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297 IMPLIED POWER, ETC
In this Constitution and in any other law (a) the power to appoint a person to hold or to act in an office in the public service shall include the
power to confirm appointments, to exercise disciplinary control over persons holding or acting in
any such office and to remove the persons from office;
(b) where a power is conferred or a duty is imposed, the power may be exercised and the duty shall
be performed, from time to time, as occasion requires;
(c) where a power is given to a person or authority to do or enforce the doing of an act or a thing, all
such powers shall be deemed to be also given as are necessary to enable that person or authority
to do or enforce the doing of the act or thing;
(d) where a power is conferred to make any constitutional or statutory instrument, regulation or
rule or pass any resolution or give any direction, the power shall be construed as including the
power, exercisable in the same manner, to amend or to revoke the constitutional or statutory
instrument, regulation, rules or resolution or direction as the case may be;
(e) words importing male persons include female persons and corporations.
(f) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular;
(g) where a word is defined, other parts of speech and tenses of that word have corresponding
meanings;
(h) words directing or empowering a public officer to do any actor thing, or otherwise applying to
him by the designation of his office, include his successors in office and all his deputies and all
other assistants;
(i) words directing or empowering a Minister of State to do an act or a thing, or otherwise applying
to him by the designation of his office, include a person acting for him, or if the office is vacant, a
person designated to act in that office by or under the authority of an Act of Parliament and also
his successors in office and all his deputies or other assistants;
(j) where a power is conferred or a duty is imposed on the holder of an office as such, the power may
be exercised and the duty shall be performed by the person for the time being charged with the
performance of the functions of that office.
298 RESIDUAL POWERS OF PARLIAMENT
Subject to the provisions of Chapter 25 of this Constitution, where on any matter, whether arising
out of this Constitution or otherwise, there is no provision, express or by necessary implication of this
Constitution which deals with the matter, that has arisen, Parliament shall, by an Act of Parliament,
not being inconsistent with any provision of this Constitution, provide for that matter to be dealt
with.
299 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
The transitional provisions specified in the First Schedule to this Constitution shall have effect
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Constitution.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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