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IN exercise of the powers
conferred on the Commissioner
responsible for Local Government
by section 6 (1) of the Local
Government Act, 1971 (Act 359) and
with the prior approval of the
National Redemption Council, this
Instrument is made this 31st day
of October, 1975.
Section 1—Establishment of Council
.
On and after the 7th day of
November, 1975, there shall be
established a District Council to
be known as the Western Gonja
District Council (hereafter in
this Instrument referred to as
"the Council") for the area
specified in paragraph 3 of this
Instrument.
Section 2—Common Seal.
(1) The Council shall have a
Common Seal which shall be such as
the Commissioner responsible for
Local Government may prescribe by
notice in the Gazette.
(2) Until such time as a Common
Seal as prescribed in
sub-paragraph (1) of this
paragraph is available, a rubber
stamp bearing the inscription "The
Western Gonja District Council”
may be used as the Common Seal.
Section 3—Administrative Area of
Council.
The area of authority of the
Council shall comprise the areas
of the following towns and
villages which are more
particularly described in the
First Schedule to this Instrument,
that is to say:
Ward 1: Kobanpe, Kananto,
Larabanga, Murugu, Mole Game
Reserve, Grupe.
Ward 2: Damongo Central:
Section of Lamgbonte, and Ewurkpa.
Ward 3: Damongo South-East,
namely: Ngbaripe, Hangaline, Zongo,
Konkomba-line, P.W.D. Junior Staff
Quarters, J.S.Q. L.A. Middle
School.
Ward 4: Damongo North-West,
being all that part of Damongo
town lying north of Tamale-Sawla
road, Yipala, Nabori.
Ward 5: Essalikuwu and
Brigade, Hospital area,
Agriculture, Frafra, and Konkomba
settlements.
Ward 6: Bunsunu, Langantere,
Kunkunde, Fulsuso, Bonyanto,
Soalepe, Kibeso.
Ward 7: Old Buipe, New Buipe,
Morno, Binyalipe.
Ward 8: Jembito, Kolonzo,
Boakyipe, Funbo.
Ward 9: Mankarigu, Sakpala,
Bugsa Zepe, Sag-ya.
Ward 10: Lukuli, Nyagoni,
Sakpege, Kparia, Yebum No. 2,
Mimpeasem, Bombo.
Ward 11: Gbasimpa, Spum, New
Benewa, Nabengu, Salugu, Lingbinsi,
Disa, Singa, Tari, Nalori.
Ward 12: Daboya-East,
Kasatindong, Bankerinbaripe,
Lemampe, Sanbum, Daboya-West,
Kalibito, Zongo, Kuase, Simisi,
Dares-Salaam, Abotape, Kalorgbeso.
Ward 13: Kutrubanchi, Kagbal,
Tidrope, Gua, Kito.
Ward 14: Guribagu, Donkompe,
Waawate, Kpulumbo, Jinfronu,
Ayanto, Bawena, Yarizori-Kadengi,
Chatali, Kopoto, Dordo, Gungunipe.
Section 4—Location of Principal
Office of the Council.
The Council shall establish its
principal offices at Damongo at
which offices meetings of the
Council shall be held.
Section 5—First Meeting of Council
and Dissolution of Management
Committee.
(1) The Council shall hold its
first meeting on the 1st day of
December, 1975.
(2) Any Management Committee
established under the Local
Government (Interim
Administration) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D.
26) within the area of authority
of the Council as specified in
paragraph 3 of this Instrument;
and referred to in paragraph 9
shall continue in existence until
the date of the first meeting of
the Council; and then any such
Committee shall be deemed to be
dissolved.
Section 6—Membership of the
Council.
The Council shall consist of
twenty-one members of whom
two-thirds shall be appointed by
the National Redemption Council,
and one-third shall be chosen by
the Traditional Authorities in the
District as listed in the Second
Schedule hereto in accordance with
traditional and customary usage.
Section 7—Distribution of Seats.
For the purpose of appointment or
election to the Council, the area
of authority of the Council shall
be divided into wards as set out
in the First Schedule to this
Instrument and each ward shall be
represented by one member.
Section 8—Functions.
(1) The Council shall perform all
the functions and duties imposed
and may exercise any of the powers
conferred, on the District
Council, by the Local Government
Act, 1971 (Act 359), or by any
other enactment.
(2) Without prejudice to
sub-paragraph (1) of this
paragraph the Council shall
perform the functions set out in
the Third Schedule to this
Instrument.
(3) Where appropriate, the Council
may make bye-laws in respect of
any of the said functions.
Section 9—Transfer of Assets, Etc.
Unless the Commissioner
responsible for Local Government
otherwise directs in writing, all
the rights, assets and property;
and all the obligations and
liabilities vested in the
following Management Committee
shall be transferred to the
Council, that is to say:
Damongo Local Council Management
Committee.
Section 10—L.I. 932 Revoked.
The Local Government (Western
Gonja District Council)
(Establishment) Instrument, 1974 (L.I.
932) is hereby revoked.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
WARD STRUCTURE
DAMONGO LOCAL COUNCIL
Description of Ward
Ward 1: Kobanpe, Kananto,
Larabanga, Murugu, Mole Game
Reserve, Grupe.
Ward 2: Damongo Central:
Section of Lamgbonte, and Ewurkpa.
Ward 3: Damongo South-east,
namely: Ngbaripe, Hangaline, Zongo
Konkomba-line, P.W.D. Junior Staff
Quarters, J.S.Q. L.A. Middle
School.
Ward 4: Damongo North-West,
being all that part of Damongo
town lying north of Tamale-Sawla
road, Yipala, Nabori.
Ward 5: Essalikuwu and
Brigade, Hospital area,
Agriculture, Frafra, and Konkomba
Settlements.
Ward 6: Bunsunu, Langantere,
Kunkunde, Fulsuso, Bonyanto,
Soalepe Kibeso.
Ward 7: Old Buipe, New Buipe,
Morno, Binyalipe.
Ward 8: Jembito, Kolonzo,
Boakyipe, Funbo.
WASIPE LOCAL COUNCIL
Ward 9: Mankarigu, Sakpala,
Bugsa, Zepe, Sag-ya.
Ward 10: Lukuli, Nyagoni,
Sakpege, Kparia, Yebum No. 2,
Mimpeasem, Bombo.
Ward 11: Gbasimpa, Spum, New
Benewa, Nabengu, Salugu, Lingbinsi,
Disa, Singa, Tari, Nalori.
Ward 12: Daboya-East,
Kasatindong, Bankerinbaripe,
Lemampe, Sanbum, Daboya-West,
Kalibito, Zongo, Kuase, Simisi,
Dares-Salaam, Abotape, Kalorgbeso.
Ward 13: Kutrubanchi, Kagbal,
Tidrope, Gua, Kito.
Ward 14: Guribagu, Donkompe,
Waawate, Kpulumbo, Jinfronu,
Ayanto, Bawena, Yarizori-Kadengi,
Chatali, Kopoto, Dordo, Gungunipe.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Traditional
Authority
No. of Representatives
Gonja Traditional Council .
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. 7
THIRD SCHEDULE
FUNCTIONS OF DISTRICT COUNCILS
It shall be the duty of the
Council:
Public Health.
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 Council 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 nuisance or the
removal of the condition;
4. To furnish the Ministry of
Health from time to time with such
reports on disease and
environmental health conditions
within the district as the
Ministry may require;
5. To ensure the provision of an
adequate and wholesome supply of
water throughout the entire
District in consultation with the
Ghana Water and Sewerage
Corporation;
6. To establish, install, build,
maintain and control public
latrines, lavatories, urinals and
wash places;
7. 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;
8. 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;
9. To prevent the pollution of the
water in any river, stream, water-
course, water-hole or open street
drain and to prevent the
obstruction of any river, stream
or water-course;
10. 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;
11. To provide for the inspection
of all meat, fish, vegetables and
all other foodstuffs and liquids
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 of liquids and
of whatever kind or nature
intended for human consumption;
12. 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;
13. To prevent and deal with the
outbreak or the prevalence of any
disease;
14. To exterminate and prevent the
spread of tsetse-fly, mosquitoes,
rats, bugs and other vermin;
15. To prohibit or regulate the
making of burrow-pits or other
excavations;
16. To establish and maintain
cemeteries;
17. To provide crematoria where in
the opinion of the Council it is
expedient so to do;
18. To regulate or prohibit the
sinking of wells and provide for
the closing of wells;
19. To prescribe the conditions
under which any offensive trades
or industry may be carried on;
20. 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;
21. To prohibit cruelty or any
specified acts of cruelty to
animals;
22. To provide for the control,
destruction and licensing of dogs;
23. To provide that the owner or
occupier of any land or tenements
maintain, clear and keep free from
vegetation roads, streets or paths
adjoining his land or tenements;
24. 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 professions,
occupation, trade or business is
carried on;
(iv) such occupations, as the
Commissioner may specify in an
Instrument from time to time.
25. Subject to the approval of
the Ministry of Health, a District
Council may establish and operate
Clinics and Dressing Station;
Public Works and Housing.
26. To construct, repair and
maintain and keep clean all
streets;
27. To divert or alter where
necessary the course of any
street;
28. To name all streets and cause
the buildings in such streets to
be numbered.
29. 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;
30. To make, alter, divert and
maintain culverts and streets
drains, sewers and water courses,
and establish and maintain
services necessary for the
disposal of storm water and other
effluents;
31. 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;
32. 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;
33. To provide for building lines
and the layout of buildings, to
prepare and undertake and
otherwise control schemes for
improved housing layout and
settlement;
34. To prescribe the conditions to
be satisfied on a site for any
building or for any class of
building;
35. To prohibit the construction
of any new building unless and
until the plans thereof have been
submitted to and approved by the
Council;
36. To provide for the demolition
of dangerous buildings and for the
recovery of any expenses incurred
in connection therewith;
37. 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;
38. To maintain, as agents of the
Highway Authority, when
established, all trunk roads lying
within the boundaries of the area
of authority of the Council;
39. To take steps to ensure the
effective maintenance of all
Government properties within its
area of authority;
40. To prohibit or regulate the
use in any defined area of any
inflammable material in the
construction or repair of any
building;
41. To control and regulate the
siting of advertisements and
hoardings or other structures
designed for the display of
advertisements;
42. 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;
43. 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;
44. To regulate and control
markets including the fixing of
and collection of stallages, rents
and tolls;
45. To administer as agents the
issue of loans under the Roof
Loans Scheme;
46. (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 Council any
tree, shrub or hedge overhanging
or interfere in any way with the
traffic in any street or with any
wires or works of such Council;
(ii) to remove any dilapidated
fence or structure abutting on any
public place;
(iii) to paint, distemper,
whitewash 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 vehicles.
(2) In the event of the owner
failing to comply with a notice
from any Council requiring him to
perform any of the acts specified
in sub-paragraphs (i-v) of
paragraph (1) the Council shall be
at liberty to undertake the work
and charge the owner with the cost
thereof.
Education and Social Welfare.
47. To build, equip and maintain
all public primary and middle
schools in its area;
48. To establish all such public
primary, middle and special
schools as are in the opinion of
the Commissioner for Education,
after consultation with the
Commissioner responsible for Local
Government, required in its area;
49. To advise the Commissioner for
Education on all matters relating
to primary and middle schools and
such other matters as may be
referred to it by the
Commissioner;
50. To be responsible for:—
(i)
postings and transfer within its
area of authority of teachers
including pupil teachers;
(ii) keeping of records of
teachers;
(iii) discipline of teachers in
accordance with the disciplinary
code laid down by the Teaching
Service;
(iv) appointment of School Welfare
Officers;
(v) recommending teachers for
Study Leave.
(vi) appointment of Head-teachers
in accordance with rules laid down
by the Appointments Board of the
Teaching 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 of 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 Free Text-books;
(xv) disbursement of Education
Grants.
51. 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) billiard, bagatelle or
pin-table saloons;
(iii) horse-racing meetings.
52. To grant and maintain
scholarships or bursaries to
suitable persons to attend any
school or other educational
institution in Ghana or elsewhere;
53. To provide for the
establishment and maintenance of
facilities for arts and crafts,
for recreation and sport;
54. To establish, maintain,
control and contribute to bands
for musical performances in public
places and at functions arranged
by the Council, and generally to
provide musical entertainment in
such places and at such functions;
55. To arrange for the provision
of public libraries in
consultation with the Ghana
Library Board;
56. With the prior approval of the
Ghana Museums and Monuments Board,
to control the disposal of any
African antique work of art;
57. To be responsible for the
administration of self-help grants
and to promote, organise and
control self-help projects,
subject to the direction of the
Ministry of Social Welfare and
Community Development;
58. 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;
59. To take such measures as would
promote the well-being of under-
privileged children and the
stability of the distressed
family;
60. To organise and maintain child
care centres and ensure the proper
running and management of such
centres;
61. To establish, run and manage
children's homes and offer
parental care for the deprived,
namely, orphans and those that are
neglected or abandoned;
62. To supervise, and control the
establishment of Girls Vocational
Training Centres and through
inspection and examination to
ensure minimum standard of
proficiency;
63. To provide help in cases of
child delinquency and personal and
individual difficulty or hardship
and to help the destitute and the
indigent sick in hospital;
64. To promote and organise group
activities to stimulate in the
individual or group, an awareness
of the social problems of the day
and to encourage them to take
concerted action to help find a
solution, e.g. through sponsored
activities of parent/teacher
associations, voluntary
organisations, and neighbourhood
centres;
65. To render relief services
during natural disasters, e.g.
floods, fire, earthquakes,
accidents, in the form of supply
of material;
Agriculture, Game and Welfare.
66. To be responsible for the
improvement of agriculture
including extension services and
allotments for agricultural
purposes;
67. To control methods of
husbandry;
68. To allocate land in the
ownership of the Council for
farming purposes and to regulate
the system of farming of such
land;
69. To provide services for the
improvement of livestock;
70. To prevent and control animal
diseases;
71. To prohibit, restrict or
regulate the hunting, capture,
killing or sale of animals or
birds or any specified kind of
animal or bird;
72. To provide for measures for
soil and water conservation;
73. To provide for the fencing of
land and for the maintenance and
repair of such fences;
74. To take every step to
encourage persons to plant
specified crops for the
maintenance of themselves and
their families;
75. To prohibit, restrict or
regulate the capture, killing or
sale of fish or any specified kind
of fish;
76. To plant trees in any street
and to erect tree-guard to protect
the same: Provided that the
streets shall not be unduly
obstructed thereby;
77. 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;
78. To provide for the
establishment, management, layout,
planting, improvement, maintenance
and regulation of parks, gardens
and other places of public resort
or recreation for the use of the
public, and to contribute to the
cost of maintenance of any parks,
gardens and other place of public
resort or recreation provided by
any person for the use of the
public;
Trade and Industry.
79. To establish and manage, on
commercial basis, rural and small
scale industries and farms;
80. To promote tourism in the
District in co-operation with the
Regional Development Corporation
and the Tourist Development
Corporation;
Births, Deaths, Marriage and
Divorce.
81. Subject to the control and
direction of the Registrar of
Births and Deaths to register all
births and deaths occurring within
the District;
82. 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;
83. To require the marriage or
divorce of any person within its
area to be registered at the
office of the Council and to
appoint an officer of the Council
for such purpose;
Traditional Authorities.
84. To make such financial
contribution as the Council deems
necessary for the maintenance of
any traditional authority which
possesses any functions which
relate to any part of its area;
Forestry.
85. To establish and maintain tree
nurseries and forest plantations
and sell the produce thereof;
Stool Lands.
86. Compile and maintain a record
of all tenant farmers and the
rents and tribute which should be
paid by them;
87. Concur in the allocation of
new farm lands to tenant farmers
and agree with the Stool or Skin
concerned on the fee to be paid by
such tenants;
Transport and Communications.
88. 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;
89. 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;
90. In consultation with the
Omnibus Licensing Authority, to
regulate the conduct of persons
using public vehicles plying for
hire;
91. 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;
92. To establish, acquire and
maintain transport services by
land or water including ferries
but excluding public omnibus
services;
93. To establish, maintain and
control parks for motor and other
vehicles;
94.To provide and maintain in
consultation with the Department
of Posts and Telecommunications,
Postal Agencies where necessary;
Fire Service.
95. To lay down rules and
regulations in respect of private
and public property to ensure
adequate fire protection;
96. To prevent and control fire
outbreaks including bush fires;
97. To maintain the disciplined
and ordered behaviour of officers
of the Fire Service Department in
accordance with a code of
behaviour as laid down by the
Chief Fire Officer;
Sports.
98. To promote the development of
all sports within the area of
authority of the Council;
99. To provide, with the
assistance of the National
Play-grounds Board, and maintain
all playgrounds within its area of
authority;
100. 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;
101. 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;
102. To advise, to the exclusion
of all others, on all matters of
sports relating to its area of
authority;
Miscellaneous
103. To prohibit, restrict,
regulate and license the
manufacture of distillation, sale,
transport 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 territories;
104. To license petrol service and
filling stations within the
District;
105. To provide information
centres, where necessary in
consultation with the Ministry of
Information.
LT.-COL. B. K. AHLIJAH
Commissioner Responsible for Local
Government
Date of Gazette Notification: 7th
November, 1975.
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