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71 DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN EMOLUMENTS
(1)
The salaries and allowances payable, and the facilities and privileges available, to—
(a) the Speaker and Deputy Speakers and members of Parliament;
(b) the Chief Justice and the other Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature;
(c) the Auditor-General, the Chairman and Deputy Chairmen of the Electoral Commission, the
Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice and his Deputies and the District
Assemblies Common Fund Administrator;
(d) the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and the other members of—
(i) a National Council for Higher Education howsoever described;
(ii) the Public Services Commission;
(iii) the National Media Commission;
(iv) the Lands Commission; and
(v) the National Commission for Civic Education;
being expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund, shall be determined by the President on the
recommendations of a committee of not more than five persons appointed by the President, acting in
accordance with the advice of the Council of State.
(2)
The salaries and allowances payable, and the facilities available, to the President, the Vice-President,
the chairman and the other members of the Council of State; Ministers of State and Deputy
Ministers, being expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund, shall be determined by Parliament
on the recommendations of the committee referred to in clause (1) of this article.
(3)
For the purposes of this article, and except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, "salaries"
includes allowances, facilities and privileges and retiring benefits or awards.
72 PREROGATIVE OF MERCY
(1)
The President may, acting in consultation with the Council of State—
(a) grant to a person convicted of an offence a pardon either free or subject to lawful conditions; or
(b) grant to a person a respite, either indefinite or for a specified period, from the execution of
punishment imposed on him for an offence; or
(c) substitute a less severe form of punishment for a punishment imposed on a person for an
offence; or
(d) remit the whole or part of a punishment imposed on a person or of a penalty or forfeiture
otherwise due to Government on account of any offence.
(2)
Where a person is sentenced to death for an offence, a written report of the case from the trial judge
or judges, together with such other information derived from the record of the case or elsewhere as
may be necessary, shall be submitted to the President.
(3)
For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a reference in this article to a conviction or the
imposition of a punishment, penalty, sentence or forfeiture includes a conviction or the imposition of
a punishment, penalty, sentence or forfeiture by a court-martial or other military tribunal.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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