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                                              PUBLIC AND PRESIDENTIAL SEALS ACT, 
                                              1970 (ACT 342)</span></b></p>
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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              1. Use of Public and Presidential 
                                              Seals </span></p>
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                                              2. Custody of Seals</span></p>
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                                              3. Wafer Seals</span></p>
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                                              4. Regulations</span></p>
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                                              5. Offences in connection with 
                                              Seals</span></p>
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                                              6. Repeal of Act 246</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <b>THE THREE HUNDRED AND 
                                              FORTY-SECOND</b></span></p>
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                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE 
                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>
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                                              ENTITLED</span></p>
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                                              THE PUBLIC AND PRESIDENTIAL SEALS 
                                              ACT, 1970</span></b></p>
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                                              AN ACT to regulate the use and 
                                              custody of the Public and 
                                              Presidential Seals and to provide 
                                              for other matters connected 
                                              therewith.</span></p>
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                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 21st August, 1970.</span></p>
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                                              WHEREAS article 39 of the 
                                              Constitution provides that there 
                                              shall be a Public Seal and a 
                                              Presidential Seal, the use and 
                                              custody of which shall, subject to 
                                              the provisions of the 
                                              Constitution, be regulated by law.</span></p>
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                                              NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED by the 
                                              President and the National 
                                              Assembly in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              Section 1&#8212;Use of Public and 
                                              Presidential Seals.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) Subject to subsections (2) and 
                                              (3) of this section, except where 
                                              their use is expressly provided 
                                              for by the Constitution or any 
                                              other enactment, the Public Seal 
                                              and the Presidential Seal shall or 
                                              may be used on such occasions and 
                                              in respect of such matters as may 
                                              be prescribed by regulations made 
                                              under section 4 of this Act.</span></p>
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                                              (2) The Public Seal may be applied 
                                              in respect of any instrument 
                                              signed by a Minister in exercise 
                                              of any function conferred or 
                                              imposed on him by the Constitution 
                                              or by any other enactment.</span></p>
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                                              (3) The Presidential Seal may be 
                                              applied in respect of any 
                                              instrument executed personally in 
                                              exercise of any function conferred 
                                              by the Constitution or any other 
                                              enactment, by the President or by 
                                              the Speaker when exercising the 
                                              functions of the President under 
                                              article 38 of the Constitution.</span></p>
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                                              Section 2&#8212;Custody of Seals.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) The Secretary to the Cabinet 
                                              or such other member of the Public 
                                              Services as may be prescribed by 
                                              regulations, shall have the 
                                              custody and charge of the Public 
                                              Seal.</span></p>
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                                              (2) The Secretary to the President 
                                              or such other member of the Public 
                                              Services as may be prescribed by 
                                              regulations, shall have the 
                                              custody and charge of the 
                                              Presidential Seal.</span></p>
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                                              Section 3&#8212;Wafer Seals.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) Regulations may provide for 
                                              the making of wafer seals, 
                                              representing the Public Seal and 
                                              the Presidential Seal, of such 
                                              material as the regulations may 
                                              specify and also prescribe the 
                                              size of the cast to be used for 
                                              that purpose.</span></p>
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                                              (2)&nbsp; The wafer seals made in 
                                              pursuance of subsection (1) of 
                                              this section shall&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              (a)&nbsp; be in the same custody as the 
                                              seals they represent, and </span>
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                                              (b)&nbsp; when affixed to any document 
                                              required to be authenticated by or 
                                              passed under the Public Seal or 
                                              the Presidential Seal, shall 
                                              confer on that document the same 
                                              validity in all respects as if the 
                                              document itself had been 
                                              authenticated by or passed under 
                                              the Public Seal or the 
                                              Presidential Seal.</span></p>
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                                              (3)&nbsp; It shall not be necessary to 
                                              the validity of any document to 
                                              which a wafer Public Seal or a 
                                              wafer Presidential Seal is 
                                              attached or embossed to prove that 
                                              the attachment or embossing of 
                                              such wafer seals respectively was 
                                              authorised, and no evidence to the 
                                              contrary shall be received.</span></p>
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                                              Section 4&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1)&nbsp; The Prime Minister may by 
                                              legislative instrument make 
                                              regulations in respect of all or 
                                              any of the following matters:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              (a) the documents to which the 
                                              wafer Public Seal and the wafer 
                                              Presidential Seal respectively are 
                                              to be affixed; </span></p>
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                                              (b) the manner in which such 
                                              documents are to be prepared, 
                                              whether to be printed or written, 
                                              or partly printed or partly 
                                              written, and whether to be printed 
                                              or written on paper, parchment or 
                                              any other fitting material;</span></p>
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                                              (c) such matters as are required 
                                              or authorised under this Act to be 
                                              prescribed by regulations; and</span></p>
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                                              (d) any other matter which he 
                                              considers expedient for the 
                                              purpose of carrying this Act into 
                                              effect:</span></p>
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                                              Provided that regulations shall 
                                              not be made under this section in 
                                              relation to the Presidential Seal 
                                              or the wafer Presidential Seal 
                                              except with the prior approval of 
                                              the President.</span></p>
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                                              (2) Regulations made under this 
                                              section may modify the provisions 
                                              of any enactment for the purpose 
                                              of giving full effect to this Act 
                                              or to the regulations.</span></p>
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                                              Section 5&#8212;Offences in Connection 
                                              with Seals.</span></b></p>
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                                              Any person who, without lawful 
                                              authority or excuse (the proof of 
                                              which shall lie on him), uses or 
                                              has in his possession any seal or 
                                              wafer seal to which this Act 
                                              applies shall be guilty of a 
                                              misdemeanour.</span></p>
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                                              Section 6&#8212;Repeal of Act 246.</span></b></p>
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                                              The Official Seals Act, 1964 (Act 
                                              246) is hereby repealed.</span></p>
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