- 1. Establishment of the Standards Authority
- 2. Aims of the Authority
- 3. Functions of the Authority
- The Board
- Financial Provisions
- Miscellaneous
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Standards Authority Act, 1973 |
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N.R.C.D.173 |
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STANDARDS AUTHORITY ACT, 1973 |
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS |
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SECTION |
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Establishment of the Standards Authority. |
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Aims of the Authority. |
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Functions of the Authority. |
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The Board |
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Composition of the Board. |
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Meetings of the Board. |
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Director. |
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Staff of the Authority. |
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By-laws. |
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Rules. |
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Committees. |
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Specifications and Licences |
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Standard specifications. |
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Licences to use standard marks. |
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13. |
-Protection. |
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Financial Provisions |
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Funds. |
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Borrowing powers. |
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Money paid into bank. |
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Accounts. |
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Annual report. |
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Tax exemption. |
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Miscellaneous |
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Bona fide acts. |
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Offences and penalties. |
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Offences by bodies of persons. |
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Secrecy. |
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Transfer of assets and liabilities. |
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Interpretation. |
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Repeal. |
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Standards Authority Act, 1973
N.R.C.D.175
N.R.C.D.173
STANDARDS AUTHORITY ACT, 19731
AN ACT to provide for promulgation of standards, for ensuring high quality of goods and for related matters.
1. Establishment of the Standards Authority
(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Standards Authority.
(2) The Authority is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal,
and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.
(3) The Authority shall for the performance of its functions, acquire and hold movable or immovable property, dispose of property by lease or otherwise and enter into a contract or any other transaction.
(4) Where there is a hindrance to theacquisition of property under subsection (3), the property may be acquired for the Authority, under the State Property and Contracts Act, 1960 (C.A. 6) or under the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125) and that Act shall apply with the modifications that are necessary to provide for the vesting of the property acquired, in the Authority and for the cost of the acquisition to be defrayed by the Authority.
2. Aims of the Authority
The aims of the Authority are
(a) to establish and promulgate standards with the object of ensuring high quality of goods produced in Ghana, whether for local consumption or for
'export;
(b) to promote standardisation in industry and commerce;
(c) to promote industrial efficiency and development;
(d) to promote standards in public and industrial welfare, health and safety.
3. Functions of the Authority
(1) The Authority shall perform the functions which is the opinion of the Board are
necessary to further most effectively the aims of the Authority as set out in section 2.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the functions of the Authority
are,
(a)
to prepare, frame, modify, or amend specifications and promulgate standard specifications;
to promote research in relation to specifications; and to provide for the ex-amination and testing of goods, commodities, processes, and practices, and for those purposes the Authority may establish any laboratories and any other facilities as it thinks fit;
I. The Act was issued as the Standards Decree, 1973 (N.R.C.D. 175) made on the 2nd day of May. 1973 and notified in the Gazette on 4th May, 1973.
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(b)
N.R.C.D.175 Standards Authority Act, 1973 (c) to prohibit the sale or manufacture of goods in the national interest;2 (d) to maintain the necessary machinery to ensure that goods prepared and manufactured for export are distinctly marked for export only, and to pro- vide for the issue of a certificate to the effect that goods comply with the known requirement of standards in the country to which they are or about to be consigned, before the export of the goods is permitted; (e) to prohibit the importation into Ghana of foods which have not been certi- fied by the Board as complying with standards;3 (j) to provide for the registration and regulation of the use of standard marks; (g) to undertake and encourage educational work in connection with standardisation (h) to collect and disseminate information relating to standardisation and re- lated matters, including the publication of reports, pamphlets, booklets, journals, and any other publication; (i) to develop and maintain a collection of library materials and a museum collection relating to standardisation and allied matters; (j) to assist government departments, local authorities and any other public bodies in the preparation of the specifications required by them; (k) to co-operate with representatives of industry, or with a government de- partment, local authority, or any other public bodies or persons with a view to securing the adoption of standards; .. (I) to co-operate with any persons, associations, or organisations outside Ghana having similar functions with a view to furthering the functions of 'the Authority; (m) to solicit and accept for the purposes of the Authority money, land, or any other property from a local authority, organisation, or person by way of grant, subsidy, donation, gift, subscription or otherwise; (n) to become a member of or affiliate to an international body concerned with standardisation or a related matter; (0) to endorse an international or any other overseas specification as suitable for use in Ghana, but that endorsement shall not have the effect of making the specification a standard specification under this Act; (P) to appoint agents of the Authority in Ghana or any other country for the purpose that it determines; (q) to establish branch offices of the Authority in Ghana; (r) to institute training schemes for its staff either in Ghana or elsewhere in furtherance of its aims.
2. Substituted by the Standards (Amendment) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 44). The original paragraphs reads:
"(e) to recommend to the Ministry responsible for Industries to prohibit the sale or manufacture of goods
in the national interest as well as in the interest to public health and safety."
3. Substituted by The Standards (Amendment) Decree, 1979 (A.F.R.C.D. 44). The original paragraph reads:
"(e) to recommend to the Ministry responsible for Trade to prohibit the importation into Ghana for the
purposes of sale, use or human consumption any goods, unless the same have been certified by the
Board as complying with standards set up by the Board."
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The Board
4. Composition of the Board
(I) The governing body of the Authority is a Board consisting of (a) the chairman,
(b) the person appointed the Director under section 6, and
(c) four other members.
(2) The members of the Board shall be appointed by the President in accordance with
article 70 of the Constitution.
(3) The Board may co-opt a person to act as an adviser at any of its meetings, but a person co-opted is not entitled to vote at the meeting on a matter for decision by the Board.
(4) The validity of the proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by a vacancy
among its members or by a defect in the appointment of any of them.
5. Meetings of the Board
(1) The Board shall meet at six least times in every year at the times and places that
the Board may appoint.
(2) The chairman shall preside at the meetings of the Board, and in the absence of the chairman a' member of the Board appointed by the members present from among them-selves shall preside. .
(3) The chairman may call a special meeting of the Board, and shall call a special meeting of the Board when requested to do so by a requisition in writing signed by at least three members of the Board.
(4) At a meeting of the Board four members shall form a quorum.
(5) A question before a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the
votes of the members present and voting and in the event of an equality of votes the person presiding shall have a casting vote.
(6) A special meeting shall not be held, unless at least seven days notice in writing and of the business to be transacted at the meeting has been given to the members of theBoard.
(7) Subject to this Act and to the Rules, the Board may regulate its own procedure.
6. Director
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