December, \r\n                                              1940, and before the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act, acquired any land by \r\n                                              customary law or otherwise in a \r\n                                              prescribed area for purposes of \r\n                                              farming and has begun farming on \r\n                                              that land within eight years from \r\n                                              the date of such acquisition, this \r\n                                              section shall, notwithstanding any \r\n                                              defect in the title to the \r\n                                              contrary, operate to confer valid \r\n                                              title on such farmer:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the land in question \r\n                                              had not been farmed by any other \r\n                                              person for a period of eight years \r\n                                              previous to the acquisition by the \r\n                                              farmer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there are any \r\n                                              proceedings for vacant possession \r\n                                              on the ground that a person other \r\n                                              than the farmer who acquired the \r\n                                              land under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection is entitled to the land \r\n                                              or proceedings have been \r\n                                              instituted or are instituted by \r\n                                              such farmer on the ground that his \r\n                                              title to the land is being in any \r\n                                              manner challenged, the Court, \r\n                                              where it considers that if this \r\n                                              Act had not been passed a \r\n                                              possession order would fall to be \r\n                                              made by reason that the \r\n                                              acquisition taken by the farmer \r\n                                              did not operate to confer on him \r\n                                              the title to the land, but that to \r\n                                              make an order would cause hardship \r\n                                              and injustice to the person \r\n                                              against whom it would fall to be \r\n                                              made, may, instead of making the \r\n                                              possession order, make an order \r\n                                              providing that the acquisition by \r\n                                              the farmer shall be deemed for all \r\n                                              purposes to have operated to \r\n                                              confer on him the title to the \r\n                                              land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where an order is made under \r\n                                              the immediately preceding \r\n                                              subsection and the Court considers \r\n                                              that the order would by itself \r\n                                              cause hardship and injustice to \r\n                                              any person, the Court may make a \r\n                                              further order requiring the person \r\n                                              in whose favour the order is made \r\n                                              to pay the other person a sum of \r\n                                              money by way of compensation:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the aggregate of any \r\n                                              such sum ordered to be paid under \r\n                                              this section shall not exceed an \r\n                                              amount equal to twice the value of \r\n                                              the consideration paid at the date \r\n                                              of the purported acquisition.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The provisions of this section \r\n                                              shall not apply to any land in \r\n                                              respect of which final judgment \r\n                                              relating to title has been \r\n                                              obtained.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who procures or \r\n                                              attempts to procure any other \r\n                                              person to give up possession of \r\n                                              land by any means other than by \r\n                                              due process of a Court of \r\n                                              competent jurisdiction shall be \r\n                                              guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister responsible for stool \r\n                                              lands may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, prescribe any area to \r\n                                              which the provisions of this Act \r\n                                              shall apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\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">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;possession order&quot;&nbsp; means an order \r\n                                              requiring the delivery up of \r\n                                              possession of land or setting \r\n                                              aside a purchase or acquisition of \r\n                                              land or making a declaration of \r\n                                              title or otherwise in defeasance \r\n                                              of title to land;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;farming&quot; means to plant and \r\n                                              cultivate crops, and cognate \r\n                                              expressions shall be construed \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&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', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 107');
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(97, 'TRUSTEES (INCORPORATION) ACT, 1962 (ACT 106)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1353" 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                                              TRUSTEES (INCORPORATION) ACT, 1962 \r\n                                              (ACT 106)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              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. Grant of certificate of \r\n                                              registration as a body corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1A Application of Act 106 to \r\n                                              Religious Bodies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Vesting of estate in body \r\n                                              corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Particulars respecting \r\n                                              application.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Nomination of trustees and \r\n                                              filling up vacancies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Certificate to be evidence of \r\n                                              compliance with requisitions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Record of applications and \r\n                                              documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Enforcement of conditions of \r\n                                              certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Power to require application \r\n                                              for incorporation or appointment \r\n                                              of trustees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Gifts to vest in body \r\n                                              corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Official seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE HUNDRED AND SIXTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" align="center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"\r\n coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe"\r\n filled="f" stroked="f">\r\n <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>\r\n <v:formulas>\r\n  <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>\r\n </v:formulas>\r\n <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" 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                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 TRUSTEES (INCORPORATION) ACT, \r\n                                              1962</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to re-enact and apply to \r\n                                              the whole of Ghana the law \r\n                                              enabling trustees of voluntary \r\n                                              associations and bodies \r\n                                              established for any religious, \r\n                                              educational, literary, scientific, \r\n                                              sports, social, or charitable \r\n                                              purpose to be incorporated, to \r\n                                              hold land and to have perpetual \r\n                                              succession.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 21st February, \r\n                                              1962</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Grant of Certificate of \r\n                                              Registration as a Body Corporate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The trustees of any \r\n                                              unincorporated voluntary \r\n                                              association of persons or body \r\n                                              established for any religious, \r\n                                              educational, literary, scientific, \r\n                                              sports, social, or charitable \r\n                                              purpose shall apply, in manner \r\n                                              hereinafter mentioned, to the \r\n                                              Minister for a certificate of \r\n                                              registration as a corporate body.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister, having regard to \r\n                                              the extent, nature, and objects \r\n                                              and other circumstances of such \r\n                                              body or association may grant a \r\n                                              certificate accordingly, subject \r\n                                              to such conditions or directions \r\n                                              generally as he thinks fit to \r\n                                              insert in the certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Such conditions or directions \r\n                                              may include, in particular, \r\n                                              provisions relating to the \r\n                                              qualifications and number of the \r\n                                              trustees, their tenure and \r\n                                              vacation of office, the mode of \r\n                                              appointing new trustees, the \r\n                                              custody and use of the official \r\n                                              seal, the amount of the land which \r\n                                              the trustees may hold, and the \r\n                                              purposes for which the land may be \r\n                                              applied.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Upon the grant of the \r\n                                              certificate, the trustees shall \r\n                                              become a body corporate by the \r\n                                              name described in the certificate, \r\n                                              and shall have perpetual \r\n                                              succession and an official seal, \r\n                                              and power to sue and be sued in \r\n                                              such corporate name, and subject \r\n                                              to the conditions and directions \r\n                                              contained in the said certificate, \r\n                                              to hold and acquire, and by \r\n                                              instruments under the official \r\n                                              seal to convey, assign, and demise \r\n                                              any land now or hereafter \r\n                                              belonging to, or held for the \r\n                                              benefit of, that body or \r\n                                              association, in like manner, and \r\n                                              subject to such restrictions and \r\n                                              provisions as the trustees might, \r\n                                              without such incorporation, hold \r\n                                              or acquire, convey or assign, or \r\n                                              demise the land for the purposes \r\n                                              of that body or association.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1A&#8212;Application of Act 106 \r\n                                              to Religious Bodies.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of the Trustees \r\n                                              (Incorporation) Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              106) shall apply to the trustees \r\n                                              of an unincorporated voluntary \r\n                                              association of persons or body \r\n                                              established for a religious \r\n                                              purpose.[Inserted and to be cited \r\n                                              as Trustees (Incorporation) \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1993 (PNDC L 311) \r\n                                              s.1]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Vesting of Estate in \r\n                                              Body Corporate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The certificate of incorporation \r\n                                              shall vest in the body corporate \r\n                                              all land, of what nature and \r\n                                              tenure soever, belonging to or \r\n                                              held by any person or persons in \r\n                                              trust for that body or \r\n                                              association.</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;Particulars Respecting \r\n                                              Application.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An application to the Minister for \r\n                                              a certificate under this Act shall \r\n                                              be in writing, signed by the \r\n                                              person or persons making it, and \r\n                                              shall contain the&nbsp; several \r\n                                              particulars specified in the \r\n                                              Schedule, or such of them as are \r\n                                              applicable to the case. The \r\n                                              Minister may require such \r\n                                              declaration or other evidence in \r\n                                              verification of the statements and \r\n                                              particulars in the application, \r\n                                              and such other particulars, \r\n                                              information, and evidence (if any) \r\n                                              as he thinks proper.</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;Nomination of Trustees \r\n                                              and Filling up Vacancies.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Before a certificate of \r\n                                              incorporation is granted, the \r\n                                              Minister shall be satisfied that \r\n                                              the trustees have been effectually \r\n                                              appointed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a certificate of \r\n                                              incorporation is granted vacancies \r\n                                              in the number of the trustees \r\n                                              shall from time to time be filled \r\n                                              up so far as shall be required by \r\n                                              the constitution or settlement of \r\n                                              the said body or association, or \r\n                                              by any such conditions or \r\n                                              directions as aforesaid, by such \r\n                                              legal means&nbsp; as would have been&nbsp; \r\n                                              available for the appointment of \r\n                                              new trustees of that body or \r\n                                              association if no certificate of \r\n                                              incorporation had been granted, or \r\n                                              otherwise as shall be required by \r\n                                              such conditions or directions as \r\n                                              aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The appointment of every new \r\n                                              trustee shall be certified by, or \r\n                                              by the direction of, the trustees \r\n                                              to the Minister upon the \r\n                                              completion of the appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Within one month after the \r\n                                              expiration of each period of five \r\n                                              years after the grant of a \r\n                                              certificate of incorporation, or \r\n                                              whenever required by the Minister, \r\n                                              a return shall be made to the \r\n                                              Minister by the then trustees of \r\n                                              the names of the trustees at the \r\n                                              expiration of each such period, \r\n                                              with their residences and \r\n                                              additions.</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;Certificate to be \r\n                                              Evidence of Compliance with \r\n                                              Requisitions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              certificate of incorporation so \r\n                                              granted shall be conclusive \r\n                                              evidence that all the preliminary \r\n                                              requisitions herein contained and \r\n                                              required in respect of \r\n                                              incorporation have been complied \r\n                                              with, and the date of \r\n                                              incorporation shall be the date \r\n                                              specified in the certificate.</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;Record of Applications \r\n                                              and Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister shall direct a record \r\n                                              to be kept of all such \r\n                                              applications for and certificates \r\n                                              of incorporation, and shall direct \r\n                                              all documents sent to him under \r\n                                              this Act to be preserved, and any \r\n                                              person may require a copy or \r\n                                              extract of any such document to be \r\n                                              certified under the hand of a \r\n                                              person appointed for that purpose \r\n                                              by the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Enforcement of \r\n                                              Conditions of Certificate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All conditions and directions \r\n                                              inserted in any certificate of \r\n                                              incorporation shall be binding \r\n                                              upon and performed or observed by \r\n                                              the trustees as trusts of the body \r\n                                              or association.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Minister may, whenever he \r\n                                              is of the opinion that conditions \r\n                                              contained in any certificate of \r\n                                              incorporation are not being \r\n                                              complied with or that the \r\n                                              activities of the association or \r\n                                              body, of its trustees, are \r\n                                              contrary to public order or \r\n                                              morality, make application to the \r\n                                              High Court for the certificate to \r\n                                              be cancelled.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A certificate under the hand \r\n                                              of the Minister that the \r\n                                              activities of an association or \r\n                                              body, or of its trustees, are \r\n                                              contrary to public order or \r\n                                              morality shall be sufficient \r\n                                              evidence of the matter so \r\n                                              certified.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The High Court in cancelling a \r\n                                              certificate may make such order as \r\n                                              it thinks fit for the disposal of \r\n                                              both movable and immovable \r\n                                              property held by the trustees.</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;Power to Require \r\n                                              Application for Incorporation or \r\n                                              Appointment of Trustees.</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 executive \r\n                                              instrument, require the trustees \r\n                                              of any association or body to \r\n                                              which section 1 of this Act \r\n                                              applies to apply for incorporation \r\n                                              under that section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the event of there being no \r\n                                              trustees, or of any vacancy in the \r\n                                              number of the trustees, of any \r\n                                              such association or body, the \r\n                                              Minister may by executive \r\n                                              instrument direct the association \r\n                                              or body to appoint trustees, or to \r\n                                              fill up the vacancies, as the case \r\n                                              may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Gifts to Vest in Body \r\n                                              Corporate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              After the incorporation of the \r\n                                              trustees of any association or \r\n                                              body pursuant to this Act, every \r\n                                              donation, gift, and disposition of \r\n                                              land, theretofore lawfully made \r\n                                              (but not having actually taken \r\n                                              effect), or thereafter lawfully \r\n                                              made, by deed, will, or otherwise \r\n                                              to or in favour of that body or \r\n                                              association, or the trustees \r\n                                              thereof, or otherwise for the \r\n                                              purposes thereof, shall take \r\n                                              effect as if the same had been \r\n                                              made to, or in favour of, the \r\n                                              corporate body or otherwise for \r\n                                              the like purposes.</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;Official Seal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The official seal of the body \r\n                                              corporate shall have such device \r\n                                              as may be approved by the \r\n                                              Minister, and until an official \r\n                                              seal is provided the seal of some \r\n                                              person may be authorised by the \r\n                                              Minister for use as the official \r\n                                              seal of the body corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All instruments to which the \r\n                                              official seal of the body \r\n                                              corporate has been affixed, in \r\n                                              apparent compliance with the \r\n                                              regulations for the use of the \r\n                                              official seal referred to in \r\n                                              section 1 of this Act, shall be \r\n                                              binding on the body corporate, \r\n                                              notwithstanding any defect or \r\n                                              circumstances affecting the \r\n                                              execution of the instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#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 for \r\n                                              such matters (including the \r\n                                              charging of fees) as he thinks \r\n                                              proper for the enforcement of 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 12&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;body&quot; includes an office \r\n                                              instituted for any purpose \r\n                                              mentioned in section 1 of this \r\n                                              Act, and &quot;trustee&quot; includes the \r\n                                              occupant of the office;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;body corporate&quot; , in the case of \r\n                                              the incorporation of a sole \r\n                                              trustee, includes a corporation \r\n                                              sole;</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 to \r\n                                              whom functions under this Act are \r\n                                              assigned by the President;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;trustees&quot; includes a sole \r\n                                              trustee.</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;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Land (Perpetual \r\n                                              Succession) Southern Ghana and \r\n                                              Ashanti Ordinance (Cap. 137) is \r\n                                              repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every instrument made under \r\n                                              the repealed enactment and in \r\n                                              force immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall \r\n                                              continue in force as if made under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Section 3)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The objects of the body or \r\n                                              association, and the rules and \r\n                                              regulations of the same, together \r\n                                              with the date of, and parties to, \r\n                                              every deed, will, or other \r\n                                              instrument (if any) creating, \r\n                                              constituting, or regulating the \r\n                                              same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              statement and short description of \r\n                                              the land which at the date of \r\n                                              application is possessed by, or \r\n                                              belonging to, or held on behalf of \r\n                                              the body or association.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The names, residences, and \r\n                                              additions of the trustees of the \r\n                                              body or association.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The proposed title of the body \r\n                                              corporate, of which title the \r\n                                              words &quot;trustee(s)&quot; and \r\n                                              &quot;registered&quot; shall form part, \r\n                                              unless the Minister otherwise \r\n                                              directs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The proposed device of the \r\n                                              official seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The regulations for the custody \r\n                                              and use of the official seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              TRUSTEES (INCORPORATION) \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1993 (PNDCL 311)1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="71" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="782" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 106');
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(98, 'UNIVERSITY OF GHANA ACT, 1961 (ACT 79)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1334" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              UNIVERSITY</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              OF GHANA ACT, 1961 (ACT 79)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              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 University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Aims.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Principal officers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Chairman of University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Vice-Chancellor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Academic Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Registrar.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. General powers of University \r\n                                              Council. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Internal organisation of \r\n                                              University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Property and contracts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Annual report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. University statutes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Abolition of University \r\n                                              College of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Transitional provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule&#8212;University Council</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE SEVENTY-NINTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</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 UNIVERSITY OF GHANA ACT, 1961</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish the University \r\n                                              of Ghana in place of the \r\n                                              University College of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 22nd August, 1961</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of \r\n                                              University.</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                                              university under the name of the \r\n                                              University of Ghana (in this Act \r\n                                              referred to as the University).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The University is a body \r\n                                              corporate, and shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to its other \r\n                                              powers, the University shall have \r\n                                              power to award its own degrees.</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;Aims.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The aims of the University shall \r\n                                              be to provide higher education, to \r\n                                              undertake research, to disseminate \r\n                                              knowledge and to foster \r\n                                              relationships with outside persons \r\n                                              and bodies; and to do so in \r\n                                              accordance with the following \r\n                                              principles&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) that in determining the \r\n                                              subjects to be taught emphasis \r\n                                              should be placed on those which \r\n                                              are of special relevance to the \r\n                                              needs and aspirations of \r\n                                              Ghanaians, including the \r\n                                              furtherance of African unity;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that higher education should \r\n                                              be available to all Ghanaians who \r\n                                              are capable of benefiting from it;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) that so far as practicable \r\n                                              students should be given an \r\n                                              understanding of world affairs, \r\n                                              and in particular of the \r\n                                              histories, institutions and \r\n                                              cultures of African civilisations;</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) that students should be taught \r\n                                              methods of critical and \r\n                                              independent thought, while being \r\n                                              made aware that they have a \r\n                                              responsibility to use their \r\n                                              education for the general benefit;</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) that research should be \r\n                                              undertaken in all subjects which \r\n                                              are taught in the University, but \r\n                                              with special attention to subjects \r\n                                              which relate to the social, \r\n                                              cultural, economic, scientific, \r\n                                              technical and other problems which \r\n                                              exist in Ghana or elsewhere in \r\n                                              Africa;</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) that opportunities for higher \r\n                                              education and research should be \r\n                                              provided for students from other \r\n                                              countries, particularly countries \r\n                                              in Africa; </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) that the fruits of research, \r\n                                              and knowledge generally, should be \r\n                                              spread abroad by the publication \r\n                                              of books and papers and by any \r\n                                              other suitable means;</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) that the University should \r\n                                              develop close relationships with \r\n                                              the people of Ghana and with other \r\n                                              cultural institutions, whether \r\n                                              within Ghana or outside.</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;Principal Officers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The principal officers of the \r\n                                              University shall be the \r\n                                              Chancellor, the Chairman of the \r\n                                              University Council and the \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor.</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;Chancellor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The Head of State shall hold \r\n                                              the office of Chancellor and as \r\n                                              such shall be the head of the \r\n                                              University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; In the absence of the Head of \r\n                                              State the person acting as the \r\n                                              Head of State shall be the \r\n                                              Chancellor. [As subsituted by \r\n                                              University of Ghana (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 PNDCL 239 s. 1(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Chairman of University \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Chairman of the University \r\n                                              Council shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              PNDC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman shall hold office \r\n                                              for two years but shall be \r\n                                              eligible for reappointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;[As subsituted by University of \r\n                                              Ghana (Amendment) Law, 1990 PNDCL \r\n                                              239 s. 1(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Vice-Chancellor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the PNDC on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the University \r\n                                              Council and shall hold office upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as may \r\n                                              be specified in his instrument of \r\n                                              appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Vice-Chancellor shall, \r\n                                              under the direction of the Council \r\n                                              be the academic and administrative \r\n                                              head and chief disciplinary \r\n                                              officer of the University. [As \r\n                                              subsituted by University of Ghana \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1990 PNDCL 239 s. \r\n                                              1(b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A Pro-Vice-Chancellor shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the University \r\n                                              Council in accordance with a \r\n                                              statute in that behalf enacted by \r\n                                              the Council, and shall act as \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor when the post of \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor is vacant or the \r\n                                              Vice-Chancellor is absent or \r\n                                              unable to 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 7&#8212;University Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The governing body of the \r\n                                              University shall be the University \r\n                                              Council which shall consist of the \r\n                                              following members appointed by the \r\n                                              PNDC:</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 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 Vice-Chancellor;</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) two representatives of \r\n                                              Convocation (one of professorial \r\n                                              status and one of non-professorial \r\n                                              status);</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                                              University Teachers Association;</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                                              under-graduate students of the \r\n                                              University;</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                                              post-graduate students of the \r\n                                              University;</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                                              Committee for the Defence of the \r\n                                              Revolution of the University;</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)&nbsp; a representative of the \r\n                                              Teachers and Education Workers \r\n                                              Union;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              a representative of the Education \r\n                                              Commission;</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) a representative of the \r\n                                              Conference of Heads of Assisted \r\n                                              Secondary Schools;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k)&nbsp; a representative of the \r\n                                              Alumni Association of the \r\n                                              University; 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                                              (l)&nbsp;&nbsp; three other persons \r\n                                              including at least one woman. [As \r\n                                              subsituted by University of Ghana \r\n                                              (Amendment) Law, 1990 PNDCL 239 s. \r\n                                              1(c)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Schedule to this Act shall \r\n                                              apply with respect to the members \r\n                                              and meetings of the University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Academic Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be an Academic \r\n                                              Board, which shall be responsible \r\n                                              under the University Council for&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) formulating and carrying out \r\n                                              the academic policy of the \r\n                                              University;</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) devising and regulating \r\n                                              courses of instruction and study, \r\n                                              and supervising research;</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) regulating the conduct of \r\n                                              examinations and the award of \r\n                                              degrees, diplomas and \r\n                                              certificates;</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) advising the University \r\n                                              Council on the admission of \r\n                                              students and the award of \r\n                                              scholarships;</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) reporting on such matters as \r\n                                              may be referred to it by the \r\n                                              University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Academic Board may make \r\n                                              representations to the University \r\n                                              Council on any matter connected \r\n                                              with the University, and shall \r\n                                              have such additional functions as \r\n                                              may be conferred on it by statutes \r\n                                              enacted by the University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Academic Board shall \r\n                                              consist of the Vice-Chancellor and \r\n                                              at least nine other persons drawn \r\n                                              from the academic staff in \r\n                                              accordance with a statute in that \r\n                                              behalf enacted by the University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Registrar.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be a Registrar to the \r\n                                              University, who shall be appointed \r\n                                              by, and act as secretary to, the \r\n                                              University Council. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;General Powers of the \r\n                                              University Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act, the University Council shall \r\n                                              have power to do or provide for \r\n                                              any act or thing in relation to \r\n                                              the University which it considers \r\n                                              necessary or expedient in its \r\n                                              capacity as the governing body, \r\n                                              and the conferring of particular \r\n                                              powers on the Council by other \r\n                                              provisions of this Act shall not \r\n                                              be taken to limit the generality \r\n                                              of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Internal Organisation \r\n                                              of the University.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the University Council \r\n                                              may make such arrangements as it \r\n                                              thinks fit regarding the internal \r\n                                              organisation of the University, \r\n                                              including the establishment, \r\n                                              variation and suppression 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) halls of residence, faculties, \r\n                                              institutes, schools, departments \r\n                                              and other bodies, whether in Accra \r\n                                              or elsewhere;</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) professorships, lectureships \r\n                                              and other posts, whether academic, \r\n                                              administrative 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) fellowships, bursaries, \r\n                                              exhibitions, scholarships, prizes, \r\n                                              honorary degrees and other awards.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In so far as they relate to \r\n                                              matters which in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Council are academic matters, \r\n                                              the Council shall exercise the \r\n                                              powers referred to in the \r\n                                              preceding subsection only after \r\n                                              consultation with the Academic \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 12&#8212;Property and Contracts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The University shall have \r\n                                              power, for any purpose which in \r\n                                              the opinion of the University \r\n                                              Council is necessary or expedient \r\n                                              for or in connection with the \r\n                                              exercise of the functions of the \r\n                                              University, to acquire and hold \r\n                                              any moveable or immoveable \r\n                                              property, to sell, lease, mortgage \r\n                                              or otherwise alienate or dispose \r\n                                              of any such property, and to enter \r\n                                              into any other transaction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the University Council \r\n                                              have resolved that it is necessary \r\n                                              or expedient to acquire any \r\n                                              property under the preceding \r\n                                              subsection the property may be \r\n                                              treated as property required for \r\n                                              the Public Service, and the State \r\n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (C.A. 6) shall apply accordingly, \r\n                                              so however that the provisions of \r\n                                              that Act shall apply with such \r\n                                              modifications as are necessary to \r\n                                              provide for the vesting of \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the University and for the cost of \r\n                                              acquisition to be defrayed by the \r\n                                              University.</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;Accounts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The University Council shall cause \r\n                                              the accounts of the University to \r\n                                              be drawn up, audited and published \r\n                                              annually at such times and in such \r\n                                              manner as the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for Finance may 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;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Within six months after the end of \r\n                                              each academic year the University \r\n                                              Council shall cause a report of \r\n                                              the activities of the University \r\n                                              during that year to be drawn up \r\n                                              and made available to the public.</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;University Statutes.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The University Council may \r\n                                              enact statutes for carrying into \r\n                                              effect the provisions of this Act, \r\n                                              and in particular for&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) regulating the appointment, \r\n                                              conditions of service, termination \r\n                                              of appointment and retirement \r\n                                              benefits of the staff of the \r\n                                              University, and for determining \r\n                                              the persons who form the academic \r\n                                              staff for the purposes 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                                              (b) determining the persons who \r\n                                              are authorised to sign contracts, \r\n                                              cheques and other documents on \r\n                                              behalf of the University, and \r\n                                              otherwise regulating procedure in \r\n                                              relation to transactions entered \r\n                                              into by the University;</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) fixing the academic year of \r\n                                              the University;</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) securing that the seal of the \r\n                                              University is kept in proper \r\n                                              custody and is used only by \r\n                                              authority of the University \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A statute shall be taken to be \r\n                                              enacted if, but only if,&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a draft of the statute has \r\n                                              been circulated to the members of \r\n                                              the council at least fourteen days \r\n                                              before the meeting at which it is \r\n                                              to be considered; 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) after consideration by the \r\n                                              meeting the draft has been \r\n                                              provisionally approved either \r\n                                              without amendment or only with \r\n                                              amendments of which notice in \r\n                                              writing was circulated to the \r\n                                              members at least three days before \r\n                                              the meeting; 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 statute as provisionally \r\n                                              approved has been circulated to \r\n                                              the members of the Council, and \r\n                                              (where in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Council it affects academic \r\n                                              matters) to the members of the \r\n                                              Academic Board, at least seven \r\n                                              days before the meeting at which \r\n                                              it is proposed to confirm the \r\n                                              statute; 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) the statute is confirmed \r\n                                              without amendment at a meeting of \r\n                                              the Council held not less than one \r\n                                              month nor more than six months \r\n                                              after the meeting at which it was \r\n                                              provisionally approved.</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;Abolition of University \r\n                                              College of Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The University College of \r\n                                              Ghana is hereby abolished and the \r\n                                              body corporate styled the Council \r\n                                              of the University College of Ghana \r\n                                              is hereby dissolved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, all property which at \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act was \r\n                                              vested in the Council of the \r\n                                              University College of Ghana or was \r\n                                              in any other manner held on behalf \r\n                                              of, or for the purposes of, the \r\n                                              University College of Ghana, shall \r\n                                              by virtue of this Act similarly \r\n                                              vest in or be held on behalf of, \r\n                                              or for the purposes of, the \r\n                                              University. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, every contract entered \r\n                                              into by the Council of the \r\n                                              University College of Ghana shall \r\n                                              have effect as if entered into by \r\n                                              the University, and all \r\n                                              obligations subsisting against the \r\n                                              said Council shall continue to \r\n                                              subsist against the University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The preceding subsection does \r\n                                              not apply to any contract of \r\n                                              employment, but in respect of any \r\n                                              such contract which was subsisting \r\n                                              at the commencement of this Act \r\n                                              and was not then terminable at the \r\n                                              instance of the said Council by \r\n                                              reason that the other party to the \r\n                                              contract (in this subsection \r\n                                              referred to as the employed \r\n                                              person) had committed misconduct, \r\n                                              or by reason of any other event \r\n                                              that had occurred, the following \r\n                                              provisions shall have effect&#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) unless he has been offered \r\n                                              equivalent employment in Ghana, \r\n                                              the employed person shall be \r\n                                              entitled to compensation of an \r\n                                              amount equal to the amount to \r\n                                              which he would have been entitled \r\n                                              by way of damages if he had been \r\n                                              dismissed by the said Council and \r\n                                              this Act had not passed;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the amount of the compensation \r\n                                              shall, subject to the following \r\n                                              paragraph, be assessed by the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for finance, \r\n                                              and shall be paid by the \r\n                                              Accountant-General out of moneys \r\n                                              provided by the National Assembly;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if a dispute arises as to \r\n                                              whether the employed person has \r\n                                              been offered equivalent employment \r\n                                              in Ghana, or as to the amount of \r\n                                              compensation assessed by the \r\n                                              Minister, the dispute shall be \r\n                                              determined by arbitration;</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) where a dispute is to be \r\n                                              determined by arbitration the \r\n                                              University Council shall appoint \r\n                                              an arbitrator, and where the \r\n                                              dispute is as to whether the \r\n                                              employed person has been offered \r\n                                              equivalent employment in Ghana the \r\n                                              arbitrator, if he finds that such \r\n                                              an offer was not made, shall \r\n                                              include in his award a finding of \r\n                                              the amount of compensation \r\n                                              payable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this \r\n                                              subsection a person shall be taken \r\n                                              to have been offered equivalent \r\n                                              employment in Ghana if, but only \r\n                                              if, he has been offered employment \r\n                                              either in the University of Ghana \r\n                                              or in the University of Science \r\n                                              and Technology, Kumasi on terms \r\n                                              and conditions which, taking them \r\n                                              overall, are not less favourable \r\n                                              to the employed person than the \r\n                                              terms and conditions on which he \r\n                                              was employed in the University \r\n                                              College of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Except where otherwise \r\n                                              provided by this Act, and until \r\n                                              otherwise provided in the exercise \r\n                                              of functions conferred by this \r\n                                              Act, all other matters and things \r\n                                              relating to the University College \r\n                                              of Ghana shall continue as nearly \r\n                                              as may be in relation to the \r\n                                              University.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The University College of \r\n                                              Ghana Ordinance (Cap. 115) is \r\n                                              hereby repealed.</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;Transitional \r\n                                              Provisions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Until the date of the first \r\n                                              meeting of the University Council, \r\n                                              the body appointed by the \r\n                                              President and known as the Interim \r\n                                              Council of the University of Accra \r\n                                              shall have and exercise all the \r\n                                              functions conferred by this Act on \r\n                                              the University Council, and any \r\n                                              act done by the said Interim \r\n                                              Council before that date (whether \r\n                                              before or after the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act) shall have the like \r\n                                              effect as if done by the \r\n                                              University Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purpose of determining \r\n                                              the composition of the University \r\n                                              Council in the first instance, \r\n                                              paragraph (g) of section 7 of this \r\n                                              Act shall not apply and the four \r\n                                              members therein referred to shall \r\n                                              be elected before the first \r\n                                              meeting of the University Council \r\n                                              in accordance with arrangements \r\n                                              made by the Interim Council and, \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything in the \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act, shall hold \r\n                                              office for one year only, but \r\n                                              shall be eligible for re-election.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              the Schedule to this Act, the term \r\n                                              of office of the first members of \r\n                                              the University Council to be \r\n                                              appointed or elected under section \r\n                                              7 of this Act shall be one year \r\n                                              only in the case of the following, \r\n                                              who shall nevertheless be eligible \r\n                                              for re-appointment or re-election&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              two persons nominated by the \r\n                                              Chancellor out of the four \r\n                                              appointed by him;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii)&nbsp; the person elected by a body \r\n                                              representative of heads of \r\n                                              secondary 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                                              (iii) the two persons with the \r\n                                              lowest number of votes out of the \r\n                                              four elected by members of the \r\n                                              staff of the University, the \r\n                                              choice being by lot in the case of \r\n                                              equal votes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The University Council&#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) shall enact the statute \r\n                                              referred to in section 7 (1) (g) \r\n                                              of this Act within one year after \r\n                                              the commencement thereof;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) shall enact the statutes \r\n                                              referred to in sections 6 (3) and \r\n                                              8 (3) of this Act within three \r\n                                              months after the commencement \r\n                                              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 18&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into operation \r\n                                              on such date as the President may \r\n                                              by legislative instrument appoint.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE&#8212;UNIVERSITY COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Members</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The terms of office of a person \r\n                                              who is a member of the Council \r\n                                              other than the Vice-Chancellor \r\n                                              shall be two years but such person \r\n                                              shall be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. If an appointed or elected \r\n                                              member (other than a member \r\n                                              elected by the Council) is absent \r\n                                              from Ghana for a continuous period \r\n                                              of twelve months his office shall \r\n                                              become vacant at the end of that \r\n                                              period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Where the office of an \r\n                                              appointed or elected member \r\n                                              becomes vacant on his death or \r\n                                              resignation, or by virtue of the \r\n                                              preceding paragraph, a successor \r\n                                              shall be appointed or elected in \r\n                                              the same manner to serve for the \r\n                                              remainder of the term of office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Where an appointed or elected \r\n                                              member is temporarily absent from \r\n                                              Ghana a substitute may be \r\n                                              appointed or elected in the same \r\n                                              manner to act for him during his \r\n                                              absence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. An appointment or election may \r\n                                              be made in anticipation of the \r\n                                              vacation of office or temporary \r\n                                              absence of a member.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. A member whose office has or \r\n                                              will become vacant shall be \r\n                                              eligible for re-appointment or \r\n                                              re-election.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. No member shall hold office \r\n                                              under more than one provision of \r\n                                              section 7 of this Act, and if a \r\n                                              person is appointed or elected \r\n                                              under more than one provision he \r\n                                              shall notify the Council under \r\n                                              which provision he chooses to hold \r\n                                              office and another person shall \r\n                                              thereupon be appointed or elected \r\n                                              under the other provision.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. No act of the Council shall be \r\n                                              invalidated by vacancies in its \r\n                                              membership or defects in the \r\n                                              appointment or election of any of \r\n                                              its members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. No member of the Council shall \r\n                                              be entitled to remuneration in \r\n                                              respect of his membership, but \r\n                                              members shall be entitled to such \r\n                                              travelling and subsistence \r\n                                              allowances (if any) as the Council \r\n                                              may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Meetings</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. The Council shall meet at \r\n                                              least three times in every \r\n                                              academic year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. A meeting may be convened by \r\n                                              any of the principal officers of \r\n                                              the University, and shall be \r\n                                              convened if eight members of the \r\n                                              Council sign a requisition to that \r\n                                              effect.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. If the Chancellor is present \r\n                                              at a meeting of the Council he \r\n                                              shall act as chairman, but if the \r\n                                              Chancellor is not present the \r\n                                              Chairman of the Council shall act \r\n                                              as chairman unless he also is \r\n                                              absent, in which case the members \r\n                                              present shall elect a chairman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. The quorum at meetings of the \r\n                                              Council shall be eight.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Questions shall be decided by \r\n                                              a simple majority of votes cast.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. The chairman shall have an \r\n                                              original vote and a casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, the \r\n                                              Registrar and a representative of \r\n                                              the Ministry of Education shall \r\n                                              attend meetings of the Council but \r\n                                              shall not vote on any matter \r\n                                              before the Council.[As subsituted \r\n                                              by University of Ghana (Amendment) \r\n                                              Law, 1990 PNDCL 239 s. 1(d)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              LAW, 1990 (PNDCL 239)1.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 79');
