Foreign Enlistment Act, 1961 🇬🇭

Ghana

Republic of Ghana

The seventy-fifth

Act

of the parliament of the republic of ghana

entitled

Foreign Enlistment Act, 1961

Published by Government Gazette on 17 August 1961
Assented to on 17 August 1961
Commenced on 17 August 1961

AN ACT to control the enlistment of citizens and any other persons in possession of Ghanaian passports in the military service of a country other than Ghana and to provide for related matters.

1. Illegal enlistment

(1)A citizen commits a first degree felony who in or outside the Republic accepts or agrees to accept without the prior written consent of the President,

(a)a commission or an engagement in the military service of any other country, or

(b)induces any other person, whether a citizen or not, to accept a commission or an engagement in the military service of any other country.

(2)A person who is not a citizen but to whom a Ghanaian passport has been issued shall not, while

(a)in possession of the passport,

(b)in possession of a claim to the passport, or

(c)claiming or…

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