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IN exercise of the functions
conferred on the Provisional
National Defence Council by
sub-section (1) of Section 14 of
the Volta River Authority Act,
1961 (Act 46) this Instrument is
made this 30th day of May 1989.
1. The Volta River Authority is
hereby constituted the local
authority for the township of
Akosombo comprising the area
specified in the Certificate of
Title relating to Akosombo, No.
1747/1961 dated 10th July, 1961.
2. (1) Notwithstanding paragraph
1 of this Instrument, and for the
avoidance of doubt, the Asuogyaman
District Assembly established
under the Local Government (Asuogyaman
District Assembly Establishment)
Instrument, 1989, (L.I. 1431)
shall include persons representing
the electoral areas of the
Akosombo township who shall be
elected directly by the electorate
in accordance with regulations
made in that behalf of the
National Commission for Democracy.
(2) For the purpose of election to
the Assembly, the Akosombo
township shall be divided into the
electoral areas specified in the
First Schedule to the Local
Government (Asuogyaman District
Assembly) (Establishment)
Instrument, 1989, (L.I. 1431).
3. (1) Except otherwise provided
in this Instrument, the volta
River Authority shall in
relation to the Akosombo
Township perform the functions
conferred on District
Assemblies by the Local
Government Law, 1988 (P.N.D.C.L.
207).
(2) Without prejudice to
sub-paragraph (1) of this
paragraph, the Volta River
Authority shall perform the
functions specified in the
Schedule to this Instrument.
4. (1) The Volta River Authority
shall not exercise any political
authority in relation to the
township of Akosombo.
(2) In this paragraph, “political
authority” means any authority
exercised by the local authority
in pursuance of general political
guidelines or directives issued by
the Council and includes
specifically guidelines and
directives on the organisation,
structure, functions, operation
and supervision of the Committees
for the Defence of the Revolution
and other organs of the
Revolution.
5. (1) For the avoidance of
doubt, the Volta River Authority
shall be the rating, licensing and
fee charging authority for the
Akosombo township:
Provided that the Authority shall
not impose any rates or charge any
fees in the Akosombo township
lower than those charged by the
Asuogyaman District Assembly in
respect of similar properties,
services facilities, licences, or
permits in the Asuogyaman
District.
(2) The Volta River Authority
shall make annual payments of such
amounts to the Asuogyaman District
Assembly as the Council may, on
the recommendation of the
Secretary, determine.
(3) The amounts referred to in
sub-paragraph 91 of this paragraph
shall be in respect of all rates,
fees, and other revenues or monies
levied, charged, raised or
received by the Volta River
Authority in relation to the
functions conferred on it under
paragraph 3 of this Instrument.
6. Any amount collected by the
Volta River Authority in respect
of basic, property or other rates
or any other local authority
revenue and lodged in any account
before the coming into force of
this Instrument shall be shared
between the Volta River Authority
and the Asuogyaman District
Assembly in such proportion as the
Council may, on the recommendation
of the Secretary, determine.
7. In this Instrument, unless the
context otherwise requires —
“Council” means Provisional
National Defence Council;
“Secretary” means Provisional
National Defence Council Secretary
responsible for Local Government.
8. The Volta River Authority (Akosombo
Township) Instrument, 1963 (E.I.
106) is hereby revoked.
S
C H E D U L E
FUNCTIONS OF THE VOLTA RIVER
AUTHORITY IN RESPECT OF THE
TOWNSHIP OF AKOSOMBO
It shall be the duty of the
Assembly —
1. To promote and safeguard public
health and for this purpose the
Ministry of Health shall assign
Medical Officers of Health, health
inspectors and other staff
appropriate except semi- skilled
and unskilled laborers to the
District Assembly for the proper
discharge of this duty.
2. To cause the District to be
inspected regularly for the
detention of nuisance or any
condition likely to be offensive
or injurious to health.
3. If satisfied that any nuisance
or any condition likely to be
offensive or injurious to health
exists, to cause all proper steps
to be taken to secure the
abatement of the nuisance or the
removal of the condition.
4. To ensure the provision of
adequate and wholesome supply of
water throughout the entire
District in consultation with the
Ghana Water and Sewerage
Corporation.
5. To establish, install, build,
maintain and control public
latrines, lavatories, urinals and
wash places.
6. To establish, maintain and
carry out services for the removal
of night-soil from any building
and for the destruction and
treatment of such night-soils.
7. To establish, maintain and
carry out services for the removal
and destruction of refuse, filth
and carcasses of dead animals from
any public or private place.
8. To regulate any trade or
business which may be noxious or
injurious to public health or a
sources of danger to the public or
which otherwise it is in the
public interest to regulate.
9. To provide for the inspection
of all meat, fish, vegetables and
all other foodstuffs and liquids
of whatever kind or nature
intended for human consumption
whether exposed for sale or not;
and to seize, destroy and
otherwise deal with all such
foodstuffs or liquids as are unfit
for human consumption and to
supervise and control the
manufacture of foodstuffs and
liquids of whatever kind or nature
intended for human consumption.
10. To provide, maintain,
supervise and control
slaughter-houses and pounds and
all such matters and things as may
be necessary for the convenient
use of such slaughter-houses.
11. To prevent and deal with the
outbreak or the prevalence of any
disease.
12. To prevent and spread of and
exterminate testse-fly,
mosquitoes, rats, bugs and other
vermin.
13. To prohibit or regulate the
making of burrow-pits or other
excavations.
14. To establish and maintain
cemeteries.
15. To provide crematoria where
in the opinion of the Assembly it
is expedient so to do.
16. To regulate or prohibit the
sinking of wells and provide for
the closing of wells.
17. To establish, maintain and
control pounds, seize and impound
any stray animal and provide for
the payment of compensation for
damage done by such animal
18. To provide that the owner or
occupier of any land or tenements
maintain, clear and keep free from
vegetation, the roads, streets or
paths adjoining his land or
tenements.
19. To provide for the control,
destruction and licensing of dogs
20. To provide for the control,
regulation, inspection,
supervision and licensing of —
(i)
social halls, dance halls and
places of entertainment;
(ii) lodging and eating houses;
(iii) any premises or land in or
upon which any profession,
occupation, trade or business is
carried on;
(iv) such occupations as the
Secretary may specify in an
Instrument from time to time.
21. To establish and operate
clinics and dressing stations in
consultation with the Ministry of
Health.
22. To construct, repair,
maintain and keep clean all
streets.
23. To divert or alter where
necessary the course of any
street.
24. To provide or arrange for
electric lighting in streets and
other public places and where
necessary to provide and maintain
electricity supply in consultation
within the Electricity
Corporation.
25. To construct, repair and
maintain all public roads other
than trunk roads but including
feeder roads and to undertake road
rehabilitation programmes within
the district.
26. To prescribe the conditions
subject to which the erection and
construction demolition,
re-erection, and reconstruction,
conversion and re-conversion,
alteration, repair, sanitation and
ventilation of public and private
buildings and structures may be
undertaken and carried out.
27. To provide for building lines
and the layout of buildings, to
prepare and undertake and
otherwise control schemes for
improved housing layout and
settlement.
28. To prescribe the conditions
to be satisfied on a site for any
building or for any class of
building.
29. To prohibit the construction
ofany new building unless and
until the plan thereof have been
submitted to and approved by the
Volta River Authority.
30. To provide for the demolition
of dangerous buildings and for the
recovery of any expenses incurred
in connection therewith.
31. To maintain, as agents of
Central Government, all public
buildings, including prestige
buildings put up by the Central
Government and previously
maintained by the Public Works
Department.
32. To maintain as agents of the
Ghana Highway Authority, trunk
roads lying within the boundaries
of the area of authority of the
township.
33. To take steps to ensure the
effective maintenance of all
Government properties within its
area of authority.
34. To prohibit or regulate the
use in any defined area of any
inflammable material in the
construction or repair of any
building.
35. To control and regulate the
sitting of advertisement and
hoardings or other structures
designed for the display of
advertisements.
36. To build, equip, open, close
and maintain markets, prohibit the
erection of stalls in places other
than markets and prevent the sale
and purchase of goods or stock
near established markets or else
where.
37. To fix days and hours during
each day on which a market may be
held and prevent the sale and
purchase of goods in markets on
any day or at any hour except,
those fixed.
38. To regulate and control
markets including the fixing of
and collection of stallage rents
and tolls.
39. (1) To require the owner of
any premises to do any of the
following acts:
(i)
to remove, lower or trim to the
satisfaction of the Volta River
Authority any tree, shrub or hedge
overhanging or interfering in any
way with the traffic in any street
or with any wires or works
thereof;
(ii) to remove any dilapidated
fence or structure abutting on any
public place;
(iii) to paint, distemper,
white-wash or colour-wash the
outside walls or roof of any
building forming part of the
premises;
(iv) to tidy the premises; and
(v) to move any derelict car or
other vehicles.
(2) In the event of the owner
failing to comply with a notice
from the Volta River Authority
requiring him to perform any of
the acts specified in
sub-paragraphs (i-v) of paragraph
(1) the Volta River Authority
shall be at liberty to undertake
the work and charge the owner with
the cost thereof.
40. To build, equip and maintain
all public primary, middle and
special schools as are in the
opinion of the Secretary for
Education, after consultation with
the Secretary responsible for
Local Government, required in its
area.
41. To advise the Secretary for
Education on all matters relating
to primary and middle schools and
such other matters as may be
referred to it by the Secretary
for Education.
42. To be responsible for —
(i)
postings and transfers within its
area of authority of teachers
including pupil teachers;
(ii) keeping records of teachers;
(iii) discipline of teachers in
accordance with the disciplinary
code laid down by the Ghana
Education Service;
(iv) appointment of school welfare
officers;
(v) recommending teachers for
study leave;
(vi) appointment of headteachers
in accordance with rules laid down
by the Ghana Education Services;
(vii) supervision of primary and
middle schools;
(viii) formation of education
committees;
(ix) collection of statistical
data and other information;
(x) in-service training for pupil
teachers;
(xi) nursery school education;
(xii) approval of the opening of
private primary and middle
schools;
(xiii) payment of teachers’
salaries from funds made available
by Government;
(xiv) indenting for the supply and
distribution of textbooks;
(xv) disbursement of Education
Grants.
43. To provide for the control
and regulation of —
(i)
concerts, musical or theatrical
performance, cinemas, fairs,
circuses and other entertainments
to which admission is to be
obtained on payment of money or of
any reward, except where the whole
proceeds are being devoted to
charity;
(ii) horse-racing meetings.
44. To grant and maintain
scholarships or bursaries to
suitable persons to attend, any
school or other educational
institution in Ghana or else
where.
45. To provide for the
establishment and maintenance of
facilities for arts and crafts for
recreation and sports.
46. To establish, maintain,
control and contribute to bands
for musical performance in public
places and at functions arranged
by the Volta River Authority, and
generally to provide musical
entertainment in such places and
at such functions.
47. To arrange for the provision
of public libraries in
consultation with the Ghana
Library Board.
48. With the prior approval of
the Ghana Museums and Monuments
Board, to control the disposal of
any African antique work of art.
49. To organise community
development programmes to improve
and enrich rural life through
running literacy and adult
education classes, organising
voluntary contributions and
communal labour for the provision
of such facilities and services as
water supplies, road, school
buildings, community centres, and
public places of convenience; and
teaching village women the
management of home and care of
children.
50. To take such measures as
would promote the well-being of
under-privileged children and the
stability of the distressed
family.
51. To organize and maintain
child-care centres and ensure the
proper running and management of
such centers.
52. To establish, run and manage
children’s homes and offer
parental care for the deprived,
namely, orphans and those that are
neglected or abandoned.
53 To render relief services
during natural disasters, eg.;
floods, fire, earthquakes,
accidents, in the form of supply
of material.
54. To be responsible for the
improvement of agriculture
including extension services and
allotments for agricultural
purposes.
55. To control methods of
husbandry.
56. To allocate land in the
township of the Assembly for
farming purposes and to regulate
the system of farming of such
land.
57. To provide services for the
improvement of livestock.
58. To prevent and control animal
diseases.
59. To prohibit, restrict or
regulate the hunting, capture,
killing or sale of animal or birds
or any specified kind of animal or
bird.
60. To provide for measures for
soil and water conversation.
61. To provide for the fencing of
land and for the maintenance and
repair of such fences.
62. To take every step to
encourage persons to plant
specified crops for the
maintenance of themselves and
their families.
63. To plant trees in any street
and to erect tree-guards to
protect the same; provided that
the streets shall not be unduly
obstructed thereby.
64. To regulate or prohibit the
planting, cutting, tapping, or
destruction of any tree or
vegetation growing along any
street, road or path or in any
public place.
65. To establish and manage, on
commercial basis, rural and
small-scale industries and farms.
66. To promote tourism in the
District in co-operation with the
Regional Development Corporation
and the Tourist Development Board.
67. Subject to the control and
direction of the Registrar of
Birth and Deaths to register all
births and deaths occurring within
the District.
68. To appoint in consultation
with the Registrar of Births and
Deaths such registration staff as
may be necessary for the proper
discharge of births and deaths
registration duties.
69. To make such financial
contribution as the Assembly deems
necessary for the maintenance of
any traditional authority which
possesses any functions which
relate to any part of its area.
70. To establish and maintain
tree nurseries and forest
plantation and sell the produce
thereof.
71. To compile and maintain a
record of all tenant farmers and
the rents and tribute which should
be paid by them.
72. To prohibit or restrict the
driving or use of vehicles
generally or any specified class
on any specified road or specified
direction on any specified road.
73. To regulate the use ad
conduct of public vehicles, to
regulate routes and parking places
to be used by such vehicles to
appropriate particular routes,
roads, streets, and parking place
to specified classes to traffic
and when necessary to provide the
identification of licensed
vehicles as defined in the Motor
Traffic Ordinance.
74. To license any vehicle used
for Taxi, bicycle, motor bicycle
and to prescribe the fees to be
paid in respect of any such
bicycle or vehicle.
75. To establish, acquire and
maintain transport services by
land or water, including ferries.
76. To establish, maintain and
control parks for motor and other
vehicles.
77. To establish, and maintain in
consultation with the Ports and
Telecommunications Corporations
Postal Agencies where necessary.
78. To lay down rules and
regulations in respect of private
and public property to ensure
adequate fire protection.
79. To prevent and control fire
outbreak including bush fires.
80. To promote the development of
all sports within the area of
authority of the Volta River
Authority.
81. To organise sports activities,
within its area of authority and
to provide such facilities as may
be recommended by the national
body responsible for sports.
82. To perform as agents of the
national body responsible for
sports in maintaining such sports
facilities as may be assigned to
it by the national body.
83. To advise, to the exclusion
of all others on all matters of
sports relating to its area of
authority.
84. To prohibit, restrict,
regulate and license the
manufacturer, distillation, sale,
transportation, distribution,
supply, possession and consumption
of akpeteshie, palm-wine, and all
kinds of description of fermented
liquor usually made by citizen of
Ghana or adjacent countries.
85. To license petrol service and
filling stations within the
township.
86. To provide information
centres, where necessary in
consultation with the Ministry of
Information.
FLT.- LT. JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS
Chairman of the Provisional
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