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OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS ACT, 1959
(NO. 85 OF 59)
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title.
2. Substitute for Gazette
publication.
3. Evidence.
4. Amendment of Section 13 of
Statutory Instruments Act, 1959.
Assented to in Her Majesty's Name
and on Her Majesty's behalf this
22nd day of December, 1959. No. 52
of 1959.
LISTOWEL
Governor-General.
AN ACT to amend the law relating
to official publications and to
amend Section 13 of the Statutory
Instruments Act, 1959.
Date of Commencement: 24th
December, 1959.
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:—
Section 1—Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the
Official Publications Act, 1959.
Section 2—Substitute for Gazette
Publication.
(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:
Provided that this subsection
shall not apply to the publication
of Bills.
(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.
Section 3—Evidence.
(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.
No.29 of 1957.
(2) Section 15 of the
Interpretation Act, 1957 (which
makes provision as to evidence in
relation to official publications)
is hereby repealed.
Section 4—Amendment of s. 13 of
Statutory Instruments Act, 1959.
No. 52 of 1959.
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,—
(a) by the insertion, at the
beginning of paragraph (a), of the
words "in the case of a
legislative instrument made after
the coming into operation of
Section 4 of this Act,"; and
(b) by the substitution for
paragraph (b) of the following—
"(b) in any other case, on the
date on which the instrument is
made:"
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.
K. B. AYENSU
Clerk of the National Assembly. |
