<a href="../../executiveinstrumentdetail.php?id=149">WILDLIFE RESERVES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1977 (LI 1105).</a>&nbsp;
IN exercise of the powers conferred on the Supreme Military Council by
section 11 of the Wild Animals Preservation Act, 1961 (Act 43) these
Regulations are made this 21st day of April, 1977.<br><br>Regulation 1- L.I. 710 Amended.<br><br>The Wildlife Reserve Regulations, 1971 (L.I. 710) as amended is hereby further amended as follows -<br><br>(a)
by the deletion from regulation 1 thereof, of the words Bia West Game
Production Reserve and 'Bia South Game Production Reserve';<br><br>(b)
by the insertion at the end of the list of names of Reserves specified
in regulation 1 thereof, of&nbsp; the following new Reserve - (m) Bia Game
Production Reserve.<br><br>(c) by the substitution for the particulars
specified in the Schedule thereto relating to the Bia National Park of
the new particulars specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;<br><br>(d)
by the deletion from the Schedule thereto, of the particulars relating
to Bia West Game Production Reserve and Bia South Game Production
Reserve; and<br><br>(e) by the insertion at the end of the Schedule
thereto of the particulars specified in the Schedule to these
Regulations relating to the Bia Game Production Reserve.<br><br>Regulation 2 - Revocation.<br><br>The following instruments are hereby revoked -<br><br>(a) Wildlife Reserves (Amendment) Regulations, 1974 (L.I. 881);<br><br>(b) Sefwi Wiawso State (Bia Tributaries Forest Reserve) Bye-laws, 1940; and<br><br>(c) Sefwi Wiawso State (Bia Tributaries Forest Reserve) Bye-laws (Amendment) Order, 1954.<br><br>SCHEDULE<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>BIA NATIONAL PARK DESCRIPTION.<br><br>All
that piece or parcel of land known as site for Bia National Park
situate and lying and being at Debiso South in the Bia Tributaries
South Forest Reserve in the Sefwi Wiawso&nbsp;&nbsp; District of the Western
Region of the Republic of Ghana the boundary whereof commencing at a
pillar marked BNP. I which pillar is approximately 6,600 feet East of
Latitude 03<font size="1"><sup>0</sup></font> 05" and approximately 14,600 feet North of Latitude 6&#65533; 35&#65533;
whose intersection of Pillar BNP.1 is Longitude 03&#65533; 03&#65533; 30&#65533; and
Latitude 6&#65533; 37&#65533; 25&#65533; at Kontumso Village.&nbsp; The boundary runs on a
bearing of 126&#65533; 30&#65533; which bearing together with all further bearing
hereinafter mentioned is referred to the Meridian 1&#65533; West Longitude -
for approximately 12,000 feet to a pillar marked BNP. 2 and thence on
bearing of 161&#65533; 30&#65533; for approximately 10,800 feet to a pillar marked
BNP.3 and thence on a bearing of&nbsp; 185&#65533; 30&#65533; for approximately 10,500
feet to a pillar marked BNP.3A and thence on a bearing of 257&#65533; 30&#65533; for
approximately 21,700 feet to a pillar marked BNP.3B and thence on a
bearing of 279&#65533; 30&#65533; for approximately 16,000 feet to a pillar marked
BNP.3C and thence on a bearing of 20&#65533; 00&#65533; for approximately 12,500 feet
to a pillar marked BNP.12 and thence on a bearing of 356&#65533; 00&#65533; for
approximately 6,000 feet&nbsp; to a pillar marked BNP. 13 and thence on a
bearing of 60&#65533;&nbsp; 00&#65533; for approximately 24,700 feet to the point of
commencement thus enclosing an area of 30.00 square miles be the same
several dimensions little more or less as the same premises are more
particularly delineated and shewn edged pink on the plan attached
herewith.&#65533;<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>BIA GAME PRODUCTION RESERVE DESCRIPTION<br><br>All
that piece or parcel of land known as site for Bia Game Production
Reserve situate South of the Site for Bia National Park in the Bia
Tributaries South Forest Reserve in the Sefwi Wiawso District of the
Western Region of the Republic of Ghana the boundary whereof commencing
at a pillar marked BNP.3A which pillar is approximately 19,500 feet on
a bearings of 185&#65533; 30&#65533; - which bearing together with all further
bearings hereinafter mentioned is referred to Meridian 1&#65533; West
Longitude - from a pillar marked BMP.3 which pillar marks the Eastern
boundary of the said Bia National Park site the boundary runs in a
southerly direction on a bearing of 185&#65533;&nbsp; 30&#65533; for approximately 29,000
feet to a pillar marked BNP.4 and thence on a bearing of 150&#65533;&nbsp; 00&#65533; for
approximately 43,600 feet passing through a pillar marked BNP.5 to a
pillar marked BNP.5A and thence on a bearing of 247&#65533; 00&#65533; for&nbsp;
approximately 15,000 feet to a pillar marked BNP.5B and thence on a
bearing of 321&#65533; 00&#65533; for approximately 14,800 feet to a pillar marked
BNP.5C and thence on a bearing of 310&#65533; 00&#65533; for approximately 31,300
feet passing through a pillar marked BNP.7 to a pillar marked BNP.8 and
thence on a bearing of 266&#65533; 00&#65533; for 32,500 feet passing through a
pillar marked BNP.9 to a pillar marked BNP.9A and thence on a bearing
of 33&#65533; 00&#65533; for approximately 32,000 feet passing through a pillar
marked BNP.10 to a pillar marked BNP.11 and thence on a bearing of 20&#65533;
00&#65533; for approximately 16,000 feet to a pillar marked BNP.3c which
pillar marks the south-western corner of the aforesaid BIA NATIONAL
PARK and thence on a bearing of 99&#65533; 30&#65533; for approximately&nbsp; 16,000 feet
to a pillar marked BNP.3B and thence on a bearing of 77&#65533; 30&#65533; for
approximately&nbsp; 21,700 feet to the point of commencement thus enclosing
an area of 88.00 square miles be the same several dimensions little
more or less as the same premises are more particularly delineated and
shewn edged pink on the Plan attached herewith.&#65533;<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>GENERAL I. K. ACHEAMPONG<br><br>Chairman of the Supreme Military Council<br><br>Date of Gazette Notification: 29th&nbsp; April, 1977.