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(9)
Where the tribunal or medical board specified in clauses (4) and (5) of this article determines that
there is a prima facie case for the removal of the President or that the President is by reason of
physical or mental incapacity unable to perform the functions of his office, the findings shall
immediately be submitted to the Speaker of Parliament through the Chief Justice and copied to the
President.
(10)
Parliament shall, with in fourteen days after the date of the findings of the tribunal or medical board,
move a resolution whether or not the President shall be removed from office.
(11)
The resolution for the removal from office of the President shall be by a secret ballot and shall be
taken to be approved by Parliament if supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the
members of Parliament after prior debate.
(12)
The proceedings of Parliament for the removal of the President shall not be held in camera except
where Parliament otherwise orders in the interest of national security.
(13)
The President shall cease to hold office as President on the date Parliament decides that he be
removed from office.
70 APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT
(1)
The President shall, acting in consultation with the Council of State, appoint—
(a) the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice and his Deputies;
(b) the Auditor-General;
(c) the District Assemblies Common Fund Administrator;
(d) the Chairmen and other members of—
(i) the Public Services Commission;
(ii) the Lands Commission;
(iii) the governing bodies of public corporations;
(iv) a National Council for Higher Education howsoever described; and
(e) the holders of such other offices as may be prescribed by this Constitution or by any other law
not inconsistent with this Constitution.
(2)
The President shall, acting on the advice of the Council of State, appoint the Chairman, Deputy
Chairmen, and other members of the Electoral Commission.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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