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             ACTS OF GHANA

                                                                    

                     FOURTH   REPUBLIC

 

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1997 (ACT 543)

 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

 

Section

1. Repeal of Enactments Specified in Part I of the Schedule.

2. Revocation of Enactments Specified in Part II of the Schedule.

3. Defreezing of Bank Accounts.

SCHEDULE

Part I—Enactments repealed

Part II—Enactments revoked

 

 

THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY - THIRD

ACT

OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA

ENTITLED

 

THE STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1997

 

AN ACT to repeal certain enactments relating to confiscation and freezing of assets.

 

DATE OF ASSENT: 26TH JANUARY, 1998

 

BE IT ENACTED BY Parliament as follows—

 

Section 1—Repeal of Enactments Specified in Part I of the Schedule.

The enactments specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

 

Section 2—Revocation of Enactments Specified in Part II of the Schedule.

The enactments specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Act are hereby revoked.

 

Section 3—Defreezing of Bank Accounts.

Any bank account frozen by or under any of the enactments specified in the schedule to this Act is hereby defrozen.

 

SCHEDULE

 

PART I—ENACTMENTS REPEALED

(Section 1)

1. National Liberation Council (Bank Accounts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Decree, 1996 (N.L.C.D. 10).

2. National Liberation Council (Forfeiture of Assets) Decree, 1966 (N.L.C.D. 23).

3. National Liberation Council (Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets) (Amendment) Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. 101).

4. Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets (Further Implementation of Commissions’  Findings) Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. 354).

5. Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets (Further Implementation of Commissions’ Findings) (No. 2) Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. 390).

6.  Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets (Further Implementation of Commissions’ Findings) Decree, 1969 (N.L.C.D. 400).

7. National Redemption Council (Forfeiture of Assets) Decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 5).

8. Assets and Bank Accounts Decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 8).

9. Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets (Amendment) Decree, 1975 (N.R.C.D. 321).

10. Investigation and Forfeiture (Further Implementation of Commissions' Findings) (Amendment) Decree, 1975 (N.R.C.D. 328).

11. Loyalty Industries Limited Decree, 1976 (S.M.C.D. 25).

12. Committee of Inquiry (R.T. Briscoe) (Ghana) Limited Implementation of Committees Findings) Decree, 1976 (S.M.C.D. 68).

13. Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets Decree, 1978 (S.M.C.D. 180).

14. State Lands (Revesting) Decree, 1978 (S.M.C.D. 227).

15. Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Dakmak Group of Companies) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 6).

16. Transfer of Shares and other Proprietary Interests (Tata Brewery Limited) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 9).

17. Forfeiture of Assets Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 10).

18. Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Special Tribunal and Other Matters) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 23).

19. Assets Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 29).

20. Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (A and B Industries and Others) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 31).

21. Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Babylos Company Limited and Others) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 38).

22. Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Metal Construction Company Limited and Plastic Wares Limited) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 39).

23. Investigation and Forfeiture of Assets (Amendment) (No. 3) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 48).

24. Forfeiture of Assets (Noe Drevici and Others) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 52).

25. Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Fattal Group of Companies) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 55).

26. Transfer of Shares and Merger (Auto Parts and Japan Motors) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 57).

27. Transfer of Shares and Other Propriety Interests (Drevici Group of Companies) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 59).

28. Transfer of Shares and Merger (Kowus Motors, Kaasbohrer Ghana Limited and Ghana Assembly Plant) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 60).

29. Forfeiture of Assets and Shares and Other Propriety Interests (Unipress Limited) Law, 1982 (P.N.D.C.L.3).

30. Forfeiture of Assets (Amadu Duri) Law, 1982 (P.N.D.C.L.9).

31. Transfer of Shares etc. to the State (Removal of Doubt) Law, 1982 (P.N.D.C.L.30).

32. Forfeiture of Assets and Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Subin Timbers Company Limited and Central Logging and Sawmills Limited) Law, 1982 (P.N.D.C.L.31).

33. Plasticwares Limited (Cancellation of Forfeiture) Law, 1982 (P.N.D.C.L 36).

34. Forfeiture of Assets of Menleo Enterprise Limited, etc. in Bibiani Complex Limited and Bibiani Metal Complex Limited and Merger of Bibiani Wood Complex Limited Law, 1984 (P.N.D.C.L.76).

35. Cancellation of Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Specified) (Companies) Law, 1984 (P.N.D.C.L. 88).

36. Transfer of Shares and Other Proprietary Interests (Four Seasons Limited and  West Coast Shrimping Company Limited) Law, 1986 (P.N.D.C.L. 157).

37.  Forfeiture of Assets (Evangeline Nana Amoako-Pomaa) Law, 1986 (P.N.D.C.L. 164).

38.  Confiscated Assets (Removal of Doubt) Law, 1993 (P.N.D.C.L. 325).

 

PART II—ENACTMENTS REVOKED

(Section 2)

1. Assets (Prohibition of Disposal) Instrument, 1972 (L.I. 783).

2. Assets and Bank Accounts (Consolidated Amendments) Instrument, 1975 (L.I. 1051).

3. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1975 (L.I. 1058).

4. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1975 (L.I. 1059).

5. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1976 (L.I. 1079).

6. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1976 (L.I. 1095).

7. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1977 (L.I. 1101).

8. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1977 (L.I. 1115).

9. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1977 (L.I. 1122).

10. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1136).

11. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1140).

12. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1141).

13. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (Defreezing) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1147).

14. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.7) Instrument 1978 (L.I. 1149).

15. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.8) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1150).

16. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.9) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1152).

17. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.10) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1154).

18. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.11) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1155).

19. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.12) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1156).

20. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.14) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1158).

21. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.15) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1159).

22. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.16) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1161).

23. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.17) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1169).

24. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.18) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1186).

25. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.19) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1187).

26. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.20) Instrument, 1978 (L.I. 1188).

27. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.1) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1193).

28. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.2) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1195).

29. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.3) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1196).

30. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.4) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1198).

31. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.5) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1203).

32. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.6) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1204).

33. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.7) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1207).

34. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.8) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1208).

35. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.9) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1209).

36. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.10) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1210).

37. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.11) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1211).

38. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No.12) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1212).

39. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 13) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1213).

40. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 14) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1214).

41. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 15) Instrument, 1979( L.I. 1216).

42. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 16) Instrument. 1979 (L.I. 1218).

43. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 17) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1219).

44. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 18) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1220).

45. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 19) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1221).

46. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 20) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1222).

47. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 21) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1223).

48. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 22) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1224).

49. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 23) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1225).

50. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 24) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1226).

51. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 25) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1227).

52. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 26) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1228).

53. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 27) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1229).

54. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) (No. 28) Instrument, 1979 (L.I. 1232).

55. Assets and Bank Accounts (Schedule) (Amendment) Instrument, 1980 (L.I. 1239).

Date of Gazette Notification: 20th February, 1998.

 

 

 

 

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