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ACT 674
THE SIX HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-FOURTH
ACT
OF THE
PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF GHANA
ENTITLED
THE COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT-
2004
/\N ACT to amend the Courts
Ac11993 (Act 459) to enable
non-lawyers who have the
requisite limited training
in law to be appointed
District Magistrates to
rectify identified omission
and repetition in the Courts
Act and to provide for
related purposes.
DATE OF ASSENT: 1st
November; 2004
BE IT EN ACTED by Parliament
as follows
Act 459 amended
The Courts Act 1993 (Act
459) as amended is further
amended as fo11ows
(a)
in section 46, by the
substitution for subsection
(I ) of the following.
"Qualification
of a Magistrate and sitting
of the District Court
(46. 1) A person
does not qualify to be
appointed a magistrate
of a District Court unless
the person is of high moral
character and proven
integrity and
(i) is a
lawyer, or
(ii) is a
person with such judicial or
legal knowledge as the Chief
Justice shall on the advice
of the Judicial Council
determine";
(b)
in section 15, by the
insertion after sub section
as follows:
"(la) For the purposes of
paragraph (c) order
requiring a person to enter
into sentence"; and
(c)
in section 47( 1), by the
repeal of paragraph (h)
Date of Gazette
notification: 12th November
2004
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