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IN exercise of the powers
conferred on the Provisional
National Defence Council Secretary
responsible for the Local
Government by section 2 of the
Local Government Law, 1988 (P.N.D.C.L.
207) and with the prior approval
of the Council, this Instrument is
made this 29th day of November,
1988.
Section 1—Establishment of
Assembly.
There is hereby established a
District Assembly to be known as
the Asante-Akim North District
Assembly (hereinafter referred to
as the “Assembly”) for the area
specified in the First Schedule to
this Instrument.
Section 2—Membership of Assembly,
etc.
(1) The Assembly shall consist of
not more than sixty-four persons
which shall be made up of :
(a) the District Secretary;
(b) forty-two persons representing
the electoral areas who shall be
elected directly by the electorate
in accordance with regulations
made in that behalf by the
National Commission for Democracy;
and
(c) not more than twenty-one
persons comprising the traditional
authorities or their
representatives and other persons
ordinarily resident in the
District, who shall be appointed
by the Council in consultation
with the traditional authorities
and organized productive economic
groupings in the District.
(2) For the purpose of election to
the Assembly, the area of
authority of the Assembly shall be
divided into the electoral areas
specified in the First Schedule to
this Instrument.
Section 3—Functions of Assembly.
(1) The Assembly shall perform all
the functions conferred on
District Assemblies by the Local
Government Law, 1988, (P.N.D.C.L.
207).
(2) Without prejudice to
sub-paragraph (1) of this
paragraph, the Assembly shall
perform the functions set out in
the Second Schedule to this
Instrument.
Section 4—Common Seal.
(1) The Assembly shall have a
Common Seal which shall be such as
the Secretary may approve by
notice in the Gazette.
(2) Until such time as the Common
Seal approved in sub-paragraph (1)
is available, a rubber stamp
bearing the inscription "The
Asante-Akim North District
Assembly" shall be used as the
Common Seal.
Section 5—Administrative Area of
Assembly.
The area of authority of the
Assembly shall comprise the area
specified in the First Schedule to
this Instrument.
Section 6—Location of Principal
Office of Assembly.
The Assembly shall establish its
principal offices at Konongo where
meetings of the Assembly shall be
held.
Section 7—Inaugural Meeting of
Assembly.
(1) The Assembly shall hold its
inaugural meeting on such date as
the Secretary shall with the prior
approval of the Council determine.
(2) The Presiding Member of the
Assembly shall be elected at the
inaugural meeting.
Section 8—Interpretation.
In this Instrument, unless the
context otherwise requires:
"Council" means the Provisional
National Defence Council;
"ordinarily resident" has the
meaning assigned to it under
sub-section (2) of section 16 of
the Local Government Law, 1988 (P.N.C.D.L.
207);
"Secretary" means the Provisional
National Defence Council Secretary
responsible for Local Government.
Section 9—Revocation.
The Local Government (Asante-Akim
North District Council)
(Establishment) Instrument, 1974 (L.I.
913) is hereby revoked.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
LIST OF SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA OF
AUTHORITY OF THE ASANTE AKIM NORTH
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY.
Town/Area Council Description of
Zone Description of Electoral
Area
1. Ahenbronum
Ahenbronum, Low Cost 1.
Ahenbronum
Unit 1 — Ahenbronum
The area bounded by
Chief's
Palace
H/Nos. OTN. 28, OTN.41
Methodist Church and
Mission, GCMB, ICD
Office
H/Nos. OTN 132, 99, 98,
Methodist Primary
School
bounded by the River
Owere
and Mines Gate.
Unit 2 — Low Cost
Low Cost, Rural
Development
Quarters, Mining Area,
Mines Quarters, and Kye-
kyewere.
2. New Town
New Town 2. New Town
Unit 1 — New Town
Area bounded by
Pentecost
Church, H/Nos. NT. 2,
NT.1
opposite Methodist
Church
Agogo Road, H/Nos. NT,
5.
NT. 6, Co-operative
Bank,
Kumasi-Accra Road, oppo-
site GCB bounded by
H/Nos.
8 Barclays Bank, Post
Office
H/Nos. NT 15-18, NTE 40,
Christ Church of Light
and bounded by River
Owere's
Valley.
1. New Town
New Town 3. New Town
Extension
Unit 1 — New Town Extension
Area bounded by GCB, H/Nos.
NT. 39,38, Lorry Station,
H/Nos. NT. 20, 19, District
Police Headquarters, H/Nos.
NTE. 34, 33, Cadbury and
Fly Hall, GCMB Shd 1 &2,
H/Nos. NTE. 43 and GCMB
Depot.
1. Market Circle
Market Circle, Nyiamu 4.
Market Circle
Unit 1 — Market Circle
The area bounded by UAC
Building, H/Nos. OTN 47,
OTN 48, 46, 56, 57, 61,
30, 21,
25, River Akuntomawere,
R.C. Middle and L/A
2 Middle Schools, R/C
Church including Railway
lines,H/Nos. MS. 5 and
Main Market.
Unit 2 — Nyiamu
Area bounded by River
Akuntomawere, Kumasi
to Accra Road including
Court Hall and Railway
lines.
4. Freetown
Freetown, Bominiagya 4.
Freetown
Unit 1 — Freetown
Freetown, Railways
Station,
Railways Quarters,
Oxford
International School
and
Freetown Extension.
Unit 2 — Bominiagya
5. Zongo
Efam, Market Circle,
Esoro, Bominiso 6. Efam
Unit 1 — Efam
Area bounded by H/Nos. 1—8
to River Bobire and H/Nos.
ZA. 1, 11, 12, 23,24, Old
Central Mosque including
H/Nos. ZA 32, 42—48, 102,
134.
Unit 2 — Market Circle
Area bounded by H/Nos.
2A,
103, B.9, 136. 49, 50,
58, 60,
71, 76. Daily Market,
H/Nos.
ZA. 122, 166, 110,
115, 111,
98, 120, 170,
including
Urban Council School
and
Public Cemetery.
7. Esoro
Unit 3 — Esoro
Bounded by H/Nos. ZA.
157,
ZA. 112, 69,
(Reservoir) H/
Nos. ZA. 65, 91, 59,
51, 52,
53, 83, Baptist
Church H/No
ZA 80B, 80A, 112 to
King-
dom Hall.
Unit 4 — Bominiso.
6. Apebuoso
Apebuoso, Abroham,
Adjareago. 8. Apebuoso
Unit 1 — Apebuoso
Apebuoso, Kwakyewaso,
Kyi-
riahantan
Unit 2 — Abroham
Unit 3 — Adjareago.
7. Odumase New Town
New Town West, New
Town East. 9. Odumase New Town
Unit 1 — New Town West
Area bounded by H/Nos.
NT. 28, NT. 29, Presby
Primary School H/Nos.
NT.
94 Post Office, H/Nos.
NT 54,
Market Area, Part of
the
New Town bounded by
Kumasi-Accra Road, CMB.
shed, Presby Middle
School,
H/Nos. NT 97, NT. 106,
NT. 81 and Konongo Odu-
mase Secondary School
Road.
Unit 2 — New Town East
Area bounded by H/Nos.
NT. 1-
NT. 15, NT. 16-NT. 27,
Area
bounded by Accra-Kumasi
Road Police Station,
H/Nos.
OS. 1-4, OS.5-OS.14,
OS.15-
OS. 32A and Onyinase.
8. Ahyiaem
Ahyiaem, Asesewa 10. Ahyiaem
Unit 1 — Ahyiaem
Area bounded by
Methodist
Church L/A.2 Primary
and
Middle Schools.
District Ad-
ministration
Offices, Old
Council Hall,
Internal Reve-
nue Service, the
street between
Pinamang School of
Business
and Internal Revenue
Service
and H/No. H.24,
Railway
line area and Godben
Tim-
bers. Other side of
Kumasi-
Accra Road including
Old
SCC Camp and
surrounding
area.
Unit 2 — Asesewa
Area bounded by
Sec. Sch.
Road, R/C Primary
and Mid-
dle Schools, Sec.
School Staff
Quarters.
9. Odumase Zongo
Zongo West, Zongo East 11.
Odumase Zongo
Unit 1— Zongo West
That part of the
Zongo bordering Onyinase, New Town
East, Kyirianhantan
and
bounded by H/Nos.
ZN. 1-27,
ZN. 80 and ZN. 81,
stretching
downward to the
Mines road.
Unit 2 — Zongo East
That part of the
Zongo bordering the Old SCC
quarters and
58, ZN. 75-79 down
to Mines
road and Sunsum
Church.
1. Krofa East
Zongo, Abaase
Unit 1 — Zongo
Zongo, Police
Station and
CMB. Shed.
Unit 2 — Abaase and Old
Ahenfie
Area.
2. Krofa Central
Odumase, Besease
Unit 1 — Odumase
Unit 2 — Bease
3. Krofa West
Presby Mission, Ofoase,
Dominase, Brentuo Unit 1— Presby
Mission and School
and Gyedimu Mission
Unit 2 — Ofoase and Market Square.
Unit 3 — Dominase
Unit 4 — Brentuo.
OWERRIAGYA 1. Kyekyebiase
Esro, Eboum, Kwakoko 12.
Kyekyebiase
Unit 1 — Esro
Esro, Odwoa and
Dawasupon.
Unit 2 — Eboum
Ebuom, Gyedi.
Unit 3 — Kwakoko.
2. Obenimase
New Town, Old Town
East, Old Town West 13.
Obenimase
Unit 1 — New Town
New Town and Gyedi
Unit 2 — Old Town East
Old Town East,
Methodist
Church and Mission.
Unit 3 — Old Town West
Old Town West,
Zongo,
Presby Mission and
Old
Mines
Quarters.
3. Patrensa East
Ahenbronum, Sikafoaman-
tem, Owerrionu, Tanotia
Presby Mission, Obine-
beng. 14. Ahenbronum
Unit 1 — Ahenbronum
The area comprising
Post Office
Market Square,
Ahenfie and
bounded by
Konongo-Agogo
Road including
H/Nos. P.183
— 188, 190—195.
Unit 2 — Sikafoamantem
Sikafoamantem,
Canna, and
Zongo.
Unit 3 — Owerrionu
The area comprising
H/Nos.
P. 139-145, SDA
Church, P.
115, 148, 160-162
bounded
by River Owerri.
15. Patriensa East
Unit 4 — Tanotia
H/Nos. P.149, 150,
152, East of
Presby Church, P.
153,154,
177, 155, 178, P.
163-166,168.
Unit 5 — Presby Mission
From Presby Church
P.93,94,
96,100, 112, 134,
217.
Unit 6 — Obinebeng
Obinebeng and
Abidjan Bay.
4. Patriensa West
Roman Mission, Abrenum,
Mbakyimu, Abokobom,
Nyaboe, Atensu. 16.
Patriensa West
Unit 1 — Roman Mission
The area comprising
CMB shed,
New R.C. Church,
Konongo-
Juansa Road,
H/No.P.24.
Unit 2 — Abrenum
H/Nos. P. 25-32,
44, 45, 52, 59,
60, 61, 64, 156,
257.
Unit 3 — Mbakyimu
H/Nos. P.65-69,
72-74, 85, 89,
90, to Presby
Street and P.91,
92.
Unit 4 — Abokobom
The area covered by
Presby
Primary School and
down,
H/Nos. P.75, 76,
77, 78, 83,
84, and Extension.
17. Nyaboe
Unit 5 — Nyaboe
Unit 6 — Atensu.
AMANTENA-
MAN 1. Nyinamponase
Nyinamponase, Amantena,
Dawereso. 18. Nyinamponase
Unit 1 — Nyinamponase
Nyinamponase,
Anninsua
Unit 2 — Amantena
Unit 3 — Dawereso
Dawereso,
Dawereso-Nkwanta,
Behwe.
2. Akutuase
Mehame, Mankessim,
Mentukwa, Down Town. 19.
Akutuase
Unit 1 — Mehame
Unit 2 — Mankessim
Mankessim,
Mempeasem
Unit 3 — Mentukwa
Mentukwa, Zongo,
Nankaba
Mission.
Unit 4 — Down Town
Down Town, New Town, including
Police Station and
quarters and
Mission area.
3. Wioso
Wioso East, Wioso West,
Presby Mission, Wura-
ponso 20. Wioso
Unit 1— Wioso East
CMB Shed to Presby
Primary
and Middle School
area.
Unit 2 — Wioso West
Zimbabwe,
Methodist Mission
Unit 3 — Presby Mission
Presby Mission and
Gyedi area
Unit 4 — Wuraponso
Wuraponso, Atwiriso,
Nsikuwa
1. Dwease
Ahenbronum, Apebouso 21.
Ahenbronum
Unit 1 — Ahenbronum
Ahenbronum, Canna
Unit 2 — Apebuoso
Apebuoso, Pentecost
Eboum.
DWEASE-
PRAASO 2. Dwease New Town
New Town, Zongo, Ampa-
bame 22. Dwease New Town
Unit 1 — New Town
Unit 2 — Zongo
Unit 3 — Ampabame
Ampabame, Amangoase.
2. Juansa North
Market-Square, Brofoye-
duro Presby Mission.
28. Juansa North
Unit 1 — Market-Square
The area comprising
the Post
Office, Old Clinic,
Court
House and Police
Post,
Methodist Mission
School
H/Nos. MA 5-40,
True
Christian Mission
and
Market Square.
Unit 2 — Brofoyeduro
Area covered by
H/Nos. B.
1—2, West of Market
Square
and H/Nos. B. 6—25.
Unit 3 — Presby Mission
Presby Mission.
3. Domeabra New Town
New Town West, New
Town East, Bredi. 29. Domeabra
Unit 1 — New Town West
Area lying East of
Juansa-
Domi Road including
H/Nos.
NT. 1-3 and R.C.
Mission.
Unit 2 — New Town East
Area comprising
Odumase,
Mangoase and Presby
Middle School.
Unit 3 — Bredi
4. Tweneboase
Presby Mission, Twene-
boase, Paase. 30.
Tweneboase
Unit 1 — Presby Mission
Presby Mission
Area.
Unit 2 — Tweneboase
Old Town including
Ahenfi
Area.
Unit 3 — Paase
Paase and Tanotia.
5. Pekyerekye
Kubease, Ahenbronumso
Sikafoamantem, Adiem-
bra. 31. Pekyerekye
Unit 1 — Kubease
Kubease and Ebaam,
East of
Pekyerekye.
Unit 2 — Ahennbronumso
From CMB Shed,
Methodist
Primary School and
Ahenfie Area.
Unit 3 — Sikafoamantem
Sikafoamantem and
New Town
Unit 4 — Adiembra.
3. Nsiakrom
Nsiakrom, Boatengkrom,
Beposo. 23. Nsiakrom
Unit 1 — Nsiakrom
Nsiakrom,
Anowuokrom,
Addobenso.
Unit 2 — Boatengkrom
Unit 3 — Beposo
Beposo Kwabena
Fankrom,
Sakyikrom,
Adadekrom.
4. Adumkrom
Adumkrom, Kramokrom 24.
Adumkrom
Unit 1 — Adumkrom
Adumkrom, Atiso,
Brobekrom
Odurokrom,
Alifiakrom.
Unit 2 — Kramokrom
Kramokrom,
Alhajikrom,
Nnuraso, Awukukrom,
Y.B.,
Krom, Kofi
Awonokrom,
Yaw Biokrom.
5. Praso West
Nkwadum, Salam 25. Praso west
Unit 1 — Nkwadum
Unit 2 — Salam
Salam and Anunuse,
Tutu-
krom.
6. Praso East
Wawase, Ahenbronum 26.
Praso East Wawase
Unit 1 — Wawase
Unit 2 — Ahenbronum
Ahenbronum,
Adontuaso.
OWERRIMAN 1. Juansa
South
Asawase, New Town,
Zongo, Nyamebekyeree 27.
Juansa South
Unit 1 — Asawase
Asawase, H/Nos. AA.
1-12
(Ahenfie)
Asante-Akim,
13-27 and Saviour
Mission.
Unit 2 — New Town
New Town, area
covered by,
H/Nos. NT. 33, 1-6
In the South to NT.
63-79
in the North.
Unit 3 — Zongo
Unit 4 — Nyamebekyere.
AGOGO 1. Ahenbronum
Ahenbronum, Amanfrom 32.
Ahenbronum
Unit 1 — Ahenbronum
The area bounded by
GW &SC,
GCMB Depot,
Forestry, Post
Office, H/Nos.
132-135,
Chief's Palace
H/Nos. 141,
200, 185, 172, 165,
164,
including New site
H/Nos.
B.1-6, 24, 161,
160, 14, R.C.
Mission H/Nos. 178,
179 and
Blk. 54.
Unit 2 — Amanfrom
Area bounded by
Baamu, H/
Nos. 220, 207, GCMB
Office,
H/Nos. 168, 183,
166, including Agogo State
Secondary
School.
2. Bontodiase
Bontodiase, Zongo 33. Bontodiase
Unit 1 — Bontodiase
Area bounded by
Agogo State
Secondary School.
H/Nos.
404-411, Mprayem,
H/Nos.
402, 395, 382, 375,
362, 357,
344, 562, 564B,
724, 300, 287,
278, Rest bounded
by Zongo.
Unit 2 — Zongo
3. Apetenyinase
Apetenyinase, Market
Square 34. Apetenyinase
Unit 1 — Apetenyinase
Area bounded by
H/Nos. 321,
339, 340, 97, 98,
123, 124,
414, 413, 412, 396,
381, 376,
361, 358, 343,
A.342, 337,
336, 365, 286, Apostolic
Mission, Pentecostal Mission,
and Police
Quarters.
Unit 2 — Market Square
West of Rest House
Road,
bounded by H/Nos.
450, 433,
432, 415, 59, 61,
96, 90, Main
Market, H/Nos.
125-131, 116,
105, 90, 69, 51,
423, 424,
441-449.
4. Obuasi
Obuasi, Gyidim 35. Obuasi
Unit 1 — Obuasi
Boundary starts
from R/C Pri-
mary and Middle
Schools
bounded by Agogo
Wamu
Hotel, Police
Station, H/Nos.
551, 501, 500, 254,
253,
454-474, Gyidim
Church,
Rocky Hill up to
R/C Primary
and Middle Schools.
Unit 2 — Gyidim
Gyidim and Akosombo
Market
5. Sukuumu
Sukuumu, Nurses Quarters 36.
Sukuumu
Unit 1 — Sukuumu
Area bounded by
Nurses
Quarters, Kusibo,
H/Nos.
Blk.8, Blk.1, Christ Apostolic
Church (uncompleted)
including H/Nos.
1-13, B. 34,
35A Presby Mission,
H/Nos.
728, 729A, 729B.
6. New Town
New Town, Hospital 37. New Town
Unit 1 — New Town
Agogo New Town
Unit 2 — Hospital
Agogo Presby
Hospital, Presby
Training College,
Nurses Col-
lege, Collins
Commercial Sch.
7. Pataban
Pataban, Mageda, Onyimso
Brantuokrom 38. Pataban
Unit 1 — Pataban
Pataban, Anwanie,
Nyani-
wase, Anyawa,
Maayek-
wasea.
Unit 2 — Mageda
Mageda, Atebubu,
Atedeso,
Tinkong.
39. Onyimso
Unit 3 — Onyimso
Unit 4 — Brantuokrom
Brantuokrom,
Adinkrakrom.
8. Ananekrom
Ananekrom, Dukusen, Be-
bome, Addokrom, Kan-
sanso. 40. Ananekrom
Unit 1 — Ananekrom
Ananekrom, Anwama,
Twantifi,
Nsonyameye
Unit 2 — Dukusen
Dukusen, Abrade,
Baamaa,
Asuboi, Kwaduamena,
Seke-
duase, Tema.
41. Bebome
Unit 3 — Bebome
Bebome, Nyamebekyere,
Bon-
so, Kowereso,
Abrewapong,
Oseikrom
Unit 4 — Addokrom
Addokrom, Krachi,
Akubem.
Afrisre, Serecheso
Unit 5 — Kansanso
Kansanso,
Mpesempese
Amponsakrom,
Baidenkrom
Dawulaso.
9. Hwidem
Tweneboase, Hwidieso, Asenchem
42. Hwidem
Unit 1 — Tweneboase
Tweneboase,
Anwanwabea,
Healing and Prayer
Group
Unit 2 — Hwidieso
Hwidieso
Unit 3 — Asenchem
Koforidua, Asenchem,
Koodua.
SECOND SCHEDULE
FUNCTIONS OF THE ASSEMBLY
It shall be the duty of the
Assembly—
1. To promote and safeguard public
health and for this purpose the
Ministry of Health shall assign
Medical Officers of Health, health
inspectors and other staff as
appropriate except semi-skilled
and unskilled labourers to the
District Assembly for the proper
discharge of this duty.
2. To cause their District to be
inspected regularly for the
detection of nuisances or any
condition likely to be offensive
or injurious to health.
3. If satisfied that any nuisances
or any condition likely to be
offensive or injurious to health
exists, to cause all proper steps
to be taken to secure the
abatement of the nuisances or the
removal of the condition.
4. To ensure the provision of
adequate and wholesome supply of
water throughout the entire
District in consultation with the
Ghana Water and Sewerage
Corporation.
5. To establish, install, build,
maintain and control public
latrines, lavatories, urinals and
wash places.
6. To establish, maintain and
carry out services for the removal
of night-soil from any building
and for the destruction and
treatment of such night-soil.
7. To establish, maintain and
carry out services for the removal
and destruction of filth and
carcasses of dead animals from any
public or private place.
8. To regulate any trade or
business which may be noxious or
injurious to public health or a
source of danger to the public or
which otherwise is in the public
interest to regulate.
9. To provide for the inspection
of all meat, fish, vegetables and
all other foodstuffs and liquid of
whatever kind or nature intended
for human consumption whether
exposed for sale or not; and to
seize, destroy and otherwise deal
with all such foodstuffs or
liquids as are unfit for human
consumption and to supervise and
control manufactures of foodstuffs
and liquids of whatever kind or
nature intended for human
consumption.
10. To provide, maintain,
supervise and control slaughter
houses and pounds and all such
matters and things as may be
necessary for the convenient use
of such slaughter-houses.
11. To prevent and deal with the
outbreak or the prevalence of any
disease.
12. To prevent the spread of and
exterminate tsetse-fly,
mosquitoes, rats, bugs and other
vermin.
13. To prohibit or regulate the
making of burrow-pits or other
excavations.
14. To establish and maintain
cemeteries.
15. To provide crematoria where in
the opinion of the Assembly it is
expedient so to do.
16. To regulate or prohibit the
sinking of wells and provide for
the closing of wells.
17. To establish, maintain and
control pounds, seize and impound
any stray animal and provide for
the payment of compensation for
damage done by such animal.
18. To provide that the owner or
occupier of any land or tenements
maintain, clear and keep free from
vegetation, the roads, streets or
paths adjoining his land or
tenements.
19. To provide for the control,
destruction and licensing of dogs.
20. To provide for the control,
regulation, inspection,
supervision and licensing of—
(i) social halls, dance halls
and places of entertainment;
(ii) lodging and eating houses;
(iii) any premises or land in or
upon which any profession,
occupation, trade or business is
carried on;
(iv) such occupations as the
Secretary may specify in an
Instrument from time to time.
21. To establish and operate
Clinics and Dressing Stations in
consultation with the Ministry of
Health.
22. To construct, repair and
maintain and keep clean all
streets.
23. To divert or alter where
necessary the course of any
street.
24. To provide or arrange for
electric lighting in streets and
other public places and where
necessary to provide and maintain
electricity supply in consultation
with the Electricity Corporation.
25. To construct, repair and
maintain all public roads other
than trunk roads but including
feeder roads and to undertake road
rehabilitation programmes within
the district.
26. To prescribe the conditions
subject to which the erection and
construction, demolition,
re-erection, and re-construction,
conversion and re-conversion,
alteration, repair, sanitation and
ventilation of public and private
buildings and structures may be
undertaken and carried out.
27. To provide for building lines
and the layout of buildings, to
prepare and undertake and
otherwise control schemes for
improved housing layout and
settlement.
28. To prescribe the conditions to
be satisfied on a site for any
building or for any class of
building.
29. To prohibit the construction
of any new building unless and
until the plans thereof have been
submitted to and approved by the
Assembly.
30. To provide for the demolition
of dangerous buildings and for the
recovery of any expenses incurred
in connection therewith.
31. To maintain, as agents of
Central Government, all public
buildings, including prestige
buildings put up by the Central
Government and previously
maintained by the Public Works
Department.
32. To maintain as agents of the
Ghana Highway Authority, trunk
roads lying within the boundaries
of the area of authority of the
Assembly.
33. To take steps to ensure the
effective maintenance of all
Government properties within its
area of authority.
34. To prohibit or regulate the
use in any defined area of any
inflammable material in the
construction or repair of any
building.
35. To control and regulate the
siting of advertisements and
hoardings or other structures
designed for the display of
advertisements.
36. To build, equip, open, close
and maintain markets, prohibit the
erection of stalls in places other
than markets and prevent the sale
and purchase of goods or stock
near established markets or
elsewhere.
37. To fix days and hours during
each day on which a market may be
held and prevent the sale and
purchase of goods in markets on
any day or at any hour except
those fixed.
38. To regulate and control
markets including the fixing of
and collection of stallages, rents
and tolls.
39. (1) To require the owner of
any premises to do any of the
following acts:—
(i)
to remove, lower or trim to the
satisfaction of the Assembly any
tree, shrub or hedge overhanging
or interfering in any way with the
traffic in any street or with any
wires or works thereof;
(ii) to remove any dilapidated
fence or structure abutting on any
public place;
(iii) to paint, distemper,
white-wash or colour-wash the
outside walls or roof of any
building forming part of the
premises;
(iv) to tidy the premises; and
(v) to move any derelict car or
other vehicle.
(2) In the event of the owner
failing to comply with a notice
from the Assembly requiring him to
perform any of the acts specified
in sub-paragraph (1) (i-v) the
Assembly shall be at liberty to
undertake the work and charge the
owner with the cost thereof.
40. To build, equip and maintain
all public primary, middle and
special schools as are in the
opinion of the Secretary for
Education, after consultation with
the Secretary responsible for
Local Government, required in its
area.
41. To advise the Secretary for
Education on all matters relating
to primary and middle schools and
such other matters as may be
referred to it by the Secretary
for Education.
42. To be responsible for—
(i)
postings and transfers within its
area of authority of teachers
including pupil teachers;
(ii) keeping records of teachers;
(iii) discipline of teachers in
accordance with the disciplinary
code laid down by the Ghana
Education Service;
(iv) appointment of school welfare
officers;
(v) recommending teachers for
study leave;
(vi) appointment of headteachers
in accordance with rules laid down
by the Ghana Education Service;
(vii) supervision of primary and
middle schools;
(viii) formation of education
committees;
(ix) collection of statistical
data and other information;
(x) in-service training for pupil
teachers;
(xi) nursery school education;
(xii) approval for the opening of
private primary and middle
schools;
(xiii) payment of teachers'
salaries from funds made available
by Government;
(xiv) indenting for the supply
and distribution of textbooks;
(xv) disbursement of Education
Grants.
43. To provide for the control and
regulation of—
(i)
concerts, musical or theatrical
performances, cinemas, fairs,
circuses and other entertainments
to which admission is to be
obtained on payment of moneys or
of any reward, except where the
whole proceeds are being devoted
to charity;
(ii) horse-racing meetings.
44. To grant and maintain
scholarships or bursaries to
suitable persons to attend any
school or other educational
institution in Ghana or elsewhere.
45. To provide for the
establishment and maintenance of
facilities for arts and crafts,
for recreation and sports.
46. To establish, maintain,
control and contribute to bands
for musical performances in public
places and at functions arranged
by the Assembly, and generally to
provide musical entertainment in
such places and at such functions.
47. To arrange for the provision
of public libraries in
consultation with the Ghana
Library Board.
48. With the prior approval of the
Ghana Museums and Monuments Board,
to control the disposal of any
African antique work of art.
49. To organise community
development programmes to improve
and enrich rural life through
running literacy and adult
education classes, organising
voluntary contributions and
communal labour for the provision
of such facilities and services as
water supplies, roads, school
buildings, community centres and
public places of convenience; and
teaching village women the
management of home and care of
children.
50. To take such measures as would
promote the well-being of under-priviledged
children and the stability of the
distressed family.
51. To organise and maintain
child-care centres and ensure the
proper running and management of
such centres.
52. To establish, run and manage
children's homes and offer
parental care for the deprived,
namely, orphans and those that are
neglected or abandoned.
53. To render relief services
during natural disasters, e.g.
floods, fire, earthquakes,
accidents, in the form of supply
of material.
54. To be responsible for the
improvement of agriculture
including extension services and
allotments for agricultural
purposes.
55. To control methods of
husbandry.
56. To allocate land in the
ownership of the Assembly for
farming purposes and to regulate
the systems of farming of such
land.
57. To provide services for the
improvement of livestock.
58. To prevent and control animal
diseases.
59. To prohibit, restrict or
regulate the hunting, capture,
killing or sale of animals or
birds or any specified kind of
animal or bird.
60. To provide for measures for
soil and water conservation.
61. To provide for the fencing of
land and for the maintenance and
repair of such fences.
62. To take every step to
encourage persons to plant
specified crops for the
maintenance of themselves and
their families.
63. To plant trees in any street
and to erect tree-guards to
protect the same; provided that
the streets shall not be unduly
obstructed thereby.
64. To regulate or prohibit the
planting, cutting, tapping or
destruction of any trees or
vegetation growing along any
street, road or path or in any
public place.
65. To establish and manage, on
commercial basis, rural and
small-scale industries and farms.
66. To promote tourism in the
District in co-operation with the
Regional Development Corporation
and the Tourist Development Board.
67. Subject to the control and
direction of the Registrar of
Births and Deaths to register all
births and deaths occurring within
the District.
68. To appoint in consultation
with the Registrar of Births and
Deaths such registration staff as
may be necessary for the proper
discharge of births and deaths
registration duties.
69. To make such financial
contribution as the Assembly deems
necessary for the maintenance of
any traditional authority which
possesses any functions which
relate to any part of its area.
70. To establish and maintain tree
nurseries and forest plantation
and sell the product thereof.
71. To compile and maintain a
record of all tenant farmers and
the rents and tributes which
should be paid by them.
72. To prohibit or restrict the
driving or use of vehicles
generally or any specified class
on any specified road or specified
direction on any specified road.
73. To regulate the use and
conduct of public vehicles, to
regulate routes and parking places
to be used by such vehicles to
appropriate particular routes,
roads, streets and parking places
to specified classes of traffic
and when necessary to provide the
identification of licensed
vehicles as defined in the Motor
Traffic Ordinance.
74. To license any vehicle used
for taxi, bicycle, motor bicycle
and to prescribe the fees to be
paid in respect of any such
bicycle or vehicle.
75. To establish, acquire and
maintain transport services by
land or water including ferries.
76. To establish, maintain and
control parks for motor and other
vehicles.
77. To establish and maintain in
consultation with the Posts and
Telecommunications Corporation,
Postal Agencies where necessary.
78. To lay down rules and
regulations in respect of private
and public property to ensure
adequate fire protection.
79. To prevent and control fire
outbreaks including bush fires.
80. To promote the development of
all sports within the area of
authority of the Assembly.
81. To organise sports activities
within its area of authority and
to provide such facilities as may
be recommended by the national
body responsible for sports.
82. To perform as agents of the
national body responsible for
sports in maintaining such sports
facilities as may be assigned to
it by the national body.
83. To advise, to the exclusion of
all others, on all matters of
sports relating to its area of
authority.
84. To prohibit, restrict,
regulate and license the
manufacture, distillation, sale,
transportation, distribution,
supply, possession and consumption
of akpeteshie, palm-wine, and all
kinds or description of fermented
liquor usually made by citizens of
Ghana or adjacent countries.
85. To license petrol service and
filling stations within the
District.
86. To provide information
centres, where necessary in
consultation with the Ministry of
Information.
KWAMENA AHWOI
P. N. D. C. Secretary for Local
Government.
Date of Gazette Notification: 31st
March, 1989.
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