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(5, 'GHANA NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME ACT, 1980 (ACT 426)', ' <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              GHANA</span><span style="font-family: Arial"> \r\n                                              NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME ACT, 1980 \r\n                                              (ACT 426)</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">ARRANGEMNET \r\n                                              OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1>1. Establishment of the Ghana \r\n                                              National Service Scheme.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#2>2. Application of Scheme.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#3>3. Persons to be Directed to \r\n                                              Render Service in Certain Fields.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#4>4. Duration of National Service.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#5>5. Terms and Conditions of \r\n                                              Engagement.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#6>6. Certificate of National \r\n                                              Service.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#7>7. Persons Liable to National \r\n                                              Service not to be Employed \r\n                                              Contrary to the Provisions of this \r\n                                              Act.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#8>8. Exemptions.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#9>9. Board to be Notified of Persons \r\n                                              who have Completed Course of \r\n                                              Study.</a></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;THE NATIONAL SERVICE BOARD</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#10>10. The Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#11>11. Qualifications and \r\n                                              Disqualifications of Members of \r\n                                              Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#12>12. Tenure of Office and \r\n                                              Emoluments of Members of the \r\n                                              Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;OBJECTS AND FUNCTIONS OF \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                                              <a href=#13>13. Objects and Functions of \r\n                                              Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#14>14. Meetings of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              PART IV&#8212;MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF \r\n                                              SCHEME </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#15>15. Director of Scheme.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#16>16. Staff of Scheme.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#17>17. Secretary of Scheme.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#18>18. Internal Auditor.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#19>19. Board Members not to Sponsor \r\n                                              Appointments.</a></span></p>\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                                              <a href=#20>20. Funds of Scheme.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#21>21. Estimates of Expenditure.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#22>22. Financial Year.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#23>23. Bank Accounts and Borrowing \r\n                                              Powers of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#24>24. Accounts and Audit.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#25>25. Access to Information.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#26>26. Powers of Board to Give \r\n                                              Directions.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#27>27. Annual Report.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#28>28. Offences.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#29>29. Regulations.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#30>30. Interpretation.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#31>31. Repeal.</a></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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH</span></p>\r\n                                             \r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE GHANA NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME \r\n                                              ACT, 1980</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to establish a Ghana \r\n                                              National Service Scheme in \r\n                                              accordance with article 176 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and for other matters \r\n                                              connected therewith.</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                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 23rd September, \r\n                                              1980.</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                                              BE IT ENACTED by Parliament as \r\n                                              follows:&#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\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;ESTABLISHMENT OF GHANA \r\n                                              NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of the \r\n                                              Ghana National Service Scheme.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There is hereby established a \r\n                                              Ghana National Service Scheme in \r\n                                              this Act referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              Scheme&quot;.</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                                              <b><a name=2></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Application of Scheme</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Scheme shall apply to any \r\n                                              person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; is a citizen of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; has attained the age of \r\n                                              eighteen years or more.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) The National Service Board \r\n                                              may, with the prior approval of \r\n                                              the President, by constitutional \r\n                                              instrument, make regulations under \r\n                                              section 29 of this Act to apply \r\n                                              the Scheme to any citizen of Ghana \r\n                                              who has attained the age specified \r\n                                              in subsection (1) of this section.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=3></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Persons to be Directed \r\n                                              to Render Service in Certain \r\n                                              Fields.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the other \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, the Board \r\n                                              may direct any person to whom the \r\n                                              Scheme applies to be engaged, full \r\n                                              time, in any of the following \r\n                                              fields:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; Agriculture,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; Co-operatives,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; Education,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; Health, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; Local Government,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f)&nbsp; Military,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) Rural Development, including \r\n                                              surveying, physical planning, \r\n                                              civil engineering and rural \r\n                                              industries,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (h) Youth programmes, and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              any other field that the Board may \r\n                                              prescribe from time to time, and \r\n                                              any such person shall comply with \r\n                                              the directions of the Board.</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                                              section 4 of this Act and subject \r\n                                              to subsection (3) of this section \r\n                                              any person to whom the Scheme \r\n                                              applies shall be engaged in one \r\n                                              field for the period of his \r\n                                              national service.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the Board is satisfied \r\n                                              that the circumstances so require \r\n                                              the Board may vary from time to \r\n                                              time the field of operation in \r\n                                              respect of any person to whom the \r\n                                              Scheme applies.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=4></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Duration of National \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The period of national service \r\n                                              in respect of any person under \r\n                                              this Act shall be two years, so \r\n                                              however that this period shall \r\n                                              include a minimum of six months \r\n                                              military training.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A person specified in \r\n                                              subsection (1) of section 2 of \r\n                                              this Act shall do such part of his \r\n                                              national service as may be \r\n                                              specified by the Board before \r\n                                              entering into a higher educational \r\n                                              institution and shall do the \r\n                                              remaining part of his service \r\n                                              immediately upon completion of his \r\n                                              course of study in such \r\n                                              institution.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where a person studies or \r\n                                              continues his education outside \r\n                                              Ghana he shall be liable to do his \r\n                                              national service on his return to \r\n                                              Ghana after such studies or \r\n                                              education.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a person who has \r\n                                              successfully completed his \r\n                                              national service is later engaged \r\n                                              in the public service the period \r\n                                              of his national service shall \r\n                                              count towards any probationary \r\n                                              period to be served by him.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=5></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Terms and Conditions of \r\n                                              Engagement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person to whom the Scheme \r\n                                              applies shall be engaged under the \r\n                                              Scheme upon such terms and \r\n                                              conditions including remuneration, \r\n                                              as may be specified in his letter \r\n                                              of engagement.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=6></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Certificate of National \r\n                                              Service.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Any person who satisfactorily \r\n                                              completes his period of national \r\n                                              service shall be awarded a \r\n                                              Certificate of National Service by \r\n                                              the Board.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=7></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Persons Liable to \r\n                                              National Service not to be \r\n                                              Employed Contrary to the \r\n                                              Provisions of this Act.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; A person who has not \r\n                                              commenced and completed his period \r\n                                              of national service shall not&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; obtain employment outside the \r\n                                              Scheme; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; be employed by any other \r\n                                              person outside the Scheme; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; be engaged in any employment \r\n                                              outside the Scheme, whether \r\n                                              self-employed or otherwise, \r\n                                              without the prior permission, in \r\n                                              writing, 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                                              (2) It shall be the duty of every \r\n                                              employer to ascertain from every \r\n                                              employee, upon his appointment, \r\n                                              whether or not he is liable to \r\n                                              national service and if he is, the \r\n                                              employer shall notify the fact to \r\n                                              the Board forthwith.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=8></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Exemptions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board may exempt any person to \r\n                                              whom the Scheme applies from \r\n                                              compliance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, or postpone the date on \r\n                                              which any person shall be first \r\n                                              engaged under the Scheme.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=9></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Board to be Notified of \r\n                                              Persons who have Completed Course \r\n                                              of Study.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every institution where any \r\n                                              persons who are receiving formal \r\n                                              training and who have attained the \r\n                                              age of eighteen years or more \r\n                                              shall forward to the Board as soon \r\n                                              as practicable but in any case not \r\n                                              later than the end of its academic \r\n                                              year, a list of all such persons.</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">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;THE NATIONAL SERVICE BOARD</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                                              <b><a name=10></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;The Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The governing body of the \r\n                                              Ghana National Service Scheme \r\n                                              shall be the National Service \r\n                                              Board (in this Act referred to as \r\n                                              &quot;the Board&quot;)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; 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)&nbsp; a Chairman</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the Director referred to in \r\n                                              section 15 of this Act, and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; six other members, all of \r\n                                              whom shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President, acting in accordance \r\n                                              with the advice of the Council of \r\n                                              State.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=11></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Qualifications and \r\n                                              Disqualifications of Members of \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; is not 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                                              (b)&nbsp; has been adjudged or \r\n                                              otherwise declared </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              a bankrupt under any law in force \r\n                                              in Ghana and has not been \r\n                                              discharged;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii)&nbsp; to be of unsound mind; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; is detained as a criminal \r\n                                              lunatic under any law for the time \r\n                                              being in force in Ghana; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; has been convicted&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              for high crime under the \r\n                                              Constitution or for an offence \r\n                                              involving the security of the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              State, fraud, dishonesty or moral \r\n                                              turpitude, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii)&nbsp; for any other offence on \r\n                                              indictment; and has not been \r\n                                              granted a free pardon; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; has been found by the report \r\n                                              of a commission or a committee of \r\n                                              inquiry to be incompetent to hold \r\n                                              public office or in respect of \r\n                                              whom a commission or committee of \r\n                                              inquiry has found that while being \r\n                                              a public officer he acquired \r\n                                              assets unlawfully or defrauded the \r\n                                              State or misused or abused his \r\n                                              office, or wilfully acted in a \r\n                                              manner prejudicial to the \r\n                                              interests of the State, and such \r\n                                              findings have not been set aside \r\n                                              on appeal or judicial review; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f)&nbsp; has had his property \r\n                                              confiscated as the result of the \r\n                                              findings of a commission or \r\n                                              committee of inquiry, and such \r\n                                              findings have not been set aside \r\n                                              on appeal or judicial review; or\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g)&nbsp; is under sentence of death or \r\n                                              sentence of imprisonment imposed \r\n                                              on him by any court; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h)&nbsp; is otherwise disqualified by \r\n                                              any law for the time being in \r\n                                              force.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              provisions of subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section, any member of the \r\n                                              Board shall cease to be a member \r\n                                              if in the case of a person \r\n                                              possessed of professional \r\n                                              qualifications, he is disqualified \r\n                                              or suspended, otherwise than at \r\n                                              his own request, from practising \r\n                                              his profession in Ghana or in any \r\n                                              other country by order of any \r\n                                              competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=12></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Tenure of Office and \r\n                                              Emoluments of Members of the \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; All members of the Board \r\n                                              shall hold office for a period of \r\n                                              four years;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; A member of the Board may \r\n                                              resign his office by notice in \r\n                                              writing addressed to the President \r\n                                              and, without prejudice to the \r\n                                              provisions of section 11 of this \r\n                                              Act, any such member may, for good \r\n                                              cause shown, and in the public \r\n                                              interest, be removed by the \r\n                                              President acting in accordance \r\n                                              with the advice of the Council of \r\n                                              State.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All members of the Board \r\n                                              ceasing to hold office shall, \r\n                                              subject to section 11 of this Act \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                                              (4) Where any member of the Board \r\n                                              is absent from Ghana or \r\n                                              incapacitated by illness or any \r\n                                              other cause from performing the \r\n                                              functions of his office the \r\n                                              President may, acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the advice of the \r\n                                              Council of State appoint another \r\n                                              person to act in his office until \r\n                                              the member is able to resume the \r\n                                              performance of his functions.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Chairman or in his absence \r\n                                              the Director shall notify the \r\n                                              President in writing of all \r\n                                              vacancies occurring in the \r\n                                              membership of the Board and of any \r\n                                              circumstances giving rise to an \r\n                                              appointment under subsection (4) \r\n                                              of this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) There shall be paid to members \r\n                                              of the Board in respect of their \r\n                                              membership such subsistence, \r\n                                              travelling and other allowances as \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance may approve in relation to \r\n                                              them.</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                                              PART III&#8212;OBJECTS AND FUNCTIONS OF \r\n                                              BOARD</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=13></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Objects and Functions \r\n                                              of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act, have \r\n                                              general control and management of \r\n                                              the Scheme on matters of policy.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=14></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Meetings of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall 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\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&nbsp; or \r\n                                              by a majority of the members of \r\n                                              the Board addressed to the \r\n                                              Secretary of the Board and the \r\n                                              Chairman shall call such a special \r\n                                              meeting within ten days after \r\n                                              receipt of such a request.</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                                              elected by the members present \r\n                                              from among themselves shall \r\n                                              preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\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 an equality of votes \r\n                                              the person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              second or casting vote. </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5)&nbsp; The quorum at any meeting of \r\n                                              the Board shall be five.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (6)&nbsp; 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, so however \r\n                                              that no person so co-opted shall \r\n                                              be entitled to vote at any such \r\n                                              meetings on any matter for \r\n                                              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)&nbsp; 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)&nbsp; Any such co-opted member or \r\n                                              members shall be entitled to such \r\n                                              allowances as 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">&nbsp;</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                                              SCHEME</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=15></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Director of Scheme.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Scheme shall have a \r\n                                              Director who shall be appointed in \r\n                                              accordance with article 157 of the \r\n                                              Constitution and shall hold office \r\n                                              upon such terms and conditions as \r\n                                              may be specified in his instrument \r\n                                              of appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the office of the \r\n                                              Director becomes vacant the Board \r\n                                              shall notify the President of the \r\n                                              occurrence of the vacancy.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where the Director is \r\n                                              incapacitated from the performance \r\n                                              of his functions under this Act \r\n                                              the Board may subject to \r\n                                              subsection (4) of section 12 of \r\n                                              this Act authorise any employee of \r\n                                              the Scheme to perform those \r\n                                              functions for the duration of the \r\n                                              incapacity.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, the Director shall, \r\n                                              subject to the general control of \r\n                                              the Board on matters of policy, be \r\n                                              charged with the direction and \r\n                                              day-to-day business of the Scheme \r\n                                              and its administration and the \r\n                                              organisation and control of all \r\n                                              the employees of the Scheme.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this section the Director may \r\n                                              delegate to any employee of the \r\n                                              Scheme any of his functions under \r\n                                              this Act and may impose with \r\n                                              respect to the exercise of such \r\n                                              delegated functions such \r\n                                              conditions as he may think fit:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that nothing in this \r\n                                              subsection shall be construed so \r\n                                              as to absolve the Director from \r\n                                              ultimate responsibility for any \r\n                                              act done by any person in \r\n                                              pursuance of any such delegation.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=16></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Staff of Scheme.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board 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 Scheme.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Board may also engage the \r\n                                              services of such consultants and \r\n                                              advisers as the Board may upon the \r\n                                              recommendations of the Director \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) The staff of the Scheme shall \r\n                                              be appointed in accordance with \r\n                                              the provisions of article 157 of \r\n                                              the Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4)&nbsp; Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              the Constitution the employees, \r\n                                              consultants and advisers of the \r\n                                              Scheme shall be appointed upon \r\n                                              such terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Board may, on the recommendations \r\n                                              of the 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                                              Scheme or may otherwise give \r\n                                              assistance thereto.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=17></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Secretary of Scheme.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Scheme shall have an \r\n                                              officer to be designated as &quot;the \r\n                                              Secretary&quot;.</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 at its \r\n                                              meetings and shall subject to the \r\n                                              directions of the Board, arrange \r\n                                              the business for and cause to be \r\n                                              recorded and kept minutes of all \r\n                                              meetings of 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 also \r\n                                              perform such functions as the \r\n                                              Board may by writing or as the \r\n                                              Director may by writing delegate \r\n                                              to him and shall be assisted in \r\n                                              his functions by such of the \r\n                                              employees of the Scheme as the \r\n                                              Board on the recommendation of the \r\n                                              Director may direct.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=18></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Internal Auditor.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Scheme 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 Act, the Internal Auditor \r\n                                              shall be responsible to the \r\n                                              Director for the performance of \r\n                                              his functions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; As part of his functions \r\n                                              under this Act 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 Director, \r\n                                              and the Board shall meet as soon \r\n                                              as possible to discuss the \r\n                                              Internal Auditor''s report.</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 subsection (3) \r\n                                              of this section, the Internal \r\n                                              Auditor shall make in each report \r\n                                              such observations as appear to him \r\n                                              necessary as to the conduct of the \r\n                                              financial affairs of the Scheme \r\n                                              during the period to which the \r\n                                              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 section \r\n                                              to the President and also to each \r\n                                              of the following:&#8212; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance and Economic Planning,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the Auditor-General, and Chairman \r\n                                              and each member of the Board.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=19></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Board Members not to \r\n                                              Sponsor Appointments.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No member of the Board shall \r\n                                              personally sponsor or recommend \r\n                                              any application for the employment \r\n                                              of any person under this Act and \r\n                                              any Board member who infringes the \r\n                                              provisions of this section shall \r\n                                              be liable to be removed from the \r\n                                              Board.</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">\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">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=20></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Funds of Scheme.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The funds of the Scheme shall \r\n                                              include such sums as may be \r\n                                              appropriated to it by the \r\n                                              Government or any other source.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=21></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 21&#8212;Estimates of \r\n                                              Expenditure.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall submit to the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for Finance \r\n                                              at such times and in such form as \r\n                                              the Minister may direct, detailed \r\n                                              estimates of the income and \r\n                                              expenditure of the Scheme for the \r\n                                              next following financial year.</span></p>\r\n\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                                              the Constitution, the expenditure \r\n                                              of the Scheme shall be in \r\n                                              accordance with the said estimates \r\n                                              as approved by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Finance.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=22></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 22&#8212;Financial Year.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; The financial year of the \r\n                                              Scheme shall be the same as the \r\n                                              financial year of the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) \r\n                                              of this section the period \r\n                                              commencing with the coming into \r\n                                              force of this Act and ending on \r\n                                              the 30th day of June, 1981 shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be the first \r\n                                              financial year of the Scheme.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=23></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 23&#8212;Bank Accounts and \r\n                                              Borrowing Powers of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Scheme may have bank \r\n                                              accounts in such banks 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) 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 of the Board under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=24></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 24&#8212;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Scheme shall keep proper \r\n                                              accounts and proper records in \r\n                                              relation thereto and the accounts \r\n                                              books and records of the Scheme \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                                              (2) The books and accounts of the \r\n                                              Scheme shall, within three months \r\n                                              after the end of each financial \r\n                                              year, be audited by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General or by an auditor \r\n                                              authorised by him in accordance \r\n                                              with article 151 of the \r\n                                              Constitution.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3)&nbsp; The Scheme shall pay in \r\n                                              respect of such audit such fees \r\n                                              (if any) as the Auditor-General \r\n                                              may agree.</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">\r\n                                              PART VI&#8212;GENERAL PROVISIONS</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=25></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 25&#8212;Access to Information.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purposes of the \r\n                                              attainment of its objects and the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \r\n                                              this Act the Board shall have \r\n                                              access to all information and \r\n                                              records of any institution or \r\n                                              other place to which this Act \r\n                                              applies which are reasonably \r\n                                              necessary for the said purposes.\r\n                                              </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 may by writing \r\n                                              request from any person any \r\n                                              information reasonably necessary \r\n                                              for the full implementation of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=26></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 26&#8212;Powers of Board to Give \r\n                                              Directions.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board may by writing give \r\n                                              directions to any person for the \r\n                                              purpose of ensuring the full \r\n                                              implementation of this Act and any \r\n                                              such person shall be bound to \r\n                                              comply with such directions.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=27></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 27&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall, 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 year, submit to the Minister \r\n                                              an annual report dealing generally \r\n                                              with the activities and operations \r\n                                              of the Scheme within that year \r\n                                              which shall, without prejudice to \r\n                                              the 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 Scheme 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)&nbsp; each report submitted by the \r\n                                              Internal Auditor under section 18 \r\n                                              of this Act in relation to that \r\n                                              financial year; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; such other information as the \r\n                                              Minister may request.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; A copy of the annual report \r\n                                              shall be forwarded by the Board \r\n                                              to&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; Parliament;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; the Minister;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c)&nbsp; the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance and Economic Planning;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Labour, Youth and Social Welfare;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e)&nbsp; the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Education, Culture and Sports;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f)&nbsp; the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Agriculture;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g)&nbsp; Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Health;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h)&nbsp; the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Defence; and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i)&nbsp; \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for Local \r\n                                              Government, Rural Development and \r\n                                              Co-operatives.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=28></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 28&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1)&nbsp; Any person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a)&nbsp; contravenes any of the \r\n                                              provision of section 7 of this \r\n                                              Act; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) refuses to notify the Board of \r\n                                              the completion by any person of \r\n                                              any course of study as required \r\n                                              under section 9 of this Act or \r\n                                              fails without reasonable cause \r\n                                              (proof of which shall be on him) \r\n                                              to give such notice; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) provides any information under \r\n                                              this Act which he knows to be \r\n                                              false or has no reason to believe \r\n                                              to be true; or </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d)&nbsp; refuses or fails without \r\n                                              reasonable cause (proof of which \r\n                                              shall be on him) to comply with \r\n                                              any direction given by the Board \r\n                                              under subsection (1) of section 1 \r\n                                              or section 26 of this Act,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence and \r\n                                              shall, on summary conviction, be \r\n                                              liable to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              five thousand cedis or to a term \r\n                                              of imprisonment not exceeding five \r\n                                              years or to both; and in the case \r\n                                              of a continuing offence, to an \r\n                                              additional fine not exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred cedis in respect of each \r\n                                              day on which the offence \r\n                                              continues;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where an offence is committed \r\n                                              under this Act by a body of \r\n                                              persons, then&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in the case of a body \r\n                                              corporate (other than a \r\n                                              partnership) every director or \r\n                                              officer of the body shall be \r\n                                              deemed also to be guilty of the \r\n                                              offence; and </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; in the case of a partnership, \r\n                                              every partner or officer of the \r\n                                              body, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be deemed also to be guilty \r\n                                              of that offence:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no person shall be \r\n                                              deemed to be guilty of an offence \r\n                                              by virtue of this section, if he \r\n                                              proves that the offence was \r\n                                              committed without his knowledge or \r\n                                              connivance and that he exercised \r\n                                              all due diligence to prevent the \r\n                                              commission of the offence, having \r\n                                              regard to all the circumstances.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=29></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 29&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall, with the prior \r\n                                              approval of the President, by \r\n                                              constitutional instrument, make \r\n                                              Regulations for&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) prescribing anything that may \r\n                                              be prescribed under section 3 of \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) the areas of activity for the \r\n                                              purpose of service under the \r\n                                              Scheme;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the conditions under which a \r\n                                              person may be engaged or exempted \r\n                                              under the Scheme; and </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the performance of its \r\n                                              functions under the Constitution \r\n                                              or any other law for the effective \r\n                                              and efficient administration of \r\n                                              the Scheme.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=30></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 30&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              In this Act &quot;the Minister&quot; means \r\n                                              the President or any Minister \r\n                                              designated for the purposes of \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=31></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 31&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The National Service Scheme \r\n                                              Decree, 1973 (NRCD. 208) is hereby \r\n                                              repealed:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that until the members of \r\n                                              the Board are duly appointed and \r\n                                              the regulations are made under \r\n                                              section 29 of this Act for the \r\n                                              implementation of this Act the \r\n                                              Scheme established under the said \r\n                                              Decree shall continue in operation \r\n                                              as if the said Decree shall \r\n                                              continue in operation as if the \r\n                                              said Decree had not been repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n', 'THIRD', 'Yes', 'ACT 426');
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(6, 'NATIONAL BOARD FOR SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRIES ACT, 1981 (ACT 434)', ' <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              NATIONAL BOARD FOR SMALL-SCALE \r\n                                              INDUSTRIES ACT, 1981 (ACT 434)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1>1. Establishment of National Board \r\n                                              for Small-Scale Industries.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#2>2. Composition of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#3>3. Qualifications and \r\n                                              disqualifications of members of \r\n                                              Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#4>4. Functions of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#5>5. Executive and Deputy Executive \r\n                                              Directors.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#6>6. Functions of Executive and \r\n                                              Deputy Executive Directors.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#7>7. Staff of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#8>8. Regulation of Business.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#9>9. Validity of Proceedings.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#10>10. Funds.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#11>11. Accounts and Audit.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#12>12. Annual Report.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#13>13. Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Board.</a></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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <b>THE FOUR HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              THIRTY-FOURTH</b></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              THE NATIONAL BOARD FOR SMALL-SCALE \r\n                                              INDUSTRIES ACT, 1981</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              establishment of the National \r\n                                              Board for Small-Scale Industries \r\n                                              and for other matters connected \r\n                                              therewith.</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                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 23rd June, 1981</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                                              BE IT ENACTED by Parliament as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of \r\n                                              National Board for Small-Scale \r\n                                              Industries.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              There is hereby established a body \r\n                                              to be known as the National Board \r\n                                              for Small-Scale Industries in this \r\n                                              Act referred to as &quot;the Board.&quot;</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Composition of Board.</span></b></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 comprise eight \r\n                                              members of proven ability in \r\n                                              industry and with particular \r\n                                              interest in the small-scale \r\n                                              industries sector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The members of the Board shall \r\n                                              be appointed by the President on \r\n                                              the recommendation of the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Industries, of \r\n                                              whom one shall be appointed to be \r\n                                              Chairman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman and the other \r\n                                              members of the Board shall hold \r\n                                              office on such terms and \r\n                                              conditions as the President may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Board may from time to \r\n                                              time co-opt other persons and \r\n                                              representatives of Organisations \r\n                                              or Institutions with special \r\n                                              interest pertaining to Small-Scale \r\n                                              Industries as ex officio members \r\n                                              of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A person co-opted under this \r\n                                              section shall not have the right \r\n                                              to vote in any decision 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">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=3></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Qualifications and \r\n                                              disqualifications of members of \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be qualified \r\n                                              to be a member of the Board who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) is not a citizen of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) has been adjudged or otherwise \r\n                                              declared&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              a bankrupt under any law in force \r\n                                              in Ghana and has not been \r\n                                              discharged;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) to be of unsound mind; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) being possessed of \r\n                                              professional qualification is \r\n                                              disqualified or suspended, \r\n                                              otherwise than at his own request, \r\n                                              from practising his profession in \r\n                                              Ghana by order of any competent \r\n                                              authority in respect of him \r\n                                              personally;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) has been convicted&#8212; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              for high crime under the \r\n                                              Constitution or treason or for an \r\n                                              offence involving the security of \r\n                                              the State, fraud, dishonesty or \r\n                                              moral turpitude; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) for any other offence on \r\n                                              indictment; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) has been found by the report \r\n                                              of a commission or a committee of \r\n                                              inquiry to be incompetent to hold \r\n                                              public office or in respect of \r\n                                              whom a commission or committee of \r\n                                              inquiry has found that while being \r\n                                              a public officer he acquired \r\n                                              assets unlawfully or defrauded the \r\n                                              State or misused or abused his \r\n                                              office or wilfully acted in a \r\n                                              manner prejudicial to the \r\n                                              interests of the State, and such \r\n                                              findings have not been set aside \r\n                                              on appeal or judicial review; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) has had his property \r\n                                              confiscated as the result of the \r\n                                              findings of a commission or \r\n                                              committee of inquiry; and such \r\n                                              findings have not been set aside \r\n                                              on appeal or judicial review; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) is under sentence of death or \r\n                                              sentence of imprisonment imposed \r\n                                              on him by any court; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) is otherwise disqualified by \r\n                                              any law for the time being in \r\n                                              force from holding public office.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) For the purposes of paragraph \r\n                                              (d) or (e) or (f) of subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section if ten years \r\n                                              or more have elapsed since the end \r\n                                              of the sentence or the date of the \r\n                                              publication of the report of the \r\n                                              commission or committee of inquiry \r\n                                              or has been pardoned, that person \r\n                                              shall not be disqualified to be a \r\n                                              member of the Board by reason only \r\n                                              of the provisions of that \r\n                                              paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section any \r\n                                              member of the Board shall cease to \r\n                                              be a member if&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) he is guilty of any unethical \r\n                                              behaviour or guilty of any serious \r\n                                              misconduct in respect of his \r\n                                              duties as a member of the Board \r\n                                              and such behaviour or misconduct \r\n                                              is certified in writing by not \r\n                                              less than two-thirds of the \r\n                                              members of the Board; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) he is absent from three or \r\n                                              more consecutive meetings of the \r\n                                              Board without sufficient reason; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) in the case of a person \r\n                                              possessed of professional \r\n                                              qualifications, he is disqualified \r\n                                              or suspended, otherwise than at \r\n                                              his request, from practising his \r\n                                              profession in Ghana or in any \r\n                                              other country by order of any \r\n                                              competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=4></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Functions of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The functions of the Board \r\n                                              shall 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) to establish the criteria that \r\n                                              constitute a small-scale industry;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to identify and define the \r\n                                              types of small-scale industries in \r\n                                              the country;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) to assist the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Industries in the \r\n                                              development and support of \r\n                                              small-scale industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) to implement policies in \r\n                                              relation to small-scale industries \r\n                                              duly approved by the Government;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) to design, develop and \r\n                                              implement specific plans of action \r\n                                              to meet the needs and expectations \r\n                                              of organised groups;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) to establish the \r\n                                              infrastructure required to \r\n                                              accelerate the implementation of \r\n                                              policies or execution of \r\n                                              programmes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) to organise a field extension \r\n                                              network that will identify \r\n                                              projects, collect relevant data, \r\n                                              disseminate information and \r\n                                              provide feed-back;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (h) to render advice in relation \r\n                                              to the approval of applications \r\n                                              for the establishment of \r\n                                              small-scale industries as well as \r\n                                              advice on the approval of import \r\n                                              licences for small-scale \r\n                                              entrepreneurs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              to co-ordinate through the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Industries the efforts of all \r\n                                              agencies, Ministries and donor \r\n                                              countries to ensure proper flow of \r\n                                              information and avoidance of \r\n                                              duplication of efforts and waste \r\n                                              of material resources;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) to encourage the formation of \r\n                                              associations, co-operatives or \r\n                                              groups and build industrial \r\n                                              estates or any other organisations \r\n                                              deemed beneficial to small-scale \r\n                                              industries development;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) to control through the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Industries the inflow and outflow \r\n                                              of all foreign aid and foreign \r\n                                              loans granted by donor countries \r\n                                              for the development of small-scale \r\n                                              industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l) to monitor through the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Industries, the utilization of all \r\n                                              funds derived from Ghana \r\n                                              Government budget and subsidies \r\n                                              earmarked for small-scale \r\n                                              industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (m) to approve the funding of all \r\n                                              projects for amounts within the \r\n                                              financial limits determined by the \r\n                                              Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Industries;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (n) to appoint agencies that shall \r\n                                              implement specific programmes in \r\n                                              the areas of finance, technology \r\n                                              and management development, define \r\n                                              their role and determine their \r\n                                              responsibilities and duties;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (o) to assign to the appropriate \r\n                                              agencies the implementation of \r\n                                              projects and programmes \r\n                                              commensurate with their terms of \r\n                                              reference and their ability to \r\n                                              implement such projects and \r\n                                              programmes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (p) to assist the implementing \r\n                                              agencies to improve their \r\n                                              capabilities and overcome their \r\n                                              weaknesses so as to provide better \r\n                                              service to the organised groups;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (q) to ensure that all assignments \r\n                                              delegated to the implementing \r\n                                              agencies are duly fulfilled;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (r) to ensure that all programmes \r\n                                              related to the development of \r\n                                              small-scale industries meet the \r\n                                              national objectives.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No other organisation shall \r\n                                              perform any of the functions \r\n                                              mentioned in subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section without prior \r\n                                              consultation with, and approval \r\n                                              of, the Board.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=5></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Executive and Deputy \r\n                                              Executive Directors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall have the \r\n                                              following officers who shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the President on the \r\n                                              advice of the Minister responsible \r\n                                              for Industries&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) an Executive Director; and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a Deputy Executive Director.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The terms and conditions of \r\n                                              employment of the Executive \r\n                                              Director and the Deputy Executive \r\n                                              Director shall be determined by \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Industries on the advice of the \r\n                                              Public Services Commission.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=6></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Functions of Executive \r\n                                              and Deputy Executive Directors.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Executive Director in \r\n                                              co-operation with the technical \r\n                                              staff of the Board and the \r\n                                              implementing agencies shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) execute all the functions of \r\n                                              the Board and any other functions \r\n                                              assigned to him by the Board;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) appoint the appropriate \r\n                                              implementing agencies to conduct \r\n                                              research and analyse statistical \r\n                                              information on local sources of \r\n                                              raw materials to be used in \r\n                                              substitution for imported inputs \r\n                                              and to establish the percentage of \r\n                                              the total cost representing \r\n                                              imported raw materials unavailable \r\n                                              locally;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) develop an effective export \r\n                                              promotion programme for \r\n                                              small-scale industries and \r\n                                              handicraft products;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) interpret Government policies \r\n                                              and programmes to interested \r\n                                              organisations, groups and \r\n                                              individuals;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) identify opportunities \r\n                                              possible for small-scale \r\n                                              industries in urban and rural \r\n                                              areas by contacting private and \r\n                                              public companies in Ghana and \r\n                                              identifying their requirements;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) assess present and future \r\n                                              manpower training requirements for \r\n                                              small-scale industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) identify constraints imposed \r\n                                              on small-scale industries \r\n                                              respecting high taxation, lack of \r\n                                              credit, lack of borrowing \r\n                                              facilities, high rates of interest \r\n                                              and conflicting government \r\n                                              policies for small-scale \r\n                                              industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (h) study and evaluate economic \r\n                                              opportunities in various fields of \r\n                                              small-scale industries and to \r\n                                              establish the needs and objectives \r\n                                              of organised groups at the \r\n                                              regional, district and village \r\n                                              levels;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              help establish and maintain data \r\n                                              bank of knowledge relating to \r\n                                              central, regional and district \r\n                                              policies, strategies, action plans \r\n                                              and programmes for the development \r\n                                              of economic opportunities that \r\n                                              contribute to or support \r\n                                              small-scale industrial \r\n                                              development;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (j) assess or help determine the \r\n                                              amounts of capital investment \r\n                                              required for machinery, equipment, \r\n                                              tools and the technical assistance \r\n                                              required to support small-scale \r\n                                              industries in co-operation with \r\n                                              the appropriate technology \r\n                                              institutes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) assess the level of \r\n                                              technology, the skills of the \r\n                                              technicians, the productive \r\n                                              capacity of machines, the proper \r\n                                              use of equipment and tools, the \r\n                                              maximum utilization of existing \r\n                                              method of production for \r\n                                              small-scale industrialists who \r\n                                              have sought the help of the Board;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l) evaluate the present \r\n                                              productivity of small-scale \r\n                                              industries and devise, with the \r\n                                              co-operation of existing technical \r\n                                              research institutes ways and means \r\n                                              to increase productivity; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (m) report and recommend to the \r\n                                              Board all actions taken in \r\n                                              exercise of the foregoing \r\n                                              functions.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Deputy Executive Director \r\n                                              shall assist the Executive \r\n                                              Director in the performance of his \r\n                                              functions under this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=7></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Staff of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Board shall employ such \r\n                                              officers and employees as it may \r\n                                              reasonably require for the \r\n                                              efficient discharge of its \r\n                                              functions, subject to such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as may be \r\n                                              determined by the Board.</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                                              <a name=8></a>\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Regulation of Business.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Meetings of the Board shall be \r\n                                              convened by the Chairman or by not \r\n                                              less than four members of the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At every meeting of the Board \r\n                                              the Chairman of the&nbsp; Board shall \r\n                                              preside and in his absence a \r\n                                              member chosen for that purpose by \r\n                                              a majority of members present \r\n                                              shall preside.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The quorum of the Board shall \r\n                                              be four.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) Subject to subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section the Board shall \r\n                                              regulate its own procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Board shall meet at least \r\n                                              once every quarter.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=9></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Validity of Proceedings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The proceedings of the Board shall \r\n                                              not be invalidated by any vacancy \r\n                                              in the membership of the Board or \r\n                                              any defect in the appointment or \r\n                                              qualification of any member.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=10></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Funds.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              include&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any grants received from the \r\n                                              Government by the Board for the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any loans granted to the Board \r\n                                              by the Government;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) any grants received from the \r\n                                              United Nations Organisation, any \r\n                                              international organisation or \r\n                                              other foreign sources;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) any moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Board in the course of the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \r\n                                              this Act; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) gifts.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All sums of money received on \r\n                                              account of the Board may be paid \r\n                                              into such banks as may be approved \r\n                                              by the Board for the credit of the \r\n                                              Board''s general current or deposit \r\n                                              account, so however, that the \r\n                                              Board may invest as it deems fit \r\n                                              any moneys not required for \r\n                                              current use.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=11></a>\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Accounts and Audit.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) cause proper Book of accounts \r\n                                              and other records in relation \r\n                                              thereto 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                                              (b) prepare an annual statement of \r\n                                              accounts in such form and \r\n                                              containing such particulars as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may from time to \r\n                                              time direct, or as may be required \r\n                                              to satisfy its undertakings or \r\n                                              engagements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Accounts of the Board \r\n                                              shall be audited annually by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General, who shall make a \r\n                                              report thereon to the Government.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=12></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall annually, not \r\n                                              later than six months after the \r\n                                              end of its financial year, prepare \r\n                                              and submit through the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Industries to the \r\n                                              Government, a report on its \r\n                                              activities during the preceding \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The financial year of the \r\n                                              Board shall be the same as that of \r\n                                              the Government.</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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=13></a>\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Minister responsible \r\n                                              for Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of this \r\n                                              Act the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Industries shall be responsible \r\n                                              for the Board.</span>', 'THIRD', 'Yes', 'ACT 434');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(7, 'SUGAR INDUSTRY BOARD ACT, 1981 (ACT 432)', '   <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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                                              SUGAR INDUSTRY BOARD ACT, 1981 \r\n                                              (ACT 432)</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=1>1. Establishment of Sugar Industry \r\n                                              Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=2>2. Membership of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=3>3. Qualifications and \r\n                                              Disqualifications of Members of \r\n                                              Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=4>4. Functions of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=5>5. Other Functions of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=6>6. Executive Secretary and Staff \r\n                                              of Board.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=7>7. Regulations of Business.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=8>8. Validity of Proceedings. </a></span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=9> 9. Funds.</a> </span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=10>10. Accounts and Audit.</a> </span>\r\n\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=11>11. Annual Report.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=12>12. Repeal.</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b><img border="0" src="coatofarms_small.jpg" width="108" height="89"></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n\r\n                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE SUGAR INDUSTRY BOARD ACT, \r\n                                              1981(ACT 432).</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to provide for the \r\n                                              establishment of the Sugar \r\n                                              Industry Board and for other \r\n                                              matters connected therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 28th May, 1981</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by Parliament as \r\n                                              follows&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Establishment of Sugar \r\n                                              Industry Board.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There is established a body to be \r\n                                              known as the Sugar Industry Board \r\n                                              in this Act referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              Board&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=2></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Membership of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall consist&nbsp; of \r\n                                              the following persons who shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the Cabinet&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Industries;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a representative of the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for \r\n                                              Agriculture;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a representative of the \r\n                                              Agricultural Development Bank;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a representative of the Ghana \r\n                                              Sugar Estates Limited, Accra;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) two representatives of the \r\n                                              Ghana Sugar-Cane Planters \r\n                                              Associations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (f) a representative of the Crop \r\n                                              Research Institute; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) two other members.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chairman of the Board \r\n                                              shall be appointed by the \r\n                                              President from among the members \r\n                                              specified in subsection (1)&nbsp; of \r\n                                              this section.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman and the other \r\n                                              members of the Board shall be \r\n                                              eligible for reappointment but \r\n                                              subject to the foregoing, shall \r\n                                              hold office otherwise on such \r\n                                              terms and conditions as the \r\n                                              Government may determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Board may, at any time, \r\n                                              co-opt any person as an adviser to \r\n                                              attend any of its meetings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Qualifications and \r\n                                              Disqualifications of Members of \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  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&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) is not a citizen of Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) has been adjudged or otherwise \r\n                                              declared&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              a bankrupt under any law in force \r\n                                              in Ghana and has not been \r\n                                              discharged;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) to be of unsound mind; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) is detained as a criminal \r\n                                              lunatic under any law for the time \r\n                                              being in force in Ghana; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) has been convicted&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              for high crime under the \r\n                                              Constitution or for treason or for \r\n                                              an offence involving the security \r\n                                              of the State, fraud, dishonesty or \r\n                                              moral turpitude; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) for any other offence on \r\n                                              indictment; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) has been found by the report \r\n                                              of a commission or a committee of \r\n                                              inquiry to be incompetent to hold \r\n                                              public office or in respect of \r\n                                              whom a commission or committee of \r\n                                              inquiry has found that while being \r\n                                              a public officer he acquired \r\n                                              assets unlawfully or defrauded the \r\n                                              State or misused or abused his \r\n                                              office or wilfully acted in a \r\n                                              manner prejudicial to the&nbsp; \r\n                                              interests of the State, and such \r\n                                              findings have not been set aside \r\n                                              on appeal or judicial review; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) has had his property \r\n                                              confiscated as the result of the \r\n                                              findings of a commission or \r\n                                              committee of inquiry; and such \r\n                                              findings have not been set aside \r\n                                              on appeal or judicial review; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (g) is under sentence of death or \r\n                                              other sentence of imprisonment \r\n                                              imposed on him by any court; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) is otherwise disqualified by \r\n                                              any law for the time being in \r\n                                              force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) For the purpose of paragraph \r\n                                              (d) or (e) or (f) of subsection \r\n                                              (1) of this section if ten years \r\n                                              or more have elapsed since the end \r\n                                              of the sentence or the date of the \r\n                                              publication of the report of the \r\n                                              commission or committee of inquiry \r\n                                              or has been pardoned, that person \r\n                                              shall not be disqualified to be a \r\n                                              member of the Board by reason only \r\n                                              of the&nbsp; provisions of that \r\n                                              paragraph.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Without prejudice to \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section, \r\n                                              any member of the Board shall \r\n                                              cease to be a member if&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) by notice in writing under his \r\n                                              hand addressed to the President, \r\n                                              he resigns his office at any time;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) he is absent from three or \r\n                                              more consecutive meetings of the \r\n                                              Board without sufficient reason; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) he is removed by the President \r\n                                              on grounds of stated misconduct;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) in the case of a person \r\n                                              possessed of professional \r\n                                              qualifications, he is disqualified \r\n                                              or suspended, otherwise than at \r\n                                              his request, from practising his \r\n                                              profession in Ghana by order of \r\n                                              any competent authority made in \r\n                                              respect of him personally.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=4></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Functions of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              It shall be the duty of the Board \r\n                                              to monitor the sugar industry and \r\n                                              advise the Government on&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the price to be paid to \r\n                                              producers of sugar-cane, quality \r\n                                              grading and the system of premiums \r\n                                              and discounts to be adopted;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the price to be paid to \r\n                                              producers of sugar and its \r\n                                              by-products;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the importation of sugar-cane \r\n                                              from other countries for breeding \r\n                                              and multiplication purposes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the import and export of sugar \r\n                                              and the co-ordination of \r\n                                              production and distribution;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) the protection of the local \r\n                                              industry by means of duties, \r\n                                              levies, licensing and other \r\n                                              necessary measures;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the utilisation of by-products \r\n                                              of sugar-cane; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) any other matters affecting \r\n                                              the sugar industry.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=5></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Other Functions of \r\n                                              Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Without prejudice to section 4 of \r\n                                              this Act it shall also be the duty \r\n                                              of the Board&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to draw appropriate programmes \r\n                                              for the rapid development and \r\n                                              expansion of the local sugar \r\n                                              industry, and to review the \r\n                                              progress of implementation of the \r\n                                              programmes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to collect and analyse in \r\n                                              collaboration with other relevant \r\n                                              agencies of Government of \r\n                                              statistical data on the \r\n                                              importation, local production, \r\n                                              distribution and consumption of \r\n                                              sugar and related products in \r\n                                              Ghana;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to promote and co-ordinate \r\n                                              research activities into \r\n                                              sugar-cane growing, processing and \r\n                                              marketing;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) to promote, encourage and \r\n                                              co-ordinate extension services to \r\n                                              farmers including training of \r\n                                              sugar experts;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) to promote the development of \r\n                                              appropriate technologies suitable \r\n                                              for the production of sugar and \r\n                                              related products in Ghana;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) to provide management and \r\n                                              business advisory services to \r\n                                              Sugar-Cane Planters Association \r\n                                              and proprietors of sugar mills; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) to provide any other related \r\n                                              services and perform such other \r\n                                              functions as the Government may \r\n                                              from time to time assign to the \r\n                                              Board.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=6></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Executive Secretary and \r\n                                              Staff of Board.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall have an \r\n                                              Executive Secretary who shall be \r\n                                              appointed by the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Industries on the \r\n                                              advice of the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Executive Secretary shall \r\n                                              be the head of the Secretariat of \r\n                                              the Board and shall perform such \r\n                                              functions as the Board may \r\n                                              determine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The terms and conditions of \r\n                                              employment of the Executive \r\n                                              Secretary shall be determined by \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Industry.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Board shall employ such \r\n                                              persons as the Board may \r\n                                              reasonably require for the \r\n                                              efficient discharge of its \r\n                                              functions, subject to such terms \r\n                                              and conditions as may be \r\n                                              determined by the Board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                               <a name=7></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                             \r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Regulations of Business.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\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 place as the \r\n                                              Chairman may from time to time \r\n                                              appoint but, shall meet at least \r\n                                              once in every three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At every meeting of the Board \r\n                                              the Chairman of the Board shall \r\n                                              preside and in his absence a \r\n                                              member chosen for that purpose by \r\n                                              a majority of members present \r\n                                              shall preside.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Chairman shall upon a \r\n                                              request in writing brought by one \r\n                                              third of members of the Board \r\n                                              summon a special meeting of the \r\n                                              Board within fourteen days upon \r\n                                              the receipt of such requests.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The quorum of the Board shall \r\n                                              be five.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (5) Subject to subsections (1) and \r\n                                              (2) of this section the Board \r\n                                              shall regulate its own procedure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                               <a name=8></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Validity of Proceedings.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The proceedings of the Board shall \r\n                                              not be invalidated by any vacancy \r\n                                              in the membership of the Board or \r\n                                              by any defect in the appointment \r\n                                              or qualification of any member.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b> <a name=9></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Funds. </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The funds of the Board shall \r\n                                              include:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any grants received from the \r\n                                              Government by the Board for the \r\n                                              discharge of its functions;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any loans granted to the Board \r\n                                              by the Government;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any moneys accruing to the \r\n                                              Board in the course of the \r\n                                              performance of its functions under \r\n                                              this Act;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) gifts; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) funds from any other source.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All sums of money received on \r\n                                              account of the Board may be paid \r\n                                              into such banks as may be approved \r\n                                              by the Board for the credit of the \r\n                                              Board''s general current or deposit \r\n                                              account so however, that the Board \r\n                                              may invest as it deems fit any \r\n                                              moneys not required for current \r\n                                              use.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                               <a name=10></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Accounts and Audit.\r\n                                              </span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) cause proper accounts and \r\n                                              other records in relation thereto \r\n                                              to be kept;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) prepare an annual statement of \r\n                                              account in such form and \r\n                                              containing such particulars as the \r\n                                              Auditor-General may from time \r\n                                              direct, or as may be required to \r\n                                              satisfy its undertakings or \r\n                                              engagements.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Accounts of the Board \r\n                                              shall be audited annually by the \r\n                                              Auditor-General, who shall make \r\n                                              report thereon to the Government.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                               <a name=11></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Annual Report.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Board shall annually, not \r\n                                              later than six months after the \r\n                                              end of its financial year, prepare \r\n                                              and submit, through the Minister \r\n                                              responsible for Industries to the \r\n                                              Government, a report on its \r\n                                              activities during the preceding \r\n                                              year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The financial year of the \r\n                                              Board shall be the same as that of \r\n                                              the Government.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                               <a name=12></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Repeal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Sugar Industry Board Decree, \r\n                                              1973 (NRCD 232) is hereby \r\n                                              repealed.</span></p>\r\n', 'THIRD', 'Yes', 'ACT 432');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(8, 'THE APPROPRIATION ACT, 2008 ( ACT 748)', ' <p  align="right" style="text-align: right">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Act 748</b></font></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>THE SEVEN</b>\r\n                                              <b>HUNDRED AND FORTY- EIGHTH</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p  align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>ACT</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p  align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">OF THE \r\n                                              PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF \r\n                                              GHANA</font></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ENTITLED</font></p>\r\n                                              <p  align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>THE \r\n                                              APPROPRIATION ACT, 2008</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">AN ACT to \r\n                                              provide for the withdrawal of sums \r\n                                              of money necessary to meet \r\n                                              government expenditure for the \r\n                                              2008 Financial Year from the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund and from other \r\n                                              funds to provide for related \r\n                                              matters. </font></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>DATE OF \r\n                                              ASSENT: <i>15th January, 2008.</i></b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ENACTED by the \r\n                                              President and Parliament: </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Sum </b>of \r\n                                              money <b>to be issued from the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund </b>for 2008 <b>\r\n\r\n                                              Financial Year </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">1. Pursuant to \r\n                                              Article 179(2) <i>(a) </i>of the \r\n                                              Constitution a sum of money not \r\n                                              exceeding Seven Billion, One \r\n                                              Hundred and Seven Million, One \r\n                                              Hundred and Sixty-Three Thousand, \r\n                                              One Hundred and Thirty-five Ghana \r\n                                              Cedis <b>(GH¢7,107,163,135.00) </b>\r\n                                              shall be issued from the \r\n                                              Consolidated Fund during the \r\n                                              Financial Year commencing on the 1 \r\n                                              st day of January and ending on \r\n                                              the 31 st December, 2008 and shall \r\n                                              be appropriated for the purposes \r\n                                              specified in the First Schedule.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Internally \r\n                                              Generated Funds </b></font></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>2. </b>The \r\n                                              Ministries, Departments, and \r\n                                              Agencies listed in the first \r\n                                              column of the Second Schedule are \r\n                                              permitted to retain and use an \r\n                                              amount of Two Hundred and \r\n                                              Ninety-Nine Million, One Hundred \r\n                                              and Eighty-Four Thousand, Four \r\n                                              Hundred and Twenty-Seven Ghana \r\n                                              Cedis, Sixty-Seven Pesewas <b>(GH¢299,184,427.67)\r\n                                              </b>indicated in the second column \r\n                                              of the Second Schedule being a \r\n                                              part of the total amount specified \r\n                                              in section 1 of this Act during \r\n                                              the Financial Year, commencing on \r\n                                              the 1st day of January and ending \r\n                                              on the 31st day of December, 2008.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Highly \r\n                                              Indebted Poor Country Fund </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>3. </b>A sum \r\n                                              of money not exceeding One Hundred \r\n                                              and Twenty-Seven Million, Five \r\n                                              Hundred and Fifty­ one Thousand, \r\n                                              Seven Hundred and Twenty-Two Ghana \r\n                                              Cedis <b>(GH ¢ 127,551,722.00) </b>\r\n                                              of HIPC alloca­tion, being a part \r\n                                              of the expenditure specified in \r\n                                              this Act, shall b~ utilised during \r\n                                              the Financial Year commencing 1st \r\n                                              day of January and ending on 31st \r\n                                              day of December, 2008. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Multilateral \r\n                                              Debt </b>Relief Initiative </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>4. </b>A sum \r\n                                              of money not exceeding Fifty-five \r\n                                              Million, Six Hundred and \r\n                                              Thirty-One Thousand, Three Hundred \r\n                                              and Eight Ghana Cedis <b>(GH¢55,631,308.00)\r\n                                              </b>of Multilateral Debt Relief \r\n                                              Initiative, being a part of the \r\n                                              total amount specified in section \r\n                                              1 of this Act shall be utilised \r\n                                              during the Financial Year \r\n                                              commencing on 1st January and \r\n                                              ending on the 31st December, 2008.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Payment of \r\n                                              money</b> <b>on authorization of \r\n                                              Minister</b> <b>for Finance and \r\n                                              Economic Planning </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>5. </b>The \r\n                                              Controller and the \r\n                                              Accountant-General may, on a \r\n                                              warrant issued on the authority of \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance and Economic Planning, \r\n                                              payout of the Consolidated Fund \r\n                                              during the Financial Year ending \r\n                                              on the 31 st day of December, \r\n                                              2008, any sum not exceeding on the \r\n                                              whole the sum of Seven Billion, \r\n                                              One Hundred and Seven Million, One \r\n                                              Hundred and Sixty-Three Thousand \r\n                                              and One Hundred and Thirty-Five \r\n                                              Ghana Cedis <b>(GH¢7,107,163,135.00)\r\n                                              </b>referred to in section 1 of \r\n                                              this Act. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Commencement\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>6. </b>This \r\n                                              Act shall be deemed to have come \r\n                                              into force on 1st day of January, \r\n                                              2008. </font></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Repeal of \r\n                                              Act 725 </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p >\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>7. </b>The \r\n                                              Appropriation Act, 2006 (Act 725) \r\n                                              is hereby repealed. </font>', 'FOURTH', 'Yes', 'ACT 748');
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(9, 'ARCHITECTS DECREE, 1969 (NLCD 357)', '    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              ARCHITECTS DECREE, 1969 (NLCD 357)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              As amended </span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;THE ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION \r\n                                              COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1><u>1. Establishment of the Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#2><u>2. Incorporation of the Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#3><u>3. Membership of the Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#4><u>4. Term of office of members of \r\n                                              the Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#5><u>5. Functions of Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#6><u>6. Power of Council to make \r\n                                              Bye-laws</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#7><u>7. Officers of the Council</u></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#8><u>8. Funds of the Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#9><u>9. Meetings of the Council</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;QUALIFICATIONS AND \r\n                                              RESTRICTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#10><u>10. Qualifications</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#11><u>11. General disqualifications</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#12><u>12. Registration</u></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#13><u>13. Striking off and cancellation \r\n                                              of registration</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#14><u>14. Inquiries by disciplinary \r\n                                              Committees</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#15><u>15. Suspension</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#16><u>16. Appeals to the High Court</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#17><u>17. Meaning of &quot;professional \r\n                                              misconduct&quot;</u></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#18><u>18. Restriction as to the use of \r\n                                              titles conferred under this \r\n                                              Decree.</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#19><u>19. Offences and penalties</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#20><u>20. Improper use of terms implying \r\n                                              registration under this Decree.</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#21><u>21. Powers of personal \r\n                                              representative of deceased \r\n                                              Architect</u></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#22><u>22. Architects to have annual \r\n                                              practising certificates</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#23><u>23. Regulations</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#24><u>24. Amendment of schedules</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#25><u>25. Interpretation</u></a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#26><u>26. Commencement</u></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              First Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Second Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARCHITECTS DECREE, 1969</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              IN pursuance of the Proclamation \r\n                                              entitled &quot;Proclamation for the \r\n                                              constitution of a National \r\n                                              Liberation Council for the \r\n                                              administration of Ghana and for \r\n                                              other matters connected \r\n                                              therewith&quot;, published in Gazette \r\n                                              No. 11 of Monday, 28th February, \r\n                                              1966, this Decree is hereby made:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART I&#8212;THE ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION \r\n                                              COUNCIL</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 1&#8212;Establishment of the \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be established in \r\n                                              accordance with the provisions of \r\n                                              this Decree an Architects \r\n                                              Registration Council (in this \r\n                                              Decree referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              Council&quot;) to perform the functions \r\n                                              assigned to it by this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=2></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 2&#8212;Incorporation of the \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Council shall be a body \r\n                                              corporate having perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal and \r\n                                              may sue or be sued in its \r\n                                              corporate name.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council may hold, acquire \r\n                                              or dispose of any property, \r\n                                              movable or immovable for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Decree and may do \r\n                                              such things as appear to it to be \r\n                                              necessary for the performance of \r\n                                              its functions under this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) The common seal of the Council \r\n                                              shall be kept in such custody as \r\n                                              the Council may from time to time \r\n                                              determine, and shall not be \r\n                                              affixed to any document or \r\n                                              instrument except by order of the \r\n                                              Council, and in the presence of \r\n                                              two members of the Council who \r\n                                              shall sign any such document or \r\n                                              instrument independently of the \r\n                                              signatures of any person who may \r\n                                              have signed the document or \r\n                                              instrument as a witness.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=3></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 3&#8212;Membership of the \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Architects Registration \r\n                                              Council shall consist of 10 \r\n                                              members as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) one member nominated by the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for Works and \r\n                                              Housing or in the event of \r\n                                              separation, the Ministry \r\n                                              responsible for Works, and who \r\n                                              shall be a registered architect;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) five members nominated by the \r\n                                              Ghana Institute of Architects;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) one member nominated by the \r\n                                              Faculty of Architecture of \r\n                                              University of Science and \r\n                                              Technology;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) one member nominated by the \r\n                                              Academy of Science;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) a legal advisor nominated by \r\n                                              the Attorney-General; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the Registrar of the Council \r\n                                              nominated by the Ghana Institute \r\n                                              of Architects.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council shall elect a \r\n                                              registered architect as Chairman \r\n                                              from amongst its members.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=4></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 4&#8212;Term of Office of \r\n                                              Members of the Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every member of the Council \r\n                                              shall, unless he earlier vacates \r\n                                              his office, hold office for a \r\n                                              period of five years from the&nbsp; \r\n                                              date of his appointment.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A member of the Council shall \r\n                                              vacate his office by writing under \r\n                                              his hand addressed to the Chairman \r\n                                              of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In the event of death of, or \r\n                                              vacation of office by a member of \r\n                                              the Council, the body which \r\n                                              nominated him shall appoint \r\n                                              another person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) Any member of Council who \r\n                                              vacates office by effluxion of \r\n                                              time shall be eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment as a member.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=5></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 5&#8212;Functions of Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Council shall be concerned \r\n                                              with the architectural profession \r\n                                              and shall be charged with the \r\n                                              responsibility of securing the \r\n                                              highest practicable standards in \r\n                                              the practice of architecture in \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) It shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              Council&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) to prescribe or approve \r\n                                              courses of study for, and the \r\n                                              conduct and standards of \r\n                                              qualifying examinations for \r\n                                              registration as a registered \r\n                                              architect under this Decree;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to maintain and publish a \r\n                                              register of architects;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) to prescribe and uphold \r\n                                              standards of professional conduct \r\n                                              and ethics, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) to control the practice of \r\n                                              architecture.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=6></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 6&#8212;Power of Council to \r\n                                              make Bye-Laws.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The Council may from time to time \r\n                                              make bye-laws for all or any of \r\n                                              the following purposes:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) for the management and duties \r\n                                              of the Council, the holding of \r\n                                              meetings by the Council, and the \r\n                                              issue of notices calling such \r\n                                              meetings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) for the duties of officers of \r\n                                              the Council;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) for the appointment of \r\n                                              committees and the powers, duties \r\n                                              and proceedings of such \r\n                                              committees;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) for the administration, \r\n                                              investment and expenditure of the \r\n                                              property and funds of the Council \r\n                                              from whatever source and for \r\n                                              whatever purposes received;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) for the definition of \r\n                                              unprofessional conduct and for \r\n                                              determining the mode of inquiry \r\n                                              into and the method of dealing \r\n                                              with such conduct and the \r\n                                              penalties which may be imposed \r\n                                              upon any member found guilty of \r\n                                              such conduct;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) for the scale of fees to be \r\n                                              charged by architects for \r\n                                              professional advice, services \r\n                                              rendered and work done;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) for the fees to be paid for \r\n                                              initial and annual registration;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) for prescribing the procedure \r\n                                              to be followed by persons applying \r\n                                              for registration, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              for instructions and orders \r\n                                              conducive to the maintenance and \r\n                                              improvement of the status of \r\n                                              architects in Ghana.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=7></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Paragraph 7&#8212;Officers of the \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Council may appoint a \r\n                                              secretary and such other officers \r\n                                              and employees as it may deem \r\n                                              necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=8></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Paragraph 8&#8212;Funds of the Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Council shall establish \r\n                                              and maintain a fund under its \r\n                                              management and control into which \r\n                                              shall be paid all moneys received \r\n                                              by the Council by way of \r\n                                              grants-in-aid from the Government \r\n                                              or otherwise, and out of which \r\n                                              shall be met all expenses and \r\n                                              liabilities incurred by the \r\n                                              Council in carrying out its \r\n                                              functions under this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council may invest moneys \r\n                                              in the fund in any securities of \r\n                                              the Government or in any other \r\n                                              securities approved by the \r\n                                              Council.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Council may from time to \r\n                                              time borrow money for the purposes \r\n                                              of the Council and may pay \r\n                                              interest thereon out of the funds \r\n                                              of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The annual accounts of the \r\n                                              Council shall be subject to audit \r\n                                              by a chartered accountant who \r\n                                              shall be appointed by the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (5) The accounts for the preceding \r\n                                              year as audited shall be approved \r\n                                              by the members at the annual \r\n                                              general meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=9></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 9&#8212;Meetings of the \r\n                                              Council.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The Council shall meet at such \r\n                                              times and place as it may agree, \r\n                                              provided that the intervals \r\n                                              between meetings shall not exceed \r\n                                              three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Six members of the Council \r\n                                              shall form a quorum at any meeting \r\n                                              of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Seven days notice of a meeting \r\n                                              of the Council, or not less than \r\n                                              twenty-four hours in the case of \r\n                                              emergency, shall be delivered or \r\n                                              sent by the Secretary to each \r\n                                              member of the Council; such notice \r\n                                              to state the place, the day and \r\n                                              the hour of the meeting and in \r\n                                              case of special business, the \r\n                                              general nature of the business.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Accidental omission to send or \r\n                                              non-receipt of notice referred to \r\n                                              in sub-paragraph (3) of this \r\n                                              paragraph by any member shall not \r\n                                              invalidate the proceedings of any \r\n                                              meeting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The Chairman or two members of \r\n                                              the Council may require the \r\n                                              Secretary at the time to summon a \r\n                                              meeting of the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (6)&nbsp; In the absence of the \r\n                                              Chairman from any meeting of the \r\n                                              Council the members present shall \r\n                                              elect one of their members to act \r\n                                              as Chairman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Questions arising at any \r\n                                              meeting of the Council shall be \r\n                                              determined by the simple majority \r\n                                              of votes cast and in the case of \r\n                                              equality of votes, the Chairman \r\n                                              shall have a second or casting \r\n                                              vote.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Decree, the Chairman at any \r\n                                              meeting of the Council may, with \r\n                                              the consent of the members \r\n                                              present, adjourn the meeting from \r\n                                              time to time or place to place, \r\n                                              but no business shall be \r\n                                              transacted at any adjourned \r\n                                              meeting other than the business \r\n                                              left unfinished at the meeting \r\n                                              from which the adjournment took \r\n                                              place.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) No notice may be given of an \r\n                                              adjourned meeting unless it is so \r\n                                              directed in the resolution for the \r\n                                              adjournment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) Proper minutes shall be \r\n                                              recorded of all resolutions and \r\n                                              proceedings of meetings of the \r\n                                              Council and of any committees \r\n                                              thereof; and every minute signed \r\n                                              by the Chairman of the meeting to \r\n                                              which it relates, shall be \r\n                                              conclusive evidence of the facts \r\n                                              therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              PART II&#8212;QUALIFICATIONS AND \r\n                                              RESTRICTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=10></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 10&#8212;Qualifications.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph 11 of this Decree, any \r\n                                              person is entitled to be \r\n                                              registered as an architect on \r\n                                              payment of the prescribed fee, if \r\n                                              he is a member of the Ghana \r\n                                              Institute of Architects and is&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a person who has passed the \r\n                                              qualifying examinations of the \r\n                                              courses prescribed or approved by \r\n                                              the Council under this Decree, and \r\n                                              completes practical training of \r\n                                              such description and for such \r\n                                              period as may be prescribed by the \r\n                                              Council; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a person who has passed the \r\n                                              qualifying examinations of any \r\n                                              society or institute of architects \r\n                                              by whatever name called, approved \r\n                                              by the Council as being in the \r\n                                              opinion of the Council an \r\n                                              association of equivalent status \r\n                                              to the Ghana Institute of \r\n                                              Architects; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a person who was a member of \r\n                                              the Ghana Institute of Architects \r\n                                              immediately before the \r\n                                              commencement of this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=11></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 11&#8212;General \r\n                                              Disqualifications.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be registered \r\n                                              as an architect,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) unless he has&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              become resident in Ghana,</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) attained the age of \r\n                                              twenty-one years, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) paid the prescribed fees; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) if he has been&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              adjudged by a court of competent \r\n                                              jurisdiction to be of unsound \r\n                                              mind;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) convicted by a court of \r\n                                              competent jurisdiction, whether in \r\n                                              Ghana or elsewhere, of any offence \r\n                                              involving fraud or dishonesty; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if, having been adjudged an \r\n                                              insolvent or bankrupt, has not \r\n                                              been granted by a court of \r\n                                              competent jurisdiction, a \r\n                                              certificate to the effect that his \r\n                                              insolvency or bankruptcy has risen \r\n                                              wholly or partly from unavoidable \r\n                                              losses or misfortunes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              this paragraph a non-resident \r\n                                              being otherwise qualified may make \r\n                                              a special application for \r\n                                              temporary registration for the \r\n                                              purposes of executing a specific \r\n                                              project.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=12></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Paragraph 12&#8212;Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Council shall keep a register \r\n                                              of architects in which the name of \r\n                                              every person immediately on his \r\n                                              being accepted for registration by \r\n                                              the Council, shall be registered \r\n                                              showing against his name such \r\n                                              particulars as the Council from \r\n                                              time to time deem necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=13></a>\r\n\r\n                                              Paragraph 13&#8212;Striking off and \r\n                                              Cancellation of Registration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph 14 of this Decree, the \r\n                                              Council may strike off the \r\n                                              register of architects the name of \r\n                                              an architect if satisfied that he \r\n                                              is unfit to practise the \r\n                                              profession of architecture by \r\n                                              reason that he has been guilty of \r\n                                              professional misconduct or has \r\n                                              become subject to any \r\n                                              disqualification mentioned in \r\n                                              sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of \r\n                                              paragraph 11 of this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Council may strike off the \r\n                                              register of architects the name of \r\n                                              an architect if the prescribed \r\n                                              fees remain unpaid for a period \r\n                                              exceeding six months.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A person whose name has been \r\n                                              struck off the register of \r\n                                              architects under sub-paragraph (1) \r\n                                              of this paragraph may have his \r\n                                              name restored if the Council is \r\n                                              satisfied that he has become \r\n                                              subsequently a fit and proper \r\n                                              person to practise the profession \r\n                                              of architecture, on the settlement \r\n                                              of such penalties which may be \r\n                                              decided by the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=14></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 14&#8212;Inquiries by \r\n                                              Disciplinary Committees.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The name of a person shall not \r\n                                              be struck off the register unless \r\n                                              a disciplinary committee has, \r\n                                              after due inquiry, made a report \r\n                                              to the Council that the person \r\n                                              concerned has been guilty of \r\n                                              professional misconduct or is \r\n                                              otherwise disqualified under the \r\n                                              provisions of paragraph 11 of this \r\n                                              Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the Council has \r\n                                              reasonable cause to believe, \r\n                                              whether upon complaint made to it \r\n                                              or otherwise, that any person who \r\n                                              is a registered architect has been \r\n                                              guilty of professional misconduct, \r\n                                              the Council may appoint a \r\n                                              disciplinary committee for the \r\n                                              purpose of holding an inquiry into \r\n                                              the conduct of that person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The provisions of the First \r\n                                              Schedule to this Decree shall \r\n                                              apply in relation to the \r\n                                              constitution of, and the procedure \r\n                                              to be followed by, disciplinary \r\n                                              committees appointed under this \r\n                                              paragraph, the proceedings at \r\n                                              inquiries held by such committees \r\n                                              and the powers exercisable by such \r\n                                              committees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=15></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 15&#8212;Suspension.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Council may, in lieu of \r\n                                              exercising its powers under \r\n                                              paragraph 13 of this Decree, \r\n                                              suspend the person concerned from \r\n                                              membership of the Institute for \r\n                                              such period as the Council may \r\n                                              deem fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=16></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 16&#8212;Appeals to the High \r\n                                              Court.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person aggrieved by a \r\n                                              decision of the Council under \r\n                                              paragraph 11 or paragraph 13 or \r\n                                              paragraph 15 of this Decree may \r\n                                              appeal against that decision to \r\n                                              the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every appeal under \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) of this \r\n                                              paragraph against a decision shall \r\n                                              be&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) made by petition, in writing, \r\n                                              bearing a stamp of N¢2.10;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) lodged within three months \r\n                                              after the date of that decision; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) heard and decided by a Judge \r\n                                              of the High Court after such \r\n                                              summary inquiry as that Judge may \r\n                                              deem requisite.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=17></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 17&#8212;Meaning of \r\n                                              &quot;Professional Misconduct&quot;.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For the purposes of this Decree, \r\n                                              &quot;professional misconduct&quot; means \r\n                                              any act or omission which is for \r\n                                              the time being specified in the \r\n                                              Second Schedule to this Decree.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=18></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 18&#8212;Restriction as to the \r\n                                              use of Titles Conferred under this \r\n                                              Decree.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person whose name is not \r\n                                              for the time being entered in the \r\n                                              Register of Architects may take or \r\n                                              use the title of &quot;Architect&quot;, or \r\n                                              practise under any name, title or \r\n                                              style containing the word \r\n                                              &quot;Architect&quot;, &quot;Architecture&quot;, and \r\n                                              &quot;Architectural&quot;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding anything \r\n                                              contained in sub-paragraph (1) of \r\n                                              this paragraph any firm of \r\n                                              architects, one of the partners of \r\n                                              which is a registered architect \r\n                                              may take and use the title \r\n                                              &quot;Architects&quot; or practise under any \r\n                                              name, title or style containing \r\n                                              the word &quot;Architects&quot;, \r\n                                              &quot;Architecture&quot;, or \r\n                                              &quot;Architectural&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART III&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=19></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 19&#8212;Offences and \r\n                                              Penalties.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who contravenes any \r\n                                              provision of this Decree, commits \r\n                                              an offence and shall be liable to \r\n                                              a fine not exceeding two hundred \r\n                                              new cedis, or to imprisonment for \r\n                                              a term not exceeding one year or \r\n                                              to both such fine and \r\n                                              imprisonment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=20></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 20&#8212;Improper use of Terms \r\n                                              Implying Registration under this \r\n                                              Decree.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to paragraph 18, \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (2) of this \r\n                                              paragraph and to paragraph 22 of \r\n                                              this Decree, every person commits \r\n                                              an offence, who being a person \r\n                                              carrying on business in Ghana and \r\n                                              not being an architect registered \r\n                                              under this Decree, uses or causes \r\n                                              or permits to be used in \r\n                                              connection with his name under \r\n                                              which he carries on business the \r\n                                              word &quot;architect&quot;, or \r\n                                              &quot;architecture&quot;, or &quot;architectural&quot; \r\n                                              or any words, initials, or \r\n                                              abbreviation of words intended to \r\n                                              cause or which may reasonably \r\n                                              cause any person to believe that \r\n                                              the person using the same is an \r\n                                              architect.[As amended by the \r\n                                              Architects (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1972 (NRCD 75), s(a)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) \r\n                                              of this paragraph shall apply to \r\n                                              the use of the term &quot;naval \r\n                                              architect&quot; or the term &quot;landscape \r\n                                              architect&quot; by any person in \r\n                                              connection with the profession or \r\n                                              calling so described.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=21></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 21&#8212;Powers of Personal \r\n                                              Representative of Deceased \r\n                                              Architect.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Notwithstanding any provision \r\n                                              of this Decree, on the death \r\n                                              (whether before or after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Decree) of \r\n                                              any architect who was at the time \r\n                                              of his death actually carrying on \r\n                                              practice as an architect, it shall \r\n                                              be lawful for his personal \r\n                                              representative (with a view to the \r\n                                              disposal of goodwill) to continue \r\n                                              the practice under the management \r\n                                              of a registered architect for not \r\n                                              more than five (5) years from the \r\n                                              date of death.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The personal representative \r\n                                              shall keep the Council informed of \r\n                                              the registered architect who is \r\n                                              managing such practice.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The Council shall keep a \r\n                                              register of the practices of \r\n                                              deceased architects in which shall \r\n                                              be recorded the names of the \r\n                                              managers of those practices.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=22></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 22&#8212;Architects to have \r\n                                              Annual Practising Certificates.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No registered architect shall \r\n                                              be entitled to practise as an \r\n                                              architect unless he is a holder of \r\n                                              an Annual Practising Certificate \r\n                                              which is for the time being in \r\n                                              force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) A practising certificate shall \r\n                                              be issued by the Council upon \r\n                                              application to it by a registered \r\n                                              architect and upon payment of the \r\n                                              prescribed annual fee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every certificate to practise \r\n                                              shall be valid until the 31st day \r\n                                              of December of the year of issue \r\n                                              of that certificate, and may from \r\n                                              time to time be renewed upon \r\n                                              payment of the prescribed annual \r\n                                              subscription, provided that if at \r\n                                              any time during the currency of \r\n                                              any such certificate, the holder \r\n                                              thereof ceases to be registered \r\n                                              under this Decree or has his \r\n                                              registration suspended, the \r\n                                              certificate shall cease to be \r\n                                              valid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every person who practises or \r\n                                              undertakes to practise in breach \r\n                                              of this paragraph, commits an \r\n                                              offence and shall, upon summary \r\n                                              conviction, be liable to a fine \r\n                                              not exceeding ten new cedis \r\n                                              (N¢10.00) for every day that the \r\n                                              offence continues.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=23></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 23&#8212;Regulations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Ministry may, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument, upon the \r\n                                              recommendations of the Council, \r\n                                              make Regulations for or in respect \r\n                                              of any matter relating to or \r\n                                              connected with the functions of \r\n                                              the Council under this Decree or \r\n                                              the proper exercise, discharge or \r\n                                              performance thereof.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=24></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 24&#8212;Amendment of \r\n                                              Schedules.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Ministry may, upon the \r\n                                              recommendation of the Council, by \r\n                                              legislative instrument, amend, \r\n                                              alter or add to or revoke any or \r\n                                              all of the provisions of the \r\n                                              Schedules of this Decree.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=25></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 25&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Decree unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Council&quot; means the Architects \r\n                                              Registration Council established \r\n                                              under paragraph 1 of this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Ministry&quot; means the Ministry \r\n                                              responsible for Works and Housing, \r\n                                              or in the event of separation, the \r\n                                              Ministry of Works.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;Chairman&quot; means the Chairman of \r\n                                              the Council.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=26></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Paragraph 26&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Decree shall come into force \r\n                                              on a day to be appointed by the \r\n                                              Commissioner responsible for Works \r\n                                              and Housing, by legislative \r\n                                              instrument.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (Paragraph 14)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; For the purposes of any \r\n                                              inquiry to be held under paragraph \r\n                                              14 of the Decree, the Council \r\n                                              shall appoint six persons, \r\n                                              including the Chairman, the Legal \r\n                                              Advisor and the Secretary from \r\n                                              among its members, to constitute a \r\n                                              disciplinary committee and shall \r\n                                              appoint one of them to be Chairman \r\n                                              of the committee.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. (1) The Council shall cause a \r\n                                              statement to be prepared setting \r\n                                              out the charges to be investigated \r\n                                              by the disciplinary committee, and \r\n                                              the Secretary of the Council shall \r\n                                              transmit a copy of the statement \r\n                                              to each member of the committee \r\n                                              and to the person whose conduct is \r\n                                              the subject of the investigation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the inquiry is to be \r\n                                              held in consequence of a petition \r\n                                              or complaint by any person \r\n                                              alleging misconduct, the Secretary \r\n                                              of the Council shall, in addition \r\n                                              to the said statement transmit a \r\n                                              copy of that petition or complaint \r\n                                              to each of the members of the \r\n                                              disciplinary committee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              3. (1) The Secretary of the \r\n                                              Council shall give notice of the \r\n                                              first date fixed for the inquiry \r\n                                              to the person whose conduct is the \r\n                                              subject of the investigation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every such notice shall, at \r\n                                              least fourteen days before the \r\n                                              date fixed for the inquiry, be \r\n                                              delivered by hand at, or sent \r\n                                              through the post by registered \r\n                                              letter addressed to, the last \r\n                                              known address of that person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any person to whom a \r\n                                              notice has been given under \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) of this \r\n                                              paragraph fails to appear in \r\n                                              person or is not represented by \r\n                                              counsel, the inquiry may be held \r\n                                              by the disciplinary committee in \r\n                                              his absence.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Notice of any date to which \r\n                                              the inquiry may be adjourned shall \r\n                                              be given by the Chairman of the \r\n                                              committee personally to the person \r\n                                              whose conduct is the subject of \r\n                                              inquiry or be given in manner \r\n                                              provided in sub-paragraph (2) of \r\n                                              this paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; (1) If the Council is of the \r\n                                              opinion that the evidence of any \r\n                                              person, or the production by any \r\n                                              person of any document is \r\n                                              necessary to enable any matter to \r\n                                              be investigated by a disciplinary \r\n                                              committee, the Council shall \r\n                                              direct the secretary of the \r\n                                              Council to require the attendance \r\n                                              of that person, or the production \r\n                                              by that person of such document, \r\n                                              at such time and place as may be \r\n                                              specified in a notice which shall \r\n                                              be delivered by hand at, or sent \r\n                                              through the post by registered \r\n                                              letter addressed to, the last \r\n                                              known place of residence of that \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who having been \r\n                                              served with a notice under \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (1) of this \r\n                                              paragraph fails, without \r\n                                              reasonable cause, to attend or to \r\n                                              produce any document, as the case \r\n                                              may be, at the time and place \r\n                                              specified in the notice, commits \r\n                                              an offence under this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The secretary of the Council \r\n                                              shall be the secretary of every \r\n                                              disciplinary committee and every \r\n                                              notice issued under this Schedule \r\n                                              shall be signed by him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A disciplinary committee shall \r\n                                              have power to administer oaths or \r\n                                              affirmations to all persons who \r\n                                              are required to give evidence \r\n                                              before it, and any person who \r\n                                              refuses to be sworn or affirmed, \r\n                                              or to answer such questions as may \r\n                                              be put to him concerning any \r\n                                              matter in respect of which the \r\n                                              inquiry is held, commits an \r\n                                              offence under this Decree.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any person who, upon \r\n                                              examination, upon oath or \r\n                                              affirmation before a disciplinary \r\n                                              committee wilfully gives false \r\n                                              evidence commits an offence under \r\n                                              this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any person whose conduct is \r\n                                              the subject of the investigation \r\n                                              at an inquiry or who is in anyway \r\n                                              concerned or implicated in such \r\n                                              inquiry may be represented by \r\n                                              counsel at the inquiry.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (7) The Council may engage any \r\n                                              legal practitioner to assist the \r\n                                              disciplinary committee as to the \r\n                                              leading and taking of evidence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Every inquiry held by a \r\n                                              disciplinary committee shall, \r\n                                              unless the Council otherwise \r\n                                              determines, in any case be held in \r\n                                              camera.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) Any question before a \r\n                                              disciplinary committee shall be \r\n                                              determined by the decision of the \r\n                                              majority of the members of that \r\n                                              committee, and in the event of \r\n                                              equality of votes the Chairman \r\n                                              shall have a second or casting \r\n                                              vote.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) Upon conclusion of an \r\n                                              inquiry, the disciplinary \r\n                                              committee shall prepare and \r\n                                              transmit to the Council a report \r\n                                              embodying the findings on the \r\n                                              matters in respect of which the \r\n                                              inquiry was held.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (Paragraph 17)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1. Each of the following acts on \r\n                                              the part of an architect shall \r\n                                              constitute professional \r\n                                              misconduct, namely:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) allowing any other person to \r\n                                              practise in his name as an \r\n                                              architect unless such person is \r\n                                              also an architect and is in \r\n                                              partnership with or employed by \r\n                                              him;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) securing either through the \r\n                                              services of a person not qualified \r\n                                              to be an architect, or by means \r\n                                              which are not open to an \r\n                                              architect, any professional \r\n                                              business;[As amended by the \r\n                                              Architects (Amendment) Decree, \r\n                                              1972 (NRCD 75), s. (b)].</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) entering into partnership in \r\n                                              any Limited Liability Company.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              2. Each of the following acts or \r\n                                              omissions on the part of an \r\n                                              architect shall constitute \r\n                                              professional misconduct, namely:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) holding or assuming or \r\n                                              consciously accepting a position \r\n                                              in which the interest of the \r\n                                              architect is in conflict with his \r\n                                              professional duty;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) accepting any remuneration \r\n                                              other than professional fees or \r\n                                              salary payable by his employer, \r\n                                              from any source in connection with \r\n                                              the works and duties entrusted to \r\n                                              him;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) failing to uphold and apply \r\n                                              the Scale of Professional Charges \r\n                                              of the Institute;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) accepting any work involving \r\n                                              the giving or receiving of \r\n                                              discounts or commissions, or \r\n                                              accepting any discount, gift or \r\n                                              commission from contractors or \r\n                                              tradesmen whether employed on his \r\n                                              works or not;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) accepting any remuneration \r\n                                              other than fees, salary or royalty \r\n                                              for acting as architectural \r\n                                              consultant, or assistant to an \r\n                                              architectural consultant, or \r\n                                              soliciting orders for building \r\n                                              contractors, decorators, \r\n                                              manufacturers, estate agents, \r\n                                              development firms or companies or \r\n                                              firms or companies trading in \r\n                                              materials used in or whose \r\n                                              activities are otherwise connected \r\n                                              with the building industry;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) allowing his name and affix to \r\n                                              appear on the notepaper of such \r\n                                              firms or companies described in \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (e) of this \r\n                                              paragraph other than in connection \r\n                                              with his professional services;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (g) acting in a professional \r\n                                              capacity, when engaged as an \r\n                                              architectural consultant, advisor \r\n                                              or assistant to such firms and \r\n                                              companies described in \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (e) of this \r\n                                              paragraph for a third party to \r\n                                              whom his principals owe a \r\n                                              contractual duty, unless all \r\n                                              parties agree that he may act as \r\n                                              an independent architect on direct \r\n                                              instructions of the said third \r\n                                              party and provided that he \r\n                                              receives payment of fees direct;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (h) acting as a director in any \r\n                                              firm or company carrying on \r\n                                              business as auctioneers, house and \r\n                                              estate agents or trading in \r\n                                              materials used in or whose \r\n                                              activities are otherwise connected \r\n                                              with the building industry or \r\n                                              trading in land or buildings for \r\n                                              profit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              allowing his professional affix to \r\n                                              appear on the notepaper of any \r\n                                              firm or company of which he is a \r\n                                              director and from which he is \r\n                                              prohibited by sub-paragraph (h) of \r\n                                              this paragraph;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (j) carrying on or acting as \r\n                                              principal; partner or manager of \r\n                                              any firm carrying on any of the \r\n                                              trades or businesses specified in \r\n                                              sub-paragraph (h) of this \r\n                                              paragraph;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (k) advertising or offering his \r\n                                              professional services to any \r\n                                              person or body corporate by means \r\n                                              of circulars or otherwise, or \r\n                                              making paid announcements in the \r\n                                              Press except when:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              applying to prospective employers \r\n                                              for a salaried appointment;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) advertising a professional \r\n                                              appointment open or wanted, \r\n                                              directed only to members of the \r\n                                              profession concerned;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) responding to an \r\n                                              advertisement addressed to members \r\n                                              of the profession inviting them to \r\n                                              submit their names for inclusion \r\n                                              in a panel or list of architects, \r\n                                              provided his response does not \r\n                                              contravene any clause in the Code \r\n                                              of Professional Conduct for the \r\n                                              time-being in force;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) notifying the architectural \r\n                                              professional Press once of change \r\n                                              of address, and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (v) notifying his correspondents \r\n                                              by post, once, of any change of \r\n                                              address;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (l) giving monetary considerations \r\n                                              for illustrations and descriptions \r\n                                              of his work to be published in the \r\n                                              press or allowing such \r\n                                              publications to be used by the \r\n                                              publishers for extorting \r\n                                              advertisement from contributors, \r\n                                              or for attempting to distribute \r\n                                              the publications to potential \r\n                                              clients;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (m) exhibiting his name or \r\n                                              signature to his buildings, \r\n                                              outside his office, or on \r\n                                              buildings in the course of \r\n                                              construction, alteration or \r\n                                              extension, in an ostentatious \r\n                                              manner or in lettering exceeding 2 \r\n                                              ft. in height;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (n) attempting to supplant another \r\n                                              architect, or competing with \r\n                                              another architect by means of a \r\n                                              reduction of fees or other \r\n                                              inducements;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (o) failing to notify another \r\n                                              architect when approached or \r\n                                              instructed to proceed with \r\n                                              professional work upon which the \r\n                                              architect was previously employed;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (p) when employed as a salaried \r\n                                              and official architect by a \r\n                                              central or local government \r\n                                              department or statutory body, and \r\n                                              by reason of his office he is in a \r\n                                              position to grant or influence the \r\n                                              granting of any form of statutory \r\n                                              approval, he undertakes private \r\n                                              work, notwithstanding any \r\n                                              permission from his employers to \r\n                                              do so, unless he is satisfied that \r\n                                              his position and action in the \r\n                                              matter will be free from any \r\n                                              suspicion or suggestion of abuse;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (q) failing to act in an impartial \r\n                                              manner in all cases of dispute \r\n                                              between building owner and \r\n                                              contractor;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (r) permitting the insertion in \r\n                                              tenders, bills of quantities or \r\n                                              other contract documents which \r\n                                              provides for payment to be made to \r\n                                              him by the contractor whatever may \r\n                                              be the consideration, unless with \r\n                                              the full knowledge and approval of \r\n                                              the employer;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (s) taking part in an \r\n                                              architectural competition as to \r\n                                              which the Council shall have \r\n                                              declared by a resolution that \r\n                                              members must not take part, \r\n                                              because conditions are not in \r\n                                              accordance with Institute \r\n                                              Regulations for Architectural \r\n                                              competitions, or being associated \r\n                                              in anyway with the carrying out of \r\n                                              a design selected as a result of a \r\n                                              competition as to which the \r\n                                              Council have declared by a \r\n                                              resolution that members must not \r\n                                              take part;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (t) failing to notify at once, the \r\n                                              secretary upon being asked to take \r\n                                              part in a limited competition, the \r\n                                              particulars of the competition; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (u) acting as an architect or \r\n                                              joint architect for a work which \r\n                                              is or has been the subject of a \r\n                                              competition in which he is or has \r\n                                              been an assessor, or act as \r\n                                              consulting architect unless \r\n                                              appointed before the inception of \r\n                                              the competition; or having been \r\n                                              approached by the promoters to \r\n                                              advise on the holding of a \r\n                                              competition, with the view to his \r\n                                              acting as an assessor, acting as \r\n                                              architect for the work; if it is \r\n                                              eventually decided not to hold a \r\n                                              competition, but to appoint an \r\n                                              architect to carry out the work.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Notwithstanding anything to the \r\n                                              contrary contained in paragraphs 1 \r\n                                              and 2 of this Schedule, an \r\n                                              architect shall not be guilty of \r\n                                              professional misconduct by reason \r\n                                              only of any of the following acts, \r\n                                              namely:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) entering into or being in \r\n                                              partnership with any person \r\n                                              outside Ghana who is a member of a \r\n                                              society or institute of architects \r\n                                              which is in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Council of equivalent status to \r\n                                              the Ghana Institute of Architects;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) securing professional business \r\n                                              by reason of such partnership,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) allowing such partnership to \r\n                                              be carried on in his name, and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) paying or allowing or agreeing \r\n                                              to pay or allow to any such \r\n                                              partner any share out of fees or \r\n                                              profits.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Made this 21st day of May, 1969.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 180.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              BRIGADIER A. A. AFRIFA</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 180.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Chairman of the National \r\n                                              Liberation Council</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 30th \r\n                                              May, 1969</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              amended by</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARCHITECTS (AMENDMENT) DECREE, \r\n                                              1972 (NRCD 75).1</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n', 'NLC', 'Yes', 'NLCD 357');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(10, 'AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION) DECREE, 1979 (AFRCD 67)', '<p style="text-align:center">\r\n<b>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nAUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (OPERATIONS\r\nAND ADMINISTRATION) DECREE, 1979 (AFRCD\r\n67)</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#1><u>1. Functions of association</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#2><u>2. Management board of association</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#3><u>3. Association to cease operations\r\nat borders of Ghana</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#4><u>4. Dela Seshie to Cease to be sole\r\nsignatory and sperator of Bank\r\naccounts of association</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#5><u>5. Bank account of Dela Seshie\r\nForfeited</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#6><u>6. Offence</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n<a href=#7><u>7. Commencement</u></a></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nBE IT ENACTED by the Armed Forces\r\nRevolutionary Council as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=1></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 1&#8212;Functions of\r\nAssociation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n(1) Notwithstanding anything to\r\nthe contrary the functions of the\r\nbody known as the Automobile\r\nAssociation in this Decree\r\nreferred to as the &quot;Association&quot;\r\nshall be to provide only road\r\npatrol and rescue services to\r\nmotorists.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n(2) Without prejudice to\r\nsubsection (1) of this section the\r\nAssociation shall cease to issue\r\nany international customs permit\r\nto any person for the temporary\r\nimportation into or exportation\r\nfrom Ghana by road of any motor\r\nvehicle.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n(3) Without prejudice to any other\r\nenactment the issue of such\r\ninternational customs permit shall\r\nbe made by the Comptroller of\r\nCustoms and Excise after\r\nconsultation with the Police\r\nService and Border Guard.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=2></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 2&#8212;Management Board of\r\nAssociation.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n(1) There is hereby established a\r\nmanagement board consisting of\r\nsuch paid-up members of the\r\nAssociation as the members of the\r\nAssociation may appoint.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n(2) The management board of the\r\nAssociation established under\r\nsubsection (1) of this section\r\nshall be responsible for the\r\nmanagement, administration and\r\ncontrol of the operations of the\r\nAssociation.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=3></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 3&#8212;Association to Cease\r\nOperations at Borders of Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nThe Association shall at the\r\ncommencement of this Decree cease\r\nto operate any office established\r\nby it at any of the borders of\r\nGhana.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=4></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 4&#8212;Dela Seshie to Cease to\r\nbe Sole Signatory and Operator of\r\nBank Accounts of Association.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nThe person known as Dela Seshie\r\nand who immediately before the\r\ncommencement of this Decree holds\r\nthe office of Secretary-General of\r\nthe Association shall cease to be\r\na signatory of any cheque or\r\ndocument of the Association or\r\noperate any bank accounts of the\r\nAssociation.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=5></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 5&#8212;Bank Account of Dela\r\nSeshie Forfeited.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nThe sum of money realised by the\r\nsaid Dela Seshie from the sale of\r\ntriptyque carnets to motorists at\r\nand which was paid by him into his\r\npersonal bank account with the\r\nGhana Commercial Bank at Aflao are\r\nhereby forfeited to the State.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=6></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 6&#8212;Offence.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nAny person who contravenes\r\nsections 1, 3 and 4 of this Decree\r\nshall be guilty of an offence and\r\nliable on summary conviction to a\r\nfine not exceeding &cent;5,000.00 or to\r\nimprisonment not exceeding two\r\nyears or to both.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<b>\r\n<a name=7></a>\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nSection 7&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nThis Decree shall be deemed to\r\nhave come into force on the 22nd\r\nday of September, 1979.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nMade this 23rd day of September,\r\n1979.</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nFLT.-LT. JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nChairman of the Armed Forces\r\nRevolutionary Council</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36.0pt">\r\n<span style="font-family:Arial">\r\nDate of Gazette Notification: 23rd\r\nSeptember, 1979.</span></p>', 'AFRC', 'Yes', 'AFRC 67'),
(11, 'FIRST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT (COMMENCEMENT) INSTRUMENT, 1969 (CI 1)', '<p><center>SECOND REPUBLIC</center></p>\r\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              FIRST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT \r\n                                              (COMMENCEMENT) INSTRUMENT, 1969 \r\n                                              (CI 1)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              KNOW YE ALL MEN that in exercise \r\n                                              of the powers&nbsp; conferred on the \r\n                                              Presidential Commission by clause \r\n                                              (1) of Article 87 of the \r\n                                              Constitution, We, AKWASI AMANKWA \r\n                                              AFRIFA, D.S.O., Chairman of the \r\n                                              Presidential Commission, JOHN \r\n                                              WILLIE KOFI HARLEY, M.V., Deputy \r\n                                              Chairman of the Presidential \r\n                                              Commission, and ALBERT KWESI OCRAN, \r\n                                              D.S.O., Member of the Presidential \r\n                                              Commission, do hereby, by this \r\n                                              Constitutional Instrument, appoint \r\n                                              Parliament House, Accra, to be the \r\n                                              place and ten o''clock in the \r\n                                              forenoon of Thursday, the 2nd day \r\n                                              of October, 1969, to be the time \r\n                                              at which the First Session of the \r\n                                              First Parliament of the Second \r\n                                              Republic of Ghana shall commence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Given under our hands and the \r\n                                              Presidential Seal at the Castle, \r\n                                              Osu, this 24th day of September, \r\n                                              1969.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BRIGADIER A. A. AFRIFA, D.S.O.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              J. W. K. HARLLEY, M.V.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              MAJOR-GENERAL A. K. OCRAN, D.S.O.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 26th \r\n                                              September, 1969.</span></p>\r\n', 'CONSTITUTIONAL', 'NO', ''),
(12, 'ABANDONED PROPERTY (DISPOSAL) DECREE, 1974 (NRCD 308)', ' 											<p  style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ABANDONED PROPERTY (DISPOSAL) \r\n                                              DECREE, 1974 (NRCD 308)</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section</span></p>\r\n											  \r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#1>1. Scrap metal</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#2>2. Timber</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              <a href=#3>3. Hoardings and sign-boards</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#4>4. Dangers may be abated forthwith</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#5>5. Obstruction of authorised \r\n                                              officer</a></span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#6>6. Exemption from liability</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a href=#7>7. Interpretation</a></span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              IN pursuance of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council&nbsp; \r\n                                              (Establishment) Proclamation, 1972 \r\n                                              this Decree is hereby made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <a name=1></a>\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Scrap Metal.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any scrap metal which has been \r\n                                              left or abandoned:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on any public land; or,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) on any road; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) within twenty feet of any \r\n                                              road; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) within fifty feet of any road, \r\n                                              where such scrap metal in the \r\n                                              opinion of an authorised officer \r\n                                              has not been adequately fenced,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              may be removed by an authorised \r\n                                              officer and disposed of in \r\n                                              accordance with this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where the scrap metal is a \r\n                                              motor vehicle to which the engine \r\n                                              and wheels are still attached, the \r\n                                              authorised officer shall affix to \r\n                                              the vehicle a notice requiring the \r\n                                              owner to remove it within fourteen \r\n                                              days after the date when the \r\n                                              notice was affixed (which shall be \r\n                                              stated in the notice); and where \r\n                                              the owner fails to do so the \r\n                                              authorised officer may after the \r\n                                              expiration of such period cause \r\n                                              the vehicle to be removed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In any other case the \r\n                                              authorised officer may cause the \r\n                                              scrap metal to be removed \r\n                                              forthwith.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any scrap metal removed by an \r\n                                              authorised officer under this \r\n                                              section shall, upon such removal, \r\n                                              vest in the National Redemption \r\n                                              Council and shall be disposed of:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in accordance with the \r\n                                              instructions of the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Industries; or\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) in the absence of such \r\n                                              instructions, in such manner as \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police or \r\n                                              a Regional Commissioner may \r\n                                              direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, &quot;authorised officer&quot; \r\n                                              means:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) any member of the Armed Forces \r\n                                              acting in accordance with the \r\n                                              written instructions of a Regional \r\n                                              Commissioner;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any police officer acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the written \r\n                                              instructions of the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any public officer authorised \r\n                                              in that behalf by the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Industries or by a \r\n                                              Regional Commissioner.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6)&nbsp; For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, &#8220;scrap metal&#8221; means:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any motor vehicle or trailer \r\n                                              which is derelict;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any other article made wholly \r\n                                              or in part of metal which is \r\n                                              derelict or substantially unfit \r\n                                              for use;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any part of any of the \r\n                                              foregoing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=2></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Timber.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any tree, timber or log which \r\n                                              has been left or abandoned:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) on any public land; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) on any road; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) within fifty feet of any road,</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              may be removed by an authorised \r\n                                              officer and disposed of in \r\n                                              accordance with this section:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this section shall \r\n                                              not apply to any tree, timber or \r\n                                              log which has been lawfully placed \r\n                                              by a timber contractor in the \r\n                                              ordinary course of his \r\n                                              operations:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              at a proper and recognised \r\n                                              collection point; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) at or near the approaches to \r\n                                              any harbour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The authorised officer shall \r\n                                              affix to the tree, timber or log a \r\n                                              notice requiring the owner to \r\n                                              remove it within fourteen days \r\n                                              after the date when the notice was \r\n                                              affixed (which shall be stated in \r\n                                              the notice); and where the owner \r\n                                              fails to do so, the authorised \r\n                                              officer may after the expiration \r\n                                              of such period cause the tree, \r\n                                              timber or log to be removed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) Any tree, timber or log \r\n                                              removed by an authorised officer \r\n                                              under this section shall, upon \r\n                                              such removal, vest in the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council and shall be \r\n                                              disposed of:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in accordance with the \r\n                                              instructions of the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Lands; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the absence of such \r\n                                              instructions, in such manner as \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police or \r\n                                              a Regional Commissioner may \r\n                                              direct.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, &quot;authorised officer&quot; \r\n                                              means:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) any member of the Armed Forces \r\n                                              acting in accordance with the \r\n                                              written instructions of a Regional \r\n                                              Commissioner;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any police officer acting in \r\n                                              accordance with the written \r\n                                              instructions of the \r\n                                              Inspector-General of Police;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) any public officer authorised \r\n                                              in that behalf by the Commissioner \r\n                                              responsible for Lands or by a \r\n                                              Regional Commissioner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=3></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Hoardings and \r\n                                              Sign-Boards.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to subsection (2), any \r\n                                              hoarding or sign-board (in this \r\n                                              section referred to as &quot;an \r\n                                              unauthorised hoarding or \r\n                                              sign-board&quot;) which has been \r\n                                              erected or left:&#8212; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) on any road or path; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) within ten feet of any road; \r\n                                              or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) within twenty feet of any road \r\n                                              junction, roundabout or bridge; or</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) on any public land; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) in such a position as to \r\n                                              obstruct the clear view of any \r\n                                              driver on a road,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              may be removed by an authorised \r\n                                              officer and disposed of in \r\n                                              accordance with this section.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This section shall not apply \r\n                                              to any hoarding or sign-board \r\n                                              erected by or with the consent of \r\n                                              the Government or in the exercise \r\n                                              of a statutory power unless it is \r\n                                              such a position as to obstruct the \r\n                                              clear view of any driver on a \r\n                                              road.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The authorised officer shall \r\n                                              affix to the unauthorised hoarding \r\n                                              or sign-board a notice requiring \r\n                                              the owner to remove it within \r\n                                              seven days after the date when the \r\n                                              notice was affixed (which shall be \r\n                                              stated in the notice), and where \r\n                                              the owner fails to do so the \r\n                                              authorised officer may after the \r\n                                              expiration of such period cause \r\n                                              the unauthorised hoarding or \r\n                                              sign-board to be removed.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any unauthorised hoarding or \r\n                                              sign-board removed by an \r\n                                              authorised officer under this \r\n                                              section shall, upon such removal, \r\n                                              vest in the National Redemption \r\n                                              Council and shall be destroyed or \r\n                                              otherwise disposed of&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in accordance with the \r\n                                              instructions of the Regional \r\n                                              Commissioner; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) in the absence of such \r\n                                              instructions, in such manner as \r\n                                              the Inspector-General of Police or \r\n                                              the local authority for the area \r\n                                              may direct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) For the purposes of this \r\n                                              section, &#8220;authorised officer&#8221; \r\n                                              means:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) any public officer authorised \r\n                                              in that behalf by a Regional \r\n                                              Commissioner; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) any member of the Police \r\n                                              Service or employee of a local \r\n                                              authority.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=4></a>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Dangers may be Abated \r\n                                              Forthwith.</span></b></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding the foregoing \r\n                                              provisions of this Decree, any \r\n                                              authorised officer may if he \r\n                                              thinks fit cause the immediate \r\n                                              removal to the nearest safe place \r\n                                              of any property to which this \r\n                                              Decree applies, if he finds such \r\n                                              property in any place where it may \r\n                                              constitute a danger or \r\n                                              obstruction:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that when the property is \r\n                                              so removed to a safe place, any \r\n                                              notices required by this Decree \r\n                                              shall be affixed to the property \r\n                                              as if such property had not been \r\n                                              removed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=5></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Obstruction of \r\n                                              Authorised Officer.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who obstructs or \r\n                                              molests an authorised officer in \r\n                                              the exercise of any of his powers \r\n                                              under this Decree, or who does any \r\n                                              act with the intention of \r\n                                              preventing an authorised officer \r\n                                              from exercising such powers, shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence and liable \r\n                                              on conviction to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding ¢200.00 or to \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding twelve \r\n                                              months or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=6></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Exemption from \r\n                                              Liability.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No civil action, whether for \r\n                                              compensation or otherwise, shall \r\n                                              be brought against the Republic or \r\n                                              any public officer or authorised \r\n                                              officer in respect of any act done \r\n                                              in good faith in the execution or \r\n                                              intended execution of the \r\n                                              provisions of this Decree.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <a name=7></a>\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Decree, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8220;path&#8221;&nbsp; includes a pavement or \r\n                                              footway;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;public land&#8221; includes land vested \r\n                                              by any means in the Republic, the \r\n                                              Chairman of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council on behalf of \r\n                                              the Republic, the Government, any \r\n                                              organ or agency of the Government \r\n                                              or any statutory corporation, \r\n                                              whether such land is vested in \r\n                                              trust or otherwise;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &#8220;road&#8221; means any highway, street, \r\n                                              lane or other place whether a \r\n                                              thoroughfare or not to which motor \r\n                                              vehicles have a right of access;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;vehicle&#8221; includes any motor \r\n                                              vehicle, trailer, agricultural \r\n                                              vehicle or cycle.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Made this 20th day of&nbsp; December, \r\n                                              1974.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 180.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              COLONEL&nbsp; I. K. ACHEAMPONG</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 180.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Chairman of the National \r\n                                              Redemption Council</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Date of Gazette Notification: 27th \r\n                                              December, 1974.</span></p>\r\n', 'NRC', 'Yes', 'NRCD 308');
