                                     (c) that more than one-half of the \r\n                                              assets which, on a liquidation \r\n                                              thereof, would be available for \r\n                                              distribution after the payment of \r\n                                              creditors would be receivable \r\n                                              directly or indirectly by or for \r\n                                              the benefit of Ghana residents; 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) that more than one-half&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              of the interest payable on its \r\n                                              loans and loan capital, if any; 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) of the dividends payable on \r\n                                              its preference share capital, if \r\n                                              any; 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                                              (iii) of the dividends payable on \r\n                                              its share capital, if any, not \r\n                                              being preference share capital, is \r\n                                              receivable, directly or \r\n                                              indirectly, by or for the benefit \r\n                                              of Ghana residents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Where the identity of the \r\n                                              persons by whom or for whose \r\n                                              benefit any sum, assets, interest \r\n                                              or dividends are directly or \r\n                                              indirectly receivable depends on \r\n                                              the exercise by a Ghana resident \r\n                                              of a power of appointment or \r\n                                              similar power, the sum, assets, \r\n                                              interest or dividends shall, for \r\n                                              the purposes of this Schedule, be \r\n                                              deemed to be receivable directly \r\n                                              or indirectly by or for the \r\n                                              benefit of Ghana residents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BLOCKED ACCOUNTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. In this Schedule, the \r\n                                              expression &quot;a blocked account&quot; \r\n                                              means an account opened as a \r\n                                              blocked account at an office or \r\n                                              branch in Ghana in favour of any \r\n                                              person by a banker authorised by \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana to open blocked \r\n                                              accounts, and the expression &quot;the \r\n                                              banker&quot; means, in relation to any \r\n                                              person, a banker who opens a \r\n                                              blocked account in favour of that \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Where a direction is given that \r\n                                              a payment is to be made to a \r\n                                              blocked account only, then, \r\n                                              subject to the next following \r\n                                              paragraph&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the manner in which the \r\n                                              payment may be made shall be \r\n                                              either&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              to the banker, with a direction \r\n                                              that it is to be credited to a \r\n                                              blocked account of that person \r\n                                              (which direction may, in the case \r\n                                              of a payment by means of a cheque \r\n                                              or warrant, be made by marking the \r\n                                              cheque or warrant with the words \r\n                                              &quot;blocked account of&quot; [naming the \r\n                                              person in question] or words to \r\n                                              the same effect); 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) by a crossed cheque or \r\n                                              warrant drawn in favour of that \r\n                                              person, marked with the words \r\n                                              &quot;payable only to blocked account \r\n                                              of payee&quot; or words to the same \r\n                                              effect; 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) the sum collected shall be \r\n                                              credited by the banker to a \r\n                                              blocked account of that person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Where a direction is given that \r\n                                              a sum is to be paid or credited to \r\n                                              a blocked account only, then, \r\n                                              notwithstanding the direction, the \r\n                                              sum may, with the consent of the \r\n                                              person to whom it is to be paid or \r\n                                              credited, and subject to the \r\n                                              requirements of Part IV of this \r\n                                              Act, be invested instead in the \r\n                                              purchase for that person of any \r\n                                              such investments as may be \r\n                                              prescribed for the purposes of \r\n                                              paragraph (a) of the proviso to \r\n                                              the next following paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Any sum standing to the credit \r\n                                              of a blocked account shall not be \r\n                                              dealt with except with the consent \r\n                                              of the Bank of Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that, subject to \r\n                                              compliance with the requirements \r\n                                              of Part IV of this Act&#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 whole or any part of any \r\n                                              such sum may, at the request of \r\n                                              the person in whose name the \r\n                                              account stands, be invested \r\n                                              through the banker in such \r\n                                              investments as may be prescribed; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) nothing in this Schedule shall \r\n                                              be construed as restricting the \r\n                                              manner in which the investments \r\n                                              acquired may be dealt with.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Where a person in whose name a \r\n                                              blocked account is standing dies \r\n                                              or becomes subject to the Ghana \r\n                                              law of insolvency, the banker may, \r\n                                              notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              paragraph 4 of this Schedule, \r\n                                              transfer the account to the name \r\n                                              of the person charged with \r\n                                              administering his assets, but, \r\n                                              save as aforesaid, no change \r\n                                              shall, except with the consent of \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana, be made in the \r\n                                              name in which the account stands; \r\n                                              and where any such change is made \r\n                                              (whether or not the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana is necessary \r\n                                              therefor) the account shall remain \r\n                                              a blocked account notwithstanding \r\n                                              the change, and the provisions of \r\n                                              this Schedule shall apply \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Where&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a sum is due from any person \r\n                                              to any other person but the Bank \r\n                                              of Ghana directs that it shall be \r\n                                              paid or credited to a blocked \r\n                                              account only; 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) the person to whom the sum is \r\n                                              due nominates such an account to \r\n                                              the person from whom the sum is \r\n                                              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                                              the last mentioned person is under \r\n                                              a duty to the person to whom the \r\n                                              sum is due to cause the sum to be \r\n                                              paid or credited to that blocked \r\n                                              account, and the crediting of any \r\n                                              sum to a blocked account in \r\n                                              pursuance of a direction of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana shall, to the extent \r\n                                              of the sum credited, be a good \r\n                                              discharge to the person from whom \r\n                                              the sum is due:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that in the case of a sum \r\n                                              due under a contract&nbsp; this \r\n                                              paragraph shall not apply in so \r\n                                              far as it is shown to be \r\n                                              inconsistent with the intention of \r\n                                              the parties that it should apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. The provisions of Part II of \r\n                                              this Act shall apply to sums \r\n                                              required to be paid by any \r\n                                              judgment or order of any court or \r\n                                              by any award as they apply in \r\n                                              relation to other sums, and it \r\n                                              shall be implied in any judgment \r\n                                              or order of any court in Ghana, \r\n                                              and in any award given under the \r\n                                              law of Ghana, that any sum \r\n                                              required to be paid by the \r\n                                              judgment, order or award (whether \r\n                                              as a debt, as damages or \r\n                                              otherwise) to which the said \r\n                                              provisions apply shall not be paid \r\n                                              except with the consent of the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Nothing in this Act shall be \r\n                                              construed as preventing the \r\n                                              payment by any person of any sum \r\n                                              into any court in Ghana but the \r\n                                              provisions of Part II of this Act \r\n                                              shall apply to the payment of any \r\n                                              sum out of court, whether under an \r\n                                              order of the court or otherwise, \r\n                                              to or for the credit of any \r\n                                              external resident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Without prejudice to any \r\n                                              enactment relating to the making \r\n                                              of rules of court, rules of court \r\n                                              may be made&#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) enabling any person who is \r\n                                              required by any judgment, order or \r\n                                              award to pay any sum, if he \r\n                                              apprehends that the payment of \r\n                                              that sum is unlawful under this \r\n                                              Act except with consent, to pay \r\n                                              that sum into court; and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) declaring that payment of a \r\n                                              sum into court by virtue of the \r\n                                              preceding sub-paragraph, together \r\n                                              with the delivery to the other \r\n                                              party concerned of such evidence \r\n                                              of the payment as may be \r\n                                              prescribed by the rules, shall, to \r\n                                              the extent of the payment, be a \r\n                                              good discharge to the person \r\n                                              making the payment; 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) so regulating the process of \r\n                                              execution which may issue in \r\n                                              respect of any sum required to be \r\n                                              paid by any judgment, order or \r\n                                              award as to secure that, unless it \r\n                                              is shown, in such manner as may be \r\n                                              prescribed by the rules, that \r\n                                              consent for the payment of the sum \r\n                                              is not required or has been given \r\n                                              without conditions, the proceeds \r\n                                              of the execution will be paid into \r\n                                              court, and, so far as is necessary \r\n                                              for that purpose, varying the form \r\n                                              of any writ of execution or other \r\n                                              similar document or the duties of \r\n                                              the sheriff or other officer to \r\n                                              whom any such writ or other \r\n                                              similar document is directed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. (1) In any proceedings in a \r\n                                              prescribed court and in any \r\n                                              arbitration proceedings, a claim \r\n                                              for the recovery of any debt shall \r\n                                              not be defeated by reason only of \r\n                                              the debt not being payable without \r\n                                              consent and of consent not having \r\n                                              been given or having been revoked.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No court shall be prescribed \r\n                                              for the purpose of this paragraph \r\n                                              unless the Minister is satisfied \r\n                                              that adequate provision has been \r\n                                              made therefor by rules of court \r\n                                              for the purposes specified under \r\n                                              the last preceding paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. (1) In any insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings, in the winding up of \r\n                                              any company or in the \r\n                                              administration of the estate of \r\n                                              any deceased person (being \r\n                                              proceedings, a winding up or any \r\n                                              administration carried on under \r\n                                              the law of Ghana), a claim for a \r\n                                              sum not payable without consent \r\n                                              shall, notwithstanding that \r\n                                              consent has not been given or has \r\n                                              been revoked, be admitted to proof \r\n                                              as if it had been given and had \r\n                                              not been revoked:</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 nothing in this \r\n                                              sub-paragraph shall be construed \r\n                                              as affecting the application of \r\n                                              the provisions of Part II of this \r\n                                              Act to payments by any trustee, \r\n                                              liquidator, personal \r\n                                              representative or other person in \r\n                                              any such proceedings, winding up \r\n                                              or administration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The provisions of this Act \r\n                                              restricting the making of \r\n                                              settlements shall not apply to any \r\n                                              deed of arrangement made for the \r\n                                              benefit of creditors generally, \r\n                                              and the provisions of \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) of this \r\n                                              paragraph shall apply in relation \r\n                                              to proceedings under any deed of \r\n                                              arrangement as they apply in \r\n                                              relation to insolvency \r\n                                              proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. In paragraphs 3 to 5 of this \r\n                                              Schedule &quot;consent&quot; means consent \r\n                                              required by or under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENFORCEMENT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212; GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO \r\n                                              EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. (1) Without prejudice to any \r\n                                              other provisions of this Act, the \r\n                                              Minister may give to any person in \r\n                                              or resident in Ghana directions \r\n                                              requiring him within such time and \r\n                                              in such manner as may be specified \r\n                                              in the directions, to furnish to \r\n                                              the Minister, or to any person \r\n                                              designated in the directions as a \r\n                                              person authorised to require it, \r\n                                              any information in his possession \r\n                                              or control which the Minister or \r\n                                              the person so authorised, as the \r\n                                              case may be, may require for the \r\n                                              purpose of securing compliance \r\n                                              with or detecting evasion of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person required by any such \r\n                                              directions as aforesaid to furnish \r\n                                              information shall also produce \r\n                                              such books, accounts or other \r\n                                              documents (hereafter in this Part \r\n                                              of this Schedule referred to as \r\n                                              &quot;documents&quot;) in his possession or \r\n                                              control as may be required for the \r\n                                              said purpose by the Minister or by \r\n                                              the person authorised to require \r\n                                              the information, as the case may \r\n                                              be.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Nothing in the preceding \r\n                                              provisions of this paragraph shall \r\n                                              be taken to require any person who \r\n                                              has acted as counsel or solicitor \r\n                                              for any person to disclose any \r\n                                              privileged communication made to \r\n                                              him in that capacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a person is convicted on \r\n                                              indictment for failing to give \r\n                                              information or produce documents \r\n                                              when required so to do under this \r\n                                              paragraph, the court may make an \r\n                                              order requiring the offender, \r\n                                              within such period as may be \r\n                                              specified in the order, to comply \r\n                                              with the requirement to give the \r\n                                              information or produce the \r\n                                              documents.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. (1) If a district magistrate is \r\n                                              satisfied by information on oath \r\n                                              given by a person authorised by \r\n                                              the Minister to act for the \r\n                                              purposes of this paragraph either&#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 there is reasonable \r\n                                              ground for suspecting that an \r\n                                              offence against this Act has been \r\n                                              or is being committed and that \r\n                                              evidence of the commission of the \r\n                                              offence is to be found at any \r\n                                              premises specified in the \r\n                                              information, or in any vehicle, \r\n                                              vessel or aircraft so specified; \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) that any documents which ought \r\n                                              to have been produced under the \r\n                                              preceding paragraph and have not \r\n                                              been produced are to be found at \r\n                                              any such premises or in any such \r\n                                              vehicle, vessel or aircraft,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              he may grant a search warrant \r\n                                              authorising any police officer, \r\n                                              together with any other persons \r\n                                              named in the warrant and any other \r\n                                              police officers, to enter the \r\n                                              premises specified in the \r\n                                              information or, as the case may \r\n                                              be, any premises upon which the \r\n                                              vehicle, vessel or aircraft so \r\n                                              specified may be, at any time \r\n                                              within one month from the date of \r\n                                              the warrant, and to search the \r\n                                              premises, or, as the case may be, \r\n                                              the vehicle, vessel or aircraft.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person authorised by any \r\n                                              such warrant as aforesaid to \r\n                                              search any premises or any \r\n                                              vehicle, vessel or aircraft, may \r\n                                              search every person who is found \r\n                                              in, or whom he has reasonable \r\n                                              ground to believe to have recently \r\n                                              left or to be about to enter, \r\n                                              those premises or that vehicle, \r\n                                              vessel or aircraft, as the case \r\n                                              may be, and may seize any article \r\n                                              found in the premises or in the \r\n                                              vehicle, vessel or aircraft which \r\n                                              he has reasonable ground for \r\n                                              believing to be evidence of the \r\n                                              commission of any offence against \r\n                                              this Act, or any documents which \r\n                                              he has reasonable ground for \r\n                                              believing ought to have been \r\n                                              produced under the preceding \r\n                                              paragraph:</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 no female shall, in \r\n                                              pursuance of any warrant issued \r\n                                              under this paragraph, be searched \r\n                                              except by a female.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where, by virtue of this \r\n                                              paragraph, a person has any power \r\n                                              to enter any premises he may use \r\n                                              such force as is reasonably \r\n                                              necessary for the purpose of \r\n                                              exercising that power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. (1) Any article coming into the \r\n                                              possession of an executive \r\n                                              authority (whether in consequence \r\n                                              of the seizure of the article \r\n                                              under or by virtue of this Act or \r\n                                              otherwise) which the authority has \r\n                                              reasonable ground for believing to \r\n                                              be evidence of the commission of \r\n                                              an offence against this Act may be \r\n                                              retained for a period of three \r\n                                              months or, if within that period \r\n                                              there are commenced proceedings in \r\n                                              respect of such an offence in \r\n                                              which the article is, or can \r\n                                              properly be, adduced in evidence, \r\n                                              until the final determination of \r\n                                              those proceedings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              paragraph, any person to whom any \r\n                                              powers under this Act are \r\n                                              delegated or on whom any functions \r\n                                              are conferred by or by virtue of \r\n                                              this Act, including any police \r\n                                              officer, shall be deemed to be an \r\n                                              executive authority.</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                                              paragraph, any proceedings shall \r\n                                              be deemed not to have been finally \r\n                                              determined so long as there is \r\n                                              pending any appeal in the matter \r\n                                              of the proceedings, and an appeal \r\n                                              in that matter shall be deemed to \r\n                                              be pending during the ordinary \r\n                                              time within which such an appeal \r\n                                              may be lodged, and, if such appeal \r\n                                              is duly lodged, the appeal shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be pending until it \r\n                                              is decided or withdrawn.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The powers conferred by this \r\n                                              paragraph in relation to any \r\n                                              article shall be in addition to, \r\n                                              and not in derogation of, any \r\n                                              powers otherwise exercisable in \r\n                                              relation thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. No person in or resident in \r\n                                              Ghana shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) with intent to evade the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, destroy, \r\n                                              mutilate, deface, secrete or \r\n                                              remove any documents;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in furnishing any information \r\n                                              for any of the purposes of this \r\n                                              Act, make any statement which he \r\n                                              knows to be false in a material \r\n                                              particular, or recklessly make any \r\n                                              statement which is false in a \r\n                                              material particular;</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) obstruct any person in the \r\n                                              exercise of any powers conferred \r\n                                              on him by virtue of this Part of \r\n                                              this Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO \r\n                                              OFFENCES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. (1) Any person in or resident \r\n                                              in Ghana who contravenes any \r\n                                              restriction or requirement imposed \r\n                                              by or under this Act, and any such \r\n                                              person who conspires or attempts, \r\n                                              or aids, abets, counsels or \r\n                                              procures any other person, to \r\n                                              contravene any such restriction or \r\n                                              requirement as aforesaid, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence punishable \r\n                                              under this Part of this Schedule:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a person shall not by virtue \r\n                                              of any direction given under this \r\n                                              Act be convicted of an offence \r\n                                              against this Act if he proves that \r\n                                              he did not know, and did not avoid \r\n                                              getting to know, of the direction;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) an offence punishable by \r\n                                              virtue of Part III of this \r\n                                              Schedule shall not be punishable \r\n                                              under this Part of this Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an offence punishable \r\n                                              under this Part of this Schedule \r\n                                              has been committed by a body \r\n                                              corporate, any person who at the \r\n                                              time of the commission of the \r\n                                              offence was a director, general \r\n                                              manager, secretary or other \r\n                                              similar officer of the body \r\n                                              corporate, or was purporting to \r\n                                              act in any such capacity, shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be guilty of that \r\n                                              offence, unless he proves that the \r\n                                              contravention was committed \r\n                                              without his consent or connivance \r\n                                              and that he exercised all such \r\n                                              diligence to prevent the \r\n                                              commission of the offence as he \r\n                                              ought to have exercised having \r\n                                              regard to the nature of his \r\n                                              functions in that capacity and to \r\n                                              all the circumstances.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Repealed by Exchange Control \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1977 (SMCD 99) \r\n                                              s. 2(a)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a corporation is charged \r\n                                              with an offence under this \r\n                                              Schedule the corporation may enter \r\n                                              in writing by its representative a \r\n                                              plea of guilty or not guilty, and \r\n                                              if either the corporation does not \r\n                                              appear by representative or, \r\n                                              though it does so appear, fails to \r\n                                              enter a plea as aforesaid, the \r\n                                              Court shall order a plea of not \r\n                                              guilty to be entered and the trial \r\n                                              shall proceed as though the \r\n                                              corporation had duly entered a \r\n                                              plea of not guilty. [As \r\n                                              Substituted by Exchange Control \r\n                                              (Amendment)&nbsp; Decree, 1977 (SMCD \r\n                                              99) s. 2b].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any summons and any other \r\n                                              document addressed to a \r\n                                              corporation may be served upon the \r\n                                              corporation by leaving it at, or \r\n                                              sending it by post to the \r\n                                              registered office of the \r\n                                              corporation or, if there is no \r\n                                              such office in Ghana, by leaving \r\n                                              it at or sending it by post to, \r\n                                              the corporation at any place in \r\n                                              Ghana at which it trades or \r\n                                              carries on business. [As \r\n                                              Substituted by Exchange Control \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1977 (SMCD 99) \r\n                                              s. 2b].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) In this paragraph the \r\n                                              expression &quot;representative&quot; in \r\n                                              relation to a corporation means a \r\n                                              person duly appointed by the \r\n                                              corporation to represent it for \r\n                                              the purpose of doing any act or \r\n                                              thing which the representative of \r\n                                              a corporation is by this Part of \r\n                                              this Schedule authorised to do, \r\n                                              but a person so appointed shall \r\n                                              not, by virtue only of being so \r\n                                              appointed, be qualified to act on \r\n                                              behalf of the corporation before \r\n                                              any court for any other purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              representative for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Part of this Schedule need \r\n                                              not be appointed under the seal of \r\n                                              the corporation, and a statement \r\n                                              in writing purporting to be signed \r\n                                              by a managing director of the \r\n                                              corporation or by any person (by \r\n                                              whatever name called) having, or \r\n                                              being one of the persons having, \r\n                                              the management of the affairs of \r\n                                              the corporation, to the effect \r\n                                              that the person named in the \r\n                                              statement has been appointed as \r\n                                              the representative of the \r\n                                              corporation for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Part of this Schedule shall \r\n                                              be admissible without further \r\n                                              proof as prima facie evidence that \r\n                                              that person has been so appointed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Any person who commits an \r\n                                              offence punishable under this Part \r\n                                              of this Schedule shall be liable \r\n                                              on summary conviction to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not less than three \r\n                                              years and not exceeding seven \r\n                                              years without the option of a \r\n                                              fine:</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 court convicting \r\n                                              a person under this subparagraph \r\n                                              may impose a term of imprisonment \r\n                                              less than three years or a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding ¢20,000.00 or both \r\n                                              if satisfied on grounds stated \r\n                                              that the offence was trivial or \r\n                                              that there are special \r\n                                              circumstances relating to the \r\n                                              offence or the offender which \r\n                                              would render unjust the \r\n                                              application of the minimum penalty \r\n                                              prescribed by this subparagraph.&quot; \r\n                                              [As Substituted by Exchange \r\n                                              Control (Amendment) Decree, 1973, \r\n                                              (NRCD 220) s. 2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The court may if it thinks fit \r\n                                              order any currency, security, \r\n                                              gold, goods or other property in \r\n                                              respect of which the offence was \r\n                                              committed to be forfeited to the \r\n                                              Republic, or, where such currency, \r\n                                              security, gold, goods or other \r\n                                              property is not available to be \r\n                                              forfeited, may order the offender \r\n                                              to pay a further penalty not \r\n                                              exceeding three times the amount \r\n                                              or value thereof.&quot; [As Substituted \r\n                                              by the Exchange Control \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1973, NRCD 220 \r\n                                              s. 2].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. (1) No proceedings for an \r\n                                              offence punishable under this Part \r\n                                              of this Schedule shall 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; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this sub-paragraph \r\n                                              shall not prevent the issue or \r\n                                              execution of a warrant for the \r\n                                              arrest of any person in respect of \r\n                                              such an offence, or the remanding \r\n                                              in custody or on bail of any \r\n                                              person charged with such an \r\n                                              offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Proceedings against any person \r\n                                              in respect of an offence \r\n                                              punishable under this Part of this \r\n                                              Schedule may be taken before the \r\n                                              appropriate court having \r\n                                              jurisdiction in the place where \r\n                                              that person is for the time being.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any proceedings under a law \r\n                                              establishing summary jurisdiction \r\n                                              which may be taken against any \r\n                                              person in respect of any offence \r\n                                              punishable under this Part of this \r\n                                              Schedule may, notwithstanding \r\n                                              anything to the contrary in that \r\n                                              law, be taken at any time within \r\n                                              twelve months from the date of the \r\n                                              commission of the offence or \r\n                                              within three months from the date \r\n                                              on which evidence sufficient in \r\n                                              the opinion of the Minister to \r\n                                              justify the proceedings comes to \r\n                                              the knowledge of the Minister, \r\n                                              whichever period last expires, or, \r\n                                              where the person in question was \r\n                                              outside Ghana at the date last \r\n                                              mentioned, within twelve months \r\n                                              from the date on which he first \r\n                                              arrives in Ghana thereafter.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              paragraph a certificate of the \r\n                                              Minister as to the date on which \r\n                                              such evidence as aforesaid came to \r\n                                              the knowledge of the Minister \r\n                                              shall be conclusive evidence \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. The maximum period of \r\n                                              imprisonment that may be imposed \r\n                                              by a court of summary \r\n                                              jurisdiction&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in respect of the non-payment \r\n                                              of a sum adjudged to be paid by a \r\n                                              conviction for an offence \r\n                                              punishable under this Part of this \r\n                                              Schedule; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in respect of the default of a \r\n                                              sufficient distress to satisfy any \r\n                                              such sum,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall, in cases where the sum \r\n                                              exceeds £G20, be increased in \r\n                                              accordance with the following \r\n                                              scale, that is to say,&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the amount of the sum \r\n                                              adjudged to</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;be paid by the conviction, \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              The said period</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              as ascertained by the conviction,&#8212; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              shall not exceed&#8212;</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Exceeds £G20 but does not exceed \r\n                                              £G100&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Four \r\n                                              months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Exceeds £G100&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Six months.</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                                              PART III&#8212;IMPORT AND EXPORT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. The enactments relating to \r\n                                              customs shall, subject to such \r\n                                              modifications, if any, as may be \r\n                                              prescribed to adapt them to this \r\n                                              Act, apply in relation to anything \r\n                                              prohibited to be imported or \r\n                                              exported by any of the provisions \r\n                                              of Part III of this Act as they \r\n                                              apply in relation to goods \r\n                                              prohibited to be imported or \r\n                                              exported by or under any of the \r\n                                              said enactments, and any reference \r\n                                              in the said enactments to goods \r\n                                              shall be construed as including a \r\n                                              reference to anything prohibited \r\n                                              to be imported or exported by any \r\n                                              of the provisions of the said Part \r\n                                              III.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Any declaration required to be \r\n                                              given under Part III of this Act \r\n                                              shall, for the purposes of the \r\n                                              Customs Ordinance (Cap. 167), be \r\n                                              deemed to be a declaration in a \r\n                                              matter relating to customs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Without prejudice to any of \r\n                                              the preceding provisions of this \r\n                                              Part of this Schedule, any person \r\n                                              who, on any occasion, is about to \r\n                                              leave Ghana or arrives in Ghana \r\n                                              (which person is hereafter in this \r\n                                              paragraph referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              traveller&quot;) shall, if on that \r\n                                              occasion he is required so to do \r\n                                              by an Officer of Customs and \r\n                                              Excise or an immigration Officer&#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) declare whether or not he has \r\n                                              with him anything prohibited to be \r\n                                              imported or exported by any of the \r\n                                              provisions of the said Part III, \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) produce any such thing as \r\n                                              aforesaid which he has with him,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the officer may examine or \r\n                                              search any article which the \r\n                                              traveller has with him for the \r\n                                              purpose of ascertaining whether he \r\n                                              is conveying or has in his \r\n                                              possession any such thing, and, if \r\n                                              the officer has reasonable grounds \r\n                                              for suspecting that the traveller \r\n                                              has about his person any such \r\n                                              thing, search him and may seize \r\n                                              anything produced as aforesaid or \r\n                                              found upon such examination or \r\n                                              search as aforesaid as to which \r\n                                              the officer has reasonable ground \r\n                                              for suspecting that it is \r\n                                              prohibited to be imported or \r\n                                              exported by any of the provisions \r\n                                              of the said Part III:</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 no female shall be \r\n                                              searched in pursuance of this \r\n                                              paragraph except by a female.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph \r\n                                              5 of this Schedule shall apply \r\n                                              also to offences punishable by \r\n                                              virtue of this Part of this \r\n                                              Schedule.</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                                              EXCHANGE CONTROL (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1973 (NRCD 220).1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EXCHANGE CONTROL (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1977 (SMCD 99).2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EXCHANGE CONTROL (AMENDMENT) LAW, \r\n                                              1986 (PNDCL 149).3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 71');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(44, 'EXTRADITION ACT, 1960 (ACT 22)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1393" 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                                              EXTRADITION ACT, 1960 (ACT 22).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              EXTRADITION ACT, 1960 (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1966 (NLCD 65)1</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                                              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—EXTRADITION GENERALLY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Preliminary</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Application of Part I.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; Restrictions on surrender of \r\n                                              fugitive criminals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Continuance of Existing Provisions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Application to Commonwealth and \r\n                                              other countries.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Discontinuance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Surrender of Criminals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Liability of criminal to \r\n                                              surrender.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6.&nbsp; Liability of accessories to be \r\n                                              surrendered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. &nbsp;Order of Minister for issue of \r\n                                              warrant in Ghana if crime not of a \r\n                                              political character.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Issue of warrant by District \r\n                                              Magistrate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;9.&nbsp; Hearing of case and evidence \r\n                                              of political character of crime.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.&nbsp; Committal or discharge of \r\n                                              prisoner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Surrender of fugitive by \r\n                                              warrant of Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Discharge of persons \r\n                                              apprehended if not conveyed out of \r\n                                              Ghana within two months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Execution of warrant of \r\n                                              District Magistrate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13A. Seizure and handing over of \r\n                                              property</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Crimes Committed at Sea</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Jurisdiction as to crimes \r\n                                              committed at sea.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15.&nbsp; Criminal surrendered by \r\n                                              another country not triable for \r\n                                              previous crimes etc. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II—RECIPROCAL BACKING OF \r\n                                              WARRANTS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Application of Part II.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Backing of warrant issued in \r\n                                              another country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Return of prisoner apprehended \r\n                                              under backed warrant.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19.&nbsp; Provisional warrant.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Discharge of prisoner not \r\n                                              returned within one month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              21. Refusal to return prisoner \r\n                                              where offence too trivial.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              22.&nbsp; Procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              23. Exclusion of political \r\n                                              offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Proof of Warrants, Depositions, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              24. Depositions to be evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25. Authorisation of depositions \r\n                                              and warrants.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              26. Power of country to obtain \r\n                                              evidence in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              27. Power of taking evidence in \r\n                                              Ghana for foreign criminal \r\n                                              matters.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              28. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              29. Extradition crimes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              30. Definitions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              31. Commencement.</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—List of Crimes</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Second Schedule—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 TWENTY-SECOND</span></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</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC \r\n                                              OF GHANA ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE EXTRADITION ACT, 1960</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 and amend \r\n                                              the law relating to extradition of \r\n                                              persons accused or convicted of \r\n                                              crimes committed within the \r\n                                              jurisdiction of other countries.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 15th December, \r\n                                              1960</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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I—EXTRADITION GENERALLY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Preliminary</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 1—Application of Part I.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where an arrangement has been \r\n                                              made with any country with respect \r\n                                              to the surrender to that country \r\n                                              of any fugitive criminals, the \r\n                                              President by legislative \r\n                                              instrument may order that this Act \r\n                                              shall apply in the case of that \r\n                                              country, subject to such \r\n                                              conditions, exceptions, and \r\n                                              qualifications as may be specified \r\n                                              in the order, and this Part shall \r\n                                              apply accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) An order under subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall recite or embody the terms \r\n                                              of the arrangement, and shall not \r\n                                              remain in force for any longer \r\n                                              period than the arrangement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every order under this section \r\n                                              shall be laid before the National \r\n                                              Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2—Restrictions on \r\n                                              Surrender of Fugitive Criminals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The restrictions contained in \r\n                                              the following provisions of this \r\n                                              section shall be observed with \r\n                                              respect to the surrender of \r\n                                              fugitive criminals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A fugitive criminal shall not \r\n                                              be surrendered if the offence in \r\n                                              respect of which his surrender is \r\n                                              requested is one of a political \r\n                                              character, or if it appears to the \r\n                                              Court or the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council that the requisition for \r\n                                              his surrender has in fact been \r\n                                              made with a view to try or punish \r\n                                              him for an offence of a political \r\n                                              character.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A fugitive criminal shall not \r\n                                              be surrendered to any country \r\n                                              unless provision is made by the \r\n                                              law of that country or by \r\n                                              arrangement:—</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 the person claimed shall \r\n                                              not be proceeded against, \r\n                                              sentenced or detained with a view \r\n                                              to the carrying out of a sentence \r\n                                              or detention order, or otherwise \r\n                                              restricted in his personal \r\n                                              freedom, for any offence committed \r\n                                              prior to his surrender other than \r\n                                              that for which his surrender is \r\n                                              requested except in the following \r\n                                              cases—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              with the consent of the Government \r\n                                              of Ghana; 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)&nbsp; where that person having had \r\n                                              an opportunity to leave the \r\n                                              territory of that country, has not \r\n                                              done so within thirty days of his \r\n                                              final discharge in respect of the \r\n                                              offence for which he was \r\n                                              surrendered or has returned to the \r\n                                              territory of that country after \r\n                                              leaving it; 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) that where the description of \r\n                                              the offence&nbsp; charged in the \r\n                                              country requesting the surrender \r\n                                              of the fugitive criminal is \r\n                                              altered in the course of \r\n                                              proceedings, he shall only be \r\n                                              proceeded against or sentenced in \r\n                                              so far as the offence under its \r\n                                              new description is shown by its \r\n                                              constituent elements to be an \r\n                                              offence which would allow his \r\n                                              being surrendered to that country \r\n                                              by Ghana under this part of this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A fugitive criminal who has \r\n                                              been accused of some offence \r\n                                              within the jurisdiction of Ghana, \r\n                                              not being the offence for which \r\n                                              his surrender is requested, or is \r\n                                              undergoing sentence under any \r\n                                              conviction in Ghana shall not be \r\n                                              surrendered until after he has \r\n                                              been discharged, whether by \r\n                                              acquittal or on expiration of his \r\n                                              sentence or otherwise.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A fugitive criminal shall not \r\n                                              be surrendered until the \r\n                                              expiration of fifteen days from \r\n                                              the date of his being committed to \r\n                                              prison to await his surrender.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section, \r\n                                              the fact that the law of any \r\n                                              country requesting the surrender \r\n                                              of a fugitive criminal permits the \r\n                                              taking of measures necessary to \r\n                                              remove the person from its \r\n                                              territory or any measures \r\n                                              necessary under its law, including \r\n                                              proceedings by default, to prevent \r\n                                              any legal effects of lapse of time \r\n                                              shall not of itself prevent the \r\n                                              surrender of that person.[As \r\n                                              substituted by the Extradition \r\n                                              Act, 1960 (Amendment) Decree 1966 \r\n                                              (NLCD 65), s.1]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Continuance of Existing \r\n                                              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—Application to \r\n                                              Commonwealth and Other Countries.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A country to which Part I of \r\n                                              the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 \r\n                                              (which provided for the return of \r\n                                              fugitive offenders from \r\n                                              Commonwealth countries) applied \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act, shall be \r\n                                              a country to which this Part \r\n                                              applies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A country with which an \r\n                                              arrangement, in force immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act, was made under the \r\n                                              Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1932, \r\n                                              shall be a country to which this \r\n                                              Part applies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The President may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument declare, as \r\n                                              respects any country, that it is a \r\n                                              country to which, by virtue of \r\n                                              subsection (1), this Part applies \r\n                                              or that an arrangement to which \r\n                                              subsection (2) applies and which \r\n                                              is recited or embodied in the \r\n                                              declaration is in force and the \r\n                                              declaration shall be conclusive as \r\n                                              to the matters to which it \r\n                                              relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The purpose of a declaration \r\n                                              under subsection (3) is to \r\n                                              facilitate the ascertainment of \r\n                                              the matters to which it relates \r\n                                              and the fact that a declaration \r\n                                              has not been made as respects any \r\n                                              country shall not affect the \r\n                                              question whether, by virtue of \r\n                                              subsection (1) or (2), this Part \r\n                                              applies to that country.</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—Discontinuance.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If it appears to the President \r\n                                              that the law of a country to which \r\n                                              section 3 (1) of this Act applies \r\n                                              no longer contains reciprocal \r\n                                              provisions or that an arrangement \r\n                                              with any country referred to in \r\n                                              section 3 (2) is no longer in \r\n                                              force, the President by \r\n                                              legislative instrument may \r\n                                              discontinue the application of \r\n                                              this Part to that country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Surrender of Criminals.</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—Liability of Criminal to \r\n                                              Surrender.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where this Part applies in the \r\n                                              case of any country, every \r\n                                              fugitive criminal of that country \r\n                                              who is in or suspected of being in \r\n                                              Ghana shall be liable to be \r\n                                              apprehended and surrendered in \r\n                                              manner provided by this Part, \r\n                                              whether the crime in respect of \r\n                                              which the surrender is sought was \r\n                                              committed before or after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act or the \r\n                                              application of this Part to that \r\n                                              country, and whether there is or \r\n                                              is not any concurrent jurisdiction \r\n                                              in a Court of Ghana over that \r\n                                              crime. </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—Liability of Accessories \r\n                                              to be Surrendered.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every person who is accused or \r\n                                              convicted of having counselled, \r\n                                              procured, commanded, aided, or \r\n                                              abetted the commission of any \r\n                                              extradition crime, or of being \r\n                                              accessory before or after the fact \r\n                                              to any extradition crime, shall be \r\n                                              deemed for the purposes of this \r\n                                              Part to be accused or convicted of \r\n                                              having committed that crime, and \r\n                                              shall be liable to be apprehended \r\n                                              and surrendered accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7—Order of Minister for \r\n                                              Issue of Warrant if Crime not of a \r\n                                              Political Character.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A requisition for the \r\n                                              surrender of a fugitive criminal \r\n                                              of any country, who is in or \r\n                                              suspected of being in Ghana, shall \r\n                                              be made to the Minister by a \r\n                                              diplomatic representative or \r\n                                              consular officer of that country. \r\n                                              The Minister may by order signify \r\n                                              to a District Magistrate that a \r\n                                              requisition has been made, and \r\n                                              require him to issue his warrant \r\n                                              for the apprehension of the \r\n                                              fugitive criminal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the Minister is of opinion \r\n                                              that the offence is one of a \r\n                                              political character, he may refuse \r\n                                              to make an order, and may also at \r\n                                              any time order a fugitive criminal \r\n                                              accused or convicted of the \r\n                                              offence to be discharged from \r\n                                              custody.</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—Issue of Warrant by \r\n                                              District Magistrate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A warrant for the apprehension \r\n                                              of a fugitive criminal, whether \r\n                                              accused or convicted of crime, who \r\n                                              is in or suspected of being in \r\n                                              Ghana, may be issued by a District \r\n                                              Magistrate—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on the receipt of the order of \r\n                                              the Minister, and on such evidence \r\n                                              as would in his opinion justify \r\n                                              the issue of the warrant if the \r\n                                              crime had been committed or the \r\n                                              criminal convicted in Ghana, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) on such information or \r\n                                              complaint and such evidence or \r\n                                              after such proceedings as would in \r\n                                              the opinion of the Magistrate \r\n                                              issuing the warrant justify the \r\n                                              issue of a warrant if the crime \r\n                                              had been committed or the criminal \r\n                                              convicted in the district in which \r\n                                              he exercises jurisdiction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A Magistrate issuing a warrant \r\n                                              under this section without an \r\n                                              order from the Minister shall \r\n                                              forthwith send a report of the \r\n                                              fact of the issue, together with \r\n                                              the evidence and information or \r\n                                              complaint, or certified copies \r\n                                              thereof, to the Minister, who may \r\n                                              order the warrant to be cancelled, \r\n                                              and the person who has been \r\n                                              apprehended on the warrant to be \r\n                                              discharged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A fugitive criminal, when \r\n                                              apprehended on a warrant under \r\n                                              this section, shall be brought \r\n                                              before a District Magistrate \r\n                                              within the next twenty-four hours.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A fugitive criminal \r\n                                              apprehended on a warrant issued \r\n                                              without the order of the Minister \r\n                                              shall be discharged by the \r\n                                              District Magistrate, unless the \r\n                                              District Magistrate, within such \r\n                                              reasonable time as, with reference \r\n                                              to the circumstances of the case, \r\n                                              he may fix, receives from the \r\n                                              Minister an order signifying that \r\n                                              a requisition has been made for \r\n                                              the surrender of the criminal.</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—Hearing of Case and \r\n                                              Evidence of Political Character of \r\n                                              Crime.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) When a fugitive criminal is \r\n                                              brought before the District \r\n                                              Magistrate, the Magistrate shall \r\n                                              hear the case in the same manner, \r\n                                              and have the same jurisdiction and \r\n                                              powers, as nearly as may be, as he \r\n                                              has in the exercise of criminal \r\n                                              jurisdiction. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Magistrate shall receive \r\n                                              any evidence which may be tendered \r\n                                              to show that the crime of which \r\n                                              the prisoner is accused or alleged \r\n                                              to have been convicted is an \r\n                                              offence of a political character \r\n                                              or is not an extradition crime.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10—Committal or Discharge \r\n                                              of Prisoner.</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 fugitive \r\n                                              criminal accused of an extradition \r\n                                              crime, if the foreign warrant \r\n                                              authorising the arrest of the \r\n                                              criminal is duly authenticated, \r\n                                              and such evidence is produced as \r\n                                              (subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act) would, according to the law \r\n                                              of Ghana, justify the committal \r\n                                              for trial of the prisoner if the \r\n                                              crime of which he is accused had \r\n                                              been committed in Ghana the \r\n                                              District Magistrate shall commit \r\n                                              him to prison.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of a fugitive \r\n                                              criminal alleged to have been \r\n                                              convicted of an extradition crime, \r\n                                              if such evidence is produced as \r\n                                              (subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act) would, according to the law \r\n                                              of Ghana, prove that the prisoner \r\n                                              was convicted of the crime, the \r\n                                              District Magistrate shall commit \r\n                                              him to prison.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The order of the District \r\n                                              Magistrate under subsection (1) or \r\n                                              (2) shall be to commit the \r\n                                              fugitive criminal to prison to \r\n                                              await the warrant of the Minister \r\n                                              for his surrender, and the \r\n                                              Magistrate shall forthwith send to \r\n                                              the Minister a certificate of the \r\n                                              committal, and such report upon \r\n                                              the case as he may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) When the fugitive criminal is \r\n                                              committed to prison to await his \r\n                                              surrender, the committing \r\n                                              Magistrate, if of opinion that it \r\n                                              will be dangerous to the life or \r\n                                              prejudicial to the health of the \r\n                                              prisoner to remove him to prison, \r\n                                              may order him to be held in \r\n                                              custody at the place in which he \r\n                                              for the time being is, or any \r\n                                              other place named in the order to \r\n                                              which the Magistrate thinks he can \r\n                                              be removed without danger to his \r\n                                              life or prejudice to his health, \r\n                                              and while so held he shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be in legal custody, and \r\n                                              this Act shall apply to him as if \r\n                                              he were in the prison to which he \r\n                                              was committed. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the District Magistrate \r\n                                              is not satisfied with the evidence \r\n                                              mentioned in subsection (1) or \r\n                                              (2), he shall order the prisoner \r\n                                              to be discharged.</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—Surrender of Fugitive \r\n                                              by Warrant of Minister.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If the District Magistrate \r\n                                              commits a fugitive criminal to \r\n                                              prison, he shall inform the \r\n                                              criminal that he will not be \r\n                                              surrendered until after the \r\n                                              expiration of fifteen days, and \r\n                                              that he has a right to apply for \r\n                                              an order of habeas corpus.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Upon the expiration of fifteen \r\n                                              days, or, if an order of habeas \r\n                                              corpus is issued, after the \r\n                                              decision of the Court upon the \r\n                                              return to the order, as the case \r\n                                              may be, or after such further \r\n                                              period as may be allowed in either \r\n                                              case by the Minister, the Minister \r\n                                              may by warrant order the fugitive \r\n                                              criminal (if not delivered on the \r\n                                              decision of the Court) to be \r\n                                              surrendered to such person as is \r\n                                              in his opinion duly authorised to \r\n                                              receive the fugitive criminal by \r\n                                              the country from which the \r\n                                              requisition for the surrender \r\n                                              proceeded, and the fugitive \r\n                                              criminal shall be surrendered \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person to whom the warrant \r\n                                              is directed, and the person so \r\n                                              authorised, may receive, hold in \r\n                                              custody and convey into the \r\n                                              jurisdiction of that country the \r\n                                              criminal mentioned in the warrant; \r\n                                              and if the criminal escapes out of \r\n                                              any custody to which he may be \r\n                                              delivered on or in pursuance of \r\n                                              the warrant, he may be retaken in \r\n                                              the same manner as any person \r\n                                              accused of any crime against the \r\n                                              laws of Ghana may be retaken upon \r\n                                              an escape.</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—Discharge of Persons \r\n                                              Apprehended if not Conveyed Out of \r\n                                              Ghana Within Two Months.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If the fugitive criminal who has \r\n                                              been committed to prison is not \r\n                                              surrendered and conveyed out of \r\n                                              Ghana within two months after the \r\n                                              committal, or, if an order of \r\n                                              habeas corpus is issued, after the \r\n                                              decision of the Court upon the \r\n                                              return to the order, any Judge of \r\n                                              the High Court may, upon \r\n                                              application made to him by or on \r\n                                              behalf of the criminal, and upon \r\n                                              proof that reasonable notice of \r\n                                              the intention to make the \r\n                                              application has been given to the \r\n                                              Minister, order the criminal to be \r\n                                              discharged out of custody, unless \r\n                                              sufficient cause is shown to the \r\n                                              contrary. </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—Execution of Warrant of \r\n                                              District Magistrate.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The warrant of the District \r\n                                              Magistrate issued in pursuance of \r\n                                              this Part may be executed in any \r\n                                              part of Ghana in the same manner \r\n                                              as if it had been originally \r\n                                              issued or subsequently endorsed by \r\n                                              a District Magistrate having \r\n                                              jurisdiction in the place where it \r\n                                              is executed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13A—Seizure and Handing \r\n                                              Over of Property.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any police officer executing a \r\n                                              warrant under section 8 of this \r\n                                              Act may seize and retain any \r\n                                              property—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) which appears to him to be \r\n                                              reasonably required as evidence \r\n                                              for the purpose of proving the \r\n                                              offence alleged, 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) which appears to him to have \r\n                                              been acquired as a result of the \r\n                                              alleged offence and&nbsp; which—</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                                              is found at the time of arrest in \r\n                                              the possession of the person \r\n                                              arrested under the warrant, or\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) is discovered subsequently.</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 section, any property seized \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section shall, if a warrant is \r\n                                              issued by the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council under section 11 of this \r\n                                              Act for the surrender of the \r\n                                              person claimed, be handed over to \r\n                                              any person who appears to the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council to be \r\n                                              duly authorised by the country by \r\n                                              whom the surrender is requested to \r\n                                              receive it as soon as may be after \r\n                                              the issue of the warrant and the \r\n                                              said property shall be so handed \r\n                                              over notwithstanding that the \r\n                                              surrender in question cannot be \r\n                                              carried out by reason of the death \r\n                                              or escape of the person claimed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any property so seized may, if \r\n                                              any criminal proceedings to which \r\n                                              the property relates are pending \r\n                                              in Ghana, be retained in Ghana in \r\n                                              accordance with law until the \r\n                                              conclusion of the said proceedings \r\n                                              or may, if the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council so directs, be handed over \r\n                                              on condition that the country \r\n                                              requesting the surrender shall \r\n                                              return the property.</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                                              prejudice or derogate from any \r\n                                              rights that may lawfully have been \r\n                                              acquired by the Republic or any \r\n                                              person in Ghana in any property to \r\n                                              be handed over under this section \r\n                                              and where any such rights exist \r\n                                              the property shall not be handed \r\n                                              over except upon condition that \r\n                                              the requesting country shall \r\n                                              return it as soon as may be after \r\n                                              the trial of the person \r\n                                              surrendered and without charge to \r\n                                              the Republic or person having such \r\n                                              rights.[As inserted by the \r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1960 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 65), s.2]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Crimes Committed at Sea</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 14—Jurisdiction as to \r\n                                              Crimes Committed at Sea.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the crime in respect of \r\n                                              which the surrender of a fugitive \r\n                                              criminal is sought was committed \r\n                                              on board any vessel on the high \r\n                                              seas which comes into any port of \r\n                                              Ghana,—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the criminal may be committed \r\n                                              to any prison to which the person \r\n                                              committing him has power to commit \r\n                                              persons accused of the like crime;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if the fugitive criminal is \r\n                                              apprehended on a warrant issued \r\n                                              without the order of the Minister \r\n                                              he shall be brought within the \r\n                                              next twenty-four hours before the \r\n                                              District Magistrate who issued the \r\n                                              warrant or who has jurisdiction in \r\n                                              the port where the vessel lies, or \r\n                                              in the place nearest to that port.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              General</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 15—Criminal Surrendered by \r\n                                              Another Country not Triable for \r\n                                              Previous Crimes, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) This section applies to a \r\n                                              person who has been surrendered to \r\n                                              Ghana by another country upon a \r\n                                              request made by Ghana to that \r\n                                              country to surrender that person \r\n                                              for prosecution or punishment for \r\n                                              an offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person so surrendered shall \r\n                                              be proceeded against, sentenced or \r\n                                              imprisoned or otherwise restricted \r\n                                              in his personal freedom for any \r\n                                              offence committed prior to his \r\n                                              surrender other than that for \r\n                                              which he was surrendered, except \r\n                                              in the 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) with the consent of the \r\n                                              Government of the country \r\n                                              surrendering him; 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) where that person having had \r\n                                              an opportunity to leave Ghana has \r\n                                              not done so within thirty days of \r\n                                              his final discharge in respect of \r\n                                              the offence for which he was \r\n                                              surrendered or has returned to \r\n                                              Ghana after leaving it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the description of the \r\n                                              offence is altered in the course \r\n                                              of proceedings, the person \r\n                                              surrendered shall only be \r\n                                              proceeded against or sentenced in \r\n                                              so far as the offence under its \r\n                                              new description is shown by its \r\n                                              constituent elements to be an \r\n                                              offence for which he would be \r\n                                              liable to be surrendered to \r\n                                              Ghana.[As substituted by the \r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1960 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 65), s.3]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II—RECIPROCAL BACKING OF \r\n                                              WARRANTS</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—Application of Part II.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Part shall apply to any \r\n                                              country in respect of which the \r\n                                              President, having regard to \r\n                                              reciprocal provisions under the \r\n                                              law of that country, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument so orders \r\n                                              and subject to such conditions, \r\n                                              exceptions and qualifications as \r\n                                              may be specified in the order.</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—Backing of Warrant \r\n                                              Issued in Another Country.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where in a country to which \r\n                                              this Part applies a warrant has \r\n                                              been issued for the apprehension \r\n                                              of a person accused of an offence \r\n                                              punishable by law in that country \r\n                                              and he is or is suspected of being \r\n                                              in or on the way to Ghana, a \r\n                                              District Magistrate, if satisfied \r\n                                              that the warrant was issued by a \r\n                                              person having lawful authority to \r\n                                              issue it, may, subject to sections \r\n                                              22 and 23 of this Act, endorse the \r\n                                              warrant in accordance with \r\n                                              subsection (3), and the warrant so \r\n                                              endorsed shall be a sufficient \r\n                                              authority to apprehend, within the \r\n                                              jurisdiction of the endorsing \r\n                                              Magistrate, the person named in \r\n                                              the warrant, and bring him before \r\n                                              the endorsing Magistrate or some \r\n                                              other District Magistrate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This Part applies whatever the \r\n                                              date of the warrant and whether \r\n                                              the offence is alleged to have \r\n                                              been committed before or after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act or the \r\n                                              application of this Part to that \r\n                                              country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) An endorsement of a warrant \r\n                                              shall be signed by the District \r\n                                              Magistrate and shall authorise all \r\n                                              or any of the persons named in the \r\n                                              endorsement, and of the persons to \r\n                                              whom the warrant was originally \r\n                                              directed, and every police \r\n                                              officer, to execute the warrant by \r\n                                              apprehending the person named in \r\n                                              it and bringing him before that \r\n                                              Magistrate or any other District \r\n                                              Magistrate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18—Return of Prisoner \r\n                                              Apprehended Under Backed Warrant.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The District Magistrate before \r\n                                              whom a person so apprehended is \r\n                                              brought, if he is satisfied that \r\n                                              the warrant is duly authenticated \r\n                                              as directed by this Act and was \r\n                                              issued by a person having lawful \r\n                                              authority to issue it, and is \r\n                                              satisfied on oath that the \r\n                                              prisoner is the person named or \r\n                                              otherwise described in the \r\n                                              warrant, may, subject to section \r\n                                              23 of this Act, order the prisoner \r\n                                              to be returned to the country in \r\n                                              which the warrant was issued, and \r\n                                              for that purpose to be delivered \r\n                                              into the custody of the persons to \r\n                                              whom the warrant is directed, or \r\n                                              any one or more of them, and to be \r\n                                              held in custody and conveyed into \r\n                                              that country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person to whom the warrant \r\n                                              is directed, and the person so \r\n                                              authorised, may receive, hold in \r\n                                              custody and convey into the \r\n                                              jurisdiction of that country the \r\n                                              prisoner mentioned in the warrant; \r\n                                              and if he escapes out of any \r\n                                              custody to which he may be \r\n                                              delivered on or in pursuance of \r\n                                              the warrant, he may be retaken in \r\n                                              the same manner as any person \r\n                                              accused of any crime against the \r\n                                              laws of Ghana may be retaken upon \r\n                                              an escape.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A District Magistrate shall, \r\n                                              so far as is requisite for the \r\n                                              exercise of the powers of this \r\n                                              section, have the same power, \r\n                                              including the power to remand and \r\n                                              admit to bail a prisoner, as he \r\n                                              has in the case of a person \r\n                                              apprehended under a warrant issued \r\n                                              by him. </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—Provisional Warrant.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A District Magistrate, before \r\n                                              the endorsement in pursuance of \r\n                                              this Part of a warrant for the \r\n                                              apprehension of any person, may \r\n                                              issue a provisional warrant for \r\n                                              his apprehension, on such \r\n                                              information and under such \r\n                                              circumstances as would in his \r\n                                              opinion justify the issue of a \r\n                                              warrant if the offence of which \r\n                                              that person is accused were an \r\n                                              offence punishable by the law of \r\n                                              Ghana, and had been committed \r\n                                              within his jurisdiction, and the \r\n                                              warrant may be backed and executed \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person arrested under a \r\n                                              provisional warrant shall be \r\n                                              discharged unless the original \r\n                                              warrant is produced and endorsed \r\n                                              within such time as the District \r\n                                              Magistrate thinks reasonable in \r\n                                              the circumstances.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20—Discharge of Prisoner \r\n                                              not Returned Within One Month.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If a prisoner whose return is \r\n                                              authorised in pursuance of this \r\n                                              Part is not conveyed out of Ghana \r\n                                              within one month after the date of \r\n                                              the warrant ordering his return, a \r\n                                              District Magistrate, upon \r\n                                              application by or on behalf of the \r\n                                              prisoner, and upon proof that \r\n                                              reasonable notice of the intention \r\n                                              to make the application has been \r\n                                              given to the person holding the \r\n                                              warrant and to the Commissioner of \r\n                                              Police or chief officer of the \r\n                                              police of the Region or town where \r\n                                              the prisoner is in custody, may, \r\n                                              unless sufficient cause is shown \r\n                                              to the contrary, order the \r\n                                              prisoner to be discharged out of \r\n                                              custody.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any order or refusal to make \r\n                                              an order of discharge under this \r\n                                              section shall be subject to \r\n                                              appeal. </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—Refusal to Return \r\n                                              Prisoner Where Offence too \r\n                                              Trivial.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the return of a prisoner \r\n                                              is sought or ordered under this \r\n                                              Part, and it appears to a District \r\n                                              Magistrate that by reason of the \r\n                                              trivial nature of the case, or by \r\n                                              reason of the application for the \r\n                                              return of the prisoner not being \r\n                                              made in good faith in the \r\n                                              interests of justice or otherwise, \r\n                                              it would, having regard to the \r\n                                              distance, to the facilities of \r\n                                              communication, and to all the \r\n                                              circumstances of the case, be \r\n                                              unjust or oppressive, or too \r\n                                              severe a punishment, to return the \r\n                                              prisoner either at all or until \r\n                                              the expiration of a certain \r\n                                              period, the Magistrate may \r\n                                              discharge the prisoner either \r\n                                              absolutely or on bail, or order \r\n                                              that he shall not be returned \r\n                                              until after the expiration of the \r\n                                              period named in the order, or may \r\n                                              make such other order in the \r\n                                              matter as the Magistrate thinks \r\n                                              proper.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any order or refusal to make \r\n                                              an order of discharge under this \r\n                                              section shall be subject to \r\n                                              appeal.</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—Procedure. </span></b>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              requisition for the endorsement of \r\n                                              a warrant under this Part shall be \r\n                                              made in the first instance by a \r\n                                              diplomatic representative, \r\n                                              consular officer or other \r\n                                              appropriate authority of the \r\n                                              country concerned to the Minister \r\n                                              who may transmit it to a District \r\n                                              Magistrate to proceed in \r\n                                              accordance with this Part. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23—Exclusion of Political \r\n                                              Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister shall not transmit a \r\n                                              requisition under section 22 of \r\n                                              this Act and a warrant shall not \r\n                                              be endorsed under this Part for \r\n                                              the apprehension of any person if \r\n                                              the offence is one of a political \r\n                                              character or it appears to the \r\n                                              Minister or a Court that the \r\n                                              requisition has in fact been made \r\n                                              with a view to try or punish him \r\n                                              for an offence of a political \r\n                                              character.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Proof of Warrants, Depositions, \r\n                                              Etc.</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—Depositions to be \r\n                                              Evidence. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Depositions or statements on oath \r\n                                              or affirmations taken in the \r\n                                              country concerned and copies of \r\n                                              the original depositions or \r\n                                              statements or affirmations and \r\n                                              foreign certificates of or \r\n                                              judicial documents stating the \r\n                                              fact of conviction, may, if duly \r\n                                              authenticated, be received in \r\n                                              evidence in proceedings under this \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25—Authorisation of \r\n                                              Depositions and Warrants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Warrants and depositions or \r\n                                              statements on oath or affirmations \r\n                                              and copies thereof, and \r\n                                              certificates of or judicial \r\n                                              documents stating the fact of a \r\n                                              conviction, shall be deemed duly \r\n                                              authenticated for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act if authenticated in \r\n                                              manner provided for the time being \r\n                                              by law 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) if the warrant purports to be \r\n                                              signed by a Judge, Magistrate, or \r\n                                              officer of the country where it \r\n                                              was issued;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if the depositions or \r\n                                              statements or affirmations or the \r\n                                              copies thereof purport to be \r\n                                              certified under the hand of a \r\n                                              Judge, Magistrate, or officer of \r\n                                              the country where they were taken \r\n                                              to be the original depositions or \r\n                                              statements, or to be true copies \r\n                                              thereof, as the case may require; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if the certificate of our \r\n                                              judicial document stating the fact \r\n                                              of conviction purports to be \r\n                                              certified by a Judge, Magistrate, \r\n                                              or officer of the country where \r\n                                              the conviction took place; and\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              if in every case the warrants, \r\n                                              depositions, statements, \r\n                                              affirmations, copies, certificates \r\n                                              and judicial documents (as the \r\n                                              case may be) are authenticated by \r\n                                              the oath of some witness or by \r\n                                              being sealed with the official \r\n                                              seal of the Minister of Justice or \r\n                                              some other Minister of state: and \r\n                                              all Courts and Magistrates shall \r\n                                              take judicial notice of the \r\n                                              official seal, and shall admit the \r\n                                              documents so authenticated by it \r\n                                              to be received in evidence without \r\n                                              further proof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Taking of Evidence for Foreign \r\n                                              Trials.</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 26—Power of Country to \r\n                                              Obtain Evidence in Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The testimony of any witness \r\n                                              may be obtained in relation to any \r\n                                              criminal matter pending in any \r\n                                              Court or tribunal in another \r\n                                              country in like manner as it may \r\n                                              be obtained in relation to any \r\n                                              civil matter under any rules of \r\n                                              court or any enactment for the \r\n                                              time being in force for the taking \r\n                                              of evidence in Ghana in relation \r\n                                              to civil and commercial matters \r\n                                              pending before foreign tribunals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in this section shall \r\n                                              apply in the case of any criminal \r\n                                              matter of a political character.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27—Power of Taking \r\n                                              Evidence in Ghana for Foreign \r\n                                              Criminal Matters.</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 order \r\n                                              require a District Magistrate to \r\n                                              take evidence for the purposes of \r\n                                              any criminal matter pending in any \r\n                                              Court or tribunal in any other \r\n                                              country; and the Magistrate, upon \r\n                                              the receipt of the order, shall \r\n                                              take down in writing the evidence \r\n                                              of every witness appearing before \r\n                                              him for the purpose and shall \r\n                                              certify at the foot of the \r\n                                              deposition so taken that the \r\n                                              evidence was taken before him, and \r\n                                              shall transmit it to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The evidence may be taken in \r\n                                              the presence or absence of the \r\n                                              person charged, if any, and the \r\n                                              fact of the presence or absence \r\n                                              shall be stated in the deposition.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person may, after payment \r\n                                              or tender to him of a reasonable \r\n                                              sum for his costs and expenses in \r\n                                              this behalf, be compelled, for the \r\n                                              purposes of this section, to \r\n                                              attend and give evidence and \r\n                                              answer questions and produce \r\n                                              documents in like manner and \r\n                                              subject to the like conditions as \r\n                                              he may in the case of a trial for \r\n                                              an offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Supplementary</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 28—Repeals. </span></b>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The enactments referred to in the \r\n                                              Second Schedule to this Act are \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 29—Extradition Crimes.</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, &quot;extradition \r\n                                              crime&quot; means a crime which, if \r\n                                              committed within the jurisdiction \r\n                                              of Ghana, would be an indictable \r\n                                              offence described in the First \r\n                                              Schedule to this Act. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The President may by \r\n                                              legislative instrument amend the \r\n                                              said Schedule by the insertion of \r\n                                              further offences, the deletion of \r\n                                              any offence or the alteration of \r\n                                              the description of any offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30—Definitions. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, except where the \r\n                                              contrary intention appears—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;conviction and convicted&quot; do not \r\n                                              include or refer to a conviction \r\n                                              which under foreign law is a \r\n                                              conviction for contumacy, that is, \r\n                                              a judgment given in default of \r\n                                              appearance, the accused having the \r\n                                              right to have it set aside and the \r\n                                              case re-tried in his presence, but \r\n                                              the term &quot;accused person&quot; includes \r\n                                              a person, so convicted for \r\n                                              contumacy;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;detention order'''' in relation to \r\n                                              a country other than Ghana, means \r\n                                              any order involving deprivation of \r\n                                              liberty which has been made by a \r\n                                              criminal court in that country in \r\n                                              addition to or instead of a prison \r\n                                              sentence.[As Inserted by the \r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1960 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 65), s.4]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;fugitive criminal&quot; means any \r\n                                              person accused or convicted of an \r\n                                              extradition crime committed within \r\n                                              the jurisdiction of any other \r\n                                              country who is in or is suspected \r\n                                              of being in Ghana; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;the Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              to whom functions under this Act \r\n                                              are for the time being assigned by \r\n                                              the President; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;warrant&quot; in the case of any \r\n                                              country, includes any judicial \r\n                                              document authorising the arrest of \r\n                                              a person accused or convicted of \r\n                                              crime.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31—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 day as the President by \r\n                                              legislative instrument may order.</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—EXTRADITION CRIMES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15, 29.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Criminal Homicide and Similar \r\n                                              Offences.</span></i></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under sections 46, 48, \r\n                                              49 or 50 of the Criminal Code.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Abduction, Rape and Similar \r\n                                              Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under sections 89, 91, \r\n                                              93, 97, 101 to 108, or 273 to 275 \r\n                                              of the Criminal Code, or an \r\n                                              attempt to commit any such \r\n                                              offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Misappropriations, Fraud and \r\n                                              Similar Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under Chapter 1 of Part \r\n                                              III of the Criminal Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Forgery and Similar Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under section 158, 159 \r\n                                              or 169 of the Criminal Code</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Damage to Property and Similar \r\n                                              Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under Chapter 3 of Part \r\n                                              III of the Criminal Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Piracy and Similar Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under section 193 of \r\n                                              the Criminal Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Perjury and Similar Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under section 210 or \r\n                                              213 of the Criminal Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Slave Dealings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under section 314 of \r\n                                              the Criminal Code.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Dangerous Drugs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under the Drugs \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 73).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Falsification of Currency and \r\n                                              Similar Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence under the Currency Act, \r\n                                              1960 (Act 17).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE—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: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              United Kingdom Statutes</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial">.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1870. (33 and 34 \r\n                                              Vict. c. 52)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1873. (36 and 37 \r\n                                              Vict. c. 60)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881. (44 \r\n                                              and 45 Vict. c. 69)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1906. (6 Ed. 7, \r\n                                              c. 15)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1932. (22 and 23 \r\n                                              Geo. 5. c. 39)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <i>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Statutes of Ghana</span></i><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                                              Extradition (Southern Ghana) \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 12)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Extradition Act, 1959 (No. 56).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td width="777" height="50"><p align="center"></table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 22');
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(45, 'FOOTBALL POOLS AUTHORITY ACT, 1961 (ACT 78)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1402" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOOTBALL POOLS AUTHORITY ACT, 1961 \r\n                                              (ACT 78)</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">&nbsp;\r\n                                              </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">&nbsp; \r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Incorporation of Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Functions of Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2A. Basic Condition of Sending in \r\n                                              and Acceptance of Coupon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2B. Supervision of Observation of \r\n                                              Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Composition of Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3A. Functions of the Managing \r\n                                              Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Power to hold land.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Remuneration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Funds of Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Directions of Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Meetings of Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Investment by Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Accounts and audit.</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. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH</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 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 FOOTBALL POOLS AUTHORITY ACT, \r\n                                              1961</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to regulate the operation \r\n                                              and working of football pools and \r\n                                              football pool agencies and other \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: 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;Incorporation of \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be established a \r\n                                              Football Pools Authority which \r\n                                              shall be a body corporate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority shall have \r\n                                              perpetual succession and a common \r\n                                              seal and may sue and be sued in \r\n                                              its corporate name.</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;Unauthorised Pools \r\n                                              Unlawful</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section, all football pools, \r\n                                              fixed odds competition or any \r\n                                              other competition or game based on \r\n                                              the results of football matches \r\n                                              are unlawful unless authorised by \r\n                                              the Authority;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A football pool is a system of \r\n                                              multilateral betting where a \r\n                                              dividend in proportion to the \r\n                                              amount of money contributed by the \r\n                                              participants to a pool is paid to \r\n                                              the winner or winners, and a fixed \r\n                                              odds competition is a system of \r\n                                              direct bet between a staker and a \r\n                                              promoter or bookmaker where the \r\n                                              amount won by the winner does not \r\n                                              vary in proportion to the number \r\n                                              of winning coupons or the size of \r\n                                              the pool, but is fixed beforehand \r\n                                              by the promoter or bookmaker;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Authority shall have the \r\n                                              control and management of the \r\n                                              distribution, collection and \r\n                                              despatch of all coupons relating \r\n                                              to football pools, fixed odds \r\n                                              competition or any similar game;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No person other than a person \r\n                                              authorised by the Authority as \r\n                                              dealing in football pools, fixed \r\n                                              odds competition or any similar \r\n                                              game shall deal in whatever manner \r\n                                              in the operation of football \r\n                                              pools, fixed odds competition or \r\n                                              similar games;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) No unauthorised person shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) print, import, sell, offer for \r\n                                              sale, advertise or have in his \r\n                                              possession for the purpose of \r\n                                              sale, distribution or \r\n                                              advertisement any coupons or other \r\n                                              printed matter relating to \r\n                                              football pools fixed odds \r\n                                              competition or any similar game; \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) print, publish, or distribute \r\n                                              or have in his possession for the \r\n                                              purpose of publication or \r\n                                              distribution any documents \r\n                                              calculated to induce other persons \r\n                                              to participate in football pools, \r\n                                              fixed odds competitions or similar \r\n                                              game; 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) send or attempt to send out of \r\n                                              Ghana, any money or valuable thing \r\n                                              received as a result of the sale \r\n                                              or distribution of any coupons on \r\n                                              football pools, fixed odds \r\n                                              competition or similar game, or \r\n                                              any document recording the sale or \r\n                                              distribution or the identity of \r\n                                              the holder of, any such coupons; \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                                              (d) use any premises or cause or \r\n                                              knowingly permit any premises to \r\n                                              be used, for purposes connected \r\n                                              with the promotion or conduct of \r\n                                              football pools, fixed odds \r\n                                              competitions or similar games.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Authority may enter into \r\n                                              agreement with any person for the \r\n                                              operation of football pools, fixed \r\n                                              odds competition or similar game \r\n                                              and the agreement shall provide \r\n                                              for the retention of a share of \r\n                                              the profits accruing to that \r\n                                              person from the operation of the \r\n                                              football pools, so, however, that \r\n                                              such agreement shall not be valid \r\n                                              unless executed with the written \r\n                                              approval of the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Finance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The Authority may establish, \r\n                                              organise and run football pools, \r\n                                              fixed odds competition and any \r\n                                              similar games based on the results \r\n                                              of football matches or conducted \r\n                                              on similar principle.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Any person who contravenes the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence and shall \r\n                                              be liable on conviction to \r\n                                              imprisonment for a term of five \r\n                                              years or to a fine of one thousand \r\n                                              New Cedis or to both such fine and \r\n                                              imprisonment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) Where the offence referred to \r\n                                              in subsection (8) of this section \r\n                                              was committed by a firm, every \r\n                                              partner of that firm shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be guilty of that \r\n                                              offence and where the offence was \r\n                                              committed by a body corporate, \r\n                                              every director and officer of that \r\n                                              body shall be deemed to be guilty \r\n                                              of that offence:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              So, however, that no such person \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be so guilty, \r\n                                              if he proves that the offence was \r\n                                              committed without his knowledge or \r\n                                              that he exercised due diligence to \r\n                                              prevent the commission of the \r\n                                              offence. [As substituted by \r\n                                              Football Pools Authority Act, 1967 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              214)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2A&#8212; Basic Condition of \r\n                                              Sending in and Acceptance of \r\n                                              Coupon.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It is a basic condition of the \r\n                                              sending in and the acceptance of \r\n                                              every coupon that it is intended \r\n                                              and agreed&#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 the conduct of the \r\n                                              Football Pools and everything done \r\n                                              in connection therewith and all \r\n                                              arrangements relating thereto \r\n                                              (whether mentioned in the Football \r\n                                              Pools Regulations, 1964 (LI 358)), \r\n                                              (hereinafter referred to as the \r\n                                              &quot;Regulations&quot;) or to be implied, \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) that any coupon and any \r\n                                              agreement or transaction entered \r\n                                              into or payment made by or under \r\n                                              it,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall not be attached, by or give \r\n                                              rise to any legal relationship, \r\n                                              rights, duties or consequences \r\n                                              whatsoever or be legally \r\n                                              enforceable or the subject of \r\n                                              litigation: but that all such \r\n                                              arrangements, agreements or \r\n                                              transactions are binding in honour \r\n                                              only on the 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 2B&#8212; Supervision of \r\n                                              Observance of Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In the interests of all, the \r\n                                              general conduct of the Pools \r\n                                              (including the ascertainment of \r\n                                              the actual amount of the stake \r\n                                              moneys, the dividends payable and \r\n                                              the observance of the Regulations) \r\n                                              shall be checked under the \r\n                                              supervision and control of \r\n                                              independent Accountants appointed \r\n                                              by the Authority who will also \r\n                                              control the due computation and \r\n                                              amounts of the Pools and \r\n                                              dividends.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) To prevent disputes from \r\n                                              arising and delays in payments to \r\n                                              winners, it is a further basic \r\n                                              condition that, in all matters \r\n                                              connected with the conduct of the \r\n                                              Pools, and in particular the \r\n                                              ascertainment of and payment to \r\n                                              winners, disqualifications and the \r\n                                              interpretation and application of \r\n                                              the Regulations, the decisions of \r\n                                              the Accountants shall be accepted \r\n                                              as final and in honour binding on \r\n                                              all parties including the \r\n                                              Authority. [As inserted by \r\n                                              Football Pool Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1975 (NRCD \r\n                                              358)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Composition of \r\n                                              Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall consist of \r\n                                              a Chairman, a Managing Director \r\n                                              and not more than six other \r\n                                              members, all of whom shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Managing Director shall \r\n                                              hold office for such period and on \r\n                                              such conditions as the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council may from time \r\n                                              to time determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to subsection (2) the \r\n                                              members of the Authority, \r\n                                              including the Chairman, shall hold \r\n                                              office for a period of two years \r\n                                              and shall be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment so, however, that \r\n                                              any such member may at any time by \r\n                                              writing addressed to the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council resign his \r\n                                              office or may be removed from \r\n                                              office at any time by a direction \r\n                                              in writing given by or on behalf \r\n                                              of the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council. [As substituted by \r\n                                              Football Pools Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) 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 3A&#8212;Functions of the \r\n                                              Managing Director.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority may delegate to the \r\n                                              Managing Director such of its \r\n                                              functions as the Authority may \r\n                                              from time to time determine. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Football Pools \r\n                                              Authority (Amendment) Decree, 1966 \r\n                                              (NLCD 115) 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 4&#8212;Power to Hold Land.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall have power \r\n                                              to acquire and hold any movable or \r\n                                              immovable property but shall not \r\n                                              sell, lease, mortgage or otherwise \r\n                                              alienate or dispose of any such \r\n                                              property without the consent in \r\n                                              writing of the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where there is any hindrance \r\n                                              to the acquisition of any property \r\n                                              under the preceding subsection the \r\n                                              property may be treated as \r\n                                              property required for the Public \r\n                                              Service and accordingly the State \r\n                                              Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n                                              (CA 6) shall apply, so however \r\n                                              that the provisions of that Act \r\n                                              shall apply with such \r\n                                              modifications as are necessary to \r\n                                              provide for the vesting of the \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the Authority and for the cost of \r\n                                              acquisition to be defrayed by the \r\n                                              Authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Remuneration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Managing Director shall be \r\n                                              paid such salary and allowances as \r\n                                              the President may from time to \r\n                                              time determine. [As amended by \r\n                                              Football Pools Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 3].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) There shall be paid out of the \r\n                                              funds of the Authority to the \r\n                                              members of the Authority other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director \r\n                                              remuneration by the way of \r\n                                              travelling allowances and expenses \r\n                                              at such rate as are approved by \r\n                                              the Minister. As amended by \r\n                                              Football Pools Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 3].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Funds of Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The funds of the Authority \r\n                                              shall include -</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) all moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Authority from the Government by \r\n                                              way of grant-in-aid or endowment, \r\n                                              or otherwise;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any loan granted to the \r\n                                              Authority by the Government or any \r\n                                              person; 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) any moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Authority in the course of the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Authority shall take over \r\n                                              without any further authority than \r\n                                              this subsection all the assets and \r\n                                              liabilities of the Interim \r\n                                              Football Pools Authority, and \r\n                                              accordingly it shall be lawful for \r\n                                              the Authority to sue or be sued&nbsp; \r\n                                              in respect&nbsp; of the said assets and \r\n                                              liabilities.</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;Directions of Minister.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may at any time give \r\n                                              directions of a general or \r\n                                              specific nature to the Authority \r\n                                              and the Authority shall comply \r\n                                              with any such directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Meetings of Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall meet for \r\n                                              the dispatch of business at such \r\n                                              times in places as a Chairman may \r\n                                              from time to time appoint but not \r\n                                              less than 4 times a year [As \r\n                                              amended by Football Pool Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 4(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman shall preside the \r\n                                              meeting of the Authority and in \r\n                                              his absence the member present \r\n                                              shall appoint one of their number \r\n                                              to preside. [As amended by \r\n                                              Football Pool Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 4(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every question before the \r\n                                              Authority at any meeting shall be \r\n                                              decided by the majority of the \r\n                                              vote of the members present.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any member having an interest \r\n                                              whether pecuniary or otherwise, \r\n                                              direct or indirect, in any matter \r\n                                              which is before any meeting of the \r\n                                              Authority shall at the meeting \r\n                                              disclose the fact and shall not \r\n                                              take part in the consideration or \r\n                                              discussion of, or vote on any \r\n                                              question with respect to that \r\n                                              matter and if a Chairman so \r\n                                              directs he shall withdraw from the \r\n                                              meeting during such consideration \r\n                                              or discussion [As amended by \r\n                                              Football Pool Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 4(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Chairman at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Authority shall have a vote, \r\n                                              but in the case of equality vote, \r\n                                              may exercise a second or casting \r\n                                              vote.&nbsp; [As amended by Football \r\n                                              Pool Authority (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1966 (NLCD 115) s. 4(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Four members shall form a \r\n                                              quorum at any meeting of the \r\n                                              Authority [As amended by Football \r\n                                              Pools Authority (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1966 (NLCD 115) s. 4(b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Minutes of the proceedings of \r\n                                              every meeting of the Authority \r\n                                              shall be regularly entered in a \r\n                                              book to be kept for that purpose \r\n                                              and shall, after approval, be \r\n                                              signed at the next ensuing meeting \r\n                                              by the Chairman, or as the case \r\n                                              may be, by the member presiding at \r\n                                              that meeting.[As amended by \r\n                                              Football Pool Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 4(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) The Chairman may at any time, \r\n                                              and shall on the request in \r\n                                              writing of five other members of \r\n                                              the Authority call a special \r\n                                              meeting of the Authority.[As \r\n                                              amended by Football Pool Authority \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115) s. 4(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 9&#8212;Investment by Authority.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Authority may invest all or \r\n                                              any portion of the moneys of the \r\n                                              Authority in such manner as may be \r\n                                              approved 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 10&#8212;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Authority shall keep \r\n                                              proper accounts and other records \r\n                                              relating thereto in a form and \r\n                                              manner approved by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Immediately after the end of \r\n                                              each financial year, the Authority \r\n                                              shall cause its accounts for that \r\n                                              year to be brought to a balance \r\n                                              and a balance-sheet prepared with \r\n                                              respect thereto together with a \r\n                                              statement or abstract of such \r\n                                              accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The accounts kept by the \r\n                                              Authority under the provisions of \r\n                                              the preceding subsection together \r\n                                              with all books, vouchers and \r\n                                              papers and the annual statement or \r\n                                              abstract thereof shall be laid \r\n                                              before and audited by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Auditor-General shall make \r\n                                              and sign a report on the accounts \r\n                                              and statement or abstract and a \r\n                                              duplicate copy of the report \r\n                                              together with the statement or \r\n                                              abstract shall be sent to the \r\n                                              Minister who shall lay the report \r\n                                              before the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Authority shall permit the \r\n                                              Auditor-General and any person \r\n                                              authorised by the Auditor-General \r\n                                              to check any cash, investments or \r\n                                              other assets in its possession and \r\n                                              to have access at all times to all \r\n                                              its accounts and all books, \r\n                                              vouchers and papers relating \r\n                                              thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section the period beginning from \r\n                                              the commencement of this Act to \r\n                                              the thirtieth day of September, \r\n                                              1961 shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              financial year and accordingly the \r\n                                              financial year for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act shall be the period of \r\n                                              twelve months ending on the \r\n                                              thirtieth day of September.</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&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the establishment, \r\n                                              organisation and running of \r\n                                              football pools by the Authority;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the appointment, duties and \r\n                                              remuneration of agents and \r\n                                              sub-agents;</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 distribution of football \r\n                                              coupons;</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 form of any coupons or \r\n                                              other documents to be used in the \r\n                                              conduct of football pools;</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 method of claiming \r\n                                              winnings; and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the determination of any \r\n                                              disputes as to the person entitled \r\n                                              to any prize or money providing \r\n                                              that in the event of a dispute as \r\n                                              to a prize remaining unsettled for \r\n                                              a specific period the prize or \r\n                                              money may be forfeited and paid \r\n                                              into the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">&nbsp;</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;Authority&quot; means the Football \r\n                                              Pools Authority established 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                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for finance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#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 be deemed to have \r\n                                              come into operation on the first \r\n                                              day of February, 1961.</span><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                                              FOOTBALL POOLS AUTHORITY \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1966 (NLCD \r\n                                              115)1.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOOTBALL POOLS AUTHORITY ACT, 1961 \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1967 (NLCD \r\n                                              214)2.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOOTBALL POOLS AUTHORITY \r\n                                              (AMENDMENT) DECREE, 1975 (NRCD \r\n                                              358)3.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              </td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="71" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 78');
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(46, 'FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT, 1961 (ACT 75)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1416" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT, 1961 (ACT \r\n                                              75)</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. Illegal enlistment</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Leaving Ghana for enlistment</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Inducing enlistment by \r\n                                              misrepresentation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Taking on board illegally \r\n                                              enlisted persons</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Description of offence</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Seizure</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Regulations</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8.&nbsp; Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Repeal and cesser of \r\n                                              application.</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-FIFTH</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 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 FOREIGN ENLISTMENT 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 control the enlistment \r\n                                              of citizens of Ghana and other \r\n                                              persons in possession of Ghana \r\n                                              passports in the military service \r\n                                              of a country other than 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                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 17th 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:</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;Illegal Enlistment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person who, being a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana, within or without the \r\n                                              Republic accepts or agrees to \r\n                                              accept, without the permission in \r\n                                              writing of the President first had \r\n                                              and obtained, any commission or \r\n                                              engagement in the military service \r\n                                              of any other country or induces \r\n                                              any other person, whether a \r\n                                              citizen or not, to accept or agree \r\n                                              to accept any commission or \r\n                                              engagement in the military service \r\n                                              of any other country is guilty of \r\n                                              first degree felony.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person who is not a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana but to whom a Ghana \r\n                                              passport has been issued shall \r\n                                              not, while he&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) is in possession of the \r\n                                              passport;</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) has any claim to the \r\n                                              possession of the passport; 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) otherwise claims or enjoys the \r\n                                              protection of the Republic by \r\n                                              reason of the issue of the \r\n                                              passport, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              accept or agree to accept without \r\n                                              the permission in writing of the \r\n                                              President first had and obtained \r\n                                              any commission or engagement in \r\n                                              the military service of any other \r\n                                              country or induce any other \r\n                                              person, whether a citizen or not, \r\n                                              to accept or agree to accept any \r\n                                              commission or engagement in the \r\n                                              military service of any other \r\n                                              country.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person who contravenes any \r\n                                              of the provisions of subsection \r\n                                              (2) is guilty of first degree \r\n                                              felony.</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;Leaving Ghana for \r\n                                              Enlistment.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              person who leaves the Republic or \r\n                                              goes on board any vessel, vehicle \r\n                                              or aircraft wherever situate for \r\n                                              the purpose of accepting or \r\n                                              agreeing to accept, without the \r\n                                              permission in writing of the \r\n                                              President first had and obtained, \r\n                                              any commission or engagement in \r\n                                              the military service of any other \r\n                                              country or induce, any other \r\n                                              person, whether a citizen or not, \r\n                                              to leave the Republic or to go on \r\n                                              board any vessel, vehicle or \r\n                                              aircraft for the purpose of \r\n                                              leaving the Republic with intent \r\n                                              to accept or agree to accept any \r\n                                              commission or engagement in the \r\n                                              military service of any other \r\n                                              country is guilty of first degree \r\n                                              felony.</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;Inducing Enlistment by \r\n                                              Misrepresentation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              person who induces any other \r\n                                              person, whether a citizen or not, \r\n                                              to leave the Republic or go on \r\n                                              board any vessel, vehicle or \r\n                                              aircraft within the Republic under \r\n                                              a misrepresentation or false \r\n                                              representation as to the service \r\n                                              in which that person is to be \r\n                                              engaged with intent that that \r\n                                              person may accept or agree to \r\n                                              accept any commission or \r\n                                              engagement in the military service \r\n                                              of any other country is guilty of \r\n                                              first degree felony.</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;Taking on Board \r\n                                              Illegally Enlisted Persons.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A person in charge of any \r\n                                              vessel, vehicle or aircraft who \r\n                                              without the permission in writing \r\n                                              of the President first had and \r\n                                              obtained knowingly takes on board \r\n                                              or engages to take on board or has \r\n                                              on board the vessel, vehicle or \r\n                                              aircraft while it is within the \r\n                                              Republic, any of the following \r\n                                              persons (in this Act called \r\n                                              &quot;illegally enlisted persons&quot;) that \r\n                                              is to say&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a citizen who, within or \r\n                                              without the Republic, has without \r\n                                              the permission in writing of the \r\n                                              President accepted or agreed to \r\n                                              accept any commission or \r\n                                              engagement in the military service \r\n                                              of any other country;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a citizen who, without the \r\n                                              permission in writing of the \r\n                                              President, is about to leave the \r\n                                              Republic with intent to accept any \r\n                                              commission or engagement in the \r\n                                              military service of any other \r\n                                              country;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a citizen who has been induced \r\n                                              to embark under a \r\n                                              misrepresentation or false \r\n                                              representation as to the service \r\n                                              in which he is to be engaged with \r\n                                              the intent that the person so \r\n                                              induced may accept or agree to \r\n                                              accept a commission or engagement \r\n                                              in the military service of any \r\n                                              other country,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              is guilty of second degree felony.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All illegally enlisted persons \r\n                                              shall, immediately on discovery of \r\n                                              the offence, be taken from the \r\n                                              vessel or aircraft and shall not \r\n                                              be allowed to return to it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A vessel, vehicle or aircraft \r\n                                              involved in the commission of an \r\n                                              offence under this Act shall be \r\n                                              detained until the trial, \r\n                                              conviction or acquittal of the \r\n                                              person in charge and until all \r\n                                              penalties imposed on him have been \r\n                                              paid and in any case where he is \r\n                                              imprisoned the vessel, vehicle or \r\n                                              aircraft shall be released to any \r\n                                              person having a lawful claim \r\n                                              thereto upon the payment of such \r\n                                              sum of money as the court in \r\n                                              sentencing the said person shall \r\n                                              specify.</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;Description of Offence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An offence against this Act may be \r\n                                              described in any indictment or \r\n                                              other document relating to the \r\n                                              offence as having been committed \r\n                                              at the place where it was wholly \r\n                                              or partly committed or it may be \r\n                                              described as having been committed \r\n                                              within the jurisdiction of the \r\n                                              court by which the offence is to \r\n                                              be tried.</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;Seizure.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any customs officer not below the \r\n                                              rank of a Collector, any superior \r\n                                              police officer not below the rank \r\n                                              of Superintendent and any \r\n                                              commissioned officer of the Armed \r\n                                              Forces may seize and detain a \r\n                                              vessel, vehicle or aircraft liable \r\n                                              to be seized or detained in \r\n                                              pursuance 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 7&#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, with the prior \r\n                                              approval of the President, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument make \r\n                                              regulations for the purpose of \r\n                                              carrying into effect 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 8&#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;aircraft&quot; includes every type of \r\n                                              flying or airborne craft;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;citizen&quot; means a citizen of \r\n                                              Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;military service&quot; includes \r\n                                              service in a police, army, naval \r\n                                              or air force and any other \r\n                                              employment whatever in connection \r\n                                              with any military operation and \r\n                                              any employment in secret service \r\n                                              work or in an underground movement \r\n                                              or as a secret agent;</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 Defence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;passport&quot; includes every form of \r\n                                              travel document issued on behalf \r\n                                              of the Republic;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;person in charge&quot; includes the \r\n                                              master, pilot, driver and any \r\n                                              other person in command, and the \r\n                                              owner, of the vessel, vehicle or \r\n                                              aircraft.</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;Repeal and Cesser of \r\n                                              Application.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Foreign Enlistment \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 61) is repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Foreign Enlistment Act, \r\n                                              1870, shall cease to apply in \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></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"><p align="center"></table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 75'),
(47, 'GHANA/ISRAEL TRADE AND PAYMENTS AGREEMENT ACT, 1959', '<table>\n<tr>\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1417" height="64">\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              GHANA/ISRAEL TRADE AND PAYMENTS \n                                              AGREEMENT ACT, 1959 </span></b>\n                                              </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (NO. 62 OF 1959)</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              1. Short title.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              2. Interpretation.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              3. Bank to issue promissory notes.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              GHANA</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                               </p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              NO. 62 OF 1959.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Assented to in Her Majesty''s Name \n                                              and on Her Majesty''s behalf this \n                                              21st day of November, 1959.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Governor-General.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              AN ACT to authorise the issue of \n                                              promissory notes under the \n                                              Ghana/Israel Trade and Payments \n                                              Agreement and to make other \n                                              provisions in connection \n                                              therewith.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Date of Commencement. [25th \n                                              November, 1959.]</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Queen''s Most \n                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the \n                                              advice and consent of the National \n                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present \n                                              Parliament assembled, and by the \n                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Short Title.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This Act may be cited as the \n                                              Ghana/Israel Trade and Payments \n                                              Agreement Act, 1959.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              In this Act&#8212;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Agreement&quot; means the Ghana/Israel \n                                              Trade and Payments Agreement \n                                              signed on the fourth day of July, \n                                              1958;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Bank&quot; means the Bank of Ghana;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \n                                              responsible for finance.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <b>\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Bank to Issue Promissory \n                                              Notes.</span></b></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (1) It shall be lawful for the \n                                              Bank, on behalf of the Government \n                                              of Ghana and with the approval of \n                                              the Minister as required under the \n                                              Agreement, to issue promissory \n                                              notes from time to time in respect \n                                              of credits afforded to Ghana by \n                                              the Government of Israel under the \n                                              Agreement; and the Bank shall meet \n                                              the cost of the said notes as and \n                                              when they mature, out of monies \n                                              provided by Parliament for the \n                                              purpose.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              (2) Wherever the Bank shall have, \n                                              in respect of any such credit as \n                                              aforesaid, issued any promissory \n                                              notes under the Agreement before \n                                              the commencement of this Act, the \n                                              said issue shall be deemed to have \n                                              been made under the provisions of \n                                              this Act.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              This printed impression has been \n                                              carefully compared by me with the \n                                              Bill which has passed the National \n                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a \n                                              true and correctly printed copy of \n                                              the said Bill.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              K. B. AYENSU</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\n                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n                                              <p></td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n          </td>\n        </tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\n          <td width="777" height="50">\n            <p align="center"></td>\n        </tr>\n', 'First', 'Yes', '');
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(48, 'GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE CORPORATION  ACT, 1965 (ACT 310)', '<table> \r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1414" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GHANA</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              WATER AND SEWERAGE CORPORATION \r\n                                              ACT, 1965 (ACT 310)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;1. Establishment of Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;2. Objects of Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;3. Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;4. Execution of functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;5. Meetings of Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;6. Chief Executive.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;7. Corporation to be run on \r\n                                              practices in public utility \r\n                                              enterprises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;8. Borrowing powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;9. Assets and reserves.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Liability and responsibility.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Accounts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Auditor''s report.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Relations with local \r\n                                              authorities, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Exemption from tax.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Repeal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND TENTH</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 GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \r\n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1965</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish and \r\n                                              incorporate the Ghana Water and \r\n                                              Sewerage Corporation, to provide \r\n                                              for its functions and maintenance, \r\n                                              to repeal the Waterworks Ordinance \r\n                                              (Cap. 67) and to provide for \r\n                                              matters connected therewith or \r\n                                              incidental thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 22nd October, 1965</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                                              Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There is hereby established a \r\n                                              body corporate to be known as the \r\n                                              Ghana water and Sewerage \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall, by the \r\n                                              name assigned to it by subsection \r\n                                              (1), be a body corporate and shall \r\n                                              have perpetual succession and a \r\n                                              common seal, may sue and be sued \r\n                                              in such name and may for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act enter into \r\n                                              contracts and other transactions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Corporation shall have the \r\n                                              power, for the discharge of its \r\n                                              functions conferred by or under \r\n                                              this Act, to acquire and hold any \r\n                                              movable or immovable property and \r\n                                              to sell, lease, mortgage or \r\n                                              otherwise alienate or dispose of \r\n                                              any such property.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Objects of Corporation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The objects of the Corporation \r\n                                              shall be&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the provision, distribution \r\n                                              and conservation of the supply of \r\n                                              water in Ghana for public, \r\n                                              domestic and industrial purposes; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the establishment, operation \r\n                                              and control of sewerage systems of \r\n                                              such purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of subsection (1), the \r\n                                              powers of the Corporation shall \r\n                                              include, in relation to all or any \r\n                                              of the aforesaid objects &#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 preparation of long-term \r\n                                              plans in consultation with the \r\n                                              appropriate co-ordinating \r\n                                              authority established by the \r\n                                              President;</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 conduct of research \r\n                                              relative to water, sewerage, and \r\n                                              connected subjects;</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 making of engineering \r\n                                              surveys and plans;</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 construction and operation \r\n                                              of works;</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 setting of standards \r\n                                              relative to water supply and \r\n                                              sewerage in collaboration with \r\n                                              appropriate authorities selected \r\n                                              for the purposes of this Act by \r\n                                              the President;</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 determination of adequate \r\n                                              rates, charges or fees, and \r\n                                              effective methods for collection \r\n                                              thereof, for water and sewerage \r\n                                              services furnished to all classes \r\n                                              of users; 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 conduct of other related \r\n                                              or incidental activities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) For the purpose of carrying \r\n                                              out any of its objects the \r\n                                              Corporation may, by its officers, \r\n                                              other employees or agents&#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) after giving notice to the \r\n                                              owner or occupier of any land or \r\n                                              premises, enter upon any such land \r\n                                              or premises and thereon dig \r\n                                              trenches, lay pipes and do other \r\n                                              acts reasonably necessary for \r\n                                              carrying out such objects; and\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) enter any road or place to \r\n                                              which the public have access for \r\n                                              carrying out such objects:</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 Corporation \r\n                                              shall do as little damage as \r\n                                              possible in the exercise of its \r\n                                              powers under this section, and \r\n                                              shall compensate for any damage \r\n                                              caused by the exercise of such \r\n                                              powers, and the liability for, and \r\n                                              the amount of, the compensation \r\n                                              shall, in case of difference, be \r\n                                              settled in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of the Arbitration Act, \r\n                                              1961 (Act 38).</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;Board.</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                                              Corporation shall be a Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall consist of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a chairman who shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the person appointed as the \r\n                                              Managing Director of the \r\n                                              Corporation by National Liberation \r\n                                              Council, or his representative,</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 Principal Secretary of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for the \r\n                                              Corporation, or his \r\n                                              representative,</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 Principal Secretary of the \r\n                                              Ministry of Economic Affairs, or \r\n                                              his representative, and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) three other persons all of \r\n                                              whom shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council. [As \r\n                                              substituted by teh Ghana Water and \r\n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \r\n                                              391) s(1) ].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; The Chairman and members of \r\n                                              the Board appointed under \r\n                                              subsection (2)(e) of this section \r\n                                              shall hold office for three \r\n                                              years.&nbsp; The appointment of such \r\n                                              members may be renewed from time \r\n                                              to time. [As substituted by the \r\n                                              Ghana Water and Sewerage \r\n                                              Corporation Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1969 (NLCD 391) (2)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who is \r\n                                              a member of any assembly or other \r\n                                              body having for the time being \r\n                                              authority to enact laws which have \r\n                                              effect throughout Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board if \r\n                                              having been declared as insolvent \r\n                                              or a bankrupt under any law in \r\n                                              force in Ghana or in any other \r\n                                              country is an undischarged \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) The Chairman and the members \r\n                                              of the Board appointed under \r\n                                              subsection (2) (e) of this section \r\n                                              shall be persons who have had \r\n                                              experience of, and have \r\n                                              demonstrated competence in one or \r\n                                              more of the following fields, that \r\n                                              is to say, public utility \r\n                                              operation and practice, industry, \r\n                                              trade, finance, science and \r\n                                              administration, and no such person \r\n                                              shall be an employee of the \r\n                                              Corporation and not more than one \r\n                                              of such persons shall be a person \r\n                                              employed by the Government. [As \r\n                                              inserted by Ghana Water and \r\n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \r\n                                              391) s. (3)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Board may pay to its \r\n                                              members other than the Managing \r\n                                              Director, such subsistence, \r\n                                              travelling and other allowances at \r\n                                              such rates as the Minister may \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) So to do of any member of the \r\n                                              Board, other than the Managing \r\n                                              Director, may be terminated at any \r\n                                              time by the President if he is of \r\n                                              opinion that it is in the interest \r\n                                              of the Corporation so to do. The \r\n                                              Managing Director shall be \r\n                                              appointed for such period and on \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              President may think fit. [As \r\n                                              amended by the Ghana Water and \r\n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \r\n                                              391) s. (4)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Chairman and any member of \r\n                                              the Board appointed under \r\n                                              subsection (2) (e) of this \r\n                                              section, may resign his office by \r\n                                              notice in writing addressed to the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council and \r\n                                              any such person may be removed \r\n                                              from office by the National \r\n                                              Liberation 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) if he becomes a person of \r\n                                              unsound mind;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if he is declared insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt under any law in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country;</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 he suspends payment or \r\n                                              compounds with his creditors;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) if he is absent from three \r\n                                              consecutive meetings of the Board \r\n                                              without such reason as would \r\n                                              appear to the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council to be sufficient;</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) if he is sentenced to death or \r\n                                              to imprisonment for a term \r\n                                              exceeding twelve months without \r\n                                              the option&nbsp; of a fine or is \r\n                                              convicted of an offence involving \r\n                                              dishonesty;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) if he is guilty of serious \r\n                                              misconduct in relation to his \r\n                                              duties as Chairman or member of \r\n                                              the Board; 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                                              (g) if in the case of a person \r\n                                              possessed of professional \r\n                                              qualifications, he is disqualified \r\n                                              or suspended, otherwise than at \r\n                                              his own request, from practising \r\n                                              his profession in Ghana or in any \r\n                                              other country by order of any \r\n                                              competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally. [As \r\n                                              substituted by the Ghana Water and \r\n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD \r\n                                              391) s.(5)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6A) Where the office of the \r\n                                              Chairman or a member of the Board \r\n                                              appointed under subsection (2) (e) \r\n                                              of this section becomes vacant \r\n                                              before expiration of his term of \r\n                                              office as prescribed under \r\n                                              subsection (3) of this section (as \r\n                                              amended) the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council shall without prejudice to \r\n                                              the provisions of subsection (7) \r\n                                              of this section appoint another \r\n                                              person in his place and to hold \r\n                                              office for the unexpired portion \r\n                                              of his term of office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6B) Where it appears to the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council that \r\n                                              any member of the Board is unable, \r\n                                              owing to his absence from Ghana, \r\n                                              or illness or any other sufficient \r\n                                              cause, to perform the duties of \r\n                                              his office under this Act, the \r\n                                              National Liberation Council may \r\n                                              appoint another person to hold \r\n                                              office in his place until such \r\n                                              time as the National Liberation \r\n                                              Council is satisfied that the \r\n                                              member is able to perform his \r\n                                              duties or until the term of such \r\n                                              member expires, whichever first \r\n                                              occurs. <i>[As inserted by the \r\n                                              Ghana Water and Sewerage \r\n                                              Corporation Act, 1965 (Amendment) \r\n                                              Decree, 1969 (NLCD 391) s.(5)].\r\n                                              </i></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Every member shall, on ceasing \r\n                                              to be a member, be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Execution of Functions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall be \r\n                                              responsible for the execution of \r\n                                              its functions in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of this Act, being \r\n                                              guided by the Minister in matters \r\n                                              of general policy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Meetings of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall meet for the \r\n                                              despatch of its business at such \r\n                                              times and at such places as the \r\n                                              Chairman thereof may appoint, so, \r\n                                              however, that the Board shall meet \r\n                                              at least once every month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At every meeting of the Board \r\n                                              at which he is present, the \r\n                                              Chairman shall preside and in his \r\n                                              absence, a member of the Board \r\n                                              appointed by the members present \r\n                                              from among themselves, shall \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Questions proposed at a \r\n                                              meeting of the Board shall be \r\n                                              determined by a simple majority of \r\n                                              members present and voting and in \r\n                                              the event of an equality of votes \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be four.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Board may make bye-laws or \r\n                                              other instruments, not \r\n                                              inconsistent with this Act for the \r\n                                              purpose of regulating its business \r\n                                              or any other matter falling within \r\n                                              the scope of its functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The Board may, at any time, \r\n                                              co-opt any person or persons to \r\n                                              act as adviser or advisers at any \r\n                                              of its meetings, so, however, that \r\n                                              no person so co-opted shall be \r\n                                              entitled to vote at any such \r\n                                              meeting on any matter for decision \r\n                                              by the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) The validity of any \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be affected by any vacancy among \r\n                                              its members or by any defect in \r\n                                              the appointment of any of them.</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;Chief&nbsp; Executive.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to such directions as may \r\n                                              be given by the Board on matters \r\n                                              of general policy, the Managing \r\n                                              Director thereof shall be the \r\n                                              chief executive officer of the \r\n                                              Corporation and shall, subject to \r\n                                              such directions, be charged with \r\n                                              the conduct of its business, its \r\n                                              administration and organisation, \r\n                                              and with the selection, control, \r\n                                              and dismissal of all the staff and \r\n                                              employees of the Corporation and \r\n                                              with the determination of their \r\n                                              conditions of service.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Corporation to be run on \r\n                                              Practice in Public Utility \r\n                                              Enterprises.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall cause its \r\n                                              affairs to be managed in \r\n                                              accordance with the practices \r\n                                              observed in public utility \r\n                                              enterprises and in particular \r\n                                              shall cause its functions under \r\n                                              this Act to be carried out so as \r\n                                              to ensure that, taking one year \r\n                                              with another, its revenues are \r\n                                              equal to or greater than its \r\n                                              outgoings.</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;Borrowing Powers.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation may obtain \r\n                                              loans and other credit facilities \r\n                                              on the guarantee of the Government \r\n                                              from the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              or from such other Bank as the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              may approve.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Apart from the powers of the \r\n                                              Corporation under subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section, the Corporation \r\n                                              may, with the prior approval of \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance, borrow money from any \r\n                                              other source.</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 any \r\n                                              technical arrangements in \r\n                                              connection with the raising of any \r\n                                              loan under subsection (2) of this \r\n                                              section, the Corporation shall, if \r\n                                              the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              agrees, use the services of that \r\n                                              Bank.</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;Assets and Reserves.</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 vested in the \r\n                                              Corporation such assets as may be \r\n                                              transferred to the Corporation by \r\n                                              the Minister by executive \r\n                                              instrument and such other assets \r\n                                              as may be transferred to it by \r\n                                              other persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation may receive \r\n                                              grants from the Government for \r\n                                              development and as working \r\n                                              capital.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Corporation shall \r\n                                              establish and maintain by annual \r\n                                              payments from its earnings a \r\n                                              depreciation fund for the \r\n                                              replacement of fixed assets which \r\n                                              become worn out or become \r\n                                              obsolete, and shall establish such \r\n                                              capital sinking funds as may be \r\n                                              required for expansion and \r\n                                              development financing.</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;Liability and \r\n                                              Responsibility.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall be \r\n                                              responsible for such liabilities \r\n                                              and contracts as may have been \r\n                                              incurred or entered into by any \r\n                                              other person or authority before \r\n                                              the date of the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act in respect of any object \r\n                                              of the Corporation and specified \r\n                                              in an executive instrument made by \r\n                                              the Minister under this subsection \r\n                                              and any matters relating to such \r\n                                              liabilities and contracts shall be \r\n                                              carried out on and after that date \r\n                                              by the Corporation as if the \r\n                                              Corporation were such other person \r\n                                              or authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall continue \r\n                                              in employment any employees of \r\n                                              such other person or authority on \r\n                                              and after that date on such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as may be fixed by \r\n                                              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 11&#8212;Accounts.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall keep \r\n                                              proper books of account and proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto.</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                                              to form as the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance, and the \r\n                                              Minister may jointly give, the \r\n                                              Corporation shall prepare, in \r\n                                              respect of each financial year, a \r\n                                              statement of accounts which shall \r\n                                              include&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a balance sheet, a statement \r\n                                              of income and expenditure and a \r\n                                              statement containing such \r\n                                              information as had the Corporation \r\n                                              been a company registered under \r\n                                              the Companies Code (Act 179) would \r\n                                              be required to be laid before the \r\n                                              company by the directors at an \r\n                                              annual 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                                              (b) such other information in \r\n                                              respect of the financial affairs \r\n                                              of the Corporation as the Minister \r\n                                              or the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may require.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Corporation shall, as soon \r\n                                              as possible, but within three \r\n                                              months after the termination of \r\n                                              each financial year, submit an \r\n                                              annual report to the Minister, in \r\n                                              such form as the Minister may \r\n                                              prescribe, which shall include the \r\n                                              statements of account specified in \r\n                                              subsection (2) of this section and \r\n                                              the Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable lay the report before \r\n                                              the National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation shall submit \r\n                                              to the Minister such report of its \r\n                                              financial affairs as the Minister \r\n                                              may at any time 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 12&#8212;Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall be audited each \r\n                                              year by the Auditor-General or an \r\n                                              auditor appointed by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Auditor-General shall, not \r\n                                              later than three months after the \r\n                                              termination of each financial year \r\n                                              forward to the Minister a copy of \r\n                                              the audited accounts of the \r\n                                              Corporation for the financial year \r\n                                              immediately preceding.</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;Auditor''s Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Auditor-General or the \r\n                                              auditor appointed by him shall \r\n                                              report annually to the Minister \r\n                                              the result of his examination of \r\n                                              the accounts and financial \r\n                                              statement of the Corporation, and \r\n                                              the report shall state whether in \r\n                                              his opinion&#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) proper books of accounts have \r\n                                              been kept by the Corporation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the financial statement of the \r\n                                              Corporation &#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              was prepared on a basis consistent \r\n                                              with that of the preceding year \r\n                                              and is in agreement with the books \r\n                                              of accounts;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) in the case of the balance \r\n                                              sheet, give a true and fair view \r\n                                              of the state of the Corporation''s \r\n                                              affairs as at the end of the \r\n                                              financial year; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) in the case of the statement \r\n                                              of income and expenses, gives a \r\n                                              true and fair view of the income \r\n                                              and expenses or profit and loss of \r\n                                              the Corporation for the financial \r\n                                              year;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and the Auditor-General or the \r\n                                              auditor appointed by him shall \r\n                                              call the attention of the Minister \r\n                                              to any other matter falling within \r\n                                              the scope of his examination \r\n                                              which, in his opinion, should be \r\n                                              brought to the attention of the \r\n                                              National Assembly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Auditor-General or the \r\n                                              auditor appointed by him, shall \r\n                                              from time to time make to the \r\n                                              Corporation or to the Minister \r\n                                              such other reports as he may deem \r\n                                              necessary or as the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance or the \r\n                                              Minister 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 14&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board may, with the approval \r\n                                              of the Minister, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, make regulations&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in respect of such matters as \r\n                                              are required under this Act to be \r\n                                              prescribed;</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) fixing water rates, sewerage \r\n                                              charges, and other fees necessary \r\n                                              for giving effect to any matter \r\n                                              specified in this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) for the prevention of the \r\n                                              waste of water;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) for the suspension of water \r\n                                              supply;</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 the prevention of the \r\n                                              pollution of water;</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 inspection of any \r\n                                              appliances whereby or in \r\n                                              connection with which water is \r\n                                              supplied or sewerage systems are \r\n                                              established;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) for the conditions of service \r\n                                              of the staff of the Corporation, \r\n                                              including conditions for the \r\n                                              establishment of a Provident Fund \r\n                                              or Pension Fund Scheme; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) for any other matter for \r\n                                              carrying out the principles and \r\n                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Relations with Local \r\n                                              Authorities, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A council within the meaning \r\n                                              of the Local Administration Act, \r\n                                              1971 (Act 359) shall exercise any \r\n                                              object conferred or deemed to be \r\n                                              conferred under that Act, subject \r\n                                              to such directions as may be given \r\n                                              by the Corporation, if such object \r\n                                              is connected with or incidental to \r\n                                              an object of the Corporation \r\n                                              specified in section 2 of this \r\n                                              Act.[As amended by the Local \r\n                                              Administration Act, 1971 (Act \r\n                                              359), sch. to s.118]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation shall have \r\n                                              preference over other authorities \r\n                                              in the use of water resources for \r\n                                              public, domestic and industrial \r\n                                              purposes and if there is any doubt \r\n                                              as to the meaning of the \r\n                                              expression &quot;public, domestic and \r\n                                              industrial purposes&quot; in section 2 \r\n                                              of this Act, such doubt shall be \r\n                                              resolved by the Minister whose \r\n                                              decision shall be final.</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;Exemption from Tax.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall be exempt \r\n                                              from the payment of income tax or \r\n                                              any other prescribed tax.</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;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;Corporation&quot; means the \r\n                                              Corporation established 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                                              &nbsp;''financial year'' means the \r\n                                              financial year of the Government. \r\n                                              [As substituted by the Ghana Water \r\n                                              and Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment)&nbsp; Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              247) s. 1].</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 the functions under this Act \r\n                                              have been assigned 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                                              (1) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              the principal enactment before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Decree the \r\n                                              period beginning with the \r\n                                              commencement of the principal \r\n                                              enactment and ending on the 31st \r\n                                              day of December, 1966 shall for \r\n                                              all purposes be deemed to have \r\n                                              been the first financial year of \r\n                                              the Water and Sewerage \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of the \r\n                                              definition of the financial year \r\n                                              of the said Corporation as \r\n                                              substituted by paragraph 1 of this \r\n                                              Decree the period beginning with \r\n                                              the 1st day of January, 1968 and \r\n                                              ending on the 30th day of June, \r\n                                              1968 shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              financial year. [Inserted and to \r\n                                              be cited as Ghana Water and \r\n                                              Sewerage Corporation Act, 1965 \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD \r\n                                              247) 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 18&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 67) \r\n                                              is hereby repealed:</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 any statutory \r\n                                              instrument made under that \r\n                                              Ordinance, and in force on the day \r\n                                              immediately before the date of \r\n                                              commencement of this Act shall, \r\n                                              until such instrument is amended \r\n                                              or rescinded, continue in force \r\n                                              under the corresponding provisions \r\n                                              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 19&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into force on \r\n                                              such date as may be fixed by the \r\n                                              President by legislative \r\n                                              instrument.</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                                              GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \r\n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1965 (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1968 (NLCD 247)1.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GHANA WATER AND SEWERAGE \r\n                                              CORPORATION ACT, 1969 (AMENDMENT) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1969 (NLCD 391)2.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              LOCAL ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 359).3</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></p>\r\n                                     </td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          \r\n', 'First', 'Yes', 'ACT 310');
