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(30, 'GHANA NATIONALITY REGULATIONS, 1972 (LI 747).', '                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              IN exercise of the powers \r\n                                              conferred on the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for citizenship by \r\n                                              section 15 (1) of the Ghana \r\n                                              Nationality Act, 1971 (Act 361) \r\n                                              these Regulations are made this \r\n                                              1st day of June, 1972.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 1&#8212;Applications Under \r\n                                              the Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All applications under the Ghana \r\n                                              Nationality Act, 1971 (Act 361) \r\n                                              shall be made to the Commissioner \r\n                                              in the appropriate form set out in \r\n                                              the Schedule (which shall be \r\n                                              submitted in duplicate), and shall \r\n                                              be accompanied by the following \r\n                                              fees, which shall not be \r\n                                              refundable:&#8212;</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                                              FORM 1 (application for \r\n                                              registration as a citizen of Ghana \r\n                                              under section 2 (1) of the Act)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ¢</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 2 and 3 (application for \r\n                                              registration as a citizen of Ghana \r\n                                              under section 2 (2), (3), (4) or \r\n                                              (5) of the Act)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              25.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 4 (application for \r\n                                              registration of a minor child as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana under section 3 \r\n                                              (1) or (2) of the Act)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 5 (application for \r\n                                              naturaliation of citizen of Ghana \r\n                                              under section 6 of the Act)&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              50.00&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 6 (application for a \r\n                                              certificate of citizenship in case \r\n                                              of doubt under section 12 of the \r\n                                              Act&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\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10.00&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\r\n                                              Regulation 2&#8212;Applications to be \r\n                                              Sponsored and Signed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every application for \r\n                                              registration or naturalisation \r\n                                              under section 2 (1), 2 (2), or 6 \r\n                                              of the Act shall be sponsored by \r\n                                              four citizens of Ghana who from \r\n                                              their personal knowledge are well \r\n                                              acquainted with the applicant and \r\n                                              can recommend him as a fit and \r\n                                              proper person to become a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) One such sponsor shall be a \r\n                                              Judge, magistrate, minister of \r\n                                              religion, public officer earning a \r\n                                              basic salary of not less than \r\n                                              ¢2,000 per annum, legal \r\n                                              practitioner, accountant, doctor \r\n                                              or dentist.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every application for \r\n                                              registration or naturalisation \r\n                                              shall be signed or marked by the \r\n                                              applicant (or, in the case of an \r\n                                              application under section 3 (1) of \r\n                                              the Act, by his parent or \r\n                                              guardian) in the presence of a \r\n                                              Circuit Judge, District \r\n                                              Magistrate, Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths, or the head of any Ghana \r\n                                              Mission or Consulate abroad, who \r\n                                              shall attest the signature or \r\n                                              mark.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 3&#8212;Oath of Allegiance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The oath of allegiance shall be \r\n                                              endorsed on the certificate to \r\n                                              which it relates, and that \r\n                                              certificate shall not be issued to \r\n                                              the applicant until the oath is \r\n                                              endorsed as aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 4&#8212;Issue of \r\n                                              Certificates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) On the registration or \r\n                                              naturalisation of a person as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana the Commissioner \r\n                                              shall issue a certificate of \r\n                                              registration or naturalisation in \r\n                                              Form 7, 8 or 9 in the Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A certificate of citizenship \r\n                                              in case of doubt issued by the \r\n                                              Commissioner under section 12 of \r\n                                              the Act shall be in Form 10 set \r\n                                              out in the Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 5&#8212;Renunciation of \r\n                                              Citizenship.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A declaration of renunciation \r\n                                              of citizenship of a foreign \r\n                                              country, and of intention to \r\n                                              reside in Ghana, made under \r\n                                              section 8 of the Act, shall be in \r\n                                              Form 11 set out in the Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A declaration of renunciation \r\n                                              of citizenship of Ghana, made \r\n                                              under section 9 of the Act, shall \r\n                                              be in Form 12 set out in the \r\n                                              Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) A fee of ¢5.00 shall be paid \r\n                                              for the registration of a \r\n                                              declaration referred to in this \r\n                                              regulation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 6&#8212;Deprivation of \r\n                                              Citizenship.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Where the High Court of \r\n                                              Justice deprives of his \r\n                                              citizenship a person who is a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana otherwise than by \r\n                                              birth, that Court may further \r\n                                              order any person in possession of \r\n                                              a certificate of registration or \r\n                                              naturalisation relating to the \r\n                                              person so deprived to deliver the \r\n                                              certificate to the Commissioner \r\n                                              for cancellation within such time \r\n                                              as the Court may specify.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; Any person who fails to \r\n                                              comply with an order of the Court \r\n                                              under this regulation shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              two hundred cedis or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding six \r\n                                              months or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 7&#8212;Registers to be Kept.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Commissioner shall maintain \r\n                                              registers of all persons who \r\n                                              become citizens of Ghana by \r\n                                              registration or naturalisation, \r\n                                              who renounce their citizenship of \r\n                                              any foreign country and declare \r\n                                              their intention to reside in \r\n                                              Ghana, who renounce their \r\n                                              citizenship of Ghana, or who are \r\n                                              deprived of their citizenship of \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 8&#8212;Variation of Forms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Commissioner may permit the \r\n                                              forms contained in the Schedule to \r\n                                              be varied to meet the \r\n                                              circumstances of any particular \r\n                                              case, subject to the observance of \r\n                                              the requirements of the Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 9&#8212;Certification of \r\n                                              Copies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) A document may be certified to \r\n                                              be a true copy of a document for \r\n                                              the purposes of section 13 (2) of \r\n                                              the Act by means of a statement in \r\n                                              writing to that effect signed by \r\n                                              the Commissioner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A fee of ¢2.00 shall be paid \r\n                                              for supplying a certified copy of \r\n                                              any certificate, declaration or \r\n                                              entry granted or made under the \r\n                                              Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 10&#8212;Revocation.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Ghana Nationality Regulations, \r\n                                              1965 (L.I. 471) are hereby \r\n                                              revoked.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              FORM I</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS A \r\n                                              CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 2 \r\n                                              (1) OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, \r\n                                              1971 (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (By a citizen of an approved \r\n                                              country resident in Ghana)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee Paid: ¢50.00</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;PARTICULARS OF APPLICATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\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                                              PHOTOGRAPH&nbsp;&nbsp; OF&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;......... \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;.&#8230;.....&#8230; \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              having been resident in Ghana \r\n                                              during the last five years, hereby \r\n                                              apply for registration as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              2. I am of good character and am \r\n                                              able to speak and understand a \r\n                                              Ghanaian language, namely &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. (name \r\n                                              of language) </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place and date of \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place and date of birth \r\n                                              of parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;....................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5.&nbsp; (To be completed by married \r\n                                              women applicants only)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Name of husband \r\n                                              ................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;.............................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nationality of husband now or at \r\n                                              time of death \r\n                                              ............................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Is the marriage still subsisting?&nbsp; \r\n                                              Yes/No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............&#8230;&#8230;............................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Applicant is a citizen of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. \r\n                                              (approved country) by \r\n                                              birth/descent/registration/naturalisation/marriage. \r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Date of first arrival in Ghana \r\n                                              .........................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Particulars of all subsequent \r\n                                              periods of absence from Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (iii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp; \r\n                                              (Insert date, countries visited \r\n                                              and reason for journey)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Particulars of \r\n                                              employment in Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Particulars of properties \r\n                                              owned in Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Particulars of all criminal \r\n                                              proceedings taken against the \r\n                                              applicant at any time and in any \r\n                                              country &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. (To be answered only where the \r\n                                              applicant has previously renounced \r\n                                              or been deprived of Ghanaian \r\n                                              citizenship)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) Circumstances under which the \r\n                                              applicant renounced or was \r\n                                              deprived of Ghanaian citizenship \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Reasons for present \r\n                                              application&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......(name \r\n                                              of applicant) do solemnly and \r\n                                              sincerely declare that the \r\n                                              particulars stated in this \r\n                                              application are true, and I make \r\n                                              this solemn declaration believing \r\n                                              it to be true.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature or Mark of Applicant</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Made and subscribed this \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;day \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..19&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of Ghana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate \r\n                                              abroad&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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SPONSORS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Four sponsors are required.&nbsp; One \r\n                                              must be a judge, magistrate, \r\n                                              minister of religion, public \r\n                                              officer earning a basic salary of \r\n                                              not less than ¢2,000 per annum, \r\n                                              legal practitioner, accountant, \r\n                                              doctor or dentist.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........................................................................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (full name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.(address) \r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(state \r\n                                              occupation)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; hereby certify that \r\n                                              the particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating to \r\n                                              ....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (name of applicant) are to the \r\n                                              best of my knowledge and belief \r\n                                              correct and that he/she is in my \r\n                                              opinion a person of good character \r\n                                              and a fit and proper person to be \r\n                                              registered as a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;........&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......................................................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................... \r\n                                              (full name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;.(address) \r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(state occupation) \r\n                                              hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating \r\n                                              to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(name \r\n                                              of applicant) are to the best of \r\n                                              my knowledge and belief correct \r\n                                              and that he/she is in my opinion a \r\n                                              person of good character and a fit \r\n                                              and proper person to be registered \r\n                                              as a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...... Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              3. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(full \r\n                                              name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;.(address) \r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(state occupation) \r\n                                              hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(name \r\n                                              of applicant) are to the best of \r\n                                              my knowledge and belief correct \r\n                                              and that he/she is in my opinion a \r\n                                              person of good character and a fit \r\n                                              and proper person to be registered \r\n                                              as a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....... Signature</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(full \r\n                                              name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;.(address) \r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(state occupation) \r\n                                              hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(name \r\n                                              of applicant) are to the best of \r\n                                              my knowledge and belief correct \r\n                                              and that he/she is in my opinion a \r\n                                              person of good character and a fit \r\n                                              and proper person to be registered \r\n                                              as a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....... Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              FORM 2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS A \r\n                                              CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 2 \r\n                                              (2) OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, \r\n                                              1971 (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (By a person born outside Ghana \r\n                                              before 22nd August, 1969, one of \r\n                                              whose parents was at the time of \r\n                                              his birth a citizen of Ghana)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee Paid: ¢25.00</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;PARTICULARS OF APPLICATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\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                                              PHOTOGRAPH OF&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................&#8230; \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a person born outside Ghana \r\n                                              before 22nd August, 1969 and \r\n                                              having one parent who at the time \r\n                                              of my birth was a citizen of \r\n                                              Ghana, hereby apply for \r\n                                              registration as 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\r\n                                              2. I am of good character and am \r\n                                              able to speak and understand a \r\n                                              Ghanaian language,&nbsp; \r\n                                              namely&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. (name of \r\n                                              language) </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Place and date of \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;.......................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place and date of birth \r\n                                              of parents: \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;...................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;.......................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Place of birth of grandparents:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Place of birth of \r\n                                              great-grandparents (if known):</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s father&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s father&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s father&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s father&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;7. (To be completed by married \r\n                                              women applicants only)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Name of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;...........................................\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nationality of husband now or at \r\n                                              time of \r\n                                              death&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Is the marriage still subsisting? \r\n                                              Yes/No&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Applicant is a citizen \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. \r\n                                              (country) by \r\n                                              birth/descent/registration/ \r\n                                              naturalisation/marriage. (Delete \r\n                                              inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Date of first arrival in \r\n                                              Ghana&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Particulars of all subsequent \r\n                                              periods of absence from Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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; \r\n                                              (Insert dates, countries visited \r\n                                              and reason for journey)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Particulars of employment in \r\n                                              Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Particulars of properties \r\n                                              owned in Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Particulars of all criminal \r\n                                              proceedings taken against the \r\n                                              applicant at any time and in any \r\n                                              country&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14.&nbsp; Reasons why applicant is not \r\n                                              a citizen of Ghana by virtue of \r\n                                              section 1 of the Act although one \r\n                                              of his parents was at the time of \r\n                                              his birth a citizen of Ghana. \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (name of applicant) do solemnly \r\n                                              and sincerely declare that the \r\n                                              particulars stated in this \r\n                                              application are true, and I make \r\n                                              this solemn declaration believing \r\n                                              it to be true.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature or Mark of Applicant</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Made and subscribed this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;day \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;..19.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................................&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of \r\n                                              Ghana&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                                              &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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mission \r\n                                              or Consulate abroad</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SPONSORS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Four sponsors are required.&nbsp; One \r\n                                              must be a judge, magistrate, \r\n                                              minister of religion, public \r\n                                              officer earning a basic salary of \r\n                                              not less than ¢2,000 per annum, \r\n                                              legal practitioner, accountant, \r\n                                              doctor or dentist.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;. \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (state occupation)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating to \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................... \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (name of \r\n                                              applicant)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              are to the best of my knowledge \r\n                                              and belief correct and that he/she \r\n                                              is in my opinion a person of good \r\n                                              character and a fit and proper \r\n                                              person to be registered as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;................ \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (state occupation)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating \r\n                                              to.....................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230; (name of \r\n                                              applicant)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              are to the best of my knowledge \r\n                                              and belief correct and that he/she \r\n                                              is in my opinion a person of good \r\n                                              character and a fit and proper \r\n                                              person to be registered as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;................ \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (state occupation)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating \r\n                                              to&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (name of \r\n                                              applicant)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              are to the best of my knowledge \r\n                                              and belief correct and that he/she \r\n                                              is in my opinion a person of good \r\n                                              character and a fit and proper \r\n                                              person to be registered as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;................ \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a citizen of Ghana and \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (state occupation)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;hereby certify that the \r\n                                              particulars provided in Part I \r\n                                              above relating \r\n                                              to&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (name of \r\n                                              applicant)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              are to the best of my knowledge \r\n                                              and belief correct and that he/she \r\n                                              is in my opinion a person of good \r\n                                              character and a fit and proper \r\n                                              person to be registered as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS A \r\n                                              CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 2 \r\n                                              (3), (4) OR (5) OF THE GHANA \r\n                                              NATIONALITY ACT, 1971 (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (By a woman who is or has been \r\n                                              married to a citizen of Ghana, or \r\n                                              a person who but for his death \r\n                                              would have become 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                                              Fee Paid: ¢25.00</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\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                                              PHOTOGRAPH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;.. \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a woman who is or has been \r\n                                              married to a citizen of Ghana or a \r\n                                              person who but for his death would \r\n                                              have become a citizen of Ghana, \r\n                                              hereby apply for registration as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Place and date of \r\n                                              marriage&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Place and date of \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Previous \r\n                                              name&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Applicant is a citizen of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(country) \r\n                                              by birth/descent/registration/ \r\n                                              naturalisation/marriage. (Delete \r\n                                              inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Name of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Husband''s present address (or \r\n                                              last address if \r\n                                              deceased)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;.........................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Nationality of husband now or \r\n                                              at time of \r\n                                              death&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. How husband''s nationality was \r\n                                              acquired: by \r\n                                              birth/descent/registration/naturalisation. \r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. (a) Is the marriage still \r\n                                              subsisting?&nbsp; Yes/No</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) If marriage is \r\n                                              terminated state \r\n                                              reason..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;.................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Particulars or all previous \r\n                                              marriages&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. (To be answered only where the \r\n                                              applicant has previously renounced \r\n                                              or been deprived of Ghanaian \r\n                                              citizenship)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) Circumstances under which the \r\n                                              applicant renounced or was \r\n                                              deprived of Ghanaian \r\n                                              citizenship&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Reasons for present \r\n                                              application&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................&#8230; \r\n                                              (name of applicant)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              do solemnly and sincerely declare \r\n                                              that the particulars stated in \r\n                                              this application are true, and I \r\n                                              make this solemn declaration \r\n                                              believing it to be true.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..... </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature or Mark of Applicant</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Made and subscribed \r\n                                              this&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..day \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.19&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before \r\n                                              me&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for&nbsp; \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of Ghana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate abroad </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF A \r\n                                              MINOR AS A CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER \r\n                                              SECTION 3 OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY \r\n                                              ACT, 1971 (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee Paid: ¢20.00</span></p>\r\n\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></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PHOTOGRAPH</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              MINOR</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Application is hereby made for \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;........</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;..&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;.. \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.........&#8230;(address)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">a \r\n                                              person under 21 years of age who \r\n                                              is not a citizen of Ghana, to be \r\n                                              registered as a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              2. Place and date of minor''s \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              minor''s parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Nationality of minor''s parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. (To be completed only in \r\n                                              respect of minors who are married \r\n                                              women)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Name of minor''s \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nationality of husband now or at \r\n                                              time of \r\n                                              death&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Is the marriage still subsisting?&nbsp; \r\n                                              Yes/No</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Minor is a citizen \r\n                                              of&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (country) by \r\n                                              birth/descent/registration/ \r\n                                              marriage. (Delete inapplicable \r\n                                              words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Date of minor''s first arrival \r\n                                              in \r\n                                              Ghana&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Particulars of minor&#8217;s \r\n                                              subsequent periods of absence from \r\n                                              Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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; \r\n                                              (Insert dates, countries visited \r\n                                              and reason for journey)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Particulars of all criminal \r\n                                              proceedings taken against the \r\n                                              applicant at any time and in any \r\n                                              country&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Reasons for present \r\n                                              application&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Usual signature (if any) of \r\n                                              the \r\n                                              minor&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              12. (To be completed by a parent \r\n                                              or guardian of the minor)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, \r\n                                              ........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (name of parent or guardian) of \r\n                                              ................................... \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (address) do solemnly and \r\n                                              sincerely declare that \r\n                                              ...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (name of minor) is my son/daughter \r\n                                              /ward and that the particulars \r\n                                              contained in this application are \r\n                                              true and that I wish him/her to be \r\n                                              registered as a citizen of Ghana.&nbsp; \r\n                                              I make this solemn declaration \r\n                                              believing it to be true.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <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                                              Signature or Mark of Parent or \r\n                                              Guardian</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Made and subscribed this \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; day of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of Ghana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              FORM 5</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICATION FOR NATURALISATION AS \r\n                                              A CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 6 \r\n                                              OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee Paid: ¢50.00</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;PARTICULARS OF 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: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PHOTOGRAPH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              OF</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;......... \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;.&#8230;..................&#8230; \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being an alien/stateless person \r\n                                              (delete inapplicable words) hereby \r\n                                              apply for naturalisation as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. I am of good character, to the \r\n                                              best of my knowledge financially \r\n                                              solvent, and am able to speak and \r\n                                              understand a Ghanaian language, \r\n                                              namely &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......... (name of \r\n                                              language)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Previous or alternative names \r\n                                              (if \r\n                                              any)......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              4. Place and date of \r\n                                              birth......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;.........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Name of \r\n                                              husband/wife......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;...........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              husband/wife......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Nationality of husband/wife now or \r\n                                              at time of \r\n                                              death......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Is the marriage still subsisting?&nbsp; \r\n                                              Yes/No</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Father......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;.......................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Applicant is a citizen \r\n                                              of......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.(country) \r\n                                              by \r\n                                              birth/descent/registration/naturalisation/marriage. \r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Applicant''s previous \r\n                                              nationality (if any) and \r\n                                              circumstances of the change \r\n                                              ......&#8230;&#8230;.........................&#8230;........&#8230;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;.............................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Date of first arrival in \r\n                                              Ghana......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Particulars of all subsequent \r\n                                              periods of absence from Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (ii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (iv) \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Insert dates, countries visited \r\n                                              and reasons for journey)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Date of any composition made \r\n                                              with creditors \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;......................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of being adjudicated \r\n                                              bankrupt&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of discharge from \r\n                                              bankruptcy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Approximate date of any \r\n                                              previous application for \r\n                                              naturalisation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;(name \r\n                                              of applicant) do solemnly and \r\n                                              sincerely declare that the \r\n                                              particulars stated in this \r\n                                              application are true, and I make \r\n                                              this solemn declaration believing \r\n                                              it to be true.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;..............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature or Mark of Applicant</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Made and subscribed this&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              day of &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..19&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of Ghana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate abroad.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;SPONSORS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Four sponsors are required.&nbsp; One \r\n                                              must be a judge, magistrate, \r\n                                              minister of religion, public \r\n                                              officer earning a basic salary of \r\n                                              not less than ¢2,000 per annum, \r\n                                              legal practitioner, accountant, \r\n                                              doctor or dentist.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. \r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;(full \r\n                                              name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.(address) \r\n                                              hereby state that I am a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana otherwise than by \r\n                                              naturalisation; </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              that I am a \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(state \r\n                                              occupation) and that I am not the \r\n                                              solicitor \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........whose \r\n                                              application for naturalisation I \r\n                                              am prepared to support from my \r\n                                              personal knowledge of the \r\n                                              applicant for \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.years.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              can vouch for his/her good \r\n                                              character and loyalty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              certify that he/she is&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) able to speak and understand a \r\n                                              Ghanaian language;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person who has made or is \r\n                                              capable of making a substantial \r\n                                              contribution to the well-being and \r\n                                              progress of Ghanaian life:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a person who has been \r\n                                              assimilated into the Ghanaian way \r\n                                              of life or who can easily be so \r\n                                              assimilated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              2. I \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;(full \r\n                                              name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(address) \r\n                                              hereby state that I am a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana otherwise than by \r\n                                              naturalisation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              that I am \r\n                                              a&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;...(state \r\n                                              occupation) and that I am not the \r\n                                              solicitor \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. \r\n                                              whose application for \r\n                                              naturalisation I am prepared to \r\n                                              support from my personal knowledge \r\n                                              of the applicant \r\n                                              for&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;years.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              can vouch for his/her good \r\n                                              character and loyalty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              certify that he/she is&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) able to speak and understand a \r\n                                              Ghanaian language;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person who has made or is \r\n                                              capable of making a substantial \r\n                                              contribution to the well-being and \r\n                                              progress of Ghanaian life;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a person who has been \r\n                                              assimilated into the Ghanaian way \r\n                                              of life or who can easily be so \r\n                                              assimilated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;.......</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..(full \r\n                                              name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...(address) \r\n                                              hereby state that I am a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana otherwise than by \r\n                                              naturalisation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp; that I am a \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........(state \r\n                                              occupation) and that I am not the \r\n                                              solicitor of. \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...... whose \r\n                                              application for naturalisation I \r\n                                              am prepared to support from my \r\n                                              personal knowledge of the \r\n                                              applicant \r\n                                              for&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..years.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              can vouch for his/her good \r\n                                              character and loyalty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              certify that he/she is&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) able to speak and understand a \r\n                                              Ghanaian language;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person who has made or is \r\n                                              capable of making a substantial \r\n                                              contribution to the well-being and \r\n                                              progress of Ghanaian life;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a person who has been \r\n                                              assimilated into the Ghanaian way \r\n                                              of life or who can easily be so \r\n                                              assimilated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ..................&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..(full \r\n                                              name) \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........(address) \r\n                                              hereby state that I am a citizen \r\n                                              of Ghana otherwise than by \r\n                                              naturalisation; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              that I am a \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..(state \r\n                                              occupation) and that I am not the \r\n                                              solicitor of. \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; whose \r\n                                              application for naturalisation I \r\n                                              am prepared to support from my \r\n                                              personal knowledge of the \r\n                                              applicant \r\n                                              for&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..years.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              can vouch for his/her good \r\n                                              character and loyalty.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">I \r\n                                              certify that he/she is&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) able to speak and understand a \r\n                                              Ghanaian language;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person who has made or is \r\n                                              capable of making a substantial \r\n                                              contribution to the well-being and \r\n                                              progress of Ghanaian life;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a person who has been \r\n                                              assimilated into the Ghanaian way \r\n                                              of life or who can easily be so \r\n                                              assimilated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ..............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 6</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF \r\n                                              CITIZENSHIP OF GHANA UNDER SECTION \r\n                                              12 OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, \r\n                                              1971 (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (By a person with respect to whose \r\n                                              citizenship of Ghana a doubt \r\n                                              exists)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee Paid: ¢10.00</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;PARTICULARS OF APPLICATION</span></p>\r\n\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                                              PHOTOGRAPH OF APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;................... \r\n                                              (full name)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................&#8230;.&#8230;.....&#8230; \r\n                                              (address)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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; \r\n                                              BLOCK LETTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              being a person with respect to \r\n                                              whose citizenship of Ghana a doubt \r\n                                              exists, hereby apply to be \r\n                                              certified as a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place and date of birth \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place and date of birth \r\n                                              of parents: \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;......................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Place of birth of grandparents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8217;s \r\n                                              mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. (To be completed by married \r\n                                              women applicants only)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Name of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of birth of \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;............................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Nationality of husband now or at \r\n                                              time of \r\n                                              death&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;......................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Is the marriage still subsisting?&nbsp; \r\n                                              Yes/No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;.........................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Reasons why a doubt exists as \r\n                                              to applicant&#8217;s citizenship of \r\n                                              Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ...........................................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              7. I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;. \r\n                                              (name of applicant) do solemnly \r\n                                              and sincerely declare that the \r\n                                              particulars stated in this \r\n                                              application are true, and I make \r\n                                              this solemn declaration believing \r\n                                              it to be true.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;......................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Signature or Mark of Applicant</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Made and subscribed \r\n                                              this.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;day \r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..19&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of Ghana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 7</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION AS A \r\n                                              CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 2 \r\n                                              OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.of 19&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (File No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This is to certify \r\n                                              that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;.. \r\n                                              has with the approval of the \r\n                                              National Redemption Council acting \r\n                                              on the advice of the Executive \r\n                                              Council been registered as a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana under section 2 \r\n                                              of the Ghana Nationality Act, \r\n                                              1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for \r\n                                              Citizenship</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;...............&#8230;&#8230;................&#8230;&#8230;....19&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PARTICULARS OF APPLICANT</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></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PHOTOGRAPH OF </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Finger-prints of applicant:</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">5</span></p>\r\n\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                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LTP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RTP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Full \r\n                                              names&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Address&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Profession or \r\n                                              occupation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Previous \r\n                                              nationality&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Single, married, \r\n                                              etc&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Name of wife or \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Names and nationalities of \r\n                                              parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;......................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (To be taken by the applicant \r\n                                              before issue of this certificate)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..swear \r\n                                              (solemnly, sincerely and truly \r\n                                              declare and affirm) that I will be \r\n                                              faithful and bear true allegiance \r\n                                              to the Republic of Ghana and that \r\n                                              I will preserve, protect and \r\n                                              defend the Decrees of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council. [So help me \r\n                                              God.]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Taken and subscribed \r\n                                              this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;day of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.19&#8230;............&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Commissioner for \r\n                                              Oaths/Head of Ghana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate abroad.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 8</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION AS A \r\n                                              CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 3 \r\n                                              OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;of 19&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (File No&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This is to certify that \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;.. \r\n                                              a minor child has been registered \r\n                                              as a citizen of Ghana under \r\n                                              section 3 of the Ghana Nationality \r\n                                              Act, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for \r\n                                              Citizenship</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PARTICULARS OF MINOR CHILD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Full \r\n                                              names&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Previous \r\n                                              nationality&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Names and nationalities of \r\n                                              parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 9</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF NATURALISATION AS A \r\n                                              CITIZEN OF GHANA UNDER SECTION 6 \r\n                                              OF THE GHANA NATIONALITY ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;of 19&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (File No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;&#8230;...has \r\n                                              applied to me for a Certificate of \r\n                                              Naturalisation, alleging with \r\n                                              respect to himself/herself the \r\n                                              particulars set out below, and has \r\n                                              satisfied me that the conditions \r\n                                              laid down in the Ghana Nationality \r\n                                              Act, 1971 for the grant of a \r\n                                              Certificate of Naturalisation are \r\n                                              fulfilled:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS the \r\n                                              said&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........ \r\n                                              has taken the oath of allegiance:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Now THEREFORE, in pursuance of the \r\n                                              powers conferred upon me by \r\n                                              section 6 of the said Act, I with \r\n                                              the approval of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council acting on the \r\n                                              advice of the Executive Council \r\n                                              grant to the said \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230; \r\n                                              this Certificate of Naturalisation \r\n                                              and declare that he/she shall be a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana by naturalisation \r\n                                              from the date of this certificate.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for \r\n                                              Citizenship</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ..........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..19&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PARTICULARS OF APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\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                                              PHOTOGRAPH OF </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              APPLICANT</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Finger-prints of Applicant:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">5</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\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LTP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RTP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Full \r\n                                              names&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Address&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Profession or \r\n                                              occupation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Place and date of \r\n                                              birth&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Previous \r\n                                              nationality&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Single, married, \r\n                                              etc&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Name of wife or \r\n                                              husband&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.........................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Names and nationalities of \r\n                                              parents:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Father \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;...........................................................</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Mother&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...........................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (To be taken by the applicant \r\n                                              before issue of this certificate)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;..swear \r\n                                              (solemnly, sincerely and truly \r\n                                              declare and affirm) that I will be \r\n                                              faithful and bear true allegiance \r\n                                              to the Republic of Ghana and that \r\n                                              I will preserve, protect and \r\n                                              defend the Decrees of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council. [So help me \r\n                                              God.]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Taken and subscribed \r\n                                              this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;day of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.19&#8230;&#8230;.. </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........................&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(Signature)\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Head ofGhana Mission or \r\n                                              Consulate abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FORM 10</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP OF \r\n                                              GHANA ISSUED UNDER</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECTION 12 OF THE GHANA \r\n                                              NATIONALITY ACT, 1971 (ACT 361)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;of 19.....&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (File No&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WHEREAS &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;... \r\n                                              has applied to me for a \r\n                                              Certificate of Citizenship of \r\n                                              Ghana, alleging that a doubt \r\n                                              exists as to his/her citizenship \r\n                                              of Ghana:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AND WHEREAS I am satisfied, on the \r\n                                              evidence submitted to me by the \r\n                                              said \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...................................&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;, that he/she is a \r\n                                              citizen of Ghana:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NOW THEREFORE, in pursuance of the \r\n                                              powers conferred upon me by \r\n                                              section 12 of the Ghana \r\n                                              Nationality Act, 1971 (Act 361), I \r\n                                              certify that the said \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.................&#8230;&#8230;... is \r\n                                              a citizen of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for \r\n                                              Citizenship</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              .......&#8230;...&#8230;............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19.....&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Fee Paid: ¢5.00</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\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></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PHOTOGRAPH OF DECLARANT</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;....&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;(full \r\n                                              names)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230;&#8230;...........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(present \r\n                                              address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              having been born on \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;......&#8230;.&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (date of birth)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              at \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;........&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;&#8230;..........&#8230; \r\n                                              (place of birth)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and being a person of full age and \r\n                                              capacity who is a citizen of Ghana \r\n                                              and also of a country&nbsp;&nbsp; other than \r\n                                              Ghana, namely \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;&#8230; (country), \r\n                                              hereby renounce my citizenship of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.....................&#8230;&#8230;.. \r\n                                              (country) and declare my intention \r\n                                              to reside in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature of Declarant</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.19&#8230;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (To be taken by a person to whom \r\n                                              section 8 (2), 8(3) (b) or 8 (5) \r\n                                              of the Act applies)</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              I, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.......&#8230;.. \r\n                                              swear (solemnly, sincerely and \r\n                                              truly declare and affirm) that I \r\n                                              will be faithful and bear true \r\n                                              allegiance to the Republic of \r\n                                              Ghana and that I will preserve, \r\n                                              protect and defend the Decrees of \r\n                                              the National Redemption Council. \r\n                                              [So help me God.]</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signature</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Taken and subscribed \r\n                                              this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;day of \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.19&#8230;&#8230;.............\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Before me \r\n                                              &#8230;&#8230;...............&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; \r\n                                              (Signature)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Circuit Judge/District \r\n                                              Magistrate/Head of Ghana Mission \r\n                                              or Consulate abroad.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (Delete inapplicable words)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              J. H. COBBINA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Commissioner Responsible for \r\n                                              Citizenship</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 9th \r\n                                              June, 1972.</span></p>', 'GHANA NATIONALITY', 'Yes', 'L.I. 747');
INSERT INTO `legislativeinstrument` (`id`, `title`, `Content`, `subjectmatter`, `isshow`, `liname`) VALUES
(31, 'GHANA NEWS AGENCY INSTRUMENT, 1971 (LI 680).', ' <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              IN exercise of the powers \r\n                                              conferred on the President by \r\n                                              sections 1, 2 and 4 of the \r\n                                              Statutory Corporations Act, 1964 \r\n                                              (Act 232), this Instrument is made \r\n                                              this 24th day of March, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF GHANA NEWS \r\n                                              AGENCY</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 1&#8212;Establishment of \r\n                                              Corporation. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There is hereby established a body \r\n                                              corporate to be known as the Ghana \r\n                                              News Agency in this Instrument \r\n                                              referred to as &quot;the Agency&quot;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 2&#8212;Compulsory Acquisition \r\n                                              of Property for Agency where there \r\n                                              is Hindrance. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where there is any hindrance to \r\n                                              the acquisition by the Agency of \r\n                                              any property, the property may be \r\n                                              acquired for the Agency under the \r\n                                              State Property and Contracts Act, \r\n                                              1960 (C.A. 6) or as the case may \r\n                                              be, under the State Lands Act, \r\n                                              1962 (Act 125), and each such Act \r\n                                              shall, as the case may be, apply \r\n                                              in relation to any such \r\n                                              acquisition with such \r\n                                              modifications as may be necessary \r\n                                              to provide for the vesting of the \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the Agency and for the cost of \r\n                                              such acquisition to be defrayed by \r\n                                              the Agency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OBJECTS OF THE AGENCY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 3&#8212;Objects. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The objects of the Agency are:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to provide for the \r\n                                              dissemination of truthful unbiased \r\n                                              news;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to produce such publications \r\n                                              as the Board may from time to time \r\n                                              determine; and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to carry out such other \r\n                                              activities as may appropriately be \r\n                                              associated with the dissemination \r\n                                              of news.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE BOARD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 4&#8212;The Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The governing body of the Agency \r\n                                              shall be a Board. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) The Board shall consist of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a Chairman and five other \r\n                                              persons appointed by the President \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the person appointed General \r\n                                              Manager under paragraph 8 of this \r\n                                              Instrument.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 5&#8212;Qualifications and \r\n                                              Vacation of Members of Board, Etc.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who \r\n                                              has been sentenced to death or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months without option of a \r\n                                              fine or has been convicted of an \r\n                                              offence involving dishonesty or \r\n                                              moral turpitude and has not, in \r\n                                              each case been granted a pardon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board if \r\n                                              having been declared as an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law for the time being in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country is \r\n                                              an undischarged insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The members of the Board other \r\n                                              than the General Manager shall \r\n                                              hold office for one year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any member of the Board other \r\n                                              than the General Manager may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Minister \r\n                                              and without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of sub-paragraphs \r\n                                              (1) and (2) of this paragraph any \r\n                                              member of the Board may be removed \r\n                                              from office by the President \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the office of a member \r\n                                              of the Board other than the \r\n                                              General Manager becomes vacant \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (1), (2) or \r\n                                              (4) of this paragraph before the \r\n                                              expiration of his term of office \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (3) of this \r\n                                              paragraph or by his death, the \r\n                                              Minister shall notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of such \r\n                                              event and the President shall, \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State and subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Instrument \r\n                                              appoint another person in his \r\n                                              place and to hold office for the \r\n                                              unexpired portion&nbsp; of his term of \r\n                                              office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Instrument where it appears \r\n                                              to the Prime Minister on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              that any member of the Board is \r\n                                              incapacitated by absence from \r\n                                              Ghana, or illness or any other \r\n                                              sufficient cause from performing \r\n                                              the duties of his office the \r\n                                              President acting in consultation \r\n                                              with the Council of State shall \r\n                                              appoint another person to hold \r\n                                              office in his place until such \r\n                                              time as the Prime Minister is \r\n                                              satisfied that the incapacity of \r\n                                              that person has terminated or \r\n                                              until the term of such members \r\n                                              expires, whichever first occurs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall, on ceasing to be a member \r\n                                              be eligible for re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 6&#8212;Remuneration of Board \r\n                                              Members. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Any member appointed to the Board \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph&nbsp; (2) (a) of \r\n                                              paragraph 4 of this Instrument as \r\n                                              well as any person co-opted to the \r\n                                              Board under paragraph 8 of this \r\n                                              Instrument may be paid such \r\n                                              remuneration (if any) as the Board \r\n                                              may, with approval of the \r\n                                              Minister, and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance determine \r\n                                              in relation to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 7&#8212;Meeting of the Board.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such times and at such places \r\n                                              as the Board may determine but \r\n                                              shall meet at least once in every \r\n                                              month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A special meeting of the Board \r\n                                              shall be called upon a written \r\n                                              request signed by the Chairman or \r\n                                              by a majority of the members of \r\n                                              the Board addressed to the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Agency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) 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\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) 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 any 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                                              (5) The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be three, or half \r\n                                              the number of members of the Board \r\n                                              whichever is the greater so \r\n                                              however that if the number of \r\n                                              members of the Board is not \r\n                                              divisible by two the reference to \r\n                                              half the number of the members of \r\n                                              the Board shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              reference to half of the next \r\n                                              higher number.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (6) The Board may, at any time \r\n                                              co-opt any person or persons to \r\n                                              act as an adviser or advisers at \r\n                                              any of its meetings but no person \r\n                                              so co-opted shall be entitled to \r\n                                              vote at any such meetings on any \r\n                                              matter for decision 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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Any member of the Board who \r\n                                              has any interest in any company or \r\n                                              undertaking with which the Agency \r\n                                              proposes to enter into any \r\n                                              contract or who has any interest \r\n                                              in any contract which the Agency \r\n                                              proposes to enter into shall \r\n                                              disclose in writing to the Board \r\n                                              the nature of his interest and \r\n                                              shall, unless the Board otherwise \r\n                                              directs be disqualified from \r\n                                              participating in any deliberations \r\n                                              of the Board on the contract and \r\n                                              shall in any case be disqualified \r\n                                              from voting in any decision of the \r\n                                              Board on such contract and any \r\n                                              member who infringes the \r\n                                              provisions of this sub-paragraph \r\n                                              shall be liable to be removed from \r\n                                              the Board. </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              recorded and kept minutes of all \r\n                                              proceedings of its meetings in \r\n                                              such manner and form as the \r\n                                              Minister may in writing direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              AGENCY</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph&nbsp; 8&#8212;Board to be in \r\n                                              Control of General Policy of \r\n                                              Agency. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Instrument \r\n                                              have general control of the \r\n                                              management of the Agency on \r\n                                              matters of&nbsp; policy.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Agency shall have a \r\n                                              General Manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Part III of this Instrument the \r\n                                              General Manager shall be appointed \r\n                                              by the President acting in \r\n                                              consultation with the Council of \r\n                                              State, and subject to the said \r\n                                              provisions shall hold office upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as may \r\n                                              be specified in his instrument of \r\n                                              appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) Where the office of the \r\n                                              General Manager becomes vacant the \r\n                                              Board shall notify the Minister \r\n                                              thereof and the Minister shall in \r\n                                              turn notify the Prime Minister of \r\n                                              the occurrence of the vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the General Manager is \r\n                                              incapacitated from the performance \r\n                                              of his functions under this \r\n                                              Instrument the Board may, subject \r\n                                              to sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph \r\n                                              5 of this Instrument authorise any \r\n                                              employee of the Agency to perform \r\n                                              those functions for the duration \r\n                                              of the incapacity.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Instrument, the General \r\n                                              Manager shall be the Chief \r\n                                              Executive of the Agency and shall, \r\n                                              subject to the general control of \r\n                                              the Board on matters of policy, \r\n                                              and subject in particular to such \r\n                                              rules as the Board may make in \r\n                                              that behalf under paragraph 24 of \r\n                                              this Instrument, be charged with \r\n                                              the direction of the day-to-day \r\n                                              business of the Agency and of its \r\n                                              administration and organisation \r\n                                              and control of all the employees \r\n                                              of the Agency.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Subject as aforesaid the \r\n                                              General Manager may delegate to \r\n                                              any employee of the Agency any of \r\n                                              his functions under this \r\n                                              Instrument and may impose such \r\n                                              conditions with respect to the \r\n                                              exercise of such delegated \r\n                                              functions 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                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              sub-paragraph shall be construed \r\n                                              so as to absolve the General \r\n                                              Manager from ultimate \r\n                                              responsibility for any act done by \r\n                                              any person in pursuance of any \r\n                                              such delegation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Paragraph 9&#8212;Execution of \r\n                                              Contracts, Etc. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The application of the seal of \r\n                                              the Agency shall be authenticated \r\n                                              by two signatures, namely&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the signature of the General \r\n                                              Manager or some other member of \r\n                                              the Board authorised by the Board \r\n                                              to authenticate the application of \r\n                                              the seal; and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the signature of the Secretary \r\n                                              or some other officer of the \r\n                                              Agency authorised by the Board to \r\n                                              act in the Secretary''s place for \r\n                                              that purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Agency may by instrument \r\n                                              in writing under its common seal \r\n                                              empower any person either \r\n                                              generally or in respect of any \r\n                                              specified matters as its attorney, \r\n                                              to execute deeds on its behalf in \r\n                                              any place not situated in Ghana; \r\n                                              and every deed signed by such \r\n                                              attorney on behalf of the Agency \r\n                                              and under his seal, shall be \r\n                                              binding on the Agency and have the \r\n                                              same effect as if it were under \r\n                                              the common seal of the Agency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) Any instrument or contract \r\n                                              which, if executed or entered into \r\n                                              by a person other than a body \r\n                                              corporate, would not require to be \r\n                                              under seal, may be executed or \r\n                                              entered into on behalf of the \r\n                                              Agency by the General Manager or \r\n                                              any member of the Board if such \r\n                                              person has previously been \r\n                                              authorised by resolution of the \r\n                                              Board to execute or enter into \r\n                                              that particular instrument or \r\n                                              contract:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the Agency thinks \r\n                                              fit it may by writing under its \r\n                                              common seal appoint any person \r\n                                              outside Ghana as agent to execute \r\n                                              or enter into the instrument or \r\n                                              contract and the instrument or \r\n                                              contract if executed or entered \r\n                                              into on behalf of the Agency shall \r\n                                              have effect as if it had been duly \r\n                                              executed or entered into as \r\n                                              prescribed for the purpose of this \r\n                                              sub-paragraph. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every document purporting to \r\n                                              be an instrument executed or \r\n                                              issued by or on behalf of the \r\n                                              Agency and to be:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) sealed with the common seal of \r\n                                              the Agency authenticated in the \r\n                                              manner provided by sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (1) of this paragraph, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) signed by and under the seal \r\n                                              of a person appointed as attorney \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (2) of this \r\n                                              paragraph; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) signed by the General Manager \r\n                                              or by a member of the Board or \r\n                                              other person authorised in \r\n                                              accordance with sub-paragraph (3) \r\n                                              of this paragraph to act for that \r\n                                              purpose,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be deemed to be so executed \r\n                                              or issued until the contrary is \r\n                                              shown.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The provisions of this \r\n                                              paragraph shall have effect \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph 9 of this Instrument and \r\n                                              of section 12 of the Contract Act, \r\n                                              1960 (Act 25).</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 10&#8212;Staff of Agency.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Agency, may from time to \r\n                                              time engage such employees as may \r\n                                              be necessary for the proper and \r\n                                              efficient conduct of the business \r\n                                              and functions of the Agency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Agency may also engage the \r\n                                              services of such consultants and \r\n                                              advisers as the Board may upon the \r\n                                              recommendation of the General \r\n                                              Manager determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to any delegation \r\n                                              effected under clause (2) of \r\n                                              article 140 of the Constitution \r\n                                              and subject also to the other \r\n                                              provisions of the Constitution the \r\n                                              employees of the Agency shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in accordance with the advice of \r\n                                              the Public Services Commission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Agency the employees, \r\n                                              consultants, and advisers of the \r\n                                              Agency shall be engaged on such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as the Board \r\n                                              may on the recommendations of the \r\n                                              General Manager determine.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Public officers may be \r\n                                              transferred or seconded to the \r\n                                              Agency or may otherwise give \r\n                                              assistance thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 11&#8212;Secretary of the \r\n                                              Agency. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Agency shall have an \r\n                                              officer to be designated as the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Agency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary shall act as \r\n                                              Secretary to the Board and shall, \r\n                                              subject to the directions of the \r\n                                              Board, arrange the business for \r\n                                              and be responsible for the \r\n                                              recording and keeping of minutes \r\n                                              of proceedings of the meetings of \r\n                                              the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Secretary shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable after each meeting of \r\n                                              the Board forward to the Minister \r\n                                              a copy of the minutes of that \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Secretary shall also \r\n                                              perform such functions as the \r\n                                              Board may by writing direct or as \r\n                                              the General Manager may by writing \r\n                                              delegate to him and shall be \r\n                                              assisted in his functions by such \r\n                                              of the staff of the Agency as the \r\n                                              Board may on the recommendations \r\n                                              of the General Manager direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 12&#8212;Internal Auditor.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Agency shall have an \r\n                                              Internal Auditor.</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 Instrument, the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall be responsible to \r\n                                              the General Manager for the \r\n                                              performance of his functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) As part of his functions under \r\n                                              this Instrument the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall, at intervals of \r\n                                              three months, prepare a report on \r\n                                              the internal audit work carried \r\n                                              out by him during the period of \r\n                                              three months immediately preceding \r\n                                              the preparation of the report, and \r\n                                              submit the report to the General \r\n                                              Manager.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (3) of this paragraph, the \r\n                                              Internal Auditor shall make in \r\n                                              each report such observations as \r\n                                              appear to him necessary as to the \r\n                                              conduct of the financial affairs \r\n                                              of the Agency during the period to \r\n                                              which the report relates</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Internal Auditor shall \r\n                                              send a copy of each report \r\n                                              prepared by him under this \r\n                                              paragraph to the Minister and also \r\n                                              to each of the following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Auditor-General; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Chairman of the Board.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 13&#8212;Capital Funds of \r\n                                              Agency. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Government may provide to the \r\n                                              Agency as working capital and also \r\n                                              as moneys required for carrying \r\n                                              out the functions of the Agency \r\n                                              such sums as the Minister may \r\n                                              after consultation with Cabinet \r\n                                              agree, being sums requested by the \r\n                                              Board from the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 14&#8212;Estimates of Revenue \r\n                                              and Expenditure. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Board shall not less than one \r\n                                              month before the commencement of \r\n                                              each financial year cause to be \r\n                                              prepared in such form as the \r\n                                              Minister may direct estimates of \r\n                                              revenue and expenditure for that \r\n                                              financial year and shall as soon \r\n                                              as possible after they are \r\n                                              prepared submit a copy of the \r\n                                              estimates to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 15&#8212;Staff Welfare Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Agency shall have a staff \r\n                                              welfare fund. </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Agency shall transfer to \r\n                                              the staff welfare fund such sum, \r\n                                              not exceeding 5 per cent of the \r\n                                              net profits of the Agency as the \r\n                                              Board may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Agency may, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister use the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund for the \r\n                                              provision of staff welfare \r\n                                              facilities such as canteens, low \r\n                                              interest bearing staff welfare \r\n                                              loans and for other purposes aimed \r\n                                              at enhancing the welfare of the \r\n                                              staff of the Agency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) The operation of staff welfare \r\n                                              fund shall be subject to such \r\n                                              specific rules and regulations as \r\n                                              may be made by the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 16&#8212;Depreciation Fund.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Agency shall have a \r\n                                              depreciation fund and for this \r\n                                              purpose the Agency shall open a \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account with \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Agency shall transfer to \r\n                                              the credit of the Depreciation \r\n                                              Reserve Account all amounts \r\n                                              charged to profit and loss account \r\n                                              in respect of depreciation for \r\n                                              buildings, plant and equipment, \r\n                                              fixtures and other fixed assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Amounts so transferred to the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account shall \r\n                                              be utilised only to replace fixed \r\n                                              assets and equipment which have \r\n                                              worn out or have become obsolete.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Expenditure in respect of \r\n                                              current repairs and in respect of \r\n                                              purchases of spare parts shall not \r\n                                              be met out of the Depreciation \r\n                                              Reserve Account but shall be \r\n                                              charged to the income and \r\n                                              expenditure account of the Agency \r\n                                              for the financial year during \r\n                                              which the expenditure is incurred.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 17&#8212;Agency to Pay Sums \r\n                                              into Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              At the end of each financial year, \r\n                                              after the Agency has made \r\n                                              provision for bad and doubtful \r\n                                              debts, depreciation of assets, \r\n                                              contributions to staff and \r\n                                              superannuation funds and for other \r\n                                              contingencies, if any, and after \r\n                                              appropriation has been made to the \r\n                                              staff welfare&nbsp; fund under \r\n                                              paragraph 15 of this Instrument \r\n                                              such part of the profits of the \r\n                                              Agency remaining as the Minister \r\n                                              after consultation with the Board \r\n                                              and with the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for Finance may by writing direct \r\n                                              shall be paid into the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 18&#8212;Borrowing Powers.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Agency may obtain loans \r\n                                              and other credit facilities, on \r\n                                              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                                              Agency under sub-paragraph (1) of \r\n                                              this paragraph the Agency may, \r\n                                              with the prior approval of the \r\n                                              Minister and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance, borrow \r\n                                              money from any 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 purpose of any \r\n                                              technical arrangement in \r\n                                              connection with the raising of any \r\n                                              loan under sub-paragraph (2) of \r\n                                              this paragraph the Agency shall, \r\n                                              if the National Investment Bank \r\n                                              agrees, use the services of that \r\n                                              Bank.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Agency may borrow \r\n                                              temporarily by way of overdraft or \r\n                                              otherwise, such sums as it may \r\n                                              require for meeting its current \r\n                                              obligations or discharging its \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may on behalf of the \r\n                                              Government, guarantee the \r\n                                              performance of any obligation or \r\n                                              undertaking by the Agency under \r\n                                              this paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (6) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may from time to time \r\n                                              prescribe the maximum sums which \r\n                                              the Agency borrow under \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) or (2) of this \r\n                                              paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 19&#8212;Agency to Keep Proper \r\n                                              Books of Account. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Agency shall keep proper books \r\n                                              of account and proper records in \r\n                                              relation thereto and the account \r\n                                              books and records of the Agency \r\n                                              shall be in such form as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may approve.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 20&#8212;Financial Year of \r\n                                              Agency. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Agency''s financial year \r\n                                              shall end on the 30th day of June \r\n                                              in each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              paragraph the period extending \r\n                                              from the commencement of this \r\n                                              Instrument to the 30th day of \r\n                                              June, 1971 shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              financial year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 21&#8212;Audit. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Agency shall each year be audited \r\n                                              in accordance with article 135 of \r\n                                              the Constitution 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) The Agency shall pay in \r\n                                              respect of such audit such fee (if \r\n                                              any) as the Auditor-General and \r\n                                              the Board may agree or in the case \r\n                                              of failure to agree, such fee as \r\n                                              the Minister may prescribe.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Board as soon as possible upon \r\n                                              receiving the report of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General under this \r\n                                              paragraph to forward copy of such \r\n                                              report to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable upon receipt thereof, \r\n                                              cause to be laid before the \r\n                                              National Assembly a copy of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General''s report forwarded \r\n                                              to him under this paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 22&#8212;Annual Report Etc.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall cause to be \r\n                                              submitted to the Minister as soon \r\n                                              as possible after the months of \r\n                                              June, September, December and \r\n                                              March in each year a statement \r\n                                              showing the revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Agency and \r\n                                              fluctuations in the number of \r\n                                              persons in the employment of the \r\n                                              Agency during the three months \r\n                                              immediately preceding and the \r\n                                              revenue and expenditure for the \r\n                                              corresponding period in the year \r\n                                              immediately preceding.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Agency shall, as soon as \r\n                                              possible after the expiration of \r\n                                              each financial year but within six \r\n                                              months after the termination of \r\n                                              that financial year, submit to the \r\n                                              Minister an annual report dealing \r\n                                              generally with the activities and \r\n                                              operations of the Agency within \r\n                                              that year which shall, without \r\n                                              prejudice to the generality of the \r\n                                              foregoing include:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a copy of the audited accounts \r\n                                              of the Agency together with the \r\n                                              Auditor-General''s report thereon;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) each report submitted in \r\n                                              relation to that financial year by \r\n                                              the Internal Auditor under \r\n                                              paragraph 12 of this Instrument;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a statement of all directions \r\n                                              given by the Minister to the \r\n                                              Agency under paragraph 22 of this \r\n                                              Instrument within that year;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) such other information as the \r\n                                              Minister may by writing request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A copy of the annual report of \r\n                                              the Agency shall also be sent by \r\n                                              the Agency to the following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance,</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Head of the Central Bureau of \r\n                                              Statistics.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister shall, as soon as \r\n                                              possible after receiving the \r\n                                              annual report of the Agency, cause \r\n                                              the report to be laid before 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\r\n                                              (5) The Agency shall also submit \r\n                                              to the Minister such other reports \r\n                                              on its financial affairs as the \r\n                                              Minister may by writing reasonably \r\n                                              request from time to time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 23&#8212;Minister&#8217;s Power of \r\n                                              Direction. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Minister may give general \r\n                                              directions in writing to the \r\n                                              Agency on matters of policy and \r\n                                              the Agency shall be bound to \r\n                                              comply with such directions.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 24&#8212;Bye-laws or other \r\n                                              Instruments. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may make bye-laws or \r\n                                              other instruments for the purpose \r\n                                              of carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions and principles of this \r\n                                              Instrument and for regulating any \r\n                                              matter falling within the scope of \r\n                                              the functions of the Agency or \r\n                                              which is required or authorised by \r\n                                              this Instrument to be provided for \r\n                                              by any such instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (1) of this paragraph, the Board \r\n                                              may, subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Social Security Act, 1965 (Act \r\n                                              279) make bye-laws or other \r\n                                              instruments under that \r\n                                              sub-paragraph for providing the \r\n                                              conditions of service of the staff \r\n                                              of the Agency including, if the \r\n                                              Board thinks fit, the operation of \r\n                                              a contributory provident fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 25&#8212;Exemption from Taxes, \r\n                                              Etc. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Agency shall be exempted from \r\n                                              such taxes and duties as the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              by writing direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 26&#8212;Interpretation.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Instrument, &quot;Minister&quot; \r\n                                              means the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Information.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 27&#8212;Dissolution of Former \r\n                                              Corporation and Transfer of its \r\n                                              Assets and Liabilities. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Ghana News Agency existing \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Instrument \r\n                                              under the Ghana News Agency \r\n                                              Instrument, 1965 (L.I. 597) is \r\n                                              hereby dissolved and the said \r\n                                              Instrument is hereby revoked.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) There is hereby transferred to \r\n                                              the Agency established by this \r\n                                              Instrument all assets, rights, \r\n                                              obligation and liabilities of the \r\n                                              first mentioned Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              E. AKUFO-ADDO</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              President</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 5th \r\n                                              April, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GHANA FILM INDUSTRY CORPORATION \r\n                                              INSTRUMENT, 1971 (LI 679).</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              IN exercise of the powers \r\n                                              conferred on the President by \r\n                                              sections 1, 2 and 4 of the \r\n                                              Statutory Corporations Act, 1964 \r\n                                              (Act 232), this Instrument is made \r\n                                              this 27th day of February, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF GHANA FILM \r\n                                              INDUSTRY CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There is hereby established a body \r\n                                              corporate to be known as the Ghana \r\n                                              Film Industry Corporation in this \r\n                                              Instrument referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              Corporation&quot;. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Compulsory Acquisition \r\n                                              of Property for Corporation where \r\n                                              there is Hindrance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where there is any hindrance to \r\n                                              the acquisition by the Corporation \r\n                                              of any property, the property may \r\n                                              be acquired for the Corporation \r\n                                              under the State Property and \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (C.A. 6) or as \r\n                                              the case may be, under the State \r\n                                              Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125), and \r\n                                              each such Act shall, as the case \r\n                                              may be, apply in relation to any \r\n                                              such acquisition with such \r\n                                              modifications as may be necessary \r\n                                              to provide for the vesting of the \r\n                                              property acquired thereunder in \r\n                                              the Corporation and for the cost \r\n                                              of such acquisition to be defrayed \r\n                                              by the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;OBJECTS OF THE CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Objects.</span></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                                              are&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to produce news-reels, \r\n                                              documentary films, feature films, \r\n                                              commercial films, television films \r\n                                              and other films;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to undertake the distribution \r\n                                              and exhibition of films whether \r\n                                              produced in Ghana or outside \r\n                                              Ghana; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; to carry on such other \r\n                                              activities as are conducive or \r\n                                              incidental to the attainment of \r\n                                              its objects under this Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Corporation to ensure \r\n                                              Reasonable Return on Its Capital.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Corporation to conduct its affairs \r\n                                              in such a manner as to ensure a \r\n                                              reasonable return on its capital.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In determining what \r\n                                              constitutes a reasonable return, \r\n                                              all pertinent economic and \r\n                                              financial considerations shall be \r\n                                              taken into account, including but \r\n                                              not limited to the need for net \r\n                                              operating income in an amount \r\n                                              sufficient:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to meet interest payments on \r\n                                              borrowing;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to provide for repayments to \r\n                                              be made each year in respect of \r\n                                              loans incurred by the Corporation \r\n                                              to the extent that such repayments \r\n                                              exceed the year''s provision for \r\n                                              depreciation charged to revenue \r\n                                              account;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to provide a reasonable \r\n                                              proportion of the funds needed for \r\n                                              expanding the Corporation''s \r\n                                              activities and improving its \r\n                                              working;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) to provide reserves for \r\n                                              replacement, expansion or other \r\n                                              purposes if and to the extent that \r\n                                              the Board deems it necessary to \r\n                                              establish such reserves, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) to make such reasonable \r\n                                              payments to the Consolidated Fund \r\n                                              from time to time as may be \r\n                                              determined under paragraph 18 of \r\n                                              this Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In this paragraph, the words \r\n                                              &quot;net operating income&quot; mean the \r\n                                              amount of income remaining after \r\n                                              subtracting from total operating \r\n                                              revenues all charges which in the \r\n                                              normal conduct of business are \r\n                                              proper to be charged to revenue \r\n                                              account, including provision for \r\n                                              adequate maintenance and straight \r\n                                              line depreciation of assets, but \r\n                                              before deducting interest and \r\n                                              other charges on borrowings.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;THE BOARD.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;The Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\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">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a Chairman and five persons \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in consultation with the Council \r\n                                              of State; and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the person appointed Managing \r\n                                              Director under paragraph 9 of this \r\n                                              Instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Qualifications and \r\n                                              Vacation of Office of Members of \r\n                                              Board Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who \r\n                                              has been sentenced to death or to \r\n                                              a term of imprisonment exceeding \r\n                                              twelve months without option of a \r\n                                              fine or has been convicted of an \r\n                                              offence involving dishonesty or \r\n                                              moral turpitude and has not in \r\n                                              each case been granted a pardon.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board if \r\n                                              having been declared as an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt under any \r\n                                              law for the time being in force in \r\n                                              Ghana or in any other country is \r\n                                              an undischarged insolvent or \r\n                                              bankrupt.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The members of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director shall \r\n                                              hold office for one year.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any member of the Board other \r\n                                              than the Managing Director may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the Minister \r\n                                              and without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of sub-paragraphs \r\n                                              (1) and (2) of this paragraph, any \r\n                                              member of the Board may be removed \r\n                                              from office by the President \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the office of a member \r\n                                              of the Board other than the \r\n                                              Managing Director becomes vacant \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (1), (2) or \r\n                                              (4) of this paragraph before the \r\n                                              expiration of his term of office \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (3) of this \r\n                                              paragraph or by his death, the \r\n                                              Minister shall notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of such \r\n                                              event and, the President shall, \r\n                                              acting in consultation with the \r\n                                              Council of State and subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Instrument, \r\n                                              appoint another person in his \r\n                                              place and to hold office for the \r\n                                              unexpired portion of his term of \r\n                                              office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Instrument where it appears \r\n                                              to the Prime Minister on the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              that any member of the Board is \r\n                                              incapacitated by absence from \r\n                                              Ghana, or illness or any other \r\n                                              sufficient cause from performing \r\n                                              the duties of his office the \r\n                                              President acting in consultation \r\n                                              with the Council of State shall \r\n                                              appoint another person to hold \r\n                                              office in his place until such \r\n                                              time as the Prime Minister is \r\n                                              satisfied that the incapacity of \r\n                                              that person has terminated or \r\n                                              until the term of such member \r\n                                              expires, whichever first occurs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Every member of the Board \r\n                                              shall, on ceasing to be a member \r\n                                              be eligible for re-appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Remuneration of Board \r\n                                              Members.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any member appointed to the Board \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (2) (a) of \r\n                                              paragraph 5 of this Instrument as \r\n                                              well as any person co-opted to the \r\n                                              Board under paragraph 8 of this \r\n                                              Instrument may be paid such \r\n                                              remuneration (if any) as the Board \r\n                                              may with the approval of the \r\n                                              Minister, and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance determine \r\n                                              in relation to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Meetings of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall ordinarily \r\n                                              meet for the despatch of business \r\n                                              at such time and at such places as \r\n                                              the Board may determine but&nbsp; shall \r\n                                              meet at least once in every month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A special meeting of the Board \r\n                                              shall be called upon a written \r\n                                              request signed by the Chairman or \r\n                                              by a majority of the members of \r\n                                              the Board addressed to the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) 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&nbsp; \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) 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 any 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                                              (5) The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be three, or half \r\n                                              the number of members of the Board \r\n                                              whichever is the greater so \r\n                                              however that if the number of \r\n                                              members of the Board is not \r\n                                              divisible by two the reference to \r\n                                              half the number of the members of \r\n                                              the Board shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              reference to half of the next \r\n                                              higher number.</span></p>\r\n\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 an adviser or advisers at \r\n                                              any of its meetings but no person \r\n                                              so co-opted shall be entitled to \r\n                                              vote at any such meetings on a \r\n                                              matter for decision 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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (8) Any member of the Board who \r\n                                              has any interest in any company or \r\n                                              undertaking with which the \r\n                                              Corporation proposes to enter into \r\n                                              any contract or who has any \r\n                                              interest in any contract which the \r\n                                              Corporation proposes to enter into \r\n                                              shall disclose in writing to the \r\n                                              Board the nature of his interest \r\n                                              and shall, unless the Board \r\n                                              otherwise directs, be disqualified \r\n                                              from participating in any \r\n                                              deliberations of the Board on the \r\n                                              contract and shall in any case be \r\n                                              disqualified from voting in any \r\n                                              decision of the Board on such \r\n                                              contract and any member who \r\n                                              infringes the provisions of this \r\n                                              sub-paragraph shall be liable to \r\n                                              be removed from the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) The Board shall keep minutes \r\n                                              of all proceedings in such manner \r\n                                              and form as the Minister may from \r\n                                              time to time direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) The Secretary of the \r\n                                              Corporation appointed under \r\n                                              subparagraph 12 (1) shall submit \r\n                                              to the Minister a copy of all \r\n                                              minutes recorded as soon after \r\n                                              each meeting as possible.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (11) The Board shall submit to the \r\n                                              Minister as soon as possible after \r\n                                              the months of June, September, \r\n                                              December and March in each year a \r\n                                              statement showing the revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Corporation and \r\n                                              fluctuations in the number of \r\n                                              persons in the employ of the \r\n                                              Corporation for the preceding \r\n                                              three months and the revenue and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Corporation for \r\n                                              the corresponding period in the \r\n                                              previous year. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (12) The Board shall prepare \r\n                                              estimates of receipts and \r\n                                              expenditure for each period of \r\n                                              twelve months ending on the 30th \r\n                                              day of June in each year. A copy \r\n                                              of such estimates shall be \r\n                                              submitted to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (13) The Board shall also submit \r\n                                              to the Minister such other reports \r\n                                              on its activities as the Minister \r\n                                              may by writing request from time \r\n                                              to time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              CORPORATION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Board to be in Control \r\n                                              of General Policy of Corporation.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, subject to \r\n                                              the provisions of this Instrument, \r\n                                              have general control of the \r\n                                              management of the Corporation on \r\n                                              matters of policy.</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 a \r\n                                              Managing Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              Part III of this Instrument the \r\n                                              Managing Director shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President acting \r\n                                              in consultation with the Council \r\n                                              of State, and subject to the said \r\n                                              provisions shall hold office upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as may \r\n                                              be specified his instrument of \r\n                                              appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where the office of the \r\n                                              Managing Director becomes vacant \r\n                                              the Board shall notify the \r\n                                              Minister thereof and the Minister \r\n                                              shall in turn notify the Prime \r\n                                              Minister of the occurrence of the \r\n                                              vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where the Managing Director is \r\n                                              incapacitated from the performance \r\n                                              of his functions under this \r\n                                              Instrument the Board may, subject \r\n                                              to sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph \r\n                                              6 of this Instrument authorise any \r\n                                              employee of the Corporation to \r\n                                              perform those function for the \r\n                                              duration of the incapacity.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Instrument, the Managing \r\n                                              Director shall be the Chief \r\n                                              Executive of the Corporation and \r\n                                              shall, subject to the general \r\n                                              control of the Board on matters of \r\n                                              policy, and subject in particular \r\n                                              to such rules as the Board may \r\n                                              make in that behalf under \r\n                                              paragraph 24 of this Instrument, \r\n                                              be charged with the direction of \r\n                                              the day-to-day business of the \r\n                                              Corporation and of its \r\n                                              administration and organisation \r\n                                              and control of all the employees \r\n                                              of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Subject as aforesaid the \r\n                                              Managing Director may delegate to \r\n                                              any employee of the Corporation \r\n                                              any of his functions under this \r\n                                              Instrument and may impose such \r\n                                              conditions with respect to the \r\n                                              exercise of such delegated \r\n                                              functions 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\r\n                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              sub-paragraph shall be construed \r\n                                              so as to absolve the Managing \r\n                                              Director from ultimate \r\n                                              responsibility for any act done by \r\n                                              any person in pursuance of any \r\n                                              such delegation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Execution of Contracts \r\n                                              Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The application of the seal of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall be \r\n                                              authenticated by two signatures, \r\n                                              namely&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the signature of the Managing \r\n                                              Director or some other member of \r\n                                              the Board authorised by the Board \r\n                                              to authenticate the application of \r\n                                              the seal, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the signature of the Secretary \r\n                                              or some other officer of the \r\n                                              Corporation authorised by the \r\n                                              Board to act in the Secretary''s \r\n                                              place for that purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) The Corporation may by \r\n                                              instrument in writing under its \r\n                                              common seal empower any person \r\n                                              either generally or in respect of \r\n                                              any specified matters as its \r\n                                              attorney, to execute deeds on its \r\n                                              behalf in any place not situated \r\n                                              in Ghana; and every deed signed by \r\n                                              such attorney on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation and under his seal, \r\n                                              shall be binding on the \r\n                                              Corporation and have the same \r\n                                              effect as if it were under the \r\n                                              common seal of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any instrument or contract \r\n                                              which, if executed or entered into \r\n                                              by a person other than a body \r\n                                              corporate, would not require to be \r\n                                              under seal, may be executed or \r\n                                              entered into on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation by the Managing \r\n                                              Director or any member of the \r\n                                              Board if such person has \r\n                                              previously been authorised by \r\n                                              resolution of the Board to execute \r\n                                              or enter into that particular \r\n                                              instrument or contract:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the Corporation \r\n                                              thinks fit it may by writing under \r\n                                              its common seal appoint any person \r\n                                              outside Ghana as agent to execute \r\n                                              or enter into the instrument or \r\n                                              contract and the instrument or \r\n                                              contract if executed or entered \r\n                                              into on behalf of the Corporation \r\n                                              shall have effect as if it had \r\n                                              been duly executed or entered into \r\n                                              as prescribed for the purpose of \r\n                                              this sub-paragraph.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every document purporting to \r\n                                              be an instrument executed or \r\n                                              issued by or on behalf of the \r\n                                              Corporation and to be:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) sealed with the common seal of \r\n                                              the Corporation authenticated in \r\n                                              the manner provided by \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) of this \r\n                                              paragraph, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) signed by and under the seal \r\n                                              of a person appointed as attorney \r\n                                              under sub-paragraph (2) of this \r\n                                              paragraph, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) signed by the Managing \r\n                                              Director or by a member of the \r\n                                              Board or other person authorised \r\n                                              in accordance with sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (3) of this paragraph to act for \r\n                                              that purpose,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be deemed to be so executed \r\n                                              or issued until the contrary is \r\n                                              shown.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The provisions of this \r\n                                              paragraph shall have effect \r\n                                              subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph 9 of this Instrument and \r\n                                              of section 12 of the Contracts \r\n                                              Act, 1960 (Act 25).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Staff of Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation may, from time \r\n                                              to time, engage such employees as \r\n                                              may be necessary for the proper \r\n                                              and efficient conduct of the \r\n                                              business and functions of the \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 may also \r\n                                              engage the services of such \r\n                                              consultants and advisers as the \r\n                                              Board may upon the recommendation \r\n                                              of the Managing Director \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subject to any delegation \r\n                                              effected under clause (2) of \r\n                                              article 140 of the Constitution \r\n                                              and subject also to the other \r\n                                              provisions of the Constitution the \r\n                                              employees of the Corporation shall \r\n                                              be appointed by the President \r\n                                              acting in accordance with the \r\n                                              advice of the Public&nbsp; Services \r\n                                              Commission.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Constitution the employees, \r\n                                              consultants and advisers of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall be engaged on \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Board may on the recommendation of \r\n                                              the Managing Director determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Public Officers may be \r\n                                              transferred or seconded to the \r\n                                              Corporation or may otherwise give \r\n                                              assistance thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Secretary of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have an \r\n                                              officer to be designated as the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Secretary shall act as \r\n                                              Secretary to the Board and shall, \r\n                                              subject to the directions of the \r\n                                              Board, arrange the business for \r\n                                              and cause to be recorded and kept \r\n                                              minutes of all meetings of the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Secretary shall also \r\n                                              perform such functions as the \r\n                                              Board may by writing direct or as \r\n                                              the Managing Director may by \r\n                                              writing delegate to him and shall \r\n                                              be assisted in his functions by \r\n                                              such of the staff of the \r\n                                              Corporation as the Board may on \r\n                                              the recommendations of the \r\n                                              Managing Director direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Internal Auditor.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have an \r\n                                              Internal Auditor.</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 Instrument, the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall be responsible to \r\n                                              the Managing Director for the \r\n                                              performance of his functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) As part of his functions under \r\n                                              this Instrument the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall, at intervals of \r\n                                              three months, prepare a report on \r\n                                              the internal audit work carried \r\n                                              out by him during the period of \r\n                                              three months immediately preceding \r\n                                              the preparation of the report, and \r\n                                              submit the report to the Managing \r\n                                              Director.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (3) of this paragraph, the \r\n                                              Internal Auditor shall make in \r\n                                              each report such observations as \r\n                                              appear to him necessary as to the \r\n                                              conduct of the financial affairs \r\n                                              of the Corporation during the \r\n                                              period to which the report \r\n                                              relates.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Internal Auditor shall \r\n                                              send a copy of each report \r\n                                              prepared by him under this \r\n                                              paragraph to the Minister and also \r\n                                              to each of the following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Auditor-General, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Chairman of the Board.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART V&#8212;FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Capital and Funds of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Government may provide to the \r\n                                              Corporation as working capital and \r\n                                              also as moneys required for \r\n                                              carrying out the functions of the \r\n                                              Corporation such sums as the \r\n                                              Minister may after consultation \r\n                                              with the Cabinet agree, being sums \r\n                                              requested by the Board from the \r\n                                              Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Staff Welfare Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              staff welfare fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Corporation shall \r\n                                              transfer to the staff welfare fund \r\n                                              such sum, not exceeding 5 per cent \r\n                                              of the net profits of the \r\n                                              Corporation as the Board may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Corporation may, with the \r\n                                              approval of the Minister, use the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund for the \r\n                                              provision of staff welfare \r\n                                              facilities such as canteens, low \r\n                                              interest bearing, staff welfare \r\n                                              loans and for other purposes aimed \r\n                                              at enhancing the welfare of the \r\n                                              staff of the Corporation.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The operation of the staff \r\n                                              welfare fund shall be subject to \r\n                                              such specific rules and \r\n                                              regulations as may be made by the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Depreciation Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall have a \r\n                                              depreciation fund and for this \r\n                                              purpose the Corporation shall open \r\n                                              a Depreciation Reserve Account \r\n                                              with the Bank of Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, the Corporation shall \r\n                                              transfer to the credit of the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account all \r\n                                              amounts charged to profit and loss \r\n                                              account in respect of depreciation \r\n                                              for buildings, plant and \r\n                                              equipment, fixtures and other \r\n                                              fixed assets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Amounts so transferred to the \r\n                                              Depreciation Reserve Account shall \r\n                                              be utilised only to replace fixed \r\n                                              assets and equipment which are \r\n                                              worn out or have become obsolete.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Expenditure in respect of \r\n                                              current repairs and in respect of \r\n                                              purchases of spare parts shall not \r\n                                              be met out of the Depreciation \r\n                                              Reserve Account but shall be \r\n                                              charged to the income and \r\n                                              expenditure account of the \r\n                                              Corporation for the financial year \r\n                                              during which the expenditure is \r\n                                              incurred.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Corporation to Pay Sums \r\n                                              into Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to paragraph 4 of this \r\n                                              Instrument at the end of each \r\n                                              financial year, after the \r\n                                              Corporation has made provision for \r\n                                              bad and doubtful debts, \r\n                                              depreciation of assets, \r\n                                              contributions to staff and \r\n                                              superannuation funds and for other \r\n                                              contingencies, if any, and after \r\n                                              appropriation has been made to the \r\n                                              staff welfare fund under paragraph \r\n                                              15 of this Instrument such part of \r\n                                              the profits of the Corporation \r\n                                              remaining as the Minister after \r\n                                              consultation with the Board and \r\n                                              with the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may by writing direct \r\n                                              shall be paid into the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Borrowing Powers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\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 and the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance may \r\n                                              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 sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (1) of this paragraph, the \r\n                                              Corporation may, with the prior \r\n                                              approval of the Minister and the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              borrow money from any other \r\n                                              source.</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 any \r\n                                              technical arrangement in \r\n                                              connection with the raising of any \r\n                                              loan under sub-paragraph (2) of \r\n                                              this paragraph the Corporation \r\n                                              shall, if the National Investment \r\n                                              Bank agrees, use the services of \r\n                                              that Bank.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation may borrow \r\n                                              temporarily by way of overdraft or \r\n                                              otherwise, such sums as it may \r\n                                              require for meeting its current \r\n                                              obligations or discharging its \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may on behalf of the \r\n                                              Government, guarantee the \r\n                                              performance of any obligation or \r\n                                              undertaking by the Corporation \r\n                                              under this paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (6) The Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may, from time to time, \r\n                                              prescribe the maximum sums which \r\n                                              the Corporation may borrow under \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) or (2) of this \r\n                                              paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Corporation to Keep \r\n                                              Proper Books of Account.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Corporation shall keep proper \r\n                                              books of account and proper \r\n                                              records in relation thereto and \r\n                                              the account books and records&nbsp; of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall be in such \r\n                                              form as the Auditor-General may \r\n                                              approve.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Financial Year of \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation''s financial \r\n                                              year shall end on the 30th day of \r\n                                              June in each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section the period extending from \r\n                                              the commencement of this \r\n                                              Instrument to the 30th day of \r\n                                              June, 1971 shall be deemed to be a \r\n                                              financial year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Audit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (l) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Corporation shall each year be \r\n                                              audited in accordance with article \r\n                                              135 of the Constitution 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) The Corporation shall pay in \r\n                                              respect of such audit such fee (if \r\n                                              any) as the Auditor-General and \r\n                                              the Board may agree or in the case \r\n                                              of failure to agree, such fee as \r\n                                              the Minister may prescribe. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Board as soon as possible upon \r\n                                              receiving the report of the \r\n                                              Auditor-General under this \r\n                                              paragraph to forward a copy of \r\n                                              such report to the Minister.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Minister shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable upon receipt thereof, \r\n                                              cause to be laid before the \r\n                                              National Assembly a copy the \r\n                                              Auditor-General&#8217;s report forwarded \r\n                                              to him under this paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Annual Report, Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Corporation shall, as soon \r\n                                              as possible after the expiration \r\n                                              of each financial year but within \r\n                                              six months after the termination \r\n                                              of that financial year, submit to \r\n                                              the Minister an annual report \r\n                                              dealing generally with the \r\n                                              activities and operations of the \r\n                                              Corporation within that year which \r\n                                              shall, without prejudice to the \r\n                                              generality of the foregoing \r\n                                              include:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a copy of the audited accounts \r\n                                              of the Corporation together with \r\n                                              the Auditor-General''s report \r\n                                              thereon;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) each report submitted in \r\n                                              relation to that financial year by \r\n                                              the Internal Auditor under \r\n                                              paragraph 13 of this Instrument;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a statement of all directions \r\n                                              given by the Minister to the \r\n                                              Corporation under paragraph 23 of \r\n                                              this Instrument, within that year;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) such other information as the \r\n                                              Minister may by writing request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) A copy of the annual report of \r\n                                              the Corporation shall also be sent \r\n                                              by the Corporation to the \r\n                                              following:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Head of the Central Bureau of \r\n                                              Statistics.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Minister shall, as soon as \r\n                                              possible after receiving the \r\n                                              annual report of the Corporation, \r\n                                              cause the report to be laid 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 also \r\n                                              submit to the Minister such other \r\n                                              reports on its financial affairs \r\n                                              as the Minister may by writing \r\n                                              request from time to time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Minister&#8217;s Power of \r\n                                              Direction.</span></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                                              paragraph 4 of this Instrument, \r\n                                              the Minister may give general \r\n                                              directions in writing to the \r\n                                              Corporation on matters of policy \r\n                                              and the Corporation shall be bound \r\n                                              to comply with such directions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the proper conduct of his \r\n                                              public business the Minister shall \r\n                                              be entitled at all times to be in \r\n                                              direct communication with the \r\n                                              Managing Director, concerning all \r\n                                              branches of the Corporation and \r\n                                              all employees and also see all \r\n                                              documents, papers and minutes \r\n                                              which he may require either for \r\n                                              Parliament or himself and to be \r\n                                              supplied with copies thereof.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Bye-laws or Other \r\n                                              Instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board may make bye-laws or \r\n                                              other instruments for the purpose \r\n                                              of carrying into effect the \r\n                                              provisions and principles of this \r\n                                              Instrument and for regulating any \r\n                                              matter falling within the scope of \r\n                                              the functions of the Corporation \r\n                                              or which is required or authorised \r\n                                              by this Instrument to be provided \r\n                                              for by any such instruments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              general effect of sub-paragraph \r\n                                              (1) of this paragraph, the Board \r\n                                              may, subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Social Security Act, 1965 (Act \r\n                                              279) make bye-laws or other \r\n                                              instruments under that \r\n                                              sub-paragraph for providing the \r\n                                              conditions of service of the staff \r\n                                              of the Corporation including, if \r\n                                              the Board thinks fit, the \r\n                                              operation of a contributory \r\n                                              provident fund.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Exemption from Taxes, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Corporation shall be exempted \r\n                                              from such taxes and duties as the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              may, by writing, direct. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Interpretation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              In this Instrument &#8220;Minister&#8221; \r\n                                              means the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              lnformation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Dissolution of Former \r\n                                              Corporation and Transfer of its \r\n                                              Assets and Liabilities.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The State Film Industry \r\n                                              Corporation existing immediately \r\n                                              before the commencement of this \r\n                                              Instrument under the Instrument \r\n                                              of&nbsp; Incorporation of the State \r\n                                              Film Industry Corporation, 1965 (L.I. \r\n                                              467) is hereby dissolved and the \r\n                                              said Instrument is hereby revoked.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) There is hereby transferred to \r\n                                              the Corporation established by \r\n                                              this Instrument all assets, \r\n                                              rights, obligations and \r\n                                              liabilities of the first mentioned \r\n                                              Corporation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              E. AKUFO ADDO</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              President.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 10th \r\n                                              March, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p>&nbsp;', 'GHANA NEWS AGENCY', 'Yes', 'L.I. 680');
