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                                              <b>
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                                              STATE SECRETS ACT, 1962 (ACT 101)</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              1. Acts prejudicial to Republic.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. Address of agent of foreign 
                                              power.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. Wrongful communication, etc., 
                                              of information.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. Unauthorized use of uniforms; 
                                              falsification of reports, forgery, 
                                              personation and false documents.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. Interfering with officers of 
                                              the police or members of the Armed 
                                              Forces.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              6. Production of telegrams.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. Harbouring spies.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. Attempts, incitements, etc.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              9. Arrest without warrant.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              10. Search warrants.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              11. Consent of Attorney-General to 
                                              prosecutions.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              12. Trial of offences committed 
                                              outside Ghana.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              13. Place of offence.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              14. Penalties.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              15. Interpretation.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              16. Repeal.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              THE HUNDRED AND FIRST</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE 
                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ENTITLED</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              THE STATE SECRETS ACT, 1962</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AN ACT respecting State Secrets.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 20th February, 
                                              1962</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and 
                                              the National Assembly in this 
                                              present Parliament assembled as 
                                              follows:—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 1—Acts Prejudicial to 
                                              Republic.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who, for any 
                                              purpose prejudicial to the safety 
                                              or interests of the Republic—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) approaches, inspects, passes 
                                              over, or is in the neighbourhood 
                                              of, or enters any prohibited 
                                              place;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) makes any sketch, plan, model 
                                              or note that is calculated to be 
                                              or might be or is intended to be 
                                              directly or indirectly useful to a 
                                              foreign power; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) obtains, collects, records, or 
                                              publishes or communicates in 
                                              whatever manner to any other 
                                              person any secret official code 
                                              word, or password, or any sketch, 
                                              plan, model, article, or note, or 
                                              other document or information that 
                                              is calculated to be or might be or 
                                              is intended to be directly or 
                                              indirectly useful to a foreign 
                                              power; </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) It shall not be necessary, on 
                                              a prosecution under this section, 
                                              to show that the accused person 
                                              was guilty of any particular act 
                                              tending to show a purpose 
                                              prejudicial to the safety or 
                                              interests of the Republic, and, 
                                              notwithstanding that no such act 
                                              is proved against him, he may be 
                                              convicted if, from the 
                                              circumstances of the case, or his 
                                              conduct, or his known character as 
                                              proved, it appears that his 
                                              purpose was a purpose prejudicial 
                                              to the safety or interests of the 
                                              Republic.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where any sketch, plan, model, 
                                              article, note, document or 
                                              information relating to or used in 
                                              any prohibited place, or anything 
                                              in such a place, or any secret 
                                              official code word or password is 
                                              made, obtained, collected, 
                                              recorded, published or 
                                              communicated by any person other 
                                              than a person acting under lawful 
                                              authority, it shall be deemed to 
                                              have been made, obtained, 
                                              collected, recorded, published or 
                                              communicated for a purpose 
                                              prejudicial to the safety or 
                                              interests of the Republic unless 
                                              the contrary is proved by the 
                                              person accused.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) In any proceedings against a 
                                              person for an offence under this 
                                              section, the fact that he has been 
                                              in communication with, or 
                                              attempted to communicate with, an 
                                              agent of a foreign power, whether 
                                              within or without Ghana, shall be 
                                              evidence that he has, for a 
                                              purpose prejudicial to the safety 
                                              or interests of the Republic 
                                              obtained or attempted to obtain 
                                              information that is calculated to 
                                              be or might be or is intended to 
                                              be directly or indirectly useful 
                                              to a foreign power.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) For the purposes of this 
                                              section, but without prejudice to 
                                              the generality of the foregoing 
                                              provisions,</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) a person shall, unless he 
                                              proves the contrary, be deemed to 
                                              have been in communication with an 
                                              agent of a foreign power if,
                                              </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              he has, either within or without 
                                              Ghana, visited the address of an 
                                              agent of a foreign power or 
                                              consorted or associated with such 
                                              agent; or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) either within or without 
                                              Ghana, the name or&nbsp; address of, or 
                                              any other information regarding 
                                              such an agent has been found in 
                                              his possession, or has been 
                                              supplied by him to any other 
                                              person, or has been obtained by 
                                              him from any other person.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (6) Without prejudice to the 
                                              generality of the foregoing 
                                              provisions any act done without 
                                              reasonable excuse by a public 
                                              officer which amounts to a failure 
                                              to perform in a proper manner any 
                                              duty imposed upon him as such 
                                              under this Act or which is 
                                              otherwise prejudicial to the 
                                              efficient operation of this Act 
                                              shall constitute an offence under 
                                              this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (7) A public officer who commits 
                                              an offence under the immediately 
                                              preceding subsection shall be 
                                              liable to any of the following 
                                              penalties, that is to say,</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) dismissal, that is termination 
                                              of appointment with forfeiture of 
                                              all retirement benefits;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) removal, that is termination 
                                              of appointment with or without a 
                                              reduction in retirement benefits;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) reduction in rank, that is 
                                              removal to another grade with an 
                                              immediate reduction of salary;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) reduction of salary, that is 
                                              an immediate adjustment of salary 
                                              to a lower point on the salary 
                                              scale attached to the post in 
                                              question;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) deferment of increment, that 
                                              is a postponement of the date on 
                                              which the next increment is due, 
                                              with corresponding postponements 
                                              in subsequent years;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) stoppage of increment, that is 
                                              non-payment for a specified period 
                                              of an increment otherwise due;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g) in the case of persons holding 
                                              category D posts, suspension from 
                                              duty with consequent loss of pay 
                                              and allowances for a period not 
                                              exceeding fourteen days;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) reprimand.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (8) The President shall be the 
                                              disciplinary authority for the 
                                              purposes of subsection (7) of this 
                                              section but may at any time 
                                              delegate the exercise of his 
                                              disciplinary authority to any 
                                              person so appointed.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 2—Address of Agent of 
                                              Foreign Power.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Any address, whether within or 
                                              without Ghana, reasonably 
                                              suspected of being an address used 
                                              for the receipt of communications 
                                              intended for an agent of a foreign 
                                              power, or any address at which 
                                              such an agent resides, or to which 
                                              he resorts for the purpose of 
                                              giving or receiving 
                                              communications, or at which he 
                                              carries on any business, shall be 
                                              deemed to be the address of an 
                                              agent of a foreign power, and 
                                              communications addressed to the 
                                              address to be communications with 
                                              the agent.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 3—Wrongful Communication, 
                                              Etc., of Information.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who, having in his 
                                              possession, or control, any secret 
                                              official code word, or password, 
                                              or any sketch, plan, model, 
                                              article, note, document or 
                                              information that relates to or is 
                                              used in a prohibited place or 
                                              anything in such a place, or that 
                                              has been made or obtained in 
                                              contravention of this Act, or that 
                                              has been entrusted in confidence 
                                              to him by any person holding 
                                              office under the Republic or owing 
                                              to his position as a person who 
                                              holds or has held office under the 
                                              Republic, or as a person who holds 
                                              or has held a contract made on 
                                              behalf of the Republic, or a 
                                              contract the performance of which 
                                              in whole or in part is carried out 
                                              in a prohibited place, or as a 
                                              person who is or has been employed 
                                              under a person who holds or has 
                                              held such an office or contract,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) communicates the code word, 
                                              password, sketch, plan, model, 
                                              article, note, document or 
                                              information to any person, other 
                                              than a person to whom he is 
                                              authorized to communicate with, or 
                                              a person to whom it is in the 
                                              interest of the Republic his duty 
                                              to communicate it;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) uses the information in his 
                                              possession for the benefit of any 
                                              foreign power or in any other 
                                              manner;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) retains the sketch, plan, 
                                              model, article, note, or document 
                                              in his possession or control when 
                                              he has no right to retain it or 
                                              when it is contrary to his duty to 
                                              retain it or fails to comply with 
                                              all directions issued by lawful 
                                              authority with regard to the 
                                              return or disposal thereof; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) fails to take reasonable care 
                                              of, or so conducts himself as to 
                                              endanger the safety of, the 
                                              sketch, plan, model, article, note 
                                              document, secret official code 
                                              word or password or information, 
                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any person who, having in his 
                                              possession or control any sketch, 
                                              plan, model, article, note, 
                                              document or information that 
                                              relates to munitions of war, 
                                              communicates it directly or 
                                              indirectly to any foreign power, 
                                              or in any other manner prejudicial 
                                              to the safety or interests of the 
                                              Republic, commits an offence under 
                                              this Act.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Any person who receives any 
                                              secret official code word, or 
                                              password, or sketch, plan, model, 
                                              article, note, document or 
                                              information, knowing or having 
                                              reasonable grounds to believe, at 
                                              the time when he receives it, that 
                                              the code word, password, sketch, 
                                              plan, model, article, note, 
                                              document or information is 
                                              communicated to him in 
                                              contravention of this Act, commits 
                                              an offence under this Act, unless 
                                              he proves that the communication 
                                              to him of the code word, password, 
                                              sketch, plan, model, article, 
                                              note, document or information was 
                                              contrary to his desire.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Any person who or—</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) retains for any purpose 
                                              prejudicial to the safety or 
                                              interests of the Republic any 
                                              official document, whether or not 
                                              completed or issued for use, when 
                                              he has no right to retain it, or 
                                              when it is contrary to his duty to 
                                              retain it, or fails to comply with 
                                              any directions issued by any 
                                              Government department or any 
                                              person authorized by such 
                                              department with regard to the 
                                              return or disposal thereof; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) allows any other person to 
                                              have possession of any official 
                                              document issued for his use alone, 
                                              or communicates any secret 
                                              official code word or password so 
                                              issued, or, without lawful 
                                              authority or excuse, has in his 
                                              possession any official document 
                                              or secret official code word or 
                                              password issued for the use of 
                                              some person other than himself, or 
                                              on obtaining possession of any 
                                              official document by finding or 
                                              otherwise, neglects or fails to 
                                              restore it to the person or 
                                              authority by whom or for whose use 
                                              it was issued, or to a police 
                                              constable, </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 4—Unauthorized Use of 
                                              Uniforms; Falsification of 
                                              Reports, Forgery, Personation and 
                                              False Documents.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who, for the 
                                              purpose of gaining admission, or 
                                              of assisting any other person to 
                                              gain admission, to a prohibited 
                                              place, or for any other purpose 
                                              prejudicial to the safety or 
                                              interests of the Republic,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) uses or wears, without lawful 
                                              authority, any naval, army, air 
                                              force, police or other official 
                                              uniform or any uniform so nearly 
                                              resembling the same as to be 
                                              calculated to deceive, or falsely 
                                              represents himself to be a person 
                                              who is or has been entitled to use 
                                              or wear any such uniform;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) orally, or in writing in any 
                                              declaration or application, or in 
                                              any document signed by him or on 
                                              his behalf, knowingly makes or 
                                              connives at the making of any 
                                              false statement or any omission;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) forges, alters, or tampers 
                                              with any passport or any naval, 
                                              army, air force, police or 
                                              official pass, permit, 
                                              certificate, licence or other 
                                              document of a similar character 
                                              (hereinafter in this section 
                                              referred to as an official 
                                              document), or uses or has in his 
                                              possession any such forged, 
                                              altered, or irregular official 
                                              document;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) personates, or falsely 
                                              represents himself to be a person 
                                              holding, or in the employment of a 
                                              person holding office under the 
                                              Republic, or to be or not to be a 
                                              person to whom an official 
                                              document or secret official code 
                                              word or password has been duly 
                                              issued or communicated, or with 
                                              intent to obtain an official 
                                              document, secret official code 
                                              word or password, whether for 
                                              himself or any other person, 
                                              knowingly makes any false 
                                              statement; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) uses, or has in his possession 
                                              or under his control, without the 
                                              authority of the Government 
                                              department or the authority 
                                              concerned, any die, seal, or stamp 
                                              of or belonging to, or used, made, 
                                              or provided by any Government 
                                              department, or by any diplomatic, 
                                              naval, army, or air force 
                                              authority appointed by or acting 
                                              under the authority of the 
                                              President, or any die, seal or 
                                              stamp, so nearly resembling any 
                                              such die, seal or stamp as to be 
                                              calculated to deceive, or 
                                              counterfeits any such die, seal or 
                                              stamp, or uses, or has in his 
                                              possession, or under his control, 
                                              any such counterfeited die, seal 
                                              or stamp,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any person who, without lawful 
                                              authority or excuse, manufactures 
                                              or sells, or has in his possession 
                                              for sale, any such die, seal or 
                                              stamp as aforesaid, commits an 
                                              offence under this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 5—Interfering with 
                                              Officers of the Police or Members 
                                              of the Armed Forces.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No person in the vicinity of any 
                                              prohibited place shall obstruct, 
                                              knowingly mislead or otherwise 
                                              interfere with or impede any 
                                              constable or police officer, or 
                                              any member of the Armed Forces 
                                              engaged on guard, sentry, patrol, 
                                              or other similar duty in relation 
                                              to the prohibited place, and every 
                                              person who acts in contravention 
                                              of, or fails to comply with, this 
                                              provision, commits an offence 
                                              under this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 6—Production of Telegrams.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where it appears to the 
                                              Attorney-General that such a 
                                              course is expedient in the public 
                                              interest, he may, by warrant under 
                                              his hand, require any person who 
                                              owns or controls any telegraphic 
                                              cable or wire, or any apparatus 
                                              for wireless telegraphy, used for 
                                              the sending or receipt of 
                                              telegrams to or from any place out 
                                              of Ghana, to produce to him, or to 
                                              any person named in the warrant, 
                                              the originals and transcripts, 
                                              either of all telegrams, or of 
                                              telegrams of any specified class 
                                              or description, or of telegrams 
                                              sent from or addressed to any 
                                              specified person or place, sent to 
                                              or received from any place out of 
                                              Ghana by means of any such cable, 
                                              wire, or apparatus and all other 
                                              papers relating to any such 
                                              telegram as aforesaid.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any person who, on being 
                                              required to produce any such 
                                              original or transcript or paper as 
                                              aforesaid, refuses or neglects to 
                                              do so commits an offence under 
                                              this Act, and is for each offence, 
                                              liable on summary conviction to 
                                              imprisonment, with or without hard 
                                              labour, for a term not exceeding 
                                              three months, or to a fine not 
                                              exceeding two hundred pounds, or 
                                              to both such imprisonment and 
                                              fine.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 7—Harbouring Spies. </span>
                                              </b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Any person who knowingly harbours 
                                              any person whom he knows, or has 
                                              reasonable grounds for supposing, 
                                              to be a person who is about to 
                                              commit or who has committed an 
                                              offence under this Act, or 
                                              knowingly permits to meet or 
                                              assemble in any premises in his 
                                              occupation or under his control 
                                              any such persons, and every person 
                                              who, having harboured any such 
                                              person, or permitted to meet or 
                                              assemble in any premises in his 
                                              occupation or under his control 
                                              any such persons, wilfully omits 
                                              or refuses to disclose to a senior 
                                              police officer any information 
                                              that it is in his power to give in 
                                              relation to any such person, 
                                              commits an offence under this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 8—Attempts, Incitements, 
                                              Etc.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Any person who attempts to commit 
                                              any offence under this Act, or 
                                              solicits or incites or endeavours 
                                              to persuade another person to 
                                              commit an offence, or aids or 
                                              abets or does any act preparatory 
                                              to the commission of an offence 
                                              under this Act, commits an offence 
                                              under this Act and is liable to 
                                              the same punishment, and to be 
                                              proceeded against in the same 
                                              manner, as if he had committed the 
                                              offence.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 9—Arrest without Warrants.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who is found 
                                              committing an offence under this 
                                              Act, or who is reasonably 
                                              suspected of having committed, or 
                                              having attempted to commit, or 
                                              being about to commit, such an 
                                              offence, may be arrested without a 
                                              warrant and detained by any 
                                              constable or police officer for a 
                                              period not exceeding seventy-two 
                                              hours.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any person arrested under the 
                                              provisions of the preceding 
                                              subsection shall be brought before 
                                              a District Magistrate on the 
                                              expiry of the period of 
                                              seventy-two hours whether or not 
                                              the police enquiries are 
                                              completed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 10—Search Warrants.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) If a District Magistrate is 
                                              satisfied by information on oath 
                                              that there is reasonable ground 
                                              for suspecting that an offence 
                                              under this Act has been or is 
                                              about to be committed, he may 
                                              grant a search warrant authorizing 
                                              any constable named therein, to 
                                              enter at any time any premises or 
                                              place named in the warrant, if 
                                              necessary by force, and to search 
                                              the premises or place and every 
                                              person found therein, and to seize 
                                              any sketch, plan, model, article, 
                                              note or document, or anything that 
                                              is evidence of an offence under 
                                              this Act having been or being 
                                              about to be committed, that he may 
                                              find on the premises or place or 
                                              on any such person, and with 
                                              regard to or in connection with 
                                              which he has reasonable grounds 
                                              for suspecting that an offence 
                                              under this Act has been or is 
                                              about to be committed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where it appears to a senior 
                                              police officer that the case is 
                                              one of great emergency and that in 
                                              the interest of the Republic 
                                              immediate action is necessary, he 
                                              may by a written order under his 
                                              hand give to any constable the 
                                              like authority as may be given by 
                                              the warrant of a District 
                                              Magistrate under this section.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 11—Consent of 
                                              Attorney-General to Prosecution.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) A prosecution for an offence 
                                              under this Act shall not be 
                                              instituted except by or with the 
                                              consent of the Attorney-General.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) A person charged with an 
                                              offence under this Act may be 
                                              arrested, or a warrant for his 
                                              arrest may be issued and executed, 
                                              and any such person may be 
                                              remanded in custody or on bail, 
                                              notwithstanding that the consent 
                                              of the Attorney-General to the 
                                              institution of a prosecution for 
                                              the offence has not been obtained, 
                                              but no further or other 
                                              proceedings shall be taken until 
                                              that consent has been obtained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 12—Trials Of Offences 
                                              Committed Outside Ghana.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              An act, omission or thing that 
                                              would, by reason of this Act, be 
                                              punishable as an offence if 
                                              committed in Ghana, shall, if 
                                              committed outside Ghana be an 
                                              offence against this Act, triable 
                                              and punishable in Ghana, in the 
                                              following cases:—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) where the offender at the time 
                                              of the commission was a citizen of 
                                              the Republic of Ghana within the 
                                              meaning of the Ghana Nationality 
                                              Act, 1961 (Act 62);</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) where any code word, password, 
                                              sketch, plan, model, article, 
                                              note, document, information or 
                                              other thing whatsoever in respect 
                                              of which an offender is charged 
                                              was obtained by him, or depends 
                                              upon information that he obtained, 
                                              while owing allegiance to the 
                                              President or the Republic.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 13—Place of Offence.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) For the purposes of the trial 
                                              of a person for an offence under 
                                              this Act, the offence shall be 
                                              deemed to have been committed 
                                              either at the place in which the 
                                              same actually was committed, or at 
                                              any place in Ghana in which the 
                                              offender may be found.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In addition and without 
                                              prejudice to any powers that a 
                                              Court may possess to order the 
                                              exclusion of the public from any 
                                              proceedings if, in the course of 
                                              proceedings before the Court 
                                              against any person for an offence 
                                              under this Act or the proceedings 
                                              on appeal, application is made by 
                                              the prosecution, on the ground 
                                              that the publication of any 
                                              evidence to be given or of any 
                                              statement to be made in the course 
                                              of the proceedings would be 
                                              prejudicial to the interests of 
                                              the Republic, that all or any 
                                              portion of the public shall be 
                                              excluded during any part of the 
                                              hearing, the Court may make an 
                                              order to that effect, but the 
                                              passing of sentence shall in any 
                                              case take place in public.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where the person guilty of an 
                                              offence under this Act is a 
                                              company or corporation, every 
                                              director and officer of the 
                                              company or corporation shall be 
                                              guilty of the like offence unless 
                                              he proved that the act or omission 
                                              constituting the offence took 
                                              place without his knowledge or 
                                              consent.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 14—Penalties.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where no specific penalty is 
                                              provided in this Act, any person 
                                              who is guilty of an offence under 
                                              this Act shall be deemed to be 
                                              guilty of an indictable offence 
                                              and shall be liable on conviction 
                                              on indictment to imprisonment for 
                                              a term not exceeding fourteen 
                                              years; but such person may, at the 
                                              election of the Attorney-General, 
                                              be prosecuted summarily in the 
                                              manner provided by the provisions 
                                              of the Criminal Procedure Code 
                                              1960 (Act 30) relating to summary 
                                              convictions, and, if so 
                                              prosecuted, is punishable by fine 
                                              not exceeding five hundred pounds, 
                                              or by imprisonment not exceeding 
                                              twelve months, or by both such 
                                              fine and imprisonment.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 15—Interpretation.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) In this Act, unless the 
                                              context otherwise requires</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;agent of a foreign power&quot; 
                                              includes any person who is or has 
                                              been or is reasonably suspected of 
                                              being or having been employed by a 
                                              foreign power either directly or 
                                              indirectly for the purpose of 
                                              committing an act whether within 
                                              or without Ghana prejudicial to 
                                              the safety or interests of the 
                                              Republic or who has or is 
                                              reasonably suspected of having 
                                              either within or without Ghana, 
                                              committed, or attempted to commit 
                                              such an act in the interest of a 
                                              foreign power;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;document&quot; includes part of a 
                                              document;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister 
                                              responsible for internal security;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;model&quot; includes design, pattern 
                                              and specimen;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;munitions of war&quot; means arms, 
                                              ammunition, implements or 
                                              munitions of war, army, naval or 
                                              air stores, or any articles deemed 
                                              capable of being converted into, 
                                              or made useful in the production 
                                              thereof;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;offence under this Act&quot; includes 
                                              any act, omission, or other thing 
                                              that is punishable hereunder;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;office under the Republic&quot; 
                                              includes any office or employment 
                                              in or under any department or 
                                              branch of the Government and any 
                                              office or employment in, on or 
                                              under any board, commission, 
                                              corporation or other body that is 
                                              an agent of the Government; </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;prohibited place&quot; means</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              any work of defence belonging to 
                                              or occupied or used by or on 
                                              behalf of the Republic including 
                                              arsenals, naval, army or air force 
                                              establishments or stations, 
                                              factories, dockyards, mines, 
                                              minefields, camps, ships, 
                                              aircraft, telegraph, telephone, 
                                              wireless or signal stations or 
                                              offices, and places used for the 
                                              purpose of building, repairing, 
                                              making or storing any munitions of 
                                              war or any sketches, plans, 
                                              models, or documents relating 
                                              thereto, or for the purpose of 
                                              getting any metals, oil or 
                                              minerals of use in time of war;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) any place not belonging to 
                                              the Republic where any munitions 
                                              of war or any sketches, models, 
                                              plans or documents relating 
                                              thereto, are being made, repaired, 
                                              gotten or stored under contract 
                                              with, or with any person acting on 
                                              behalf of the Republic;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) any place that is for the 
                                              time being declared by an 
                                              executive instrument by the 
                                              President to be a prohibited place 
                                              on the ground that information 
                                              with respect thereto or damage 
                                              thereto would be useful to a 
                                              foreign power;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;sketch&quot; includes any mode of 
                                              representing any place or thing;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;senior police officer&quot; means any 
                                              officer of the Police Service not 
                                              below the rank of Assistant 
                                              Superintendent or any person upon 
                                              whom the powers of a senior police 
                                              officer are for the purposes of 
                                              this Act conferred by the 
                                              President.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Expressions referring to 
                                              communicating or receiving include 
                                              any communicating or receiving, 
                                              whether in whole or in part, and 
                                              whether the sketch, plan, model, 
                                              article, note, document or 
                                              information itself or the 
                                              substance, effect, or description 
                                              thereof only is communicated or 
                                              received; expressions referring to 
                                              obtaining or retaining any sketch, 
                                              plan, model, article, note, or 
                                              document, include the copying or 
                                              causing to be copied the whole or 
                                              any part of any sketch, plan, 
                                              model, article, note, or document; 
                                              and expressions referring to the 
                                              communication of any sketch, plan, 
                                              model, article, note or document 
                                              include the transfer or 
                                              transmission of the sketch, plan, 
                                              model, article, note or document.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 16—Repeal.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Official Secrets (Northern and 
                                              Upper Regions) Ordinance (Cap. 62) 
                                              and section 192 of the Criminal 
                                              Code (Act 29) are hereby repealed.</span></td>
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