INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(123, 'STATE HOUSING CORPORATION (EJECTMENT) ACT, 1970 (ACT 322)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1321" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATE HOUSING CORPORATION (EJECTMENT) \r\n                                              ACT, 1970 (ACT 322)</span></b></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                                              <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                                              1. Power to Determine Lease on \r\n                                              Failure to Pay Rent, Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. All Persons to Vacate Premises \r\n                                              Upon Termination of Lease.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Offences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Rights of Corporation \r\n                                              Preserved.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Mode of Service of Notice Under \r\n                                              Section 1.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Interpretation.</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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND \r\n                                              TWENTY-SECOND</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b></p>\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                                              <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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATE HOUSING CORPORATION (EJECTMENT) \r\n                                              (ACT, 1970)</span></b></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                                              ejectment of persons owing arrears \r\n                                              of rent to the State Housing \r\n                                              Corporation and persons who have \r\n                                              sublet premises contrary to the \r\n                                              terms of any lease under which the \r\n                                              premises were let to them by the \r\n                                              State Housing Corporation; and for \r\n                                              other purposes connected \r\n                                              therewith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 7th April, 1970.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Presidential \r\n                                              Commission and the National \r\n                                              Assembly in this present \r\n                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Power to Determine Lease \r\n                                              on Failure to Pay Rent, Etc.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where any person to whom any \r\n                                              premises have been let by the \r\n                                              State Housing Corporation (in this \r\n                                              Act referred to as &quot;the \r\n                                              Corporation&quot;) fails for a period \r\n                                              exceeding one month to pay to the \r\n                                              Corporation the rent or any part \r\n                                              thereof in respect of the said \r\n                                              premises, then the Corporation may \r\n                                              by notice in writing served on \r\n                                              that person request him within two \r\n                                              weeks after the service of the \r\n                                              notice to pay to the Corporation \r\n                                              all arrears of rent due in respect \r\n                                              of the premises indicating in the \r\n                                              notice that it will take steps to \r\n                                              terminate the lease under which \r\n                                              the premises were let to him upon \r\n                                              failure to comply with the \r\n                                              request.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a person fails to comply \r\n                                              with a notice served under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section the \r\n                                              Corporation may by a further \r\n                                              notice in writing served on him \r\n                                              terminate the said lease.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Where any person to whom any \r\n                                              premises have been let by the \r\n                                              Corporation sublets the premises \r\n                                              or any part thereof, contrary to \r\n                                              the terms of any lease, then the \r\n                                              Corporation may by notice in \r\n                                              writing served on him terminate \r\n                                              the lease.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The Corporation may in \r\n                                              addition to serving any notice as \r\n                                              provided in the preceding \r\n                                              subsection of this section cause a \r\n                                              copy thereof to be served on any \r\n                                              person for the time being \r\n                                              occupying the premises in respect \r\n                                              of which the notice is served.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) This section applies to any \r\n                                              failure to pay rent or any \r\n                                              subletting of premises whether it \r\n                                              occurred before or after the \r\n                                              commencement of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) In this Act &quot;rent&quot; includes an \r\n                                              instalment of any capital sum \r\n                                              required to be paid under an \r\n                                              agreement providing for the \r\n                                              hire-purchase of any premises and \r\n                                              also any other sum liable to be \r\n                                              paid to the Corporation under any \r\n                                              lease.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where any premises have been \r\n                                              let under a hire-purchase contract \r\n                                              and at least 80 per cent of the \r\n                                              hire-purchase price or such other \r\n                                              minimum percentage thereof as may \r\n                                              be agreed between the Corporation \r\n                                              and the tenant or buyer, has been \r\n                                              paid or tendered by or on behalf \r\n                                              of the hire-purchaser or tenant, \r\n                                              the Corporation shall not enforce \r\n                                              any right to recover possession of \r\n                                              the premises or its right of \r\n                                              re-entry otherwise than by court \r\n                                              action.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;All Persons to Vacate \r\n                                              Premises Upon Termination of \r\n                                              Lease.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Notwithstanding anything to the \r\n                                              contrary in any other enactment, \r\n                                              where a notice has been served \r\n                                              under this Act terminating the \r\n                                              lease in respect of any premises \r\n                                              any tenant or other occupier of \r\n                                              the premises shall, not later than \r\n                                              fourteen days after the date of \r\n                                              service of the notice or such \r\n                                              later date as may be specified in \r\n                                              the notice, vacate the premises \r\n                                              and the Corporation shall be \r\n                                              entitled to re-enter the premises, \r\n                                              eject any such person therefrom \r\n                                              using reasonable force and take \r\n                                              possession thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) fails without reasonable \r\n                                              excuse (proof of which shall be on \r\n                                              him) to vacate any premises \r\n                                              required to be vacated under \r\n                                              section 2 of this Act, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) obstructs the Corporation in \r\n                                              the exercise of any power \r\n                                              conferred on it by section 2 of \r\n                                              this Act, shall be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence and liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction, to a fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢100 or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment not exceeding two \r\n                                              months or to both; and in the case \r\n                                              of a continuing offence shall be \r\n                                              liable to a further fine not \r\n                                              exceeding N¢5 in respect of any \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 under \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section is \r\n                                              committed by a body of persons,&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\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 corporate \r\n                                              shall also be deemed to be guilty \r\n                                              of that offence, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in the case of a partnership, \r\n                                              every partner shall be guilty of \r\n                                              that offence:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that no such person shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence by virtue \r\n                                              of this subsection if he proves \r\n                                              that the offence was committed \r\n                                              without his knowledge or \r\n                                              connivance by a person other than \r\n                                              himself and that he exercised all \r\n                                              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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Rights of Corporation \r\n                                              Preserved.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The provisions of this Act shall \r\n                                              be in addition to and not in \r\n                                              derogation of any rights of the \r\n                                              Corporation to claim moneys due or \r\n                                              which shall become due in respect \r\n                                              of any premises or any other \r\n                                              rights possessed by the \r\n                                              Corporation by virtue of any lease \r\n                                              under which the premises were let \r\n                                              from the Corporation and accruing \r\n                                              prior or subsequent to the \r\n                                              determination of the lease under \r\n                                              this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Mode of Service of \r\n                                              Notice Under Section 1.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The notice referred to in \r\n                                              section 1 of this Act may be \r\n                                              served in any of the following \r\n                                              modes&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) by personal service, or </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) by prepaying, registering and \r\n                                              posting the notice, addressed to \r\n                                              the person on whom the notice is \r\n                                              to be served at his last known \r\n                                              postal address, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) by leaving it for him with \r\n                                              some person apparently over the \r\n                                              age of eighteen at his usual or \r\n                                              last known place of abode or \r\n                                              business, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) in the case of a corporate \r\n                                              body or an unincorporated body of \r\n                                              persons, by delivering it to the \r\n                                              secretary or clerk of the body at \r\n                                              the registered or principal office \r\n                                              of the body or serving it by post \r\n                                              in accordance with paragraph (b) \r\n                                              of this subsection on the \r\n                                              secretary or clerk at his office \r\n                                              and in addition to any of the \r\n                                              above cases, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) by affixing it or a copy of it \r\n                                              to some conspicuous part of the \r\n                                              premises in respect of which the \r\n                                              notice is given under section 1 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                                              (2) Unless the contrary is proved \r\n                                              a notice served by post in \r\n                                              accordance with subsection (1) (b) \r\n                                              of this section shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been served at the time at \r\n                                              which the notice would have been \r\n                                              delivered in the ordinary course \r\n                                              of post.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act &quot;lease&quot; includes any \r\n                                              agreement for the letting of any \r\n                                              premises whether oral or \r\n                                              otherwise.</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 322'),
(124, 'STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1971 (ACT 368)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1335" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 368)</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION</span></p>\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                                              1. Enactments Amended.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Schedule</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1971</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                                              AN ACT to amend certain \r\n                                              enactments.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 28th August, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Enactments Amended.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The enactments specified in \r\n                                              the first column of the Schedule \r\n                                              of this Act are hereby amended in \r\n                                              the manner indicated in the second \r\n                                              column of that Schedule.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2)&nbsp; The amendments specified in \r\n                                              paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the \r\n                                              said Schedule shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have come into force at the same \r\n                                              time as the commencement of the \r\n                                              enactments to which they \r\n                                              respectively relate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              1.&nbsp; Criminal Code, 1960 (Act \r\n                                              29).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In section 273 \r\n                                              as inserted by the Criminal Code \r\n                                              (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD. \r\n                                              398), for &quot;demeanour&quot; substitute \r\n                                              &quot;misdemeanour&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2.&nbsp; State Secrets Act, 1962 (Act \r\n                                              101).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In section 9 (1) and 9 \r\n                                              (2), for the words &quot;seventy-two \r\n                                              hours&quot; substitute &quot;twenty-four \r\n                                              hours&quot; in both places.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Criminal Code (Amendment) \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In paragraph 19 \r\n                                              and in the marginal note thereof, \r\n                                              for the words &quot;section 297&quot; \r\n                                              substitute &quot;section 296&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Decree, 1969 (NLCD. \r\n                                              398).&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                                              </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; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4.&nbsp; Banking Act, 1970 (Act \r\n                                              339).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In section \r\n                                              12 (4), for the word &quot;movable&quot; \r\n                                              substitute &quot;immovable&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Centre for Civic Education Act, \r\n                                              1970 (Act 353).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In \r\n                                              section 9 (9), for the words \r\n                                              &quot;subsection (2) (c) of section 6&quot;, \r\n                                              substitute &quot;subsection (2) (b) of \r\n                                              section 6&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              For subsection (1) of section 10 \r\n                                              substitute the following:&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &quot;10. Executive Committee.&nbsp; </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) There shall be a committee of \r\n                                              the Board to be known as the \r\n                                              Executive Committee which shall \r\n                                              comprise the Executive Director \r\n                                              and not more than six other \r\n                                              trustees elected by the \r\n                                              Board.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -216.0pt; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. State Housing Corporation (Ejectment) \r\n                                              Act, 1970 (Act 322).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              In section 5 (1) (d) delete the \r\n                                              words &quot;in addition to any of the \r\n                                              above cases, or &quot;. &nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In section 5 (1) substitute for \r\n                                              paragraph (e) the following new \r\n                                              paragraph:&#8212; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 216.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;(c) in addition to any of the \r\n                                              foregoing, by affixing a copy of \r\n                                              it in some conspicuous part of the \r\n                                              premises in respect of which the \r\n                                              notice is given under section 1 of \r\n                                              this Act.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 368');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(125, 'STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT, 1971 (ACT 389)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1338" height="64">\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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT, 1971 \r\n                                              (ACT 389)</span></b></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                                              <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                                              1. Restriction on use of \r\n                                              Affidavits.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Use of Statutory Declarations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Form of Statutory Declaration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Procedure for making Statutory \r\n                                              Declaration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Fees.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Repeals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINTH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT, \r\n                                              1971</span></b></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 making \r\n                                              of statutory declarations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 1st December, \r\n                                              1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Restriction on use of \r\n                                              Affidavits.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              After the commencement of this \r\n                                              Act, no affidavit shall be sworn \r\n                                              for any purpose, except&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) where it relates to any \r\n                                              proceeding, application or other \r\n                                              matter commenced in any court or \r\n                                              referable thereto; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) where under the provisions of \r\n                                              any enactment an affidavit is \r\n                                              authorised to be sworn.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Use of Statutory \r\n                                              Declarations.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In every case to which section 1 \r\n                                              does not apply, a person wishing \r\n                                              to depose to any fact for any \r\n                                              purpose may do so by means of a \r\n                                              statutory declaration:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that where any person has \r\n                                              sworn to an affidavit for any \r\n                                              purpose other than a purpose \r\n                                              referred to in section 1, such \r\n                                              affidavit shall nevertheless be \r\n                                              deemed for all purposes to be a \r\n                                              statutory declaration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Form of Statutory \r\n                                              Declaration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              statutory declaration shall be \r\n                                              made in the following form:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;I, \r\n                                              ............................................................................................................................................................................,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (full names and address)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              solemnly and sincerely declare \r\n                                              that \r\n                                              ...........................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              and I make this solemn declaration \r\n                                              conscientiously believing it to be \r\n                                              true, in accordance with the \r\n                                              Statutory Declarations Act, 1971.&quot;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Procedure for making \r\n                                              Statutory Declaration.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every magistrate, notary public, \r\n                                              commissioner for oaths and any \r\n                                              other person authorised by law to \r\n                                              administer an oath may take and \r\n                                              receive the statutory declaration \r\n                                              of any person voluntarily making \r\n                                              it before him, and shall certify \r\n                                              it under his signature.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Offence.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person who makes a statutory \r\n                                              declaration which he knows to be \r\n                                              false in a material particular, or \r\n                                              who makes a declaration false in a \r\n                                              material particular, reckless \r\n                                              whether it be true or not, shall \r\n                                              be guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Fees.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The fees payable on the taking of \r\n                                              an affidavit shall likewise be \r\n                                              payable on the making of a \r\n                                              statutory declaration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The Statutory Declarations \r\n                                              Act, 1835 (5 &amp; 6 Will. IV, c. 62) \r\n                                              shall cease to apply in Ghana, and \r\n                                              accordingly the reference to that \r\n                                              Act in the First Schedule to the \r\n                                              Courts Act, 1971 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                                              (2) Section 11 (2) of the Oaths \r\n                                              Act, 1960 (C.A. 12) is hereby \r\n                                              repealed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              </td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 389');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(126, 'WILLS ACT, 1971 (ACT 360)', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1330" height="64">\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                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              WILLS ACT, 1971 (ACT 360)</span></b></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                                              <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                                              1. Power to make a will</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              2. Execution of a will</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              3. Executors and witnesses</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              4. Incorporation of other \r\n                                              documents</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              5. Alteration of a will</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              6. Armed Forces wills</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              7. Rules of construction</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              8. Lapsed dispositions</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              9. Revocation of a will</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              10. Revival of revoked will</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              11. Custody of wills</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              12. Deposit of wills found after \r\n                                              death of testator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              13. Provision for dependants</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              14. Disposal of insurance money to \r\n                                              member of family by nomination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              15. Wills made outside Ghana</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              16. Change of domicile</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              17. Ascertainment of internal law</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              18. Interpretation</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              19. Statutes ceasing to apply and \r\n                                              savings</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              20. Commencement </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: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTIETH</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\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">\r\n                                              ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              THE WILLS ACT, 1971</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              AN ACT to regulate the making of \r\n                                              wills and to give effect to \r\n                                              provisions therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              DATE OF ASSENT: 3rd July, 1971</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and \r\n                                              the National Assembly in this \r\n                                              present Parliament assembled as \r\n                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 1&#8212;Power to Make a Will.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person of or above the age \r\n                                              of eighteen years may in writing \r\n                                              and in accordance with this Act \r\n                                              make a will disposing of any \r\n                                              property which is his or to which \r\n                                              he will be entitled at the time of \r\n                                              his death or to which he may be \r\n                                              entitled thereafter.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person suffering from \r\n                                              insanity or infirmity of mind so \r\n                                              as to be incapable of \r\n                                              understanding the nature or effect \r\n                                              of a will shall have capacity to \r\n                                              make a will during the continuance \r\n                                              of that insanity or infirmity of \r\n                                              mind.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A will, or any provision of a \r\n                                              will, obtained by fraud or made \r\n                                              under duress or undue influence, \r\n                                              shall be void.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 2&#8212;Execution of a Will.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No will shall be valid unless \r\n                                              it is in writing and signed by the \r\n                                              testator or by some other person \r\n                                              at his direction.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No signature shall be \r\n                                              operative to give effect to any \r\n                                              disposition or direction which is \r\n                                              underneath or which follows it, or \r\n                                              which is inserted after the \r\n                                              signature has been made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The signature of the testator \r\n                                              shall be made or acknowledged by \r\n                                              him in the presence of two or more \r\n                                              witnesses present at the same \r\n                                              time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A signature by some other \r\n                                              person at the direction of the \r\n                                              testator shall be made by that \r\n                                              other person in the presence of \r\n                                              the testator and two or more \r\n                                              witnesses present at the same \r\n                                              time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The witnesses shall attest and \r\n                                              sign the will in the presence of \r\n                                              the testator, but no form of \r\n                                              attestation shall be necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Where the testator is blind or \r\n                                              illiterate, a competent person \r\n                                              shall carefully read over and \r\n                                              explain to him the contents of the \r\n                                              will before it is executed, and \r\n                                              shall declare in writing upon the \r\n                                              will that he had so read over and \r\n                                              explained its contents to the \r\n                                              testator and that the testator \r\n                                              appeared perfectly to understand \r\n                                              it before it was executed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 3&#8212;Executors and Witnesses.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person of or above the age \r\n                                              of twenty-one years and having \r\n                                              capacity to enter into a contract \r\n                                              may be appointed an executor of a \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person appointed by a will \r\n                                              to be an executor may attest that \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A creditor of the testator may \r\n                                              be an attesting witness \r\n                                              notwithstanding that by the will \r\n                                              the property of the testator is \r\n                                              charged with the payment of debts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Any beneficial disposition of \r\n                                              or affecting any property other \r\n                                              than charges or directions for the \r\n                                              payment of any debt, given by a \r\n                                              will to a person who attests the \r\n                                              execution of that will, shall be \r\n                                              void unless the will is duly \r\n                                              executed without his attestation \r\n                                              and without that of any other such \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 4&#8212;Incorporation of Other \r\n                                              Documents.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A will may not incorporate \r\n                                              another document unless that \r\n                                              document was in existence at the \r\n                                              time the will was executed and is \r\n                                              sufficiently identified in the \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Oral evidence shall be \r\n                                              admissible for the purpose of \r\n                                              identification.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 5&#8212;Alteration of a Will.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No alteration made in a will \r\n                                              shall have effect unless it is \r\n                                              separately executed in the same \r\n                                              manner as is required for the \r\n                                              execution of the will, or unless \r\n                                              it has been made valid by the \r\n                                              re-execution of the will or by the \r\n                                              subsequent execution of some \r\n                                              codicil thereto.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding section 2 (2), \r\n                                              a separate execution of an \r\n                                              alteration shall be deemed \r\n                                              sufficient if it is apparent on \r\n                                              the face of the will that the \r\n                                              testator intended to give effect \r\n                                              by such execution to the \r\n                                              alteration.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 6&#8212;Armed Forces Wills.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Notwithstanding any provision \r\n                                              of this Act to the contrary, any \r\n                                              member of the Armed Forces of \r\n                                              whatever age may, while engaged on \r\n                                              active service, make a will in any \r\n                                              of the following forms:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) written and unattested, if the \r\n                                              material provisions and signature \r\n                                              are in the handwriting of the \r\n                                              testator;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) written (whether or not in the \r\n                                              handwriting of the testator) and \r\n                                              attested by one witness;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) orally before two witnesses.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any beneficial disposition of \r\n                                              or affecting any property other \r\n                                              than charges or directions for the \r\n                                              payment of any debt, given by a \r\n                                              will made under this section to a \r\n                                              witness to that will, shall be \r\n                                              void unless the will is duly \r\n                                              executed (if written) or witnessed \r\n                                              (if oral) without his attestation \r\n                                              and without that of any other such \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A will made in accordance with \r\n                                              this section shall remain valid \r\n                                              even though the testator ceases to \r\n                                              be a member of the Armed Forces.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A will made in accordance with \r\n                                              this section may be revoked by \r\n                                              another will made in accordance \r\n                                              with this section or by any of the \r\n                                              means of revocation provided in \r\n                                              section 9.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A will made in accordance with \r\n                                              this section may revoke an earlier \r\n                                              will made by the testator in \r\n                                              accordance with section 2.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 7&#8212;Rules of Construction.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A will shall take effect as if \r\n                                              it had been executed immediately \r\n                                              before the death of the testator, \r\n                                              unless a contrary intention \r\n                                              appears from the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A disposition of immovable \r\n                                              property without any words of \r\n                                              limitation shall pass the whole of \r\n                                              the estate or interest therein \r\n                                              which the testator has power to \r\n                                              dispose of by will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A general disposition of the \r\n                                              land of a testator or of his land \r\n                                              at any place, or in the occupation \r\n                                              of any person or otherwise \r\n                                              described in a general manner, \r\n                                              shall include lands of whatsoever \r\n                                              estate or tenure, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears from \r\n                                              the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A general disposition of the \r\n                                              movable or immovable property of a \r\n                                              testator shall include any \r\n                                              property to which he may have \r\n                                              power to appoint in any manner he \r\n                                              may think fit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) A general or residuary \r\n                                              disposition shall operate to \r\n                                              confer a power to exercise a power \r\n                                              of appointment, unless a contrary \r\n                                              intention appears from the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) A residuary disposition shall \r\n                                              include property comprised in \r\n                                              lapsed and void dispositions, \r\n                                              unless a contrary intention \r\n                                              appears from the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) Where a testator and a \r\n                                              beneficiary under his will die in \r\n                                              circumstances:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in which it appears that their \r\n                                              deaths were simultaneous; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) rendering it uncertain which \r\n                                              of them survived the other,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              the beneficiary shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have survived the testator for all \r\n                                              purposes affecting the entitlement \r\n                                              to property under the will of that \r\n                                              testator; but for the purposes of \r\n                                              the entitlement of such testator \r\n                                              to that property under any will of \r\n                                              the aforementioned&nbsp; beneficiary, \r\n                                              that beneficiary shall be deemed \r\n                                              to have survived the \r\n                                              aforementioned testator, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears from \r\n                                              the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 8&#8212;Lapsed Dispositions.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A disposition made to a person \r\n                                              who predeceases the testator or \r\n                                              which is contrary to law or \r\n                                              otherwise incapable of taking \r\n                                              effect shall lapse and fall into \r\n                                              residue, unless a contrary \r\n                                              intention appears from the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Notwithstanding subsection \r\n                                              (1), a disposition made by a \r\n                                              testator to his descendant (other \r\n                                              than for an estate determinable at \r\n                                              or before the death of that \r\n                                              descendant) shall not lapse where \r\n                                              that descendant predeceases the \r\n                                              testator leaving issue surviving \r\n                                              the testator, but shall take \r\n                                              effect as a disposition to such \r\n                                              issue per stirps, unless a \r\n                                              contrary intention appears from \r\n                                              the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 9&#8212;Revocation of a Will.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A will may be revoked by \r\n                                              tearing or other physical \r\n                                              destruction by the testator or by \r\n                                              some other person in his presence \r\n                                              and by his direction with the \r\n                                              intention of revoking it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A will may be revoked by a \r\n                                              written declaration of intention \r\n                                              to revoke, executed in the same \r\n                                              manner as a will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A will may be revoked by the \r\n                                              execution of another will which is \r\n                                              expressed to revoke the previous \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A will which is not expressed \r\n                                              to revoke a previous will shall \r\n                                              not be deemed to have revoked that \r\n                                              previous will except to the extent \r\n                                              that it is inconsistent with the \r\n                                              previous will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where a testator destroys a \r\n                                              will&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) as a result of fraud or undue \r\n                                              influence; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) under a mistake of fact or law \r\n                                              intending to make some other \r\n                                              disposition of his property which \r\n                                              is not validly made, such \r\n                                              destruction shall not be deemed to \r\n                                              have revoked the will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 10&#8212;Revival of Revoked \r\n                                              Will.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No will or any part of a will \r\n                                              which is in any manner revoked \r\n                                              shall be revived otherwise than by \r\n                                              its re-execution or by a written \r\n                                              declaration of intention to revive \r\n                                              it, executed in the same manner as \r\n                                              a will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Whenever a will which is \r\n                                              partly revoked and afterwards \r\n                                              wholly revoked is revived, the \r\n                                              revival shall extend to the whole \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 11&#8212;Custody of Wills.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any person may, in his lifetime, \r\n                                              deposit for safe custody in the \r\n                                              High Court his own will, sealed up \r\n                                              under his own seal and the seal of \r\n                                              the Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 12&#8212;Deposit of Wills Found \r\n                                              After Death of Testator.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Any person who has in his \r\n                                              possession or under his control \r\n                                              any paper or writing of any \r\n                                              deceased person, being or \r\n                                              purporting to be testamentary, \r\n                                              shall immediately deposit it with \r\n                                              the High Court or any other Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) If the Court with which any \r\n                                              such paper or writing is deposited \r\n                                              is not the High Court it shall \r\n                                              forthwith cause it to be \r\n                                              transmitted to the High Court.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person who fails to \r\n                                              deposit any such paper or writing \r\n                                              as required by subsection (1) of \r\n                                              this section within fourteen days \r\n                                              after having knowledge of the \r\n                                              death of the deceased, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence and liable on \r\n                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding \r\n                                              N¢10,000 or to imprisonment not \r\n                                              exceeding ten years or to both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 13&#8212;Provision for \r\n                                              Dependants.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If, upon application being \r\n                                              made, not later than three years \r\n                                              from the date upon which probate \r\n                                              of the will is granted, the High \r\n                                              Court is of the opinion that a \r\n                                              testator has not made reasonable \r\n                                              provision whether during his \r\n                                              lifetime or by his will, for the \r\n                                              maintenance of any father, mother, \r\n                                              spouse or child under 18 years of \r\n                                              age of the testator, and that \r\n                                              hardship will thereby be caused, \r\n                                              the High Court may, taking account \r\n                                              of all relevant circumstances, \r\n                                              notwithstanding the provisions of \r\n                                              the will, make reasonable \r\n                                              provision for the needs of such \r\n                                              father, mother, spouse or child \r\n                                              out of the estate of the deceased.</span></p>\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                                              generality of subsection (1), such \r\n                                              reasonable provision may include&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) payment of a lump sum, whether \r\n                                              immediate or&nbsp; deferred, or grant \r\n                                              of an annuity or a series of \r\n                                              payments;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) grant of an estate or interest \r\n                                              in immovable property for life or \r\n                                              any lesser period.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 14&#8212;Disposal of Life \r\n                                              Insurance Money to Member of \r\n                                              Family by Nomination.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Notwithstanding anything in \r\n                                              this Act or any other enactment, \r\n                                              where a person takes out a policy \r\n                                              of life insurance on his life for \r\n                                              a sum which is expressed on the \r\n                                              face of the policy to be for the \r\n                                              benefit of a member of his family \r\n                                              then, unless the nomination of \r\n                                              that member is expressly revoked \r\n                                              by a will duly made in accordance \r\n                                              with this Act or in any other \r\n                                              manner approved by the contract of \r\n                                              insurance, upon the death of the \r\n                                              insured person, the sum assured \r\n                                              shall not form part of his estate \r\n                                              but shall, subject to the \r\n                                              provisions of this section, be \r\n                                              paid to the person so nominated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A nomination to which \r\n                                              subsection (1) of this section \r\n                                              applies shall become void if the \r\n                                              person nominated predeceases the \r\n                                              insured person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Subsection (7) of section 7 of \r\n                                              this Act shall, with such \r\n                                              modifications as may be necessary, \r\n                                              apply to any such nomination as it \r\n                                              applies to a disposition in a \r\n                                              will.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Subject to subsections (5) and \r\n                                              (6) of this section, any insurer \r\n                                              who, in good faith and without \r\n                                              notice of any revocation referred \r\n                                              to in subsection (1) of this \r\n                                              section pays the sum assured to or \r\n                                              for the benefit of the person \r\n                                              nominated in respect thereof shall \r\n                                              be deemed to be duly discharged in \r\n                                              respect of that sum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where a person nominated as \r\n                                              entitled to receive any moneys \r\n                                              under a policy of life insurance \r\n                                              after the death of the person \r\n                                              insured is a minor, or of unsound \r\n                                              mind or suffering from any other \r\n                                              disability rendering him unfit to \r\n                                              manage his own affairs, the High \r\n                                              Court may, upon application made \r\n                                              to it for the purpose, appoint any \r\n                                              person to administer the aforesaid \r\n                                              moneys in accordance with the \r\n                                              order of the Court and on behalf \r\n                                              of such nominee.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Without prejudice to the \r\n                                              provisions of subsection (5), the \r\n                                              powers conferred upon the High \r\n                                              Court by that subsection may be \r\n                                              exercised:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) by a District Court, in any \r\n                                              case where the sum assured does \r\n                                              not exceed two thousand new cedis;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) by a Circuit Court, in any \r\n                                              case where the sum assured exceeds \r\n                                              two thousand new cedis but does \r\n                                              not exceed four thousand new cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) This section shall have effect \r\n                                              without prejudice to the \r\n                                              provisions of section 5 of the \r\n                                              Contracts Act, 1960 (Act 25).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) This section shall apply to \r\n                                              all sums assured which are to be \r\n                                              paid after the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act whether the policy or \r\n                                              nomination in question was taken \r\n                                              out or effected before or after \r\n                                              such commencement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) In this section&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;member of family&quot; means&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">a \r\n                                              spouse, child, parent, \r\n                                              grandparent, parents child, \r\n                                              brother''s child, sister''s child, \r\n                                              grandchild, parents'' brother or \r\n                                              sister, parents'' brother''s child, \r\n                                              parents'' sister''s child, step \r\n                                              brother or sister or step child;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;policy of life insurance&quot; means&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">a \r\n                                              policy issued by an insurer upon \r\n                                              any life or lives or upon any \r\n                                              event or contingency relating to \r\n                                              or depending upon any life or \r\n                                              lives;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;sum assured&quot; includes any moneys \r\n                                              payable by an insurer in respect \r\n                                              of a policy which has lapsed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 15&#8212;Wills Made Outside \r\n                                              Ghana.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A will shall be deemed to be \r\n                                              properly executed if its execution \r\n                                              conformed to the internal law in \r\n                                              force in the territory where it \r\n                                              was executed, or in the territory \r\n                                              where at the time of its execution \r\n                                              or of the testator''s death, he was \r\n                                              domiciled or had his habitual \r\n                                              residence or in a state of which \r\n                                              he was a national at either of \r\n                                              those times.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Without prejudice to \r\n                                              subsection (1), the following \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be properly \r\n                                              executed:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a will executed on board a \r\n                                              vessel or aircraft of any \r\n                                              description, if its execution \r\n                                              conformed to the internal law in \r\n                                              force in the territory with which \r\n                                              having regard to its registration \r\n                                              if any and other relevant \r\n                                              circumstances, the vessel or \r\n                                              aircraft may be taken to have been \r\n                                              most closely connected;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b)&nbsp; a will so far as it disposes \r\n                                              of immovable property, if its \r\n                                              execution conformed to the \r\n                                              internal law in force in the \r\n                                              territory where the property was \r\n                                              situated;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a will so far as it revokes a \r\n                                              will which under this Act would be \r\n                                              deemed to be properly executed or \r\n                                              revokes a provision which under \r\n                                              this Act would be deemed to be \r\n                                              comprised in a properly executed \r\n                                              will, if the execution of the \r\n                                              later will conforms to any law by \r\n                                              reference to which the revoked \r\n                                              will or provision would be so \r\n                                              deemed;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) a will so far as it exercises \r\n                                              a power of appointment if the \r\n                                              execution of the will conformed to \r\n                                              the law governing the essential \r\n                                              validity of the power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A will so far as it exercises \r\n                                              a power of appointment shall not \r\n                                              be deemed to be improperly \r\n                                              executed by reason only that its \r\n                                              execution was not in accordance \r\n                                              with any formal requirements \r\n                                              contained in the instrument \r\n                                              creating the power.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where a law in force outside \r\n                                              Ghana falls to be applied in \r\n                                              relation to a will, any \r\n                                              requirement of that law whereby&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) special formalities are to be \r\n                                              observed by testators answering a \r\n                                              particular description; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) witnesses to the execution of \r\n                                              a will are to possess certain \r\n                                              qualifications, </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              shall be deemed to be a formal \r\n                                              requirement only, notwithstanding \r\n                                              any rule of that law to the \r\n                                              contrary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 16&#8212;Change of Domicile.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              will shall not be held to be \r\n                                              revoked or to have become invalid, \r\n                                              and its construction shall not be \r\n                                              altered, by reason of any \r\n                                              subsequent change of domicile of \r\n                                              the testator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 17&#8212;Ascertainment of \r\n                                              Internal Law.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where under this Act the \r\n                                              internal law in force in any \r\n                                              territory or state is to be \r\n                                              applied in the case of a will, but \r\n                                              there are in force in that \r\n                                              territory or state two or more \r\n                                              systems of internal law relating \r\n                                              to the formal validity of wills, \r\n                                              the system to be applied shall be \r\n                                              ascertained as follows:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) if there is in force \r\n                                              throughout the territory or state \r\n                                              a rule indicating which of those \r\n                                              systems can properly be applied in \r\n                                              the case in question, that rule \r\n                                              shall be followed; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) if there is no such rule, the \r\n                                              system shall be that with which \r\n                                              the testator was most closely \r\n                                              connected at the relevant time; \r\n                                              and for this purpose the relevant \r\n                                              time is the time of the testator''s \r\n                                              death where the matter is to be \r\n                                              determined by reference to \r\n                                              circumstances prevailing at his \r\n                                              death, and the time of execution \r\n                                              of the will in any other case.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In determining for the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act whether or \r\n                                              not the execution of a will \r\n                                              conformed to a particular law, \r\n                                              regard shall be had to the formal \r\n                                              requirements of that law at the \r\n                                              time of execution, but this shall \r\n                                              not prevent account being taken of \r\n                                              an alteration of law affecting \r\n                                              wills executed at that time if the \r\n                                              alteration enables the will to be \r\n                                              treated as properly executed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 18&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In this Act, unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires:&#8212;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;active service&quot; has the meaning \r\n                                              given to it by section 98 of the \r\n                                              Armed Forces Act, 1962 (Act 105);</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;child&quot; includes a person adopted \r\n                                              under any enactment for the time \r\n                                              being in force relating to \r\n                                              adoption, any person recognised by \r\n                                              the person in question to be his \r\n                                              child or to whom he stands in loco \r\n                                              parentis, and in the case of a \r\n                                              Ghanaian, includes also any person \r\n                                              recognised by customary law to be \r\n                                              the child of such person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;descendant&quot; means a child or \r\n                                              grandchild of the testator;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;internal law&quot; in relation to any \r\n                                              territory or state means the law \r\n                                              which would apply in a case where \r\n                                              no question of law in force in any \r\n                                              other territory or state arises;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;property&quot; includes movable and \r\n                                              immovable property and any right, \r\n                                              benefit, expectancy or other \r\n                                              interest;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;spouse&quot; means the wife or husband \r\n                                              of a deceased person;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &#8220;state&quot; means a territory or group \r\n                                              of territories having its own law \r\n                                              of nationality;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;will&quot; includes a codicil and any \r\n                                              other testamentary instrument, and \r\n                                              &quot;testator&quot; shall be construed \r\n                                              accordingly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 19&#8212;Statutes Ceasing to \r\n                                              Apply and Savings.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The English statutes relating \r\n                                              to wills as they apply in Ghana \r\n                                              shall cease to apply.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This Act shall only apply to \r\n                                              wills made after the commencement \r\n                                              of this Act.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) This Act shall not affect the \r\n                                              validity of oral testamentary \r\n                                              dispositions made in accordance \r\n                                              with customary law.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <b>\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Section 20&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This Act shall come into force on \r\n                                              the first day of June, 1971.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n        <tr>\r\n          <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366">&nbsp;</td>\r\n          <td width="777" height="50">\r\n            <p align="center">\r\n              </table>\r\n            </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 360');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(132, 'AIRPORT TAX (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2009 ', '<td><p class="Style" style="margin-left: 212.35pt">&nbsp;</p>\n												<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 54.95pt; margin-left: 57.1pt; margin-right: 55.35pt">\n												<b>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n												AIRPORT TAX (AMENDMENT) ACT, \n												2009 </span></b></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 54.95pt; margin-left: 57.1pt; margin-right: 55.35pt">\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												AN ACT to amend the Airport Tax \n												Act, 1963 (Act 209). </span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 145.65pt">\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: 700">\n												DATE OF ASSENT: <i>16th March, \n												2009. </i></span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 57.3pt">\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												ENACTED by the President and \n												Parliament: </span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 57.55pt">\n												<b>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												Section 1 of Act 209 amended\n												</span></b></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 57.55pt">\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												<b>1</b>. The Airport Tax Act, \n												1963 (Act 209) as amended is \n												further amended by the \n												substitution for subsection (1) \n												of section 1 of </span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 82.05pt">\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												&quot;Imposition of tax </span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.2pt; margin-left: 93.3pt">\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												1. (1) A passenger departing \n												from an airport by aircraft \n												shall pay a tax to the \n												Commissioner ofthe Internal \n												Revenue Service in respect of \n												each flight as follows: </span>\n												</p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 97.65pt">\n												<i>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												- (a) </span></i>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												to a destination within the \n												country, a tax of GH¢I.00;\n												</span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -115.4pt; margin-left: 115.4pt; margin-right: .4pt">\n												<i>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n												(b) </span></i>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												to a destination outside the \n												country and within West Africa, \n												a tax of US$50.00; </span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 106.05pt">\n												<i>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												(c) </span></i>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												to a destination outside West \n												Africa a tax of US$75.00&quot;.\n												</span></p>\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 57.55pt">\n												<b>\n												<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												Act 596 repealed </span></b></p>\n												<b>\n												<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n												2. </span></b>\n												<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">\n												The Airport·Tax (Amendment) Act \n	  2001 (Act 596) is repealed</span><p>', 'Fourth', 'Yes', 'ACT 209');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(133, 'Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 Act 749', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1337" height="64">\r\n                                              <div class="Section1">\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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												Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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												Act&nbsp;749</b></font></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                                <b>\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">ARRANGEMENT \r\n                                                OF SECTIONS </font></b></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><i>Section\r\n                                                </i></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b><i>Money \r\n                                                laundering </i></b></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.8pt; margin-left: 21.8pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Money \r\n                                                laundering </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.8pt; margin-left: 21.8pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Aiding \r\n                                                and abetting money laundering \r\n                                                activities </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.8pt; margin-left: 21.8pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Penalty for money laundering\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b><i>\r\n                                                Financial Intelligence Centre\r\n                                                </i></b></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.8pt; margin-left: 21.8pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Establishment of Financial \r\n                                                Intelligence Centre </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -4.55pt; margin-left: 4.55pt">\r\n                                                <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                                5.</span><font face="Arial">Objects \r\n                                                of the Centre </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -4.55pt; margin-left: 4.55pt">\r\n                                                <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                                6.</span><font face="Arial">Functions of the Centre </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -4.55pt; margin-left: 4.55pt">\r\n                                                <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n                                                7.</span><font face="Arial">Governing body of the Centre\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.8pt; margin-left: 21.8pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.</font><font face="Arial">Functions of the Board on policy \r\n                                                formulation </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.8pt; margin-left: 21.8pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9.</font><font face="Arial">Tenure \r\n                                                of office of members </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 22.55pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 10.</font><font face="Arial">Meetings of the Board </font>\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 22.55pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 11.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Disclosure of interest </font>\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 22.55pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 12.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Committees of the Board </font>\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 22.55pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 13.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Allowances </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b><i>\r\n                                                Administrative and financial \r\n                                                matters</i></b></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 14.&nbsp;Appointment of Chief Executive \r\n                                                Officer</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Functions of the Chief Executive \r\n                                                Officer </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 16,&nbsp;&nbsp;Appointment of Deputy Chief \r\n                                                Executive Officer</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 17.&nbsp;&nbsp;Appointment of other staff</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 18.&nbsp; Funds \r\n                                                of the Centre</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19. \r\n                                                Accounts and audit</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 20. Annual \r\n                                                repor1 and other reports </font>\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b><i>\r\n                                                Accountable institutions, \r\n                                                records and information</i></b></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 21.&nbsp; \r\n                                                Accountable institutions</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 22&nbsp;&nbsp; Registration of accountable \r\n                                                institutions</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 23.&nbsp; \r\n                                                &nbsp;Accountable institutions to \r\n                                                keep records</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 24.&nbsp;&nbsp; Duration for keeping records</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 25.&nbsp; Unauthorised access to computer \r\n                                                system or application data</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 26.&nbsp; Unauthorised modification of \r\n                                                computer system</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 27&nbsp; Duty \r\n                                                of operators of games of chance.\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 28. \r\n                                                Request for information </font>\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 29. \r\n                                                Information held by supervisory \r\n                                                bodies and revenue agencies\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;30. \r\n                                                Suspicious transaction report\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 31. \r\n                                                Conducting transaction to avoid \r\n                                                giving rise to a reporting duty</font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;32.&nbsp;Protection against civil or \r\n                                                criminal liability </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;33. \r\n                                                Conveyance of currency to or \r\n                                                from the Country </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34. \r\n                                                Electronic transfer of currency\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;35. \r\n                                                Reporting procedures </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;36. \r\n                                                Continuation of transactions\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;37 .Intervention by the Centre\r\n                                                </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;38&nbsp; Monitoring orders </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;39. \r\n                                                Offences in relation to records \r\n                                                and information </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b><i>\r\n                                                Compliance </i></b></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -23.75pt; margin-left: 23.75pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 40.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Formulation and implementation \r\n                                                of internal rules&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 41.</font><font face="Arial">Training and monitoring for \r\n                                                compliance&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 42.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Referral of suspected offences \r\n                                                to investigating authorities and \r\n                                                other public bodies </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 43.</font><font face="Arial">Responsibility for the \r\n                                                supervision of accountable \r\n                                                institutions </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 44.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Offences in relation to \r\n                                                compliance </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b><i>\r\n                                                Miscellaneous provisions </i>\r\n                                                </b></font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.9pt; margin-left: 25.9pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 45.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><font face="Arial">Extraditable offence </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 46.Trial \r\n                                                Court and proceedings </font>\r\n                                                </p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 47.</font><font face="Arial">Freezing of transactions or \r\n                                                accounts </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 48.</font><font face="Arial">Oath \r\n                                                of secrecy </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 49</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">\r\n                                                </span><font face="Arial">\r\n                                                Co-operation by officers of \r\n												pubic agencies </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 50.Regulations </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -25.2pt; margin-left: 25.2pt">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial">&nbsp; 51.</font><font face="Arial">Interpretation </font></p>\r\n                                                <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                                <font face="Arial"><b>SCHEDULE</b></font></div>\r\n                                              <p>\r\n                                              <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              <br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always">\r\n                                              </span><font face="Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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                                              <b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>ACT OF THE \r\n                                              PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF \r\n                                              GHANA</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">ENTITLED</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>ANTI-MONEY \r\n                                              LAUNDERING ACT, 2008&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">AN ACT to \r\n                                              prohibit money laundering, \r\n                                              establish a Financial Intelligence \r\n                                              Centre and to provide for related \r\n                                              matters. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>DATE OF \r\n                                              ASSENT: <i>22nd January, 2008.</i></b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>ENACTED by \r\n                                              the President and Parliament:</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>Money \r\n                                              laundering</i></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Money \r\n                                              laundering </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">1. (1) A person \r\n                                              commits an offence of money \r\n                                              laundering if the person knows or \r\n                                              ought to have known that property \r\n                                              is or fom1s part of the proceeds \r\n                                              or unlawful activity and the \r\n                                              person </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              converts, conceals, disguises or \r\n                                              transfers the property. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              conceals or disguises the unlawful \r\n                                              origin of the properly. Or</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;<i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              acquires, uses or takes possession \r\n                                              of the property. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) For the \r\n                                              purpose of this Act, unlawful \r\n                                              activity means conduct which \r\n                                              constitutes a serious offence, \r\n                                              financing of a terrorist act or \r\n                                              contravening on of a la w which \r\n                                              occurs after the commencement of \r\n                                              this Act whether the conduct \r\n                                              occurs in this country or \r\n                                              elsewhere. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Aiding: and \r\n                                              abetting money laundering \r\n                                              &nbsp;activities </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">2. A person \r\n                                              commits an offence if the person \r\n                                              knows or ought to have known that \r\n                                              another person has obtained \r\n                                              proceeds from an unlawful activity \r\n                                              &nbsp;and enters into an agreement with \r\n                                              that other person or engages in a \r\n                                              transaction where </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              retention or the control by or on \r\n                                              behalf of that other person of the \r\n                                              proceeds from unlawful activity is \r\n                                              facilitated, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>the \r\n                                              proceeds from that unlawful \r\n                                              activity are used to make funds \r\n                                              available to acquire propel1y on \r\n                                              behalf of that other person,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Penalty for \r\n                                              money laundering </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">3. A person who \r\n                                              contravenes section l or 2 commits \r\n                                              an offence and is liable on \r\n                                              summary conviction to a fine of \r\n                                              not more than five thousand \r\n                                              penalty units or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment of not less than \r\n                                              twelve months and not more than \r\n                                              ten years or to both, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>Financial \r\n                                              Intelligence Centre</i></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>\r\n                                              Establishment of Financial \r\n                                              Intelligence Centre </b></font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">4. (1) There is \r\n                                              established by this Act a body to \r\n                                              be known as the Financial \r\n                                              Intelligence Centre, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The Centre \r\n                                              is a body corporate with perpetual \r\n                                              succession and a common seal and \r\n                                              may sue and be sued in its \r\n                                              corporate name. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The Centre \r\n                                              may for the performance of its \r\n                                              functions acquire and hold movable \r\n                                              and immovable propel1y and may \r\n                                              enter into a contract or any other \r\n                                              transaction. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Objects of \r\n                                              the Centre </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">5. The objects \r\n                                              of the Centre are to </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              assist in the identification of \r\n                                              proceeds of unlawful activity and \r\n                                              the combat of money laundering \r\n                                              activities; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>b) </i>\r\n                                              make information available to \r\n                                              investigating authorities. the \r\n                                              intelligence agencies and the \r\n                                              revenue agencies&quot;:, to facilitate \r\n                                              the administration and enforcement \r\n                                              of the laws of the Republic; and\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              exchange information with similar'' \r\n                                              bodies in other countries as \r\n                                              regards money laundering \r\n                                              activities and similar offences.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Functions of \r\n                                              the Centre </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">6. To achieve \r\n                                              the objects, the Centre shall\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(a)&nbsp; process, \r\n                                              analyse. disseminate and interpret \r\n                                              information disclosed to or obtain \r\n                                              by the centre in terms of this Act</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>&nbsp;(b) </i>\r\n                                              retain the information in the \r\n                                              manner and for the period required \r\n                                              under this Act: </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>&nbsp;(c) </i>\r\n                                              inform, advise and co-operate with \r\n                                              investigating authorities, \r\n                                              supervisory bodies, the revenue \r\n                                              agencies, the intelligence \r\n                                              agencies and foreign counterparts; \r\n                                              and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>\r\n                                              monitor and give guidance to \r\n                                              accountable instillations, \r\n                                              supervisory bodies and other \r\n                                              persons on the discharge of their \r\n                                              duties and in compliance with this \r\n                                              Act. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Governing \r\n                                              body of the Centre </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">7&nbsp; The \r\n                                              governing body of the Centre is a \r\n                                              Board consisting of </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>one \r\n                                              representative each from: </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(i) the \r\n                                              Ministry of Finance not below the \r\n                                              rank of director, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) the \r\n                                              Ministry responsible for National \r\n                                              Security not below the rank of \r\n                                              director, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(iii) ?''the \r\n                                              Bank of Ghana not below the rank \r\n                                              of director; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>one \r\n                                              senior police officer not below \r\n                                              the rank of Assistant Commissioner \r\n                                              nominated by the Minister for the \r\n                                              Interior; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>the \r\n                                              Chief Executive Officer, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>one \r\n                                              lawyer in private practice with at \r\n                                              least tell years experience \r\n                                              nominated by the Attorney-General \r\n                                              and Minister for Justice, on the \r\n                                              advice of the Ghana Bar \r\n                                              Association, and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(e) </i>one \r\n                                              other person from the private \r\n                                              sector with accounting, banking \r\n                                              and finance experience nominated \r\n                                              by the Minister. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              President shall appoint the \r\n                                              chairperson and the other members \r\n                                              of the Board in accordance w;[h \r\n                                              ar1ic1e 70 of [he Constitution.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Functions of \r\n                                              the Board on policy formulation\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">8. The Board \r\n                                              shall formulate and ensure the \r\n                                              implementation of policies \r\n                                              neces­sary for the achievement of \r\n                                              the objects of the Centre. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Tenure of \r\n                                              office of members </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">9. (1) A member \r\n                                              of the Board other than the Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer shall hole! \r\n                                              office for a period of four years \r\n                                              and is eligible for \r\n                                              re-appointment, but a member shall \r\n                                              not be appointed for more than two \r\n                                              terms. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) \\\\There a \r\n                                              member of the Board resigns, dies, \r\n                                              is removed from office or is for a \r\n                                              sufficient reason unable to act as \r\n                                              a member, the Minister shall \r\n                                              notify the President of the \r\n                                              vacancy and the President shall, \r\n                                              in accordance with article 70 of \r\n                                              the Constitution, appoint another \r\n                                              person to hold office for the \r\n                                              unexpired portion of the members \r\n                                              term of &nbsp;office. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) A member of \r\n                                              the &nbsp;Board other than the Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer may at any time \r\n                                              resign from office in writing \r\n                                              addressee! to the President \r\n                                              through the Minister. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;(4) A member \r\n                                              of the Board who is absent from \r\n                                              three consecutive meetings of the \r\n                                              Board without sufficient cause \r\n                                              ceases to be a member of the \r\n                                              Board. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(5) The \r\n                                              President, by a letter addressed \r\n                                              to a member </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>may \r\n                                              revoke the appointment of that \r\n                                              member where there are sufficient \r\n                                              grounds for the revocation; and\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              shall revoke the appointment of a \r\n                                              member at the request of the \r\n                                              nominating body. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Meetings of \r\n                                              the Board </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>10. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Board shall meet at least once \r\n                                              every three months for the \r\n                                              despatch of business at the times \r\n                                              and in the places determined by \r\n                                              the chairperson. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              chairperson shall at the request \r\n                                              of not less than three of the \r\n                                              members of the Board convene an \r\n                                              extraordinary meeting of the'' \r\n                                              Board at the place and time \r\n                                              determined by the chairperson.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The quorum \r\n                                              at a meeting of the Board is \r\n                                              three. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) The \r\n                                              chairperson shall preside at \r\n                                              meetings of the Board and in the \r\n                                              absence of the chairperson, a \r\n                                              member of the Board elected by the \r\n                                              members from among their number \r\n                                              shall preside. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(5) Matters \r\n                                              before the Board shall be decided \r\n                                              by a majority of the members \r\n                                              present and voting and in the \r\n                                              event of equality of votes, the \r\n                                              person presiding shall have a \r\n                                              casting vote. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(6) The Board \r\n                                              may co-opt a person to attend a \r\n                                              Board meeting but that person \r\n                                              shall not vote on a matter for \r\n                                              decision at the meeting. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(7) The \r\n                                              proceedings of the Board shall not \r\n                                              be invalidated by reason of a \r\n                                              vacancy among the members or a \r\n                                              defect in the appointment or \r\n                                              qualification of a member. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(8) Subject to \r\n                                              this section, the Board may \r\n                                              detem1ine the procedure for its \r\n                                              meetings. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Disclosure \r\n                                              of interest </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>11. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A member of the Board who has an \r\n                                              interest in a matter for \r\n                                              consideration by the Board shall \r\n                                              disclose in writing the nature of \r\n                                              that interest and is disqualified \r\n                                              from participating in the \r\n                                              deliberations of the Board in \r\n                                              respect of that matter. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where a \r\n                                              member contravenes sub section (1) \r\n                                              the chairperson shall notify the \r\n                                              Minister who shall inform the \r\n                                              President to revoke the \r\n                                              appointment of the member. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Committee of \r\n                                              the Board </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">12. (1) The \r\n                                              Board may constitute committees \r\n                                              consisting of members of the Board \r\n                                              or non-members or both, to perform \r\n                                              a function of the Board. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) A committee \r\n                                              of the Board may be chaired by a \r\n                                              member of the Board. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) Section 11 \r\n                                              applies to a member of a committee \r\n                                              of the Board. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Allowances\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">13. Members of \r\n                                              the Board and members of a \r\n                                              committee of the Board shall be \r\n                                              paid allowances approved by the \r\n                                              Minister. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>\r\n                                              Administrative and financial \r\n                                              matters </i>Appointment of Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">14. (1) The \r\n                                              President shall. in accordance \r\n                                              with article 195 of the \r\n                                              Constitution, appoint a Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer for the Centre.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer shall hold \r\n                                              office on the terms and conditions \r\n                                              specified in the letter of \r\n                                              appointment. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Functions of \r\n                                              the Chief Executive Officer </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">15. (1) The \r\n                                              Chief Executive Officer is \r\n                                              responsible for the day to day \r\n                                              adminis­tration of the Centre and \r\n                                              is answerable to the Board in the \r\n                                              performance of functions under \r\n                                              this Act. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer may delegate a \r\n                                              function to the Deputy Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer but the Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer shall not be \r\n                                              relieved of the ultimate \r\n                                              responsibility for the performance \r\n                                              of the delegated function. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Appointment \r\n                                              of Deputy Chief Executive Officer\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">16. (1) The \r\n                                              President shall, in accordance \r\n                                              with article 195 of the \r\n                                              Constitution, appoint a Deputy \r\n                                              Chief Executive Officer for the \r\n                                              Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) In the \r\n                                              absence of the Chief Executive \r\n                                              0lficer, the Deputy Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer shall perform \r\n                                              the functions of the Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Appointment \r\n                                              of other staff </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">17. (I) The \r\n                                              President shall in accordance with \r\n                                              artic Ie 195 of the Constitution, \r\n                                              appoint other staff of the Centre \r\n                                              that are necessary for the proper \r\n                                              and effective performance of the \r\n                                              functions of the Centre, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Other \r\n                                              public officers may be transferred \r\n                                              or seconded to the Centre or may \r\n                                              otherwise give assistance to the \r\n                                              Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The Centre \r\n                                              may engage the services of \r\n                                              consultants on the recommen­dation \r\n                                              or the Board. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) The Chief \r\n                                              Executive Deputy Chief Executive \r\n                                              and staff&nbsp; of the centre shall be \r\n                                              subject to sedulity screening.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Funds of'' \r\n                                              the Centre </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">I8. The funds \r\n                                              of the Centre shall include </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              moneys approved by Parliament\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;(b) donations. \r\n                                              grants. and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>any \r\n                                              other moneys that are approved&nbsp; by \r\n                                              the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance &nbsp;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Accounts and \r\n                                              audit </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>19. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Board shall keep books of \r\n                                              account and proper records in \r\n                                              relation to the Centre in the form \r\n                                              approved by the Auditor-General.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The Board \r\n                                              shall, within three months after \r\n                                              the end of the financial year, \r\n                                              submit the accounts of the Centre \r\n                                              to the Auditor-General for audit.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The \r\n                                              Auditor-General shall, not later \r\n                                              than three months, after the \r\n                                              receipt of the accounts, audit the \r\n                                              accounts and forward a copy of the \r\n                                              audit report to the Board. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) The \r\n                                              Internal Audit Agency Act, 2003 \r\n                                              (Act 658) applies to this Act. <i>\r\n                                              (S) </i>The financial year of the \r\n                                              Centre is the same as the \r\n                                              financial year of the Government.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Annual \r\n                                              report and other reports </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>20. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Board shall, within one month \r\n                                              after the receipt of the audit \r\n                                              report, submit an annual report to \r\n                                              the Minister covering the \r\n                                              activities and operations of the \r\n                                              Centre for the year of which the \r\n                                              report relates. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The annual \r\n                                              rep0l1 shall include the \r\n                                              Auditor-General''s report. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The \r\n                                              Minister shall, within one month \r\n                                              after the receipt of the annual \r\n                                              rep0l1, submit the report to \r\n                                              Parliament with a statement that \r\n                                              the Minister considers necessary.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) The Board \r\n                                              shall also submit to the Minister \r\n                                              any other report which the \r\n                                              Minister may require in writing.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>Accountable \r\n                                              institutions, records and \r\n                                              information </i></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Accountable \r\n                                              institutions </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>21. </b>(1) \r\n                                              For the purposes of this Act \r\n                                              accountable institutions are as \r\n                                              set out in the First Schedule.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The \r\n                                              Minister may by Legislative \r\n                                              Instrument amend the First \r\n                                              Schedule. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Register of \r\n                                              accountable institutions </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>22. </b>(l) \r\n                                              Each supervisory body shall \r\n                                              furnish the Centre with a list of \r\n                                              account­able institutions which \r\n                                              are registered with it. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(2) The \r\n                                              Centre shall allocate to each \r\n                                              registered accountable institution \r\n                                              a number for identification \r\n                                              purposes. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) The \r\n                                              Centre shall maintain a register \r\n                                              of accountable institutions.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Accountable \r\n                                              institutions to keep records </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">23. (1) An \r\n                                              accountable institution that \r\n                                              establishes a business \r\n                                              relationship with a </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">person shall \r\n                                              keep records of </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              identity of the person or the \r\n                                              agent of the person; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              transaction made through the \r\n                                              accountable institution, and <i>\r\n                                              (c) </i>suspicious transactions \r\n                                              reports made to the Centre. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) For the \r\n                                              purposes of this Act records may \r\n                                              be kept on a computer system or an \r\n                                              electronic device capable of being \r\n                                              used to store information. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) This \r\n                                              section applies to each single \r\n                                              transaction with an accountable \r\n                                              institution. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Duration for \r\n                                              keeping records </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">24. (1) An \r\n                                              accountable institution shall keep \r\n                                              the records for </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>not \r\n                                              less than six years after the date \r\n                                              on which a relationship is \r\n                                              terminated in case of a business \r\n                                              relationship, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>not \r\n                                              less than six years after the date \r\n                                              a transaction is concluded. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) An \r\n                                              accountable institution may \r\n                                              appoint a person to keep records \r\n                                              on behalf of the accountable \r\n                                              institution. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) An \r\n                                              accountable institution that \r\n                                              appoints a per~ on to keep records \r\n                                              on its behalf shall inform the \r\n                                              Centre of the appointment in \r\n                                              wrighting. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) At the end \r\n                                              of the six year period, the \r\n                                              account .the institution shall \r\n                                              send the records to the Public \r\n                                              Records and Archives \r\n                                              Administration DepaI1ment. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Unauthorised \r\n                                              access to computer system or \r\n                                              application data </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">25. A person \r\n                                              shall not </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              access a computer system, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              access application data held in a \r\n                                              computer system, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              cause a computer system </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">that belongs \r\n                                              to, or is under the control of the \r\n                                              Centre or an accountable \r\n                                              institution to perform or fail to \r\n                                              perform a function without the \r\n                                              consent of the Centre or the \r\n                                              accountable institution. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Unauthorised \r\n                                              modification of computer system\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">26. A person \r\n                                              shall not </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              modify, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              erase, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( c) destroy\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">the contents of \r\n                                              a computer system or application \r\n                                              data of a computer system that \r\n                                              belongs to the Centre or an \r\n                                              accountable institution without \r\n                                              the consent of the Centre or the \r\n                                              accountable institution. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Duty of \r\n                                              operators of games of chance </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>27. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Gaming Commissioner shall not \r\n                                              issue or renew a licence for the \r\n                                              operation of a game of chance \r\n                                              under the Gaming Act, 2006 (Act \r\n                                              721) unless the applicant for the \r\n                                              licence or renewal provides proof \r\n                                              of the lawful origin of the \r\n                                              capital for the intended operation \r\n                                              or in the case of a renewal, the \r\n                                              origin of its additional capital \r\n                                              to the Games Commissioner. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) A betting \r\n                                              or gaming operator shall </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              verify the identity of a person \r\n                                              who buys or exchanges chips or \r\n                                              tokens, by requesting the person \r\n                                              to present an authentic document \r\n                                              bearing the name and address of \r\n                                              the person; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>keep \r\n                                              records of gaming transactions in \r\n                                              chronological order in a register \r\n                                              indicating </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(i) the nature \r\n                                              and amount of currency involved in \r\n                                              each transaction, and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) the full \r\n                                              name and address of the person in \r\n                                              a register in a form authorised by \r\n                                              the Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The \r\n                                              register shall be preserved for at \r\n                                              least six years after the last \r\n                                              re­corded transaction in the \r\n                                              register and after the six year \r\n                                              period, the register shall be sent \r\n                                              to the Public Records and Archives \r\n                                              Administration Department. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Request for \r\n                                              information </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>28. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Centre or an authorised \r\n                                              representative of the Centre may \r\n                                              request an accountable institution \r\n                                              to disclose whether </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>a \r\n                                              person is or has been a client of \r\n                                              the accountable institution,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>b) </i>a \r\n                                              person is acting or has acted on \r\n                                              behalf of a client of the \r\n                                              accountable institution, or </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>a \r\n                                              client of the accountable \r\n                                              institution is acting or has acted \r\n                                              on behalf of another person </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">and the \r\n                                              accountable institution shall \r\n                                              comply. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The Centre \r\n                                              may request further information \r\n                                              where the Centre is of the opinion \r\n                                              that the information given to the \r\n                                              Centre is not adequate. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Information \r\n                                              held by supervisory bodies and \r\n                                              revenue agencies </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>29. </b>(1) \r\n                                              Where a supervisory body or a \r\n                                              revenue agency becomes aware or \r\n                                              believes that an accountable \r\n                                              institution, as a result of a \r\n                                              transaction concluded by or with \r\n                                              the accountable institution,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>has \r\n                                              received or is about to receive \r\n                                              the proceeds of unlawful activity, \r\n                                              or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;( <i>b) </i>\r\n                                              has been used or may be used for \r\n                                              money laundering or a suspicious \r\n                                              transaction, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">the supervisory \r\n                                              body or revenue agency shall \r\n                                              advise the Centre of the fact and \r\n                                              furnish the Centre with the \r\n                                              information and records in respect \r\n                                              of the knowledge or suspicion \r\n                                              which the Centre may reasonably \r\n                                              require. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where the \r\n                                              Centre believes that a supervisory \r\n                                              body or revenue agency may have \r\n                                              information indicating that an \r\n                                              accountable institution </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>is \r\n                                              about to receive the proceeds of \r\n                                              unlawful activity as a result of a \r\n                                              transaction, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>has \r\n                                              been used or may be used for money \r\n                                              laundering or for the purpose\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">of any \r\n                                              suspicious transaction, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">the Centre may \r\n                                              request the supervisory body or \r\n                                              revenue agency to confirm or rebut \r\n                                              the belief and the supervisory \r\n                                              body or revenue agency shall \r\n                                              comply. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Suspicious \r\n                                              transaction report </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>30. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A person who or an institution \r\n                                              which knows or suspects that\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>a \r\n                                              business entity, an accountable \r\n                                              institution or a trust has \r\n                                              received or is about to receive \r\n                                              the proceeds of unlawful activity, \r\n                                              or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>a \r\n                                              transaction to which the business \r\n                                              entity is a part </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(i) facilitated \r\n                                              or is likely to facilitate the \r\n                                              transfer of the proceeds of \r\n                                              unlawful activity, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) has no \r\n                                              apparent business or lawful \r\n                                              purpose, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(iii) is \r\n                                              conducted to avoid or give rise to \r\n                                              a reporting duty under this Act,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(iv) may be \r\n                                              relevant to an investigation into \r\n                                              tax evasion or an attempt to evade \r\n                                              the payment of tax, duty or a levy \r\n                                              imposed by legislation, or </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(v) has been \r\n                                              used or is about to engage in \r\n                                              money laundering, shall within \r\n                                              twenty four hours after the \r\n                                              knowledge or the ground for \r\n                                              suspicion of the transaction \r\n                                              submit a suspicious transaction \r\n                                              report to the Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where a \r\n                                              person suspects a transaction to \r\n                                              be linked to or used for the \r\n                                              financing of a terrorist act as \r\n                                              defined by law, the person shall \r\n                                              make a report to the Centre within \r\n                                              twenty four hours of the \r\n                                              suspicion. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) A person \r\n                                              who makes a suspicious transaction \r\n                                              report shall not <i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              disclose the contents to another \r\n                                              person, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              reveal the personal details of the \r\n                                              officer of the Centre who receives \r\n                                              the report to another person.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) A person \r\n                                              who receives a suspicious \r\n                                              transaction report shall not\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              disclose the contents of the \r\n                                              report to a person not authorised \r\n                                              to know the contents of the \r\n                                              report, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>&nbsp;(b) </i>\r\n                                              disclose the personal details of \r\n                                              the person who made the report to \r\n                                              another person. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(5) A person \r\n                                              who makes a suspicious transaction \r\n                                              report shall disclose the contents \r\n                                              where </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              person is required by law to \r\n                                              disclose the contents, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>it \r\n                                              is to carry out the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>it \r\n                                              is for legal proceedings, or\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>it \r\n                                              is by an order of a Court. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Conducting \r\n                                              transaction to avoid giving rise \r\n                                              to a reporting duty </b></font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>31. </b>A \r\n                                              person shall not conduct two or \r\n                                              more transactions separately with \r\n                                              one or more than one accountable \r\n                                              institution so as to avoid the \r\n                                              duty to report a transaction or in \r\n                                              breach of the duty to disclose \r\n                                              information under this Act. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Protection \r\n                                              against civil or </b>criminal \r\n                                              liability </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>32. </b>A \r\n                                              person who makes a suspicious \r\n                                              transaction report under section \r\n                                              30 is not liable for the breach of \r\n                                              a restriction on disclosure of \r\n                                              information imposed by con­tract \r\n                                              or by any law if the person \r\n                                              reports the suspicion to the \r\n                                              Centre in good faith. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Conveyance \r\n                                              of currency to or from the country\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>33. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A person who intends to convey \r\n                                              currency that exceeds the amount \r\n                                              prescribed by the Bank of Ghana to \r\n                                              or from this country shall declare \r\n                                              the particu­lars of the currency \r\n                                              and the amount to be conveyed to \r\n                                              the Bank of Ghana or its \r\n                                              authorised agent at the port of \r\n                                              entry or exit. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) A person \r\n                                              authorised to receive the \r\n                                              declaration shall immediately on \r\n                                              receipt of the declaration send a \r\n                                              copy to the Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The \r\n                                              declaration shall be made in \r\n                                              accordance with the Foreign \r\n                                              Exchange Act, 2007 (Act 723) and \r\n                                              Regulations made under that Act.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Electronic \r\n                                              transfer of currency </b></font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>34. </b>\r\n                                              Where an accountable institution \r\n                                              through electronic means and in \r\n                                              accor­dance with the Foreign \r\n                                              Exchange Act, 2007 (Act 723) and \r\n                                              Regulations made under that Act,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              transfers currency outside the \r\n                                              country, or <i>(b) </i>receives \r\n                                              currency from outside the country\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">which exceeds \r\n                                              the amount prescribed by the Bank \r\n                                              of Ghana, the accountable \r\n                                              institution shall within \r\n                                              twenty-four hours after the \r\n                                              transfer or receipt of the \r\n                                              currency, report the particulars \r\n                                              of the transfer or receipt to the \r\n                                              Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Reporting \r\n                                              procedures </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>35. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A report to the Centre on the \r\n                                              conveyance of currency and the \r\n                                              elec­tronic transfer of currency \r\n                                              by an accountable institution \r\n                                              shall be made in a manner \r\n                                              prescribed. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(2) The \r\n                                              Centre or an authorised officer, \r\n                                              may request an accountable \r\n                                              insti­tution that has made a \r\n                                              report to furnish the Centre or \r\n                                              body with additional informa­tion \r\n                                              concerning the report. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Continuation \r\n                                              of transactions </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>36. </b>(1) \r\n                                              An accountable institution \r\n                                              required to make a report to the \r\n                                              Centre may continue to carry out \r\n                                              the transaction in respect of \r\n                                              which the report is required to be \r\n                                              made but shall inform the Centre.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) The \r\n                                              Centre may within three days, \r\n                                              direct an accountable institution \r\n                                              or a person not to proceed with a \r\n                                              transaction on which a report has \r\n                                              been made. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Intervention \r\n                                              by the Centre </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>37. </b>\r\n                                              Where the Centre after consulting \r\n                                              an accountable institution, or a \r\n                                              person required to make a report, \r\n                                              has reasonable grounds to suspect \r\n                                              that a transaction or proposed \r\n                                              transaction may involve the \r\n                                              proceeds of unlawful activity or \r\n                                              may constitute money laundering, \r\n                                              the Centre may direct the \r\n                                              accountable institution or person \r\n                                              to </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>&nbsp;(a) </i>\r\n                                              make the necessary inquiries \r\n                                              concerning the transaction, or\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;<i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              inform and advise an investigating \r\n                                              authority, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">where the \r\n                                              Centre considers it appropriate.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Monitoring \r\n                                              orders </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>38. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A Court may, on written \r\n                                              application by the Centre, make a \r\n                                              monitoring order requesting an \r\n                                              accountable institution to make a \r\n                                              report to the Centre. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The order \r\n                                              may request that transactions \r\n                                              conducted by a specified person \r\n                                              with an accountable institution \r\n                                              and transactions conducted in \r\n                                              respect of a specified account or \r\n                                              facility at the accountable \r\n                                              institution shall be reported if \r\n                                              there are reasonable grounds to \r\n                                              suspect that </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>that \r\n                                              person has transferred or may \r\n                                              transfer the proceeds of unlawful \r\n                                              activity through the accountable \r\n                                              institution or is using or may use \r\n                                              the accountable institution for \r\n                                              money laundering, and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>the \r\n                                              account or other facility has \r\n                                              received or may receive &nbsp;the \r\n                                              proceeds of unlawful activity or \r\n                                              is being or may be used for money \r\n                                              laundering purposes. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) The order \r\n                                              lapses after three months except \r\n                                              that before the expiry of the \r\n                                              three months an application may be \r\n                                              made to the Court to extend the \r\n                                              order for a period of not more \r\n                                              than three months at a time if\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              grounds on which the order is \r\n                                              based still exists, and </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>the \r\n                                              Court is satisfied that the \r\n                                              interest of justice may best be \r\n                                              served by monitoring the person, \r\n                                              account or facility referred to in \r\n                                              subsection (1) and in the manner \r\n                                              provided for in this section.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;(4) An \r\n                                              application under this section \r\n                                              shall be made by one party without \r\n                                              notice to the other. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Offences in \r\n                                              relation to records and \r\n                                              information </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>39. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A person who without reasonable \r\n                                              excuse </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              fails to keep records, contrary to \r\n                                              section 23; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              accesses a computer system, \r\n                                              application data held in a \r\n                                              computer system or causes a \r\n                                              computer system that belongs to or \r\n                                              is under the control of the Centre \r\n                                              or an accountable institution to \r\n                                              fail to perform contrary to \r\n                                              section 25; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              modifies a computer system \r\n                                              contrary to section 26;</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;<i>(d) </i>\r\n                                              fails to comply with section 27 \r\n                                              (2); </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>e) </i>\r\n                                              fails to or refuses to advise the \r\n                                              Centre or an authorised \r\n                                              representative of the Centre of a \r\n                                              client contrary to section 28;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(f) </i>\r\n                                              fails to report a suspicious \r\n                                              transaction contrary to section \r\n                                              30; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(g) </i>\r\n                                              fails to protect the identity of \r\n                                              the officer of the Centre who \r\n                                              receives the report contrary to \r\n                                              section 30; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(h) </i>\r\n                                              fails to protect the identity of a \r\n                                              person who makes a suspicious \r\n                                              transaction report contrary to \r\n                                              section 30; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(<i>i) </i>\r\n                                              conducts transactions in a manner \r\n                                              to avoid a reporting duty contrary \r\n                                              to section 31; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(j) </i>\r\n                                              fails to give notice of the \r\n                                              conveyance of currency within, to \r\n                                              or from the Republic contrary to \r\n                                              section 33; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(k) </i>\r\n                                              fails to inform the Centre of the \r\n                                              electronic transfer of currency \r\n                                              contrary to section 34; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(I) </i>\r\n                                              fails to furnish the Centre with \r\n                                              additional information contrary to \r\n                                              section 35; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(m) </i>\r\n                                              fails to comply with a direction \r\n                                              of the Centre and proceeds with a \r\n                                              transaction contrary to section \r\n                                              37; or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(n) </i>\r\n                                              fails to comply with a monitoring \r\n                                              order contrary to section 38, \r\n                                              commits an offence and is liable \r\n                                              on summary conviction to a fine of \r\n                                              not more than fi ve hundred \r\n                                              penalty units or to a term of \r\n                                              imprisonment of not more than \r\n                                              three years or to both. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where the \r\n                                              offence is committed by a company \r\n                                              or a body of persons the penalty \r\n                                              shall be a fine of not more than \r\n                                              one thousand penalty units, and\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>in \r\n                                              the case of a body corporate, \r\n                                              other than a partnership, each \r\n                                              director or an officer of the body \r\n                                              is considered to have committed \r\n                                              the offence; and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>in \r\n                                              the case of a partnership, each \r\n                                              partner or officer of that body is \r\n                                              considered to have committed that \r\n                                              offence. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;(3) A person \r\n                                              shall not be convicted of an \r\n                                              offence under subsection (2), if \r\n                                              the person proves that the offence \r\n                                              was committed without the person''s \r\n                                              knowledge or connivance and that \r\n                                              the person exercised due care and \r\n                                              diligence to prevent the \r\n                                              commission of the offence having \r\n                                              regard to all the circumstances.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) The court \r\n                                              shall in addition to the penalty, \r\n                                              refer the matter to the Bank of \r\n                                              Ghana for administrative sanction \r\n                                              where the offence is committed by \r\n                                              a bank. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(5) A court \r\n                                              shall refer the conviction of an \r\n                                              accountable institution to the \r\n                                              supervisory body concerned for \r\n                                              administrative sanction </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>Compliance\r\n                                              </i></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Formulation \r\n                                              and implementation of internal \r\n                                              rules </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>40. </b>(1) \r\n                                              An accountable institution shall \r\n                                              in consultation with the Centre \r\n                                              formulate and implement internal \r\n                                              rules concerning </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              establishment and verification of \r\n                                              the identity of persons whom the \r\n                                              institution is required to \r\n                                              identify, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>b) </i>\r\n                                              information of which records must \r\n                                              be kept, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>the \r\n                                              manner in which and the place at \r\n                                              which the records must be kept,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>the \r\n                                              steps to be taken to determine \r\n                                              when a transaction is reportable, \r\n                                              and <i>(e) </i>other matters that \r\n                                              an institution may determine.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) An \r\n                                              accountable institution shall make \r\n                                              its internal rules available to \r\n                                              its employees involved in dealing \r\n                                              with transactions to which this \r\n                                              Act applies. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) An \r\n                                              accountable institution shall, on \r\n                                              request, make a copy of its \r\n                                              internal rules available to </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              Centre, and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>b) </i>a \r\n                                              supervisory body which performs \r\n                                              regulatory or supervisory \r\n                                              functions over that accountable \r\n                                              institution. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(4) An \r\n                                              accountable institution shall \r\n                                              ensure that the foreign branches \r\n                                              and subsidiaries of the \r\n                                              accountable institution observe \r\n                                              the rules consistent with a \r\n                                              subsidiary company of the \r\n                                              accountable institution registered \r\n                                              in the Republic. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Training and \r\n                                              monitoring for compliance </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>41. </b>An \r\n                                              accountable institution shall\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              train its employees on the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act and the \r\n                                              internal rules, and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              appoint a compliance officer to \r\n                                              ensure observance </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(i) of the \r\n                                              provisions of this Act and the \r\n                                              internal rules by the employees of \r\n                                              the &nbsp;accountable institution, and\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) of the \r\n                                              obligations under this Act by the \r\n                                              accountable institution. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Referral of \r\n                                              suspected offences to \r\n                                              investigating authorities and \r\n                                              other public bodies </b></font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>42. </b>\r\n                                              Where the Centre has reasonable \r\n                                              grounds to suspect that an \r\n                                              accountable institution or a \r\n                                              person other than a supervisory \r\n                                              body subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              this Act, has contravened or \r\n                                              failed to comply with a provision \r\n                                              of this Act or a rule </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">or guideline \r\n                                              applicable to the accountable \r\n                                              institution or person which \r\n                                              facilitates compliance with this \r\n                                              Act, the Centre shall refer the \r\n                                              matter to </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>the \r\n                                              relevant investigating authority, \r\n                                              or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>an \r\n                                              appropriate supervisory body, a \r\n                                              public body or other authority \r\n                                              affected by the contravention or \r\n                                              non-compliance, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">together with \r\n                                              recommendations considered \r\n                                              appropriate by the Centre. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>\r\n                                              Responsibility for the supervision \r\n                                              of accountable institutions </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>43. </b>(1) \r\n                                              Where the Centre refers a matter \r\n                                              to a supervisory body, public body \r\n                                              or authority, the supervisory \r\n                                              body, public body or authority \r\n                                              shall investigate the matter and \r\n                                              may after consultation with the \r\n                                              Centre take steps to remedy the \r\n                                              matter. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Where the \r\n                                              supervisory body, public body or \r\n                                              an authority fails to take steps \r\n                                              to remedy the matter, the Centre \r\n                                              may in consultation with the \r\n                                              supervisory Body, public body or \r\n                                              authority take steps to remedy the \r\n                                              matter. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Offences in \r\n                                              relation to compliance </b></font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>44. </b>An \r\n                                              accountable institution, which \r\n                                              fails to </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              formulate and implement internal \r\n                                              rules contrary to section 40, or\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>b) </i>\r\n                                              provide training or appoint a \r\n                                              compliance officer contrary to \r\n                                              section 41, commits an offence and \r\n                                              is liable on summary conviction to \r\n                                              a fine of not more than five \r\n                                              hundred penalty units. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>\r\n                                              Miscellaneous provisions</i></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Extraditable \r\n                                              offence </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>45. </b>\r\n                                              Money laundering and terrorist \r\n                                              financing are extraditable \r\n                                              offences under the Extradition \r\n                                              Act, 1960 (Act 22). </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Trial court \r\n                                              and proceedings </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>46. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The High Court and Circuit Court \r\n                                              have jurisdiction to try an \r\n                                              offence under this Act. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) In a trial \r\n                                              for an offence under this Act, the \r\n                                              accused person may be presumed to \r\n                                              have unlawfully obtained pecuniary \r\n                                              resources or property in the \r\n                                              ab­sence of evidence to the \r\n                                              contrary if the accused person,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>is \r\n                                              in possession of pecuniary \r\n                                              resources or a property for which \r\n                                              the accused cannot account and \r\n                                              which is disproportionate to the \r\n                                              accused person''s known sources of \r\n                                              income, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>&nbsp;(b) </i>had \r\n                                              at the time of the alleged offence \r\n                                              obtained access to personal \r\n                                              pecuniary resources or property \r\n                                              for which the accused cannot \r\n                                              satisfactorily account. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Freezing </b>\r\n                                              of transactions <b>or accounts </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>47. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Centre shall not investigate \r\n                                              serious offences but where the \r\n                                              Chief Executive Officer is of the \r\n                                              opinion that it is necessary to \r\n                                              freeze a transaction or an account \r\n                                              to prevent money laundering, the \r\n                                              Chief Executive Officer may direct \r\n                                              the freez­ing of a transaction or \r\n                                              account of any accountable \r\n                                              institution. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) The Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer shall apply to a \r\n                                              court within seven days after \r\n                                              freezing a transaction or account \r\n                                              for confirmation of the action \r\n                                              taken and the court may confirm \r\n                                              the freezing on conditions or \r\n                                              direct the de-freezing of the \r\n                                              transaction or account. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) Where a \r\n                                              transaction or account has been \r\n                                              frozen, the person affected shall \r\n                                              be notified by the Chief Executive \r\n                                              Officer within forty-eight hours \r\n                                              of the freezing of the transaction \r\n                                              or account and the person affected \r\n                                              may seek redress from court.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Oath of \r\n                                              secrecy </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>48. </b>(1) \r\n                                              A person </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              appointed to an office, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              appointed to act in an office, or\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              authorised to perform a function,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">under this Act \r\n                                              shall swear the oath of secrecy \r\n                                              set out in the Second Schedule \r\n                                              before assuming office or before \r\n                                              performing the function under this \r\n                                              Act. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) A person \r\n                                              specified under subsection (1) \r\n                                              shall not disclose information\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">obtained by the \r\n                                              Centre under this Act from which a \r\n                                              person can be identified except <i>\r\n                                              (a) </i>to enable the Centre carry \r\n                                              out its functions, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>for \r\n                                              the prevention or detection of an \r\n                                              offence, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( c) in \r\n                                              connection with the discharge of \r\n                                              an obligation under an \r\n                                              international agreement, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>to \r\n                                              comply with a court order, or\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(e) as \r\n                                              otherwise provided under any other \r\n                                              law. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(3) A person \r\n                                              who contravenes this section \r\n                                              commits an offence and is liable \r\n                                              on summary conviction to a fine of \r\n                                              not more than five hundred penalty \r\n                                              units or to a term of imprisonment \r\n                                              of not more than three years or to \r\n                                              both. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Co-operation \r\n                                              by officers of public agencies </b>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>49. </b>(1) \r\n                                              An officer of a public agency \r\n                                              shall co-operate with officers of \r\n                                              the Centre in the performance of \r\n                                              the functions of the officers of \r\n                                              the Centre under this Act. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) A public \r\n                                              officer who refuses or fails \r\n                                              without reasonable cause to \r\n                                              co­operate with an authorised \r\n                                              officer of the Centre commits an \r\n                                              offence and is liable on summary \r\n                                              conviction to a fine of not more \r\n                                              than fifty penalty units or to a \r\n                                              term of imprisonment of not more \r\n                                              than three months or to both.\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Regulations\r\n                                              </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>50. </b>(1) \r\n                                              The Minister, on the \r\n                                              recommendations of the Board, \r\n                                              shall by legislative instrument \r\n                                              make Regulations </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>to \r\n                                              add to or vary the list of \r\n                                              accountable institutions; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>on \r\n                                              the records to be kept and \r\n                                              retained by financial institutions \r\n                                              and accountable institutions;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>on \r\n                                              the format of suspicious \r\n                                              transactions reports; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>for \r\n                                              the rules and directives for \r\n                                              accountable institutions to \r\n                                              identify clients for the purposes \r\n                                              of this Act; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>e) </i>on \r\n                                              the form of reports and other \r\n                                              documentation required under this \r\n                                              Act; and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(f) </i>\r\n                                              generally for the effective \r\n                                              implementation of this Act. </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(2) Despite the \r\n                                              Statutory Instruments Act, 1959 \r\n                                              (No. 52) as amended, the penalty \r\n                                              for contravention of Regulations \r\n                                              shall be a fine of not more than \r\n                                              two thousand five hundred penalty \r\n                                              units or a term of imprisonment of \r\n                                              not more than three years or to \r\n                                              both. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>\r\n                                              Interpretation </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>51. </b>In \r\n                                              this Act unless the context \r\n                                              otherwise requires: </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;account&quot; means \r\n                                              a facility or an arrangement by \r\n                                              which a financial institution does \r\n                                              anyone or more of the following;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              accepts deposits of currency,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              allows withdrawals of currency or \r\n                                              transfers into or out of the \r\n                                              account, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>pays \r\n                                              cheques or payment orders drawn on \r\n                                              a financial institution or cash \r\n                                              dealer by, or collects cheques or \r\n                                              payment orders on behalf of, a \r\n                                              person, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>\r\n                                              supplies a facility or an \r\n                                              arrangement for a safe deposit \r\n                                              box; &quot;accountant&quot; means a person \r\n                                              registered under the Chartered \r\n                                              Accountants Act, 1963, (Act 176);\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;accountable \r\n                                              institution&quot; includes the \r\n                                              institutions set out in the First \r\n                                              Schedule; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;application \r\n                                              data&quot; means a set of instructions \r\n                                              which causes a computer system to \r\n                                              perform a function when executed \r\n                                              on the computer; &quot;auctioneer&quot; \r\n                                              means a person registered under \r\n                                              the Auction Sales Act, 1989 (P.N.D.C.L. \r\n                                              230); </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;authorised \r\n                                              officer&quot; means a person authorised \r\n                                              by the Centre to perform a \r\n                                              function or discharge a duty on \r\n                                              behalf of the Centre; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;bank&quot; has the \r\n                                              meaning given to it in the Banking \r\n                                              Act, 2004 (Act 673); &quot;Board&quot; means \r\n                                              the governing body of the \r\n                                              Financial Intelligence Centre; \r\n                                              &quot;business entity&quot; includes </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>a \r\n                                              firm, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>an \r\n                                              individual licensed to carry out a \r\n                                              business, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>a \r\n                                              limited liability company, or\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>a \r\n                                              partnership, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">for the purpose \r\n                                              of providing a product or service \r\n                                              either for profit or non-profit;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;business \r\n                                              relationship&quot; means an arrangement \r\n                                              between a person and an \r\n                                              accountable institution for the \r\n                                              purpose of concluding a \r\n                                              transaction; &quot;Centre&quot; means the \r\n                                              Financial Intelligence Centre \r\n                                              established under section 4; \r\n                                              &quot;Chief Executive&quot; means the Chief \r\n                                              Executive Officer appointed under \r\n                                              section 14; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;computer \r\n                                              system&quot; includes an electronic, \r\n                                              magnetic, optical, \r\n                                              electro­chemical or other data \r\n                                              processing device, the physical \r\n                                              components and any removable \r\n                                              storage medium that is connected, \r\n                                              to the device or a group of \r\n                                              inter-connected or related \r\n                                              devices, one or more of which is \r\n                                              capable of </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              containing data, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              performing a logical, arithmetic \r\n                                              or any other function in relation \r\n                                              to data; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;Court&quot; means \r\n                                              the High Court or Circuit Court; \r\n                                              &quot;currency&quot; means </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>a) </i>\r\n                                              coins, money or notes of the \r\n                                              Republic or of another country \r\n                                              that is designated as legal tender \r\n                                              and that circulates as and is \r\n                                              customarily used and accepted as a \r\n                                              medium of exchange in the country \r\n                                              of issue, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              ''travellers'' cheques or other \r\n                                              financial instruments denominated \r\n                                              in the currency of Ghana orin \r\n                                              foreign currency, and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>any \r\n                                              right to receive coins or notes in \r\n                                              respect of a credit or balance \r\n                                              with a financial institution or a \r\n                                              non-resident; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;data&quot; means a \r\n                                              representation of</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;<i>(a) </i>\r\n                                              information, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              knowledge, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              facts, or </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>\r\n                                              concepts </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">capable of \r\n                                              being processed in a computer \r\n                                              system; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;electronic \r\n                                              device&quot; means anything or \r\n                                              apparatus that is used or capable \r\n                                              of being used to intercept a \r\n                                              function of a computer system;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;electronic \r\n                                              transaction&quot; means a transaction \r\n                                              made through an electronic device;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;intelligence \r\n                                              agency&quot; means the Internal or \r\n                                              External Intelligence Agency \r\n                                              established under the Security and \r\n                                              Intelligence Agencies Act, 1996 \r\n                                              (Act 526); </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;entity&quot; means \r\n                                              a body corporate or \r\n                                              unincorporated, an association or \r\n                                              group of persons, a firm or a \r\n                                              partnership; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;financial \r\n                                              institution&quot; means an entity that \r\n                                              undertakes financial \r\n                                              intermediation; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;financial \r\n                                              instrument&quot; means a physical or \r\n                                              electronic document which embodies \r\n                                              or conveys monetary value~ </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;financial \r\n                                              intermediation&quot; means a process of \r\n                                              transferring funds from one entity \r\n                                              to another entity; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;foreign \r\n                                              counterpart&quot; means the authority \r\n                                              in another country that exercise\r\n                                              <i>similar </i>powers <i>and \r\n                                              performs similar functions </i>as\r\n                                              <i>the </i>Centre; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;game of \r\n                                              chance&quot; includes a game other than \r\n                                              lotto in which participants risk, \r\n                                              in anticipation of winning award \r\n                                              on the result of the game which \r\n                                              depends on luck and which cannot \r\n                                              be determined before the end of \r\n                                              the game, pay money for the right \r\n                                              to participate in the game; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;internal \r\n                                              rules&quot; means rules formulated by \r\n                                              an accountable institution to \r\n                                              enable the accountable institution \r\n                                              comply with the rep0l1ing \r\n                                              requirements of the Centre; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;investigating \r\n                                              authority&quot; means a body that is \r\n                                              designated by legislation to \r\n                                              investigate unlawful activities;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;Minister&quot; \r\n                                              means the Minister responsible for \r\n                                              Finance; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;non-bank \r\n                                              financial institution&quot; means a \r\n                                              financial institution that \r\n                                              undertakes financial \r\n                                              intermediation outside the bank;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">\r\n                                              &quot;non-governmental organisation&quot; \r\n                                              means a civil organisation and \r\n                                              includes a community based \r\n                                              organisation, religious body and \r\n                                              association; &quot;notary&quot; means a \r\n                                              person appointed under the \r\n                                              Notaries Public Act, 1960 (Act \r\n                                              26); </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;order&quot; means a \r\n                                              monitoring order; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;prescribed&quot; \r\n                                              means prescribed by Regulations \r\n                                              made under this Act; &quot;proceeds&quot; \r\n                                              means property derived from or \r\n                                              obtained, directly or indirectly\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">through the \r\n                                              commission of an offence; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;property&quot; \r\n                                              includes assets of any kind \r\n                                              situated in the country or \r\n                                              elsewhere whether movable or \r\n                                              immovable, tangible or intangible, \r\n                                              legal documents and instruments \r\n                                              evidencing title of interest in \r\n                                              the assets; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;record&quot; means \r\n                                              a material on which data is \r\n                                              recorded or marked and which is \r\n                                              capable of being read or \r\n                                              understood by a person, computer \r\n                                              system or other device; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;record of \r\n                                              identity&quot; means the records \r\n                                              maintained by accountable \r\n                                              institutions on their clients in \r\n                                              accordance with rules and \r\n                                              directives </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">issued to the \r\n                                              accountable institutions by \r\n                                              relevant supervisory bodies; \r\n                                              &quot;Regulations&quot; means Regulations \r\n                                              made under this Act; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;religious \r\n                                              body&quot; means an association, a body \r\n                                              or organisation which professes \r\n                                              adherence to a belief in a system \r\n                                              of faith or worship or which is \r\n                                              established in pursuance of a \r\n                                              religious objective; &quot;Republic&quot; \r\n                                              means Republic of Ghana; </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;revenue \r\n                                              agency&quot; means an agency authorised \r\n                                              by law to collect revenue; \r\n                                              &quot;securities portfolio management&quot; \r\n                                              means the process of managing the\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">financial \r\n                                              assets of a client by a brokerage \r\n                                              firm for and on behalf of the \r\n                                              client in accordance with selected \r\n                                              investment strategy under agreed \r\n                                              management principles and \r\n                                              regulations; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;serious \r\n                                              offence&quot; means an offence for \r\n                                              which the maximum penalty is death \r\n                                              or imprisonment for a period of \r\n                                              not less than twelve months; \r\n                                              &quot;supervisory body&quot; means a body \r\n                                              responsible for the supervision of \r\n                                              the activities of accountable \r\n                                              institutions under this Act;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;suspicious&quot; \r\n                                              means a matter which is beyond \r\n                                              mere speculations and based on \r\n                                              some foundation; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;transaction&quot; \r\n                                              includes an act which establishes \r\n                                              a right or obligation or gives \r\n                                              rise to a contractual or legal \r\n                                              relationship between the parties \r\n                                              to the contract or legal \r\n                                              relationship and any movement of \r\n                                              funds by any means with a covered \r\n                                              institution; and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;trust and \r\n                                              company service providers&quot; means \r\n                                              paid professional companies or \r\n                                              unpaid persons who hold assets in \r\n                                              a trust fund separate from their \r\n                                              own assets; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>SCHEDULES</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>FIRST \r\n                                              SCHEDULE </b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>( section\r\n                                              </i>21 )</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Accountable \r\n                                              institutions include </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(a) </i>an \r\n                                              entity which is a bank or a \r\n                                              non-bank financial institution \r\n                                              which carries on any of the \r\n                                              following activities: </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(i) accepting \r\n                                              deposits of money from the public, \r\n                                              repayable on demand or otherwise \r\n                                              and withdrawable by cheque, draft, \r\n                                              orders or by any other means,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) financing, \r\n                                              whether in whole or in part or by \r\n                                              way of short, medium or long term \r\n                                              loans or advances of trade, \r\n                                              industry, commerce or agriculture,\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(iii) the issue \r\n                                              and administration of means of \r\n                                              payment including credit cards, \r\n                                              travellers'' cheques bankers'' \r\n                                              drafts and other financial \r\n                                              instruments, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(iv) the trade \r\n                                              in foreign exchange, currency \r\n                                              market instruments or transferable \r\n                                              securities, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(v) securities \r\n                                              portfolio management and advice \r\n                                              concerned with the portfolio \r\n                                              management, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(vi) dealing in \r\n                                              shares, stocks, bonds or other \r\n                                              securities, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(vii) leasing, \r\n                                              letting or delivering goods to a \r\n                                              hirer under a hire purchase \r\n                                              agreement, </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(viii) the \r\n                                              conduct of any business, </font>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(ix) the \r\n                                              collection of money or acceptance \r\n                                              of employer contributions and \r\n                                              payment from these funds of \r\n                                              legitimate claims for retirement \r\n                                              benefits; and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(x) any other \r\n                                              business activities that the Bank \r\n                                              of Ghana may prescribe or \r\n                                              recognise as being part of banking \r\n                                              business; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(b) </i>\r\n                                              auctioneers; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(c) </i>\r\n                                              lawyers; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(d) </i>\r\n                                              notaries; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(e) \r\n                                              accountants; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(1) religious \r\n                                              bodies; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(g) </i>\r\n                                              non-governmental organisations;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(h) </i>a \r\n                                              person whose business or a \r\n                                              principal part of whose business \r\n                                              con­sists of providing financial \r\n                                              services that involve the \r\n                                              remittance or exchange of funds;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>&nbsp;(i) </i>\r\n                                              operators of game of chance;\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(j) </i>a \r\n                                              company carrying on insurance \r\n                                              business within the meaning of the \r\n                                              Insurance Act, 2006 (Act 724);\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(k) </i>a \r\n                                              real estate company or agent, only \r\n                                              to the extent that the real estate \r\n                                              company or agent receives funds in \r\n                                              the course of the agent''s business \r\n                                              to settle real estate \r\n                                              transactions; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(I) </i>\r\n                                              dealers in precious metals and \r\n                                              precious stones; </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">(m)dealers in \r\n                                              motor vehicles; and </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>(n) </i>\r\n                                              trust and company service \r\n                                              providers. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">SECOND SCHEDULE</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">( <i>section\r\n                                              </i>48)</font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>THE OATH OF \r\n                                              SECRECY</b></font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I. \r\n                                              ...................................................... \r\n                                              holding the office of Do (in the \r\n                                              name of the </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Almighty God \r\n                                              swear) (Solemnly affirm) that I \r\n                                              will not directly or indirectly \r\n                                              communicate or reveal to any \r\n                                              person any matter which shall be \r\n                                              brought under my consideration or \r\n                                              shall come to my knowledge in the \r\n                                              discharge of my official duties or \r\n                                              as may be specially permitted by \r\n                                              law (so help me God). </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><i>To be sworn \r\n                                              before the President, the Chief \r\n                                              Justice or such other person as \r\n                                              the President may designate. </i>\r\n                                              </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial">Date of <i>\r\n                                              Gazette </i>notification: 25th \r\n                                              January, 2008. </font></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <font face="Arial"><b>&nbsp;</b></font></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Fourth', 'Yes', 'ACT 749');
INSERT INTO `actsofghana` (`id`, `title`, `content`, `republic`, `isshow`, `actname`) VALUES
(134, 'ANTI- TERRORISM ACT, 2008 Act 762', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n							<td vAlign="top" align="left" width="761" height="1">\r\n							<font face="Arial">\r\n							<a href="../table%20of%20cases%204th%20Republic.htm">\r\n                            <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font size="6">&nbsp; <b>ACT</b></font>\r\n                            <div class="Section1">\r\n                              <p class="Style" style="line-height: 14.6pt; margin-left: 81.55pt; margin-right: 6.7pt; margin-top: 8.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <span style="font-family: Arial; color: black"> <b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHAN</b>A </span></p>\r\n                              <p class="Style" style="line-height: 14.6pt; margin-left: 81.55pt; margin-right: 6.7pt; margin-top: 8.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp; </p>\r\n                              <p class="Style" style="line-height: 14.6pt; margin-left: 81.55pt; margin-right: 6.7pt; margin-top: 8.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <span style="font-family: Arial; color: black"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n                              <p class="Style" style="line-height: 14.6pt; margin-left: 81.55pt; margin-right: 6.7pt; margin-top: 8.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp; </p>\r\n                              <p class="Style" style="line-height: 21.35pt; margin-left: 169.15pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <b> <span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ANTI- TERRORISM ACT, 2008 <b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Act 762</span></b></span></b></p>\r\n                            </div>                            \r\n							  <p class="Style" style="text-indent: -17.0pt; margin-left: 24.45pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">1.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Prohibition of </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								act </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -17.5pt; margin-left: 24.7pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">2.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Terrorist a act, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;\r\n								<span style="color:black">3&nbsp; . Acts not \r\n								considered to be </span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n								</span>\r\n								<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial">\r\n								acts </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp; </span>\r\n								<span style="color: black">4.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Terrorist acts In armed conflict . </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -17.0pt; margin-left: 24.45pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">5.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Jurisdiction to try offences under this Act\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 143.5pt">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Terrorist offences </span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -17.75pt; margin-left: 24.7pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">6.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Provision or collection of property to commit an \r\n								act of</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black"> \r\n								terrorist</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -17.5pt; margin-left: 24.7pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">7.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Provision of financial services for commission \r\n								of a </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								act </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -17.5pt; margin-left: 24.7pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">8.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Use \r\n								of property for commission of a terrorist act\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: .1in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 35.45pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">9&nbsp; .</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Arrangements \r\n								for retention or control of </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								property .</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: .1in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 35.45pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">10. \r\n								Dealing with </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								property </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Support of </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								act </span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">11.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Harboring of persons committing </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								acts </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">12.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Provision of a lethal device to a </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								group </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">13.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Recruitment of member of </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								group </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">14.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Provision of training and instruction to </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								group </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">15.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Incitement, promotion or solicitation of \r\n								property for a terrorist act </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">16.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Provision of facilities to support a </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								terrorist</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								act </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="color:black">17.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span></span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Arrangement of meetings in support of a \r\n								terrorist group </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								18.&nbsp; Specified entities </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">19.&nbsp; \r\n								Order declaring entity to be a specified entity\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">20.&nbsp; \r\n								Revocation of specified entity order</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.55pt; margin-left: 24.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">21. \r\n								Application for review </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 110.55pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;22&nbsp; \r\n								Periodic review of specified entity orders</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 110.55pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;23. \r\n								Meaning of specified entity </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">24.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> Search\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 29.2pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								25 </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Obstruction of inspection and search </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 29.2pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								26.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								Seizure of terrorist property </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 29.2pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								27 </span>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Management of seized property </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 29.2pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								28</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								Destruction of seized property </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								29</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> \r\n								Orders for seizure and restraint of property\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;30.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Orders \r\n								for forfeiture of property </span></div>\r\n							<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n							<br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always">\r\n							</span><span style="color:black">31.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							forfeiture orders </span>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; margin-left: .35in">\r\n							<span style="color:black">32.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Orders \r\n							for forfeiture of property on conviction for \r\n							offences under this Act </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.95pt; margin-left: 26.4pt">\r\n							<span style="color:black">33.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Appeal \r\n							and forfeiture orders </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 128.15pt"><i>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Miscellaneous matters </span></i></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; margin-left: .35in">\r\n							<span style="color:black">34.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Intercepted communications </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; margin-left: .35in">\r\n							<span style="color:black">35.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Power to \r\n							prevent entry and order the removal of persons\r\n							</span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; margin-left: .35in">\r\n							<span style="color:black">36.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Information relating to passengers on vessels or \r\n							aircraft and persons entering or \r\n							leaving the country </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; margin-left: .35in">\r\n							<span style="color:black">37.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Power to \r\n							refuse refugee application </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.95pt; margin-left: 26.4pt">\r\n							<span style="color:black">38.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Evidence \r\n							by certificate </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.95pt; margin-left: 26.4pt">\r\n							<span style="color:black">39.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Regulations </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.95pt; margin-left: 26.4pt">\r\n							<span style="color:black">40.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Interpretation </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.95pt; margin-left: 26.4pt">\r\n							<span style="color:black">41.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Consequential amendment </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.95pt; margin-left: 26.4pt">\r\n							<span style="color:black">42.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n							</span></span>\r\n							<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n							Modification </span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="line-height: 15.1pt; margin-left: 388.05pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 33.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n							<b>\r\n							<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">							</span></b></p>\r\n							<!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"\r\n coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe"\r\n filled="f" stroked="f">\r\n <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>\r\n <v:formulas>\r\n  <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>\r\n  <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>\r\n </v:formulas>\r\n <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>\r\n <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>\r\n</v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style=''position:absolute;\r\n margin-left:188.25pt;margin-top:111.75pt;width:131.25pt;height:115.5pt;\r\n z-index:-1;mso-position-horizontal-relative:margin;\r\n mso-position-vertical-relative:margin'' wrapcoords="21496 0 0 0 0 21500 21496 21500">\r\n <v:imagedata src="ANTI-%20TERRORISM%20ACT,%202008_files/image001.png" o:title=""/>\r\n</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]>\r\n							<div class="Section1">\r\n							  <p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								AN ACT to combat terrorism, suppress and detect \r\n								acts of terrorism, to prevent the territory, \r\n								resources and financial services of this country \r\n								from being used to commit terrorist acts, to \r\n								protect the right of people in this country to \r\n								live in peace, freedom and security and to \r\n								provide for connected purposes.</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								DATE OF ASSENT: <i>10th October; 2008.</i></span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp;\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="line-height: 17.25pt; margin-left: 77.0pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								ENACTED by the President and Parliament: </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="line-height: 17.25pt; margin-left: 77.0pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="line-height: 17.25pt; margin-left: 77.0pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\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;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								<font size="4">&nbsp; <b>&nbsp; </b></font>\r\n								</span><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								<font size="4">Terrorism \r\n								Act </font> </span></b>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp;\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp;\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								Prohibition of terrorist act </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp;\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -24.45pt; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-left: 24.45pt; margin-right: .95pt; margin-top: 3.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								1. A person shall not engage in a terrorist act.</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="line-height:20.15pt"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Terrorist act </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:9.0pt;line-height:20.15pt">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								2. </span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">(l) An act is a terrorist act if it is performed in \r\n								furtherance of a </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">political, ideological, \r\n								religious, racial or ethnic cause and</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i><span style="color:black">\r\n								(a) </span></i><span style="color:black">causes \r\n								serious bodily harm to a person</span></span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color:black">(b)\r\n								</span></span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">causes serious damage to property; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color:black">\r\n								(c) </span></span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">endangers a person''s life; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;(d) </span></span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public;\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp; </span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;<span style="color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n								(e) </span></span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								involves the use of firearms or explosives;</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color:black">(f)\r\n								</span></span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">releases into the environment or exposes the public to </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:61.65pt;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:50.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-50.15pt;line-height:\r\n15.6pt">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.1pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:9.0pt;text-indent:-4.5pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (i) dangerous, hazardous, radioactive or \r\n								harmful substances; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:72.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(ii) toxic chemicals; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:38.1pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:23.75pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(iii) microbial or other biological agents or toxins; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:38.1pt"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (g) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								is prejudicial to national security or public \r\n								safety; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:38.1pt"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (h) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								is designed or intended to disrupt </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:72.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(i) a computer system or the provision of services directly related \r\n								to communications;</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:72.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;(ii) banking or financial services;</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:72.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;(iii) utilities, transportation; or</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:72.95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;(iv) other essential services; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.75in" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								is designed or intended to cause damage to \r\n								essential infrastructure. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.2pt;text-indent:27.1pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(2) \r\n								A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits \r\n								an offence and is liable on conviction on \r\n								indictment to a term of imprisonment of not less \r\n								than seven years and not more than twenty-five \r\n								years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Acts not considered to be terrorist acts </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.2pt;text-indent:12.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">3. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A \r\n								protest, demonstration or stoppage of work which \r\n								disrupts an essential service shall not be \r\n								considered to be a terrorist act within the \r\n								meaning of this Act if the act does not result \r\n								in the harm referred to in paragraphs, <i>(a), \r\n								(b), (c) </i>or <i>(d) </i>of subsection (1) of \r\n								section 2. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Terrorist acts in armed conflict </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.7pt;text-indent:11.5pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">4. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(1) \r\n								Terrorist act in armed conflict means an act \r\n								done in the course of an armed conflict which by \r\n								its nature or context is intended to </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:45.0pt;text-indent:9.0pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(a) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								intimidate the population or compel the \r\n								Government or an international organisation to \r\n								do or refrain from doing an act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:49.5pt;text-indent:4.5pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(b) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">cause \r\n								death or serious bodily injury to a civilian not \r\n								taking an active part in the hostility. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.2pt" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) An act \r\n								shall not be considered to be a terrorist act in \r\n								armed conflict if the armed conflict is in \r\n								accordance with rules of international law \r\n								applicable to the conflict. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) &nbsp;&nbsp;is Act does not </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:.4pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								diminish the other rights, obligations and \r\n								responsibilities of citizens and the Republic \r\n								under international law, the purposes and \r\n								principles of the Charter of the United Nations \r\n								and international humanitarian law; or </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.3pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								apply to the activities of the armed forces\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 2.1pt; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) during an armed conflict conducted in accordance with \r\n								&nbsp;international humanitarian law; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:31.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(ii) which are in exercise of their official duties and are in \r\n								accordance with other rules of international \r\n								law: </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.3pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Jurisdiction to try offences under this Act\r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial">5</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">.\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">(1) The High Court has jurisdiction for an act which \r\n								constitutes an offence committed outside this \r\n								country if the act constitutes an offence in \r\n								this country wh</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">the person committing the act is</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="center" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:129.75pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:4.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;(i) \r\n								a citizen of Ghana or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-9.0pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>(b) </i>the act is committed to compel the Government to do \r\n								or refrain from doing an act; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.3pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (c) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">the \r\n								act is committed against a citizen of Ghana;\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-27.2pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (d) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								the act is committed against property outside \r\n								the country &nbsp;that belongs to the Republic; \r\n								or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-27.2pt" align="justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:31.5pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(e) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								the person who commits the act is after its \r\n								commission, found present in Ghana. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:31.5pt" align="justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:114.65pt;margin-bottom:\r\n5.0pt;margin-left:4.3pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) The High Court shall order the funds of <i>(a) </i>a \r\n								terrorist, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.3pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								(b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">financiers of terrorism, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(c)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">a terrorist organisation as designated by the United Nations \r\n								Security Council in accordance with Chapter VII \r\n								of the United Nations Charter </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.3pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">to be frozen and any person holding the funds shall immediately \r\n								freeze them. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.3pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(3) The terms, conditions and time limits applicable to the \r\n								freezing shall be defined in the order. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(4) \r\n								A person holding funds to which subsection (2) \r\n								relates shall report without delay to the \r\n								Financial Intelligence Centre established under \r\n								section 4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 \r\n								(Act 749) the existence of the funds. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="color:black">31.</span><span style="font-family:Arial">Interested \r\n								parties and </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:144.95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Terrorist offences </span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.2pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Provision or collection of property to commit an act of terrorism\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:12.2pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">6. A person who </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:247.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.45pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								provides, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:247.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.45pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								collects, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:247.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.45pt" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:48.45pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(c) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">makes \r\n								available </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">by \r\n								any means, directly or indirectly, property, \r\n								intending, knowing or having reasonable grounds \r\n								to believe that the property will be used in \r\n								full or in part to carry out or in relation to \r\n								carrying out a terrorist act, commits an offence \r\n								and is liable on conviction on indictment to a \r\n								term of imprisonment of not less than seven \r\n								years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.2pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Provision of financial services for commission of a terrorist act\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.95pt;text-indent:11.75pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">7. A person who directly or indirectly provides or makes available \r\n								financial or other related service </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:2.1pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">with \r\n								the intention that the financial or other \r\n								related service be used, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.75in" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color:black">(i) &nbsp; \r\n								in whole or in part to commit or facilitate the \r\n								commission of a terrorist act, or </span></span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.85pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.75in" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(ii) to benefit a \r\n								person who is committing or facilitating the \r\n								commission of a terrorist act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt;text-indent:22.5pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;(b) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">knowing \r\n								or having reasonable cause to believe that the \r\n								financial or other related service in whole or \r\n								in part will be used by or will benefit a \r\n								terrorist group, commits an offence and is \r\n								liable on conviction on indictment to a term of \r\n								imprisonment of not less than seven years and \r\n								not more than twenty-five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:42.95pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:14.15pt;text-indent:-14.15pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Use of property for commission of a terrorist act </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:78.95pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:14.15pt;text-indent:-14.15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">8. A person who </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:45.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-40.5pt"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">uses property, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, to \r\n								commit or in relation to the commission of a \r\n								terrorist act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:45.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-40.5pt"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								acquires or possesses property with the \r\n								intention that it is to be used or knowing that \r\n								it will be used, directly or indirectly, in \r\n								whole or in part, for the purpose of committing \r\n								or facilitating the commission of a terrorist \r\n								act, commits an offence and is liable on \r\n								conviction on indictment to a term of \r\n								imprisonment of not less than seven years and \r\n								not more than twenty-five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								Arrangements for retention or control of \r\n								terrorist property </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:3.75pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								9. </span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">A person who enters into, or becomes involved in an \r\n								arrangement, knowing that the agreement \r\n								facilitates the acquisition, retention or \r\n								control by or on behalf of another person of \r\n								terrorist property </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:4.25pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.7pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								by concealing, or removing the property out of \r\n								the country, <i>(b) </i>by transfer of the \r\n								property to a nominee, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:49.9pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(c) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">in any \r\n								other way </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.65pt;text-align:justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to a \r\n								term of imprisonment of not less than seven \r\n								years and not more than twenty-five years.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.4pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Dealing with terrorist property </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:27.55pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-31.5pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">10. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A person \r\n								who knows that property is terrorist property \r\n								and <i>(a) </i>deals directly or indirectly with \r\n								that property; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-31.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								acquires or possesses that property; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt;text-indent:13.5pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp; (c) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">enters into, or facilitates, directly or indirectly, a transaction \r\n								in respect of that property; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (d) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								converts, conceals or disguises that property; \r\n								or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (e) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								provides financial or other related service in \r\n								respect of that property at the direction of a \r\n								terrorist group commits an offence and is liable \r\n								on conviction on indictment to a term of \r\n								imprisonment of not less than seven years and \r\n								not more than twenty-five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.4pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Support of terrorist act </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:14.6pt;text-indent:16.9pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">11. (I) </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A \r\n								person who knows that a group is a terrorist \r\n								group and &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>(a) </i>solicits or gives \r\n								support to that group for the commission of a \r\n								terrorist act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:4.5pt;text-indent:27.0pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								(b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">solicits support for or gives support to that group for the \r\n								commission of a terrorist act commits an offence \r\n								and is liable on conviction on indictment to a \r\n								term of imprisonment of not less than seven \r\n								years and not more than twenty-five years.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:35.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(2) For the purpose of subsection (I), support includes </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-4.5pt"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">the \r\n								provision or an offer to provide, forged or \r\n								falsified travel documents to a person connected \r\n								with a terrorist act or to a member of a \r\n								terrorist group; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;(b)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">the \r\n								provision or an offer to provide a skill or \r\n								expertise for the benefit of, at the direction \r\n								of, or in association with a person or terrorist \r\n								group; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:2.35pt;text-align:justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (c) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								entering or remaining in a country for the \r\n								benefit of or at the direction of or in \r\n								association with any person or a terrorist \r\n								group. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:77.95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Harbouring of persons committing terrorist acts </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.85pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:9.0pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">12. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(1) A \r\n								person who harbours or conceals a person knowing \r\n								or having reason to believe that the person\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:114.95pt;text-indent:-114.95pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) </span></i><span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">has committed, is planning or likely to commit a terrorist \r\n								act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n								(b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">is a \r\n								member of a terrorist group commits an offence \r\n								and is liable on conviction on indictment to a \r\n								term of imprisonment of not less than seven \r\n								years and not more than twenty-five years.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt;text-indent:4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(2) \r\n								A person who prevents, hinders or interferes \r\n								with the apprehension of a person knowing or \r\n								having reason to believe that the person </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:115.4pt;text-indent:-115.4pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">has \r\n								committed, is planning or likely to commit a \r\n								terrorist act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">is a \r\n								member of a terrorist group commits an offence \r\n								and is liable on conviction on indictment to a \r\n								term of imprisonment of not less than seven \r\n								years and not more than twenty-five years.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:77.95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Provision of a lethal device to a terrorist group </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:4.95pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:63.35pt;text-indent:-63.35pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">13. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(l) A \r\n								person who knows or has reasonable cause to \r\n								believe that <i>(a) </i>a group is a terrorist \r\n								group, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">a \r\n								person is a member of a terrorist group and \r\n								provides or offers to provide an explosive or a \r\n								lethal device to that group or a member of that \r\n								group commits an offence and is liable on \r\n								conviction on indictment to a term of \r\n								imprisonment of not less than seven years and \r\n								not more than twenty five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(2) A person who provides or offers to provide an explosive or a \r\n								lethal device to another person knowing that \r\n								that other person will use the explosive or the \r\n								lethal device for the benefit of a terrorist \r\n								group or a member of a terrorist group commits \r\n								an offence and is liable on conviction on \r\n								indictment to a term of imprisonment of not less \r\n								than seven years and not more than twenty five \r\n								years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:77.95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Recruitment of member of terrorist group </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:36.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:64.3pt;text-indent:-64.3pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">14. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A person \r\n								who recruits or agrees to recruit another person</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:36.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp; </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a<i>) </i>\r\n								to be a member of a terrorist group, or </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;(b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">to \r\n								participate in the commission of a terrorist act \r\n								commits an offence and is liable on conviction \r\n								on indictment to a term of imprisonment of not \r\n								less than seven years and not more than twenty \r\n								five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Provision of training and instruction to terrorist group </span>\r\n								</b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.1pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:61.65pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-61.65pt"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">15.\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">A person who provides or agrees to provide training or \r\n								instruction <i>(a) </i>in the making or use of \r\n								an explosive or other lethal device, <i>(b) </i>\r\n								in carrying out a terrorist act, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.2pt;text-indent:48.2pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(c) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">in the \r\n								practice of military exercises or movements \r\n								knowing that the training or instructions is \r\n								being provided to a member of a terrorist group \r\n								or to a person engaged in or preparing to engage \r\n								in a terrorist act commits an offence and is \r\n								liable on conviction on indictment to a term or \r\n								imprisonment of not less than seven years and \r\n								not more than twenty five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Incitement, promotion or solicitation of property for a terrorist \r\n								act </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:13.4pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">16. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A person \r\n								who, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:15.75pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.7pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								incites or promotes the commission of a \r\n								terrorist act, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:15.75pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.7pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								incites or promotes membership of a terrorist \r\n								group, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:48.95pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(c) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">solicits \r\n								property for the benefit of a terrorist group or \r\n								for the commission of a terrorist act . </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.2pt;text-align:justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								commits an offence and is liable on conviction \r\n								on indictment to a term of imprisonment of not \r\n								less than seven years and not more than twenty \r\n								five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-11.05pt;margin-bottom:\r\n5.0pt;margin-left:.2in;text-indent:-.2in" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Provision of facilities to support a terrorist &nbsp;act </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-11.05pt;margin-bottom:\r\n5.0pt;margin-left:.2in;text-indent:-.2in" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">17. </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:124.5pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.2in;text-indent:-.2in" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								(I) A person who </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:13.5pt;text-indent:.25in" align="justify">\r\n								<i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								(a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">occupies, leases or is in charge of premises and permits a \r\n								meeting in respect of an act to be held in that \r\n								premises; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:13.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">owns a vessel or is a charterer, lessee, operator, agent or \r\n								master of a vessel and permits the vessel to be \r\n								used for the commission of an act, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:13.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(c)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">owns an aircraft or is a charterer, lessee, operator, agent \r\n								or pilot in charge of an aircraft and permits \r\n								the aircraft to be used for the commission of an \r\n								act, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:13.5pt;text-indent:.25in" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(d) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">owns or \r\n								is in possession of a motor vehicle, and permits \r\n								the motor vehicle to be used for the commission \r\n								of an act, or</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:13.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(e)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">is a lessee or is in charge of a communication equipment, or \r\n								a facility for the recording, conferencing or \r\n								meetings through a communication equipment and \r\n								permits the communi­cation equipment, or \r\n								facility to be used for the commission of an act \r\n								which that person knows to be a terrorist act \r\n								commits an offence and is liable on conviction \r\n								on indictment to a term of imprisonment of not \r\n								less than seven years and not more than twenty \r\n								five years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:41.25pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(2) \r\n								In this section &quot;communications equipment&quot; and \r\n								communications system&quot; have the same meaning as \r\n								in the National Communications Authority Act, \r\n								1996 (Act 524). </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.45pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Arrangement of meetings in support of a terrorist group </span></b>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">18.\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(1) \r\n								A person who arranges, manages or assists in \r\n								arranging or managing a meeting which is </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:49.4pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(a) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">to \r\n								support a terrorist group, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:49.4pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(b) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">to \r\n								further the activities of a terrorist group, or\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.25in" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (c) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">to \r\n								be addressed by a person who belongs or \r\n								professes to belong to a terrorist group commits \r\n								an offence and is liable on conviction on \r\n								indictment to a term of imprisonment of not less \r\n								than seven years and not more than twenty five \r\n								years. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.2pt;text-indent:32.85pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(2) In this section &quot;meeting&quot; means the coming together of two or \r\n								more persons whether or not the public is \r\n								admitted. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-2.05pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.4pt;text-indent:121.9pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Specified terrorist entities </span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:-2.05pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.4pt;text-indent:30.1pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Order declaring entity to be a specified entity </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								19. </span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">(1) The Minister may by an application <i>ex-parte </i>to the \r\n								Court seek an order declaring an entity to be a \r\n								specified entity if there is corroborative \r\n								evidence to support the information submitted by \r\n								a person who has knowledge that the entity has\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:49.4pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(a) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								committed, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:49.4pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(b) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								attempted to commit, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:103.15pt;margin-bottom:\r\n5.0pt;margin-left:49.65pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(c)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								participated in the commission of , or </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:103.15pt;margin-bottom:\r\n5.0pt;margin-left:49.65pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(d)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								facilitated the commission of a terrorist act.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:-4.5pt;text-indent:40.5pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(2) \r\n								The application may also be made by the Minister \r\n								upon reasonable grounds that an entity .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n								..&nbsp; consciously acting </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:89.45pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:47.75pt;text-indent:-47.75pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>(a) </i>on behalf of, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:191.45pt;margin-bottom:\r\n5.0pt;margin-left:48.0pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b)\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">at \r\n								the direction of, or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:6.95pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:48.0pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp;(c) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								in association with another specified entity.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:33.1pt" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">&nbsp; (3) The entity \r\n								shall from the date of the order be a specified \r\n								entity. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:33.1pt" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(4) A specified \r\n								entity is proscribed. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Revocation of specified entity order </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">20.\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">(1) A specified entity may through a representative, make an \r\n								application to the Court for the revocation of \r\n								an order made in respect of that entity within \r\n								thirty days after the date of the order. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.7pt;text-indent:32.6pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(2) \r\n								The Minister may apply for revocation of the \r\n								order if satisfied that there are reasonable \r\n								grounds for the revocation. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.95pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:32.6pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(3) \r\n								The Court may receive in evidence information \r\n								obtained from the Government, an institution or \r\n								agency of a foreign state or an international \r\n								organisation if the information is reliable and \r\n								relevant even if the evidence is not admissible \r\n								under the Evidence Act, 1975 (N.R.C.D. 323).\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.9pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.95pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:32.6pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(4) \r\n								The evidence from the Government, foreign \r\n								Government, state or international organisation \r\n								shall be in the form of a deposition and shall \r\n								be corroborated. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Application for review </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.15pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.4pt;text-indent:11.5pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">21. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">An \r\n								applicant aggrieved by the decision of the Court \r\n								may seek further remedies in Court. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Periodic review of specified entity orders </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">22.\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">The Court shall on application review specified entity orders \r\n								and may revoke an order if satisfied that there \r\n								is no longer justification for the order. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:1.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Meaning of specified entity </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.4pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">23.\r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:\r\nArial;color:black">A specified entity means a person, group, trust, partnership, \r\n								fund, body corporate or unincorporated or an \r\n								organisation associated with acts of terrorism \r\n								and declared to be a specified entity. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:88.95pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:2.4pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Search, seizure and forfeiture \r\n								of property</span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:88.95pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:2.4pt;text-indent:2.1pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;</span></i><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Search\r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:13.9pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">24. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(1) \r\n								Where the police have reasonable grounds to \r\n								suspect that there is </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.5in" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								property to be used for the commission of a \r\n								terrorist act; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.5in" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b) </span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								terrorist property concealed or deposited on \r\n								premises, the police may enter the premises at \r\n								any time to search for the property and may \r\n								search any person who is in or on the premises.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.35pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:32.85pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(2) \r\n								The police may, if necessary, break open \r\n								premises and forcibly enter for the purpose of \r\n								conducting the search and may stop, search and \r\n								detain a conveyance suspected to be connected \r\n								with an offence under the Act. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:33.6pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(3) A police officer may </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.0in" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(a) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								conduct a physical search of a person who the \r\n								officer has reason to believe is in possession \r\n								of; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:1.0in" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								search the property of a person where the \r\n								officer has reason to believe there may be \r\n								property liable to <i>seizure or forfeiture \r\n								under this Act.</i> </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Obstruction of inspection and search </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:12.45pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">25. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A person \r\n								who </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:9.0pt;text-indent:-4.5pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(a) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">refuses \r\n								a police officer access to a premises or fails \r\n								to submit to a search; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:1.6pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(b) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								assaults, obstructs, hinders or delays a police \r\n								officer in the discharge of a duty imposed by \r\n								this Act; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:1.6pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;(c) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">fails \r\n								to comply with a lawful demand of a police \r\n								officer in the discharge of a duty under this \r\n								Act; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:.65pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">&nbsp;(d) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">refuses \r\n								or neglects to give information required under \r\n								this Act; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:.65pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;\r\nmargin-left:4.5pt" align="justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">(e) </span>\r\n								</i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">\r\n								fails to produce, conceals or attempts to \r\n								conceal property liable to seizure under this \r\n								Act; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-right:.65pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">(f) </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">in \r\n								relation to a search or inspection furnishes \r\n								information to a police officer which the person \r\n								knows to be false commits an offence and is \r\n								liable on summary conviction to a fine of not \r\n								more than five hundred penalty units or to \r\n								imprisonment for a term of not more than two \r\n								years or to both. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family:Arial;\r\ncolor:black">Seizure of terrorist property </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="style" style="margin-left:.95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;\r\n								</span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">26. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) Where the police have reasonable grounds to \r\n								suspect that property has been, is being, or may \r\n								be used to commit an offence under this Act, the \r\n								property may be seized. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) The police shall make an \r\n								<i>ex-parte </i>application to a District Court or Circuit Court \r\n								for a detention order of the seized property \r\n								within ten days after the seizure of the \r\n								property. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(3) The District Court or Circuit Court shall \r\n								make a detention order in respect of the \r\n								property referred to in the application where \r\n								the person who appears to have an interest in \r\n								the property has had a reasonable opportunity to \r\n								be heard and there are reasonable grounds to \r\n								believe that the property has been, is being, or \r\n								may be used to commit an offence under this Act.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(4) A detention order is valid for sixty days \r\n								and may be renewed by the District Court or \r\n								Circuit Court for a further period of not more \r\n								than sixty days at a time until the proceedings \r\n								have been concluded. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 32.6pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 2.35pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(5) The District Court or Circuit Court may \r\n								release the property referred to in a detention \r\n								order if </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -4.5pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">there are no longer reasonable grounds to \r\n								suspect that the property has been or will be \r\n								used to commit an offence under this Act; or\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .25in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">proceedings are not commenced in a Court for an \r\n								offence under this Act in respect of that \r\n								property within six months after the date of the \r\n								detention order. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Management of seized property \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 12.0pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 2.1pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								<b>27.</b> (l) The District Court or Circuit Court may \r\n								at the request of the Minister, grant a \r\n								management order of seized property and </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 49.2pt; margin-right: 1.35pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">appoint a person to take control of and manage \r\n								or otherwise deal with the, whole or a part of \r\n								the property in accordance with the directions \r\n								of the District Court or Circuit Court; <i>(b)\r\n								</i>require a person in possession of the \r\n								property to give possession of the property to \r\n								the person appointed under paragraph <i>(a). </i>\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) The power to manage or otherwise deal with \r\n								property under this section includes the power \r\n								to sell the property if the property is of \r\n								rapidly depreciating value. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(3) A management order shall cease to have \r\n								effect when the property is returned to an \r\n								applicant in accordance with this Act or \r\n								forfeited to the Republic. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .95pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Detection of seized property \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.5pt; margin-left: 1.65pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">\r\n								<b>28. </b>(1) The District Court or Circuit Court may \r\n								order the destruction of seized property if \r\n								satisfied that it is dangerous to detain the \r\n								property or the property has little or no \r\n								financial or. other value. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) Property shall not be destroyed by a person \r\n								unless an application has been made to the \r\n								District Court or Circuit Court for a \r\n								destruction order by an authorised person.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.65pt; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;(3) Before making a destruction order, the \r\n								Court shall require notice to be given to a \r\n								person with an interest in the property and the \r\n								person shall be given a reasonable opportunity \r\n								to be heard. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; margin-right: .65pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(4) The Minister may apply to the Court to \r\n								cancel or vary an order issued under this \r\n								section. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 1.2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Orders for seizure and restraint of property\r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.75pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">29. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) The Minister may make an \r\n								<i>ex-parte </i>application to the Court for a seizure or \r\n								restraint order where there are reasonable \r\n								grounds to suspect that there is property in \r\n								premises or in a vessel in respect of which a \r\n								forfeiture order may be made. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 33.8pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) The Justice of the High Court may issue\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .25in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">a \r\n								warrant authorising a police officer to search \r\n								the premises or vessel for the property and \r\n								seize the property and any other property which \r\n								the police officer reasonably believes may be \r\n								forfeited; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .25in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">a \r\n								restraint order prohibiting a person from \r\n								disposing of or otherwise dealing with an \r\n								interest in that property other than as may be \r\n								specified in the order. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; margin-right: .65pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(3) The application shall be heard by a Justice \r\n								of the High Court in chambers. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: -9.0pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp; Orders for forfeiture of property \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: -9.0pt; margin-right: .65pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp; 30. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) The Minister may make an \r\n								<i>ex-parte </i>application to the Court for an order of \r\n								forfeiture in respect of terrorist property.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: -9.0pt; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) The Minister shall name as respondent \r\n								to the application only the person who is known \r\n								to own or control the property that is the \r\n								subject of the application. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: -9.0pt; margin-right: .65pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) The Court upon hearing the application \r\n								may direct that notice be served on the \r\n								interested party. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: -9.0pt; margin-right: .65pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) The Minister shall give notice of the \r\n								application to the respondent in the manner \r\n								directed by the Court. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 1.65pt; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp; \r\n								(5) If the Court is satisfied on the balance of \r\n								probabilities that the property which is the \r\n								subject of the application is terrorist \r\n								property, the Court shall order that the \r\n								property be forfeited to the Republic or be \r\n								disposed of as directed by the Court. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 1.65pt; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (6) Where the Court refuses to grant a \r\n								forfeiture order, the Court shall make an order \r\n								that the property is not subject to a forfeiture \r\n								order. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -4.5pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Interested parties and forfeiture orders \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">31. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) The Court may in an action relating to \r\n								forfeiture pursuant to sections 24 to 30, \r\n								require notice to be given to a person who \r\n								appears to have an interest in terrorist \r\n								property and that person shall be added as a \r\n								respondent to the application. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: .4pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) If the Court &nbsp;&nbsp;satisfied that the \r\n								person added as a respondent to the application\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 13.5pt; margin-left: 67.5pt; margin-right: .4pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">has an interest in the property the subject of \r\n								the application,</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 13.5pt; margin-left: 67.5pt; margin-right: .4pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;<i>(b)\r\n								</i>has exercised reasonable care to ensure that \r\n								the property is not from the proceeds of a \r\n								terrorist act, would not be used to commit or \r\n								facilitate the commission of a terrorist act and \r\n								would not be used by a terrorist group, and\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 13.5pt; margin-left: 67.5pt; margin-right: .4pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(c) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">is not a member of a terrorist group, \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">the Court shall order that the interest of that \r\n								person shall not be affected by the order and \r\n								the order shall also declare the nature and \r\n								extent of the interest of the person. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .9pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Orders for forfeiture of property on conviction \r\n								for </span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">offences under \r\n								<b>this Act </b></span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">32. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) Where a person is convicted of an offence \r\n								under this Act or under any other enactment and \r\n								the act also constitutes a terrorist act, the \r\n								Court shall order that property </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 2.45pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">used for, or in connection with, or \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 2.45pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">obtained as proceeds from the commission of that \r\n								offence be forfeited to the Republic. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.0pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) Before making the order, the Court \r\n								shall give a person who appears to have an \r\n								interest in the property in respect of &nbsp;&nbsp;which \r\n								the order is proposed to be made an opportunity \r\n								to be &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-right: -6.55pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) Property forfeited to the \r\n								Republic shall vest in the Republic either\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27.0pt; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">at the end of the period within which an appeal \r\n								may be made against the order where an appeal \r\n								has not been made against the order; or </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 27.0pt; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: .15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">on the final determination of the appeal if an \r\n								appeal has been made against the order. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(4) Property vested in the \r\n								Republic may be subject to public auction and \r\n								the proceeds shall be public funds.</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Appeal and forfeiture orders \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.75pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">33. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) A person who claims an interest in property \r\n								that has been forfeited and who has not been \r\n								given notice under section 30(3) or 31(1) may \r\n								make an application to the Court of Appeal to \r\n								vary or set aside the forfeiture order not later \r\n								than ninety days after the day on which the \r\n								forfeiture order was made. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: .45in; margin-left: .95pt; margin-right: .9pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) Pending the determination of an appeal \r\n								against an order of forfeiture, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 9.0pt; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: 2.35pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">property restrained under section 29 shall \r\n								continue to be restrained, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 9.0pt; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: 2.35pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">property seized under a warrant issued under \r\n								that section shall continue to be detained\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 9.0pt; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: 2.35pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">and a person appointed to manage, control or \r\n								otherwise deal with the property under that \r\n								section shall continue in that capacity. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 130.8pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 133.15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Miscellaneousmattes</span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 8.3pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 133.15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></i><b><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Intercepted \r\n								communications </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.75pt; margin-left: .7pt; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">34. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) A police officer not below the rank of an \r\n								Assistant Commissioner of Police may apply <i>ex \r\n								parte </i>to a Circuit Court for an order to \r\n								intercept communications for the purpose of \r\n								obtaining evidence of commission of an offence \r\n								under this Act. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) A police officer not below the rank of an \r\n								Assistant Commissioner of Police may make the \r\n								application only with the prior written consent \r\n								of the Minister. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(3) A Judge of the Circuit Court to whom an \r\n								application is made under subsection (1) may \r\n								make an order for the prevention of crime upon \r\n								reasonable grounds to </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;</span></i></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">require a communications service provider to \r\n								intercept and retain a specified communication \r\n								or communications of a specified description \r\n								received or transmitted or about to be received \r\n								or transmitted by that communications service \r\n								provide~ </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">authorise a senior police officer to intercept \r\n								or listen to a conversation provided by a \r\n								communications service provider, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(c) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">authorise the senior police officer to enter \r\n								premises and install on the premises a device \r\n								for the interception and retention of specified \r\n								communications or communications of a specified \r\n								description and to remove and retain the device,\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">where there is reasonable suspicion of \r\n								commission of an offence under this Act, or the \r\n								whereabouts of a person suspected by the police \r\n								officer to have committed an offence is \r\n								contained in that communication or communication \r\n								of that description. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(4) Despite the Evidence Act, 1975 (N.R.C.D. \r\n								323) information contained in a communication \r\n								which is intercepted and retained in a foreign \r\n								state in accordance with the law of the foreign \r\n								state and certified by a judge of that foreign \r\n								state to have been intercepted, is admissible in \r\n								proceedings for an offence under this Act as \r\n								evidence of the truth of its contents even if it \r\n								contains hearsay but shall be corroborated.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Power to prevent entry and order the removal of \r\n								persons </span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">35. (1) The Director of Immigration or an \r\n								officer authorised by the Director shall not \r\n								grant an endorsement or authority to permit a \r\n								person to enter this country if there are \r\n								reasonable grounds to suspect that the person \r\n								is, will or has been involved in the commission \r\n								of a terrorist act. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) Where the Minister responsible for Interior \r\n								has reasonable grounds to believe that a person \r\n								in this country, will or has been involved in \r\n								the commission of a terrorist act, the Minister \r\n								may order that person to be deported in \r\n								accordance with the Immigration Act 2000 (Act \r\n								573). </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(3) A person with respect to whom an order under \r\n								subsection (2) is made is a prohibited \r\n								immigrant. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(4) A person with respect to whom an order under \r\n								subsection (2) is made, may be detained in the, \r\n								manner directed by the Minister responsible for \r\n								Interior and may be placed on a vessel or \r\n								aircraft leaving the country. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .7pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Information relating to passengers on vessels or \r\n								aircraft and persons entering or leaving the \r\n								country </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">36. (1) The operator of an aircraft or the \r\n								master of a vessel, arriving or departing from \r\n								the country or the operator of an aircraft \r\n								registered in the country or master of a vessel \r\n								registered in the country departing from a place \r\n								outside the country, shall provide information\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .2pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">relating to persons on board, or expected to be \r\n								on board the aircraft or vessel to the Inspector \r\n								General of Police, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">relating to persons on board or expected to be \r\n								on board the aircraft or vessel to the competent \r\n								authority in a foreign state, as required by the \r\n								laws of that foreign state. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: .2pt; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;(2) The Director of Immigration may provide to \r\n								the competent authority in a foreign state \r\n								information relating to persons entering or\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">leaving the country by land. \r\n								&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; '' \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: .2pt; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(3) The provision of the information shall be \r\n								deemed not to con­travene a provision of law \r\n								prohibiting the disclosure of the information.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 32.85pt; margin-left: .2pt; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(4) Information provided 1''0 the Inspector \r\n								General of Police shall not be used or disclosed \r\n								by the Inspector General except to protect \r\n								national security or public safety. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Power to refuse refugee application \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.2pt; margin-left: .2pt; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">37. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">The Refugee Board established under the Refugee \r\n								Act, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 305D) shall take into \r\n								consideration national security and public \r\n								safety and may refuse the application of a \r\n								person applying for status as a refugee if the \r\n								Board has reasonable grounds to believe that the \r\n								applicant has committed a terrorist act or is or \r\n								is likely to be involved in the commission of a \r\n								terrorist act. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Evidence by certificate \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.2pt; margin-left: .2pt; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">38. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">A \r\n								certificate purporting to be signed by an \r\n								appropriate authority to the effect that a thing \r\n								or substance described in a certificate is a \r\n								weapon, is hazardous, radioactive or a harmful \r\n								substance, a toxic chemical or microbial or \r\n								other biological agent or toxin, is admissible \r\n								in evidence without proof of the signature or \r\n								authority of the person appearing to have signed \r\n								it in a proceedings under this Act and, in the \r\n								absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of \r\n								the facts stated in the certificate. </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Regulations \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 12.95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">39. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">The Minister may by legislative instrument make \r\n								regulations </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -115.65pt; margin-left: 115.65pt; margin-right: .9pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">on the types of financial and other related \r\n								services which may not be provided to proscribed \r\n								specified entities; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">specifying the reporting by accountable \r\n								institutions; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(c) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">on the provision of information relating to \r\n								passengers on vessels cr aircraft and persons \r\n								entering or leaving the country, and specifying \r\n								the foreign states to which the i1''~formation \r\n								may be provided, and </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -4.5pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: .9pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(d) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">generally to provide for the effective \r\n								implementation of the provisions of this Act.\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Interpretation \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .45pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n								</span>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">40. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">In this Act unless the context otherwise \r\n								requires, </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .9pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;accountable institution&quot; includes the Police \r\n								Service and the Immigration Service; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;communications&quot; means a communication received \r\n								or transmitted by post or a telegraphic \r\n								telephone or other communication received or \r\n								transmitted by electric, magnetic, \r\n								electro-magnetic, electro-chemical or electro \r\n								mechanical energy; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot; \r\n								communications service provider'' means a person \r\n								who provides services for the transmission or \r\n								reception of communications; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;conveyance&quot; means any kind of vehicle for the \r\n								transport of persons and property by land;\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;counter-terrorism convention &quot;means a \r\n								convention adopted by the United Nations \r\n								Security Council; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;Court&quot; means High Court; \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;entity&quot; means specified entity; \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;essential service&quot; includes the police, fire, \r\n								health and other vital servIces; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;explosive&quot; includes gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, \r\n								dynamite or other nitroglycerine admixture, gun \r\n								cotton, blasting powder, detonators and every \r\n								other substance used to produce a practical \r\n								effect by explosion; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;firearm&quot; includes any gun, rifle, machine gun, \r\n								cap-gun, flint lock gun or pistol, revolver, \r\n								cannon or other firearms, any gun, air rifle or \r\n								air pistol whether whole or in attached pieces; \r\n								&quot;ideological cause&quot; includes racial or ethnic \r\n								cause; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;lethal device&quot; includes weapon; \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;Minister&quot; means the Attorney-General and \r\n								Minister responsible for Justice; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .95pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;premises&quot; includes a building, room, place, \r\n								structure, tent, caravan, land, ship, boat, \r\n								aircraft; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;property&quot; means an asset of any kind, whether \r\n								corporeal or incorporeal, moveable or immovable, \r\n								tangible or intangible and legal documents or \r\n								instruments in any form including electronic or \r\n								digital, evidencing title to, or interest in \r\n								such assets including but not limited to bank \r\n								credits, travellers cheques, bank cheques, money \r\n								orders, shares, securities, bonds, drafts, \r\n								letter of credit; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .5in" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;Republic&quot; means the Republic of Ghana; \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 47.5pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;terrorist group&quot; means \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">an entity that has as one of its activities and \r\n								purposes, the commission of, or the facilitation \r\n								of a terrorist act; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 182.35pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">a \r\n								specified entity; &quot;terrorist property&quot; means\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 49.5pt" align="justify"><i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(a) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">proceeds from the commission of a terrorist act;\r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 1.6pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">property which has been, is being, or is likely \r\n								to be used to commit a terrorist act; </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 1.6pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(c) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">property which has been, is being, or is likely \r\n								to be used by a terrorist group; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 1.6pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(d) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">property owned or controlled by or on behalf of \r\n								a ter­rorist group; or </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(e) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">property which has been collected for the \r\n								purpose of &nbsp;&nbsp;providing support to a terrorist \r\n								group or funding a terrorist act; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 27.0pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;utilities&quot; includes electricity and \r\n								water; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: -22.5pt; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 1.15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;vessel&quot; means any thing made or adopted \r\n								for the &nbsp;&nbsp;conveyance by water, of people or \r\n								property; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 1.15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;weapon&quot; includes a firearm, explosive, \r\n								chemical, biological or nuclear weapon. </span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: .2pt" align="justify"><b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Consequential amendment \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.75pt">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">41. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(1) \r\n								<i>(a) </i>The Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 \r\n								(Act 30) is amended in section 96(7) by the \r\n								insertion after the word &quot;of&quot; of the words &quot;acts \r\n								of terrorism, &quot; </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">The Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30) is \r\n								amended in section 147B by the insertion after \r\n								subsection (1) of the following new subsection</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 9.0pt; margin-right: 1.15pt" align="justify">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;(la) Where sentence is imposed \r\n								for an offence involving an act of terrorism, \r\n								the court on sentencing the offender, on its own \r\n								motion or on the application of the prosecutor \r\n								or the victim of the~ offence may make an order \r\n								for the offender to pay for the value of an) \r\n								property damaged as a result of the terrorist \r\n								act without limiting any civil action the victim \r\n								may take.''</span><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; color: black">\r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">the Criminal Procedure Code1960 (Act 30) is \r\n								amended in section 227 (1) by the deletion of \r\n								the word &quot;male&quot; after the word &quot;Every&quot; \r\n								</span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 33.1pt; line-height: 14.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.6pt; margin-top: 2.4pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt">\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">(2) The Immigration Act 2000 (Act 573) is \r\n								amended in section 8 by the insertion of a new \r\n								paragraph after paragraph <i>(i) </i>of \r\n								sub-section (1) of the following </span></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="line-height: 15.1pt; margin-left: 48.7pt; margin-right: -.05pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="justify">\r\n								<i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">&quot;(j) \r\n								</span></i>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">is a person declared a specified entity under \r\n								section 19 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2008 (Act &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; )&quot;.\r\n								</span>\r\n								</p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="line-height: 20.6pt; margin-left: .45pt; margin-right: -.05pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Modification \r\n								</span></b></p>\r\n								<p class="Style" style="text-indent: 11.5pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-left: .95pt; margin-right: .9pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt" align="justify">\r\n								<b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">42. \r\n								</span></b>\r\n								<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">The Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act \r\n								29) shall be read as one with this Act and where \r\n								there is a conflict this Act shall prevail.\r\n							  </span></div>\r\n							<p class="Style" style="line-height: 13.65pt" align="justify">\r\n							<span style="font-family: Arial; color: black">Date \r\n							of <i>Gazette </i>notification: 13th October 2008.\r\n							</span></p>\r\n							<p class="Style">\r\n							  </table>\r\n							</p>\r\n', 'Second', 'Yes', 'ACT 762');
