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TSETSE FLY (CONTROL) ORDINANCE,
1955 (NO. 34 OF 1955)
GOLD COAST
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short Title.
2. Powers of Officers Authorised
for Purposes of Control of Tsetse
Fly.
3. Payment of Compensation.
4. Penalties.
Assented to in Her Majesty's Name
and on Her Majesty's behalf this
14th day of December, 1955.
C.N. ARDEN-CLARKE
Governor.
AN ORDINANCE to facilitate the
control of Tsetse Fly and for
purposes connected therewith.
Date of Commencement: 17th
December, 1955.
BE IT ENACTED by the Legislature
of the Gold Coast, as follows:—
Section 1—Short Title.
This Ordinance may be cited as the
Tsetse Fly (Control) Ordinance,
1955.
Section 2—Powers of Officers
Authorised for Purposes of Control
of Tsetse Fly.
Every public officer whose duties
include measures for the control
of tsetse fly and who is
authorised by the Minister
responsible for agriculture for
the purposes of this Ordinance,
shall be empowered to go on any
land to carry out any survey and
to do or cause to be done all
things necessary for effecting the
control of tsetse fly including,
and without derogation from the
generality of the foregoing, the
felling and burning of any trees
and bushes which in the opinion of
such public officer encourage the
breeding of tsetse flies:
Provided that reasonable notice of
the intention to exercise any such
powers in respect of any land
shall be given to the owner or
occupier of the land.
Section 3—Payment of Compensation.
Wherever it appears to the
Minister responsible for
agriculture just and equitable
that compensation should be paid
to any person who has sustained
pecuniary loss by reason of any
measures taken in exercise of
powers conferred by section 2 of
this Ordinance he may authorise
payment out of the general revenue
to any such person the such sum as
to him shall seem fit:
Provided that nothing in this
section contained shall entitle or
shall be deemed to entitle any
person as of legal right to
receive compensation in respect of
any loss sustained by reason of
the exercise of such powers.
Section 4—Penalties.
Any person who either—
(a) without the consent of a
public officer authorised under
section 2 of this Ordinance
removes any trees or bushes felled
in exercise of any power conferred
under the provisions of section 2
of this Ordinance; or
(b) without reasonable excuse
obstructs, resists, or interferes
with any public officer in the
lawful exercise of his powers and
duties under section 2 of this
Ordinance;
shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding ten pounds or in default
to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two months.
This printed impression has been
carefully compared by me with the
Bill which has passed the
Legislative Assembly, and found by
me to be a true and correctly
printed copy of the said Bill.
K. B. AYENSU
Clerk to the Legislative Assembly. |
