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constitutional or of a statutory instrument;
"entrenched provision" has the meaning assigned to it in article 290 of this Constitution;
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"government" means any authority by which the executive authority of Ghana is duly exercised;
"high crime" means high crime within the meaning of article 2 of this Constitution;
"high treason" means high treason within the meaning of article 3 of this Constitution;
"judgment" includes a decision, an order or decree of the court;
"meeting" includes a period during which Parliament is meeting continually within a session;
"Minister" means a Minister appointed under article 78 or 256 of this Constitution;
"oath" includes an affirmation;
"oath of allegiance" means the oath of allegiance specified in the Second Schedule to this
Constitution;
"paramount chief" means a person who has been nominated, elected and installed as a
paramount chief in accordance with customary law and usage;
"public corporation" means a corporation or any other body of persons established by an Act of
Parliament or set up out of funds provided by Parliament or other public funds;
"public interest" includes any right or advantage which enures or is intended to enure to the
benefit generally of the whole of the people of Ghana;
"public office" includes an office the emoluments attached to which are paid directly from the
Consolidated Fund or directly out of moneys provided by Parliament and an office in a public
corporation established entirely out of public funds or moneys provided by Parliament;
"public service" includes service in any civil office of Government, the emoluments attached to
which are paid directly from the Consolidated Fund or directly out of moneys provided by
Parliament and service with a public corporation;
"retiring awards" includes pension and gratuity;
"Rules of Court Committee" means the Rules of Court Committee established by article 157 of
this Constitution;
"Service Chiefs" includes Army Chief of Staff, Chief of Naval Staff and Chief of Air Staff;
"session" means a series of meetings of Parliament within a period of twelve months;
"sitting" includes a period during which Parliament is sitting continuously without adjournment
and a period during which it is in committee;
"statutory instrument" means an instrument made, whether directly or indirectly, under a power
conferred by an Act of Parliament or a Decree or a Law;
"stool" includes a skin, and the person or body of persons having control over skin land;
"stool land" includes any land or interest in, or right over, any land controlled by a stool or skin,
the head of a particular community or the captain of a company, for the benefit of the subjects of
that Stool or the members of that community or company; and
"treason" means treason as defined in article 19 of this Constitution.
(2)
In this Constitution and in any other law(a) a reference to the holder of an office by the term designating his office, shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, be construed as including a reference to a person for the time being lawfully
acting in or performing the functions of that office;
(b) references to the power to remove a public officer from his office shall be construed, subject to
clause (4) of this article, as including references to a power conferred by any law to require or
permit that officer to retire from the public service.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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