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                                              <b><span style="font-family: Arial">OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS ACT, 1959 
                                              (NO. 85 OF 59)</span></b></p>
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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              1. Short title.</span></p>
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                                              2. Substitute for Gazette 
                                              publication.</span></p>
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                                              3. Evidence.</span></p>
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                                              4. Amendment of Section 13 of 
                                              Statutory Instruments Act, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              Assented to in Her Majesty's Name 
                                              and on Her Majesty's behalf this 
                                              22nd day of December, 1959. No. 52 
                                              of 1959.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Governor-General.</span></p>
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                                              AN ACT to amend the law relating 
                                              to official publications and to 
                                              amend Section 13 of the Statutory 
                                              Instruments Act, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              Date of Commencement: 24th 
                                              December, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most 
                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the 
                                              advice and consent of the National 
                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled, and by the 
                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              Section 1&#8212;Short Title.</span></b></p>
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                                              This Act may be cited as the 
                                              Official Publications Act, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              Section 2&#8212;Substitute for Gazette 
                                              Publication</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>
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                                              (1) The publication by the 
                                              Government Printer of any Act, 
                                              instrument, notice or other 
                                              document otherwise than in the 
                                              Gazette shall, if notice of the 
                                              publication thereof is given in 
                                              the Gazette, have the like effect 
                                              for the purposes of any Act 
                                              requiring publication in the 
                                              Gazette or otherwise referring to 
                                              such publication as if the 
                                              document had been published in the 
                                              Gazette on the date on which 
                                              notice of the publication was 
                                              given therein:</span></p>
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                                              Provided that this subsection 
                                              shall not apply to the publication 
                                              of Bills.</span></p>
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                                              (2) Except where expressly 
                                              disapplied by an Act passed after 
                                              the commencement of this Act, 
                                              subsection (1) shall have effect 
                                              as well for the purposes of an Act 
                                              so passed as for the purposes of 
                                              an exiting Act.</span></p>
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                                              Section 3&#8212;Evidence.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) A copy of any document 
                                              purporting to have been printed by 
                                              the Government Printer shall be 
                                              prima facie evidence of the due 
                                              making and tenor of that document 
                                              and, if the document purports to 
                                              have been published, of the 
                                              publication thereof.</span></p>
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                                              No.29 of 1957.</span></p>
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                                              (2) Section 15 of the 
                                              Interpretation Act, 1957 (which 
                                              makes provision as to evidence in 
                                              relation to official publications) 
                                              is hereby repealed.</span></p>
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                                              Section 4&#8212;Amendment of s. 13 of 
                                              Statutory Instruments Act, 1959. 
                                              No. 52 of 1959.</span></b></p>
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                                              Subsection (1) of Section 13 of 
                                              the Statutory Instruments Act, 
                                              1959 (which makes provision as to 
                                              the commencement of statutory 
                                              instruments) is hereby amended, 
                                              with effect from the commencement 
                                              of that Act,&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              (a) by the insertion, at the 
                                              beginning of paragraph (a), of the 
                                              words &quot;in the case of a 
                                              legislative instrument made after 
                                              the coming into operation of 
                                              Section 4 of this Act,&quot;; and</span></p>
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                                              (b) by the substitution for 
                                              paragraph (b) of the following&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              &quot;(b) in any other case, on the 
                                              date on which the instrument is 
                                              made:&quot;</span></p>
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                                              This printed impression has been 
                                              carefully compared by me with the 
                                              Bill which has passed the National 
                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a 
                                              true and correctly printed copy of 
                                              the said Bill.</span></p>
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                                              K. B. AYENSU</span></p>
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                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>
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