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     ACTS OF GHANA

                     SECOND REPUBLIC

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1971 (ACT 368)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION

Section

1. Enactments Amended.

SCHEDULE

Schedule

 

 

THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHTH

ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA

ENTITLED

THE STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1971.

AN ACT to amend certain enactments.

DATE OF ASSENT: 28th August, 1971.

BE IT ENACTED by the President and the National Assembly in this present Parliament assembled as follows:—

Section 1—Enactments Amended.

(1) The enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule of this Act are hereby amended in the manner indicated in the second column of that Schedule.

(2)  The amendments specified in paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the said Schedule shall be deemed to have come into force at the same time as the commencement of the enactments to which they respectively relate.

SCHEDULE

 

1.  Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29).               In section 273 as inserted by the Criminal Code (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (NLCD. 398), for "demeanour" substitute "misdemeanour".     

2.  State Secrets Act, 1962 (Act 101).       In section 9 (1) and 9 (2), for the words "seventy-two hours" substitute "twenty-four hours" in both places.        

3. Criminal Code (Amendment)                  In paragraph 19 and in the marginal note thereof, for the words "section 297" substitute "section 296".     

Decree, 1969 (NLCD. 398).                       

 

4.  Banking Act, 1970 (Act 339).                 In section 12 (4), for the word "movable" substitute "immovable".           

5. Centre for Civic Education Act, 1970 (Act 353).           In section 9 (9), for the words "subsection (2) (c) of section 6", substitute "subsection (2) (b) of section 6".   

For subsection (1) of section 10 substitute the following:—        

                                                                        "10. Executive Committee. 

(1) There shall be a committee of the Board to be known as the Executive Committee which shall comprise the Executive Director and not more than six other trustees elected by the Board."       

6. State Housing Corporation (Ejectment) Act, 1970 (Act 322).             In section 5 (1) (d) delete the words "in addition to any of the above cases, or ".   

In section 5 (1) substitute for paragraph (e) the following new paragraph:—

"(c) in addition to any of the foregoing, by affixing a copy of it in some conspicuous part of the premises in respect of which the notice is given under section 1 of this Act."          

 

 

 

 

 

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