Wildlife Resources Management Act, 2023 🇬🇭

Ghana

Preface

1. Ownership of wildlife and wildlife products

2. Implementing agency

3. Objects of the Commission with regard to wildlife

4. Functions of the Commission with regard to wildlife

5. Establishment of protected areas

6. Objectives of a national protected areas system

7. Categories of protected areas

8. Management objectives of each category of protected area

9. Management of protected areas

10. Entry into protected areas

11. Activities prohibited in protected areas

12. Establishment of Protected Area Management Advisory Committees

13. Functions of a Protected Area Management Advisory Committee

14. Management plan for each protected area

15. Liability for damage

16. Establishment of Community Resource Management Area

17. Functions of an Executive Committee of a Community Resource Management Area

18. Role of traditional authorities in a Community Resource Management Area

19. Protection categories for wild animals

20. Wildlife use rights

21. Prohibition of utilisation of wildlife without wildlife use right

22. Types of licences and permits

23. Application for licence or permit

24. Revocation or suspension of a licence or permit

25. Keeping of wild animals

26. Artificial propagation of plants

27. Establishment of private zoological gardens and private wildlife sanctuaries

28. Implementation of CITES

29. Functions of the CITES National Scientific Authority

30. Executive Director of the Division

31. Functions of the Executive Director

32. Staff of the Division

33. Power to arrest without a warrant

34. Indemnity for acts done in good faith

35. Offences by a wildlife officer

36. Other offences

37. Regulations

38. Interpretation

39. Transitional provisions

40. Repeal, revocation and savings

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Republic of Ghana

The one thousand, one hundred and fifteenth

Act

of the parliament of the republic of ghana

entitled

Wildlife Resources Management Act, 2023

Published by Government Gazette on 1 March 2024
Assented to on 1 March 2024
There are multiple commencements:
Unknown provisions commenced on 1 March 2024.

AN ACT to consolidate and revise the laws relating to wildlife and protected areas, provide for the implementation of international conventions on wildlife to which Ghana is a signatory and for related matters.

Wildlife - Ownership, Implementation, Objects and Functions

1. Ownership of wildlife and wildlife products

(1)A wildlife resource, a wildlife product and an associated genetic resource in Ghana are vested in the President on behalf of the people of Ghana.

(2)Subsection (1) does not affect the right of a

(a)person who is acting in accordance with the terms of a licence or permit granted under subsection (6) of section 23 to that person to acquire a wildlife, a wildlife product or an a…

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Wildlife Resources Management Act, 2023

Wildlife - Ownership, Implementation, Objects and Functions

1. Ownership of wildlife and wildlife products

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