  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              IN exercise of the powers 
                                              conferred upon the Commissioner by 
                                              sections 173 (d) and 181 of the 
                                              Merchant Shipping Act, 1963 (Act 
                                              183), these Rules are hereby made 
                                              this 9th day of August, 1972.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Rule 1&#8212;Communications Regarding 
                                              Danger to Navigation.</span></b></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1)&nbsp; The master of every Ghanaian 
                                              ship shall&#8212; </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) on meeting with dangerous ice, 
                                              a dangerous derelict, a tropical 
                                              storm or any other direct danger 
                                              to navigation;</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) on encountering sub-freezing 
                                              air temperatures associated with 
                                              gale force winds causing severe 
                                              ice accretion on superstructures; 
                                              or</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) on experiencing winds of force 
                                              10 or above on the Beaufort Scale 
                                              for which no storm warning has 
                                              been received, send by all means 
                                              of communication at his disposal 
                                              information relating to the 
                                              matters set forth in the First 
                                              Schedule to these Rules.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (2)&nbsp; The information shall be sent 
                                              to ships in the vicinity and to 
                                              the person in charge for the time 
                                              being of the nearest coast station 
                                              with which it is possible for the 
                                              ship to communicate; and if that 
                                              station is not a coast radio 
                                              station, the information shall be 
                                              accompanied by a request that it 
                                              be sent forthwith to the nearest 
                                              coast radio station.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3)&nbsp; The information shall be sent 
                                              by the master of the ship in 
                                              English or by means of&nbsp; the&nbsp; 
                                              International Code of Signals.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4)&nbsp; The information, when sent by 
                                              the master of the ship by means of 
                                              radio, shall commence with an 
                                              indication of the nature of the 
                                              danger to which it relates and 
                                              shall be preceded by the safety 
                                              signal consisting&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) if the information is sent by 
                                              radio telegraphy, of the group TTT 
                                              in the Morse Code, repeated three 
                                              times, with the letters of each 
                                              group and the successive groups 
                                              being clearly separated from each 
                                              other, or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) if the information is sent by 
                                              radio telephony, of the spoken 
                                              word &#8220;SECURITE&#8221; (pronounced &#8220;SAYCURITAY&#8221;) 
                                              repeated three times.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Rule 2&#8212;Distress Signals.</span></b></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1)&nbsp; No distress signal shall be 
                                              used by any ship unless so ordered 
                                              by the master of the ship.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2)&nbsp; The master of the ship shall 
                                              not order any distress signal to 
                                              be used by his ship unless he is 
                                              satisfied&#8212;</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a)&nbsp; that his ship is in serious 
                                              and imminent danger, or that 
                                              another ship or an aircraft is in 
                                              serious and imminent danger and 
                                              cannot of itself send that signal; 
                                              and</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b)&nbsp; that the ship in danger 
                                              (whether his own ship or another 
                                              ship) or the aircraft in danger, 
                                              as the case may be, required 
                                              immediate assistance in addition 
                                              to any assistance then available 
                                              to her.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3)&nbsp; The master of a ship which 
                                              has sent any distress signal by 
                                              means of radio shall cause that 
                                              signal to be revoked as soon as he 
                                              is satisfied that the ship or 
                                              aircraft to which the signal 
                                              relates is no longer in need of 
                                              assistance as aforesaid.</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Rule 3&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In these Rules, unless the context 
                                              otherwise requires, the following 
                                              expressions shall have the 
                                              meanings hereby assigned to them, 
                                              that is to say&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &#8220;Coast radio station&#8221; means a 
                                              station situated on land intended 
                                              to provide communication with 
                                              ships by means of radio;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &#8220;Coast station&#8221; means a station 
                                              situated on land intended to 
                                              provide communication with ships 
                                              by means other than radio;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &#8220;Commissioner means the 
                                              Commissioner responsible for 
                                              Transport;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              &#8220;Distress signals&#8221; means any of 
                                              the signals prescribed in the 
                                              Second Schedule to these Rules;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &#8220;Tropical storm&#8221; means a 
                                              hurricane, typhoon, cyclone or a 
                                              storm of similar nature, and the 
                                              master of a ship shall be deemed 
                                              to have met with a tropical storm 
                                              if he has reason to believe that 
                                              such storm is developing or exists 
                                              in his vicinity.</span></p>
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                                              <b>

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Rule 4&#8212;Revocation.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Merchant Shipping 
                                              (Navigational Warnings) Rules, 
                                              1963 (L.I. 303) are hereby 
                                              revoked.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <i>

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SCHEDULES</span></i></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <i>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></i></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              The following information is 
                                              required in danger messages:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              A.&nbsp; ICE, DERELICTS AND OTHER 
                                              DIRECT DANGERS TO NAVIGATION</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1)&nbsp; The kind of ice, derelict or 
                                              other danger observed.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2)&nbsp; The position of the ice, 
                                              derelict or other danger when last 
                                              observed.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3)&nbsp; The Greenwich Mean Time and 
                                              date when the observation was 
                                              made.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              B.&nbsp; TROPICAL STORMS</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (1)&nbsp; The position of the storm so 
                                              far as it can be ascertained.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The Greenwich Mean Time, date 
                                              and position of ship when the 
                                              observation was taken.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) The true course and speed of 
                                              the ship.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) As much of the following 
                                              information as is practicable 
                                              should be included in the 
                                              message:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a)&nbsp; the barometric pressure, 
                                              preferably corrected (stating 
                                              millibars, inches, or millimeters, 
                                              and whether corrected or 
                                              uncorrected);</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b)&nbsp; the change in barometric 
                                              pressure during the previous three 
                                              hours;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c)&nbsp; the true wind direction;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d)&nbsp; the wind force according to 
                                              the Beaufort Scale;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e)&nbsp; the state of the sea (smooth, 
                                              moderate, rough or high);</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f)&nbsp;&nbsp; the swell (slight, moderate 
                                              or heavy) and the true direction 
                                              from which it comes;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g)&nbsp; the period or length of swell 
                                              (short, average, long).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) So long as a ship remains 
                                              under the influence of a tropical 
                                              or other dangerous storm further 
                                              observations shall be made and 
                                              transmitted at intervals of not 
                                              more than three&nbsp; hours.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              C. WINDS OF FORCE 10 OR ABOVE ON 
                                              THE BEAUFORT SCALE FOR WHICH NO 
                                              STORM WARNING HAS BEEN RECEIVED.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              When such a storm is encountered 
                                              the message should contain similar 
                                              information to that listed under 
                                              Part B of this Schedule but 
                                              excluding the details concerning 
                                              sea and swell.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              D.&nbsp; SUB-FREEZING AIR TEMPERATURES 
                                              ASSOCIATED WITH GALE FORCE WINDS 
                                              CAUSING SEVERE ICE ACCRETION ON 
                                              SUPERSTRUCTURES.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a)&nbsp; Time and date (Greenwich Mean 
                                              Time).</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b)&nbsp; Air temperature.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c)&nbsp; Sea temperature (if 
                                              practicable).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d)&nbsp; Wind force and direction.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              EXAMPLES OF THE ABOVE</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Ice</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              TTT Ice.&#8212;Large berg sighted in 
                                              4605 N., 4410 W., at 0800 GMT., 
                                              May 15.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Derelicts</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              TTT Derelict.&#8212;Observed derelict 
                                              almost submerged in 4006 N., 1243 
                                              W., at 1630 GMT., April 21.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Danger to Navigation</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              T'TT Navigation.&#8212;Alpha lightship 
                                              not on station. 1800 GMT., January 
                                              3.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Tropical Storm</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) TTT Storm 0300 GMT., August 18 
                                              2204 N., 11354 E. Barometer 
                                              corrected 994 millibars, tendency 
                                              down 6 millibars.&nbsp; Wind NW., force 
                                              9 heavy squalls. Heavy easterly 
                                              swell.&nbsp; Course 067, 5 Knots.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b)&nbsp; TTT Storm.&nbsp; Appearances 
                                              indicate approach of hurricane. 
                                              1300 GMT., September 14, 2200 
                                              N.7236 W. Barometer corrected 
                                              29.64 inches, tendency down .015 
                                              inches, Wind NE. force 8, frequent 
                                              rain squalls.&nbsp; Course 035, 9 
                                              Knots.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c)&nbsp; TTT Storm.&nbsp; Conditions 
                                              indicate intense cyclone has 
                                              formed. 0200 GMT., May 4., 1620 
                                              N., 9203 E. Barometer uncorrected 
                                              753 millimetres, tendency down 5 
                                              millimetres, Wind S. by W. force 5 
                                              Course 300, 8 Knots.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d)&nbsp; TTT Storm.&nbsp; Typhoon to 
                                              southeast. 0300 GMT., June 12, 
                                              1812 N., 12605 E. Barometer 
                                              falling rapidly.&nbsp; Wind increasing 
                                              from N.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (e)&nbsp; TTT Storm.&nbsp; Wind force 11, no 
                                              storm warning received. 0300 GMT., 
                                              May 4., 4830 N., 30 W. Barometer 
                                              corrected 983 millibars, tendency 
                                              down 4 millibars.&nbsp; Wind&nbsp; SW., 
                                              force 11&nbsp; veering.&nbsp; Course 260, 6 
                                              Knots.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Icing</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              TTT experiencing severe icing. 
                                              1400 GMT., March 2, 69 N., 10 W. 
                                              Air temperature 18.&nbsp; Sea&nbsp; 
                                              temperature 29.&nbsp; Wind NE., force 
                                              8.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <i>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></i></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              DISTRESS SIGNALS</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where a vessel or seaplane on the 
                                              water is in distress and requires 
                                              assistance from other vessels or 
                                              from the shore, the following 
                                              shall be the signals to be used or 
                                              displayed by her, either together 
                                              or separately, namely:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; 
                                              A gun or other explosive signal 
                                              fired at intervals of about a 
                                              minute.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;(ii)&nbsp; A continuous sounding with 
                                              any fog-signalling apparatus.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;(iii)&nbsp; Rockets or shells, 
                                              throwing red stars fired one at a 
                                              time at short intervals.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iv) A signal made by radio 
                                              telegraphy or by any other 
                                              signalling method consisting of 
                                              the group . . . . . . in the Morse 
                                              Code.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (v)&nbsp;&nbsp; A signal sent by radio 
                                              telephony consisting of the spoken 
                                              word &#8220;MAYDAY&#8221;.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp; (vi) The International Code of 
                                              Signal of distress indicated by NC.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp; (vii) A signal consisting of a 
                                              square flag having above it a ball 
                                              or anything resembling a&nbsp;&nbsp; ball.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp; (viii) Flames on the vessel (as 
                                              from a burning tar barrel, oil 
                                              barrel, etc.).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp; (ix)&nbsp; A rocket parachute flare 
                                              or a hand flare showing a red 
                                              light.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (x)&nbsp; A smoke signal giving off 
                                              a volume of orange coloured smoke.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (xi)&nbsp; Slowly and repeatedly 
                                              raising and lowering arms 
                                              outstretched to each side.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Note.&#8212;Vessels in distress may use 
                                              the radio-telegraph alarm signal 
                                              or the radio-telephone alarm 
                                              signal to secure attention to 
                                              distress calls and messages.&nbsp; The 
                                              radio-telegraph alarm signal, 
                                              which is designed to actuate the 
                                              radio-telegraph auto alarm of 
                                              vessels so fitted, consists of a 
                                              series of twelve dashes, sent in 
                                              one minute, the duration of each 
                                              dash being four seconds and the 
                                              duration of the interval between 
                                              two consecutive dashes being one 
                                              second. The radio-telephone alarm 
                                              signal consists of two tones 
                                              transmitted alternately over 
                                              periods of from 30 seconds to one 
                                              minute.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 144.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              MAJOR A. H. SELORMEY</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 144.0pt">
                                              <i>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Commissioner Responsible for 
                                              Transport&nbsp; and Communications.</span></i></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 25th 
                                              August, 1972.</span></p>