Ghana

Currency: Cedi (GHS)

Timezone: Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)

Major Cities: Accra

Ghana is a Western African country sharing borders with the Gulf of Guinea, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. The country’s climate is tropical-warm and dry along the coast and hot and dry in the north-with a terrain that is largely low plains. 

With a population of approximately 30 million people, Ghana is the second-most populous country in West Africa after Nigeria. The major ethnic groups of the country include the Akan, Mole-Dagbon, Ewe, and Ga-Dangme, with the English language regarded as the official language of the country.Ghana operates a unitary and presidential system of government that is administratively divided into 16 regions, including Accra, the country’s capital.  The country’s economy is a market-based economy dominated by the agricultural sector which accounts for 20 percentof the country’s GDP and employs over 50 percent of the labor force. The country is also the second-largest producer of cocoa which is a major source of foreign exchange to the economy along with other commodities such as gold and petroleum. The major problems facing the country include public sector corruption and youth unemployment challenge.

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Grains Development Authority Act

Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

The Act establishes and incorporates the Grains Development Authority with the broad objective of multiplying and supplying improved seed varieties.

Ghana • 1970 • Agriculture and Rural Development

Ghana Standards (Certification Mark) Rules

Ghana, Ministry of Trade and Industry

The broad rules state that no person shall sell, distribute, prepare, or export goods manufactured by industrial processes in Ghana without having the Ghana Standard Certification Mark or other related certifications.

Ghana • 1970 • Trade, Industry and Investment

Volta River Development (Amendment) Act

Ghana, Ministry of Energy

This amendment brings a substitution to Section 3 of the Volta River Development Act of 1961, and also repeals Paragraph 1 of the initial Act.

Ghana • 1970 • Utilities

Alien Enterprises Licensing Regulations, 1970 (LI 670)

Ghana, Ministry of Trade and Industry

These regulations place restriction on foreign sales agents. It emphasizes that a non-Ghanaian or alien enterprise shall not carry on business as an agent for the sale or promotion of the sale of any product...

Ghana • 1970 • Trade, Industry and Investment

Ghana Water and Sewerage Corporation Act

Ghana, Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources

It amends the steps in which a board member can resign. The Act also includes amendments to Subsections 5 and 6.

Ghana • 1965 • Utilities

Public Conveyancing Act

Ghana, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources

In this Act, one can find the criteria that the President uses to allocate land to a person and the roles of the Minister, e.g. the Minster’s authority to allow the transfer of a grant.

Ghana • 1965 • Land, Housing and Natural Resources

The Sales Tax Act 1965

Ministry of Trade

This Act imposes a tax on the sale price or value of certain goods sold or distributed by wholesale dealers to other wholesale dealers or retail traders, provides for its collection and enforcement, and addresses...

Ghana • 1965 • Trade, Industry and Investment

Ghana's Seven-Year Plan

Ghana, National Development Planning Commission

This represents Ghana’s 7-year plan for national reconstruction and development. The 1963-1970 plan highlights the strategies for future development of Ghana and Ghanaians, socially and economically, through science and technology, modernization and expansion of agriculture...

Ghana • 1964 • Economy

The Oil in Navigable Waters Act

Ghana, Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources

An Act to control and prevent the disposal of oil into the sea and other water bodies.

Ghana • 1964 • Environment and Climate Change

Wholesale Fish Marketing Act

Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

An Act to establish fish market zones and to regulate the wholesale marketing of fish landed in those zones and for connected purposes.

Ghana • 1963 • Agriculture and Rural Development

The Rents (Stabilization) Act (Amendment)

Ghana, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources

It clarifies the land that the Rents Stabilization Act applies to and does not apply to.

Ghana • 1963 • Land, Housing and Natural Resources

Land (Stautory Wayleaves) Act

Ghana, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources

An Act that shows how the government designates land for public consumption, for example the construction of roads and highways.

Ghana • 1963 • Land, Housing and Natural Resources

Lands (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act

Ghana, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources

An Act to apply to the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125), to land held on behalf of the Republic by virtue of other enactments; to make provision with respect to procedure in cases of...

Ghana • 1963 • Land, Housing and Natural Resources

Security Service Act, 1963

An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of a Security Service and to address related matters.

Ghana • 1963 • Defence and Security

The Rents (Stabilization) Act

Ghana, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources

The Act prescribes rents and other fees to land that are under the authority of the President, the Stools Land Act, a statutory body, or public corporation.

Ghana • 1962 • Land, Housing and Natural Resources