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WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
(PROTECTION) ACT, 1958 (NO. 41 OF
1958)
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Improper use of WHO emblem or
name prohibited
3. Penalties
SCHEDULE
Schedule
GHANA
No. 41 of 1958.
Assented to in Her Majesty's Name
and on Her Majesty's behalf this
18th day of December, 1958.
LISTOWEL
Governor-General.
AN ACT to make provision for the
prevention of abuse of the World
Health Organisation's official
seal, emblem and name.
[18th December, 1958]
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 World
Health Organisation (Protection)
Act, 1958.
Section 2—Improper Use of WHO
Emblem or Name Prohibited.
It shall not be lawful for any
person, without the authority of
the Minister responsible for
health, to use for any purpose
whatsoever any of the following,
that is to say:—
(a) the design in the Schedule to
this Act which is the official
seal and emblem of the World
Health Organisation, or
(b) the designation "World Health
Organisation" or any abbreviation
of that designation.
Section 3—Penalties.
If any person contravenes the
provisions of the foregoing
section he shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding one hundred pounds, and
to forfeit any goods upon or in
connection with which the seal,
emblem or designation was used.
SCHEDULE
EMBLEME de l'Organisation Mondiale
de la Sante (OMS)
EMBLEM of the World Health
Organisation (WHO)
Certified true copy.
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. |
