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Part IV Protecting Natural Resources
268 PARLIAMENTARY RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENTS RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCES
(1)
Any transaction, contract or undertaking involving the grant of a right or concession by or on behalf
of any person including the Government of Ghana, to any other person or body of persons howsoever
described, for the exploitation of any mineral, water or other natural resource of Ghana made or
entered into after the coming into force of this Constitution shall be subject to ratification by
Parliament.
(2)
Parliament may, by resolution supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the members
of Parliament, exempt from the provisions of clause (1) of this article any particular class of
transactions, contracts or undertakings.
269 NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSIONS
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, Parliament shall, by or under an Act of Parliament,
provide for the establishment, within six months after Parliament first meets after the coming into
force of this Constitution, of a Minerals Commission, a Forestry Commission, Fisheries Commission
and such other Commissions as Parliament may determine, which shall be responsible for the
regulation and management of the utilization of the natural resources concerned and the
co-ordination of the policies in relation to them.
(2)
Notwithstanding article 268 of this Constitution, Parliament may, upon the recommendation of any
of the Commissions established by virtue of clause (1) of this article, and upon such conditions as
Parliament may prescribe, authorise any other agency of government to approve the grant of rights,
concessions or contracts in respect of the exploitation of any mineral, water or other natural resource
of Ghana.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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