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IN exercise of the powers
conferred on the Provisional
National Defence Council Secretary
responsible for 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 10th day of March, 1989.
Section 1—Establishment of
Assembly.
There is hereby established a
District Assembly to be known as
the Berekum 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 fifty-five persons
which shall be made up of—
(a) the District Secretary;
(b) thirty-six 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 eighteen 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 organised 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
Berekum 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 office at Berekum 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
subsection (2) of section 16 of
the Local Government Law, 1988 (P.N.D.C.L.
207);
"Secretary" means the Provisional
National Defence Council Secretary
responsible for Local Government.
Section 9—Revocation.
The following Instruments are
hereby revoked,
The Local Government (Berekum
District Council) (Establishment)
Instrument, 1975 (L.I. 1008);
The Local Government (Berekum
District Council) (Establishment)
(Amendment) Instrument, 1976 (L.I.
1087)
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
LIST OF SETTLEMENT IN THE AREA OF
AUTHORITY OF THE BEREKUM DISTRICT
ASSEMBLY.
Town/Area Council Description of
Zone Description of Electoral
Area
1. Presby Church,
Mpatasie Area
Ahenbronoso, Kwame
Ankrah Bronoso, Pepaase 1.
Ahenbronoso
Unit 1 — Ahenbronoso
H/Nos. MP. 25-MP.
96
Unit 2 — Kwame Ankrah Bronoso
H/Nos. MP. 1-MP.
24
Unit 3 — Pepaase
2. Kotaa/Domeabra
Kotaa, Domeabra 2. Domeabra
Unit 1 — Kotaa
Unit 2 — Domeabra
3. Akroforo
Boase, Pramaso/Gyeduasase
Unit 1 — Boase
H/Nos. BA.1-BA.27,
H/No.
NB. 1
Unit 2 — H/Nos. PS.1-PS.20, H/No.
NA. 1
NSAPOR 1. Presby Primary
School
Area.
New Town Nsaportifi 3.
Nsaportifi
Unit 1 — New Town
H/Nos. NS.1-NS. 32
Unit 2 — Nsaportifi
H/Nos. NS.33-NS.
66
2. Ahenboboano
Ahenboboano Nyamebekyere.
Unit 1 — Ahenboboano
H/Nos. NS.67-NS.
91
Unit 2 — Nyamebekyere
H/Nos. NS. 92-NS.
108
3. Amomaso GCMB shed
Amomaso Nanasuano,
Benkasa. 4. Amomaso
Unit 1 — Amomaso
Unit 2 — Nanasuano
Unit 3 — Benkasa
KUTRE 1. Kwame Asuo
Asomanie, Kyiriahentee 5.
Asomanie
Unit 1 — Asomanie
KA. 1-KA. 34
Unit 2 — Kyiriahentee
AH. 1-AH.
23
2. Nana Kwasi Djan
Ahenbronoso, Kankamankra
6.
Unit 1 — Ahenbranoso
AH.1-AH. 23
Unit 2 — Kankamankra
KK. 1-KK.
24
3. Diawuo
Beposo, Sunkwa 7. Diawuo
Unit 1 — Beposo
A.28-A.51
Unit 2 — Sunkwa
A.1-A.27
4. Kumi Kwaku
Mpasem, Nsuoaso,
Oforikrom/Antokrom 8. Kumi Kwaku
Unit 1 — Mpasem
B.1.-B.43
Unit 2 — Nsuaso
B. 27.N-B.43
Unit 3 — Oforikrom/Antokrom
5. Mpatapo
Mpatapo, Kutre No. 2 9.
Mpatapo
Unit 1 — Mpatapo
Unit 2 — Kutre No. 2
KORASO 1. Amansese
Roman Mission, Nsesereso,
Nkantanka G. 10.
Amansese
Unit 1 — Roman Mission
Unit 2 — Nsesereso
EK. 1-EK. 23, EK. 26-E.K49
Unit 3 — Nkantanka Gyasi
2. Bomosadu
Danpantire, Asasetre 11.
Bomosadu
Unit 1 — Danpantire
EK. 30-EK.48
Unit 2—Asasetre
EK.55-CMB Shed
3. Nana Boakye
Ahenbronoso, Asuoano 12.
Nana Boakye
Unit 1 — Ahenbronoso
WK. 28-WK. 66
Unit 2 — Asuoano
WK. 1-WK. 24
4. Asuokoraa
Jamdede Kumaa, Bomosadu, Domfere
Asamankokwaa, Abi 13. Asuokoraa
Unit 1 — Jamdede Kumaa
JK.1-JK. 19
Unit 2 — Bomosadu
DB. 1-JD. 20-JD.
1-JD
Unit 3 — Domfete
Unit 4 — Amankokwaa
Unit 5 — Abi
5. Awasu
Tewobabi, Abisase, Adom 14. Awasu
Unit 1 — Tewobabi
Unit 2 — Abisase
Unit 3 — Asom
FETENTAA 1. Methodist Primary
Sch.
Asuom, Atonotia, Ahenbronoso,
Gyedie. 15. Asuom
Unit 1 — Asuom Area
H/No. AS.1 – AS.15, AT.1- AT. 32
Unit 2 — Atonotia
H/Nos. AB. 23-AT. 34-AB. 1-AB. 38
Unit 3 — Ahenbronoso
H/Nos. NT 1-NT.14, AH.1- AH. 16
Unit 4 — Gyedie
H/Nos.
CD.1-CD.52
2. L/A Primary School
Area Anyimom
Anyimom East, Anyimom West,
Abansere 16. Anyimom
Unit 1 — Anyimom East
H/Nos. AY. 48-AY.
88
Unit 2 — Anyimom West
H/Nos. AY.1-AY.47
Unit 3 — Abansere
3. Mantukwa/Masasu
Mantukwa, Misasu
Unit 1 — Mantukwa
Unit 2 — Misasu
4. L/A Primary School.
Botokrom
Botokrom, Botokrom West, Prusu.
17. Botokrom
Unit 1 — Botokrom East
H/Nos. BO.17, BO.
34
Unit 2 — Botokrom West
H/Nos. BO. 25 BO.
32
Unit 3 — Prusu
5. L/A Primary School.
Nkyenkyeman
Ahenboboano, Peposo 18.
Aheneboboano
Unit 1 — Ahenboboano Area
H/No. NK.1-NK.24.
Unit 2 — Peposo Area
H/Nos. NK. 25-NK.
68
JINIJINI Presby Primary
School
Amangoase, Dwenese,
Domeabra. 19. Amangoase
Unit 1 — Amangoase
H/Nos. A. 1-A147,
A. 147-
49
Unit 2 — Dwenese Area
H/Nos. A. 9-A.
172, A.
157.
Unit 3 — Domeabra Area
H/Nos. A. 66-A. 204, A.204
2. Ahenboboano Area
Ahenbronoso, Suntreso 20.
Aheneboboano
Unit 1 — Ahenbronoso Area
H/Nos. B. 1-B. 37
Unit 2 — Suntreso
3. Post Office Square
Dwadadam, Mempeasem Area. 21.
Post Office
Unit 1 — Dwadadam Area
H/Nos. C. 104-C. 109, C.1 C.12.
Unit 2 — Mempeasem Area
H/Nos. C13-C.40 Post Office
Methodist Mission.
4. Information Centre
Kokoosuagya. Atanotia 22.
Kurofofrom
Unit 1 — Kokoosuagya Area
H/No. D. 1-D. 38
Unit 2 — Atanotia Area
H/Nos. D. 39-D.
88
5. Clinic
Kurofofrom, Asikafoamantem.
Unit 1 — Kurofofurom Area
H/Nos. C.
63-C68-C. 120
Unit 2 — Asikafoamantem Area
H/Nos. C.1-C. 7-C.
56
BEREKUM 1. Atonatia
Atanotia South, Atanotia
North. 23. Atanotia
Unit 1 — Atanotia South
Hospital/Education
Area.
H/Nos. A. 1-A. 15
Unit 2 — Atanotia North
H/Nos. A. 16-A.
37
2. Ayakorase
Ayakorase, Dominase 24.
Ayakorase
Unit 1 — Ayakorase
H/Nos. E. 1-E. 38
Unit 2 — Dominase
H/Nos. E.1-E. 25.
3. Nyamebekyere
Nyamebekyere West,
Nyamebekyere East. 25.
Nyamebekyere
Unit 1 — Nyamebekyere West
Unit 2 — Nyamebekyere East
4. Nyamebekyere New
Town
New Town East, New
Town West, 26. Nyamebekyere
Unit 1 — Nyamebekyere New Town
East.
Unit 2 — Nyamebekyere New Town
West.
5. Zongo
Zongo South, Zongo North 27.
Zongo
Unit 1 — Zongo South
Unit 2 — Zongo North
6. Awerempe
Awerempe West, Awerempe East 28.
Awerempe
Unit 1 — Awerempe West
H/Nos. B. 38-B. 52
Unit 2 — Awerempe East
H/Nos. B. 49-B.
62
7. Kyititwedie
Kyititwedie, Abotima
29. Kyititwedie
Unit 1 — Kyitiwedi
H/Nos. D.1-D. 59
Unit 2 — Abotima
H/Nos. C. 1-C. 24
(AB)
Ahenbronoso
Ahenbronoso North, Ahenbronoso
South, Ahenbronoso East
30. Ahenbronoso
Unit 1 — Ahenbronoso North
H/Nos. J.22-J.53
Unit 2 — Ahenbronoso South
H/Nos. J.2-J.18
Omanhene
House-Tetco.
Unit 3 — Ahenbronoso East
H/Nos. J. 54-J. 177 including ‘X’
Section of Mpatasi.
9. Kankama
Amangoase, Mpeasem 31.
Kankama
Unit 1 — Amangoase
H/Nos. I. 5A-I. 15 stretching
across slaughter house.
Unit 2 — Mpeasem
H/No. 1-14 Towards
road.
SENASE 1. Senase East
Atanotia, Sanga Old Town,
Sanga New Town 32. Senase
East
Unit 1 — Atanotia Area
Unit 2 — Sanga Old Town Area
Unit 3 — Sanga New Town Area
2. Senase West
Abi, Besease Old Town,
Besease New Town, Ayinasu.
33. Senase West
Unit 1 — Abi Area
Unit 2 — Besease Old Town Area
Unit 3 — Besease New Town Area
Unit 4 — Ayinasu
Temporary Booth,
Anyinasu
3. Biadan East
Nsuase, Mpampim 34. Biadan West
Unit 1 — Nsuase Area
Unit 2 — Mpampim Area
4. Biadan West
Atekyem, Abuoso 35. Badian
West
Unit 1 — Atekyem
Atekyem Community Centre
Unit 2 — Abuoso Area
5. Kato
Asesemasase, Bedafini,
Minimini, Neatene. 36. Kato
Unit 1 — Asesemasase Area
Unit 2 — Bedafini
Bedafini/Anyinase Area
Unit 3 — Minimini Area
Unit 4 — Neatene Area
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 the District to be
inspected regularly for the
detection of nuisance or any
condition likely to be offensive
or injurious to health.
3. If satisfied that any nuisance
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 all refuse,
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 it is in the
public interest to regulate.
9. To provide for the inspection
of all meat, fish, vegetables and
all other food-stuffs 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 liquid 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
buildings.
29. To prohibit the construction
of any new building unless and
until the plan 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; or
(v) to remove any derelict car or
other vehicles.
(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 or 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 money 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, fires, 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 system 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 tree 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 produce 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 service 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
outbreak 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 of 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: 15th
December, 1989. |
