National Service Authority Act, 2024 🇬🇭

Ghana

Preface

1. Establishment of the Authority

2. Objects of the Authority

3. Functions of the Authority

4. Governing body of the Authority

5. Functions of the Board

6. Duties and liabilities of members of the Board

7. Tenure of office of members of the Board

8. Meetings of the Board

9. Disclosure of interest

10. Establishment of committees

11. Allowances

12. Policy directives

13. Directorates and departments of the Authority

14. Appointment of Director-General

15. Functions of the Director-General

16. Appointment of Deputy Directors-General

17. Functions of a Deputy Director-General

18. Secretary to the Board

19. Appointment of other staff

20. Regional and district offices of the Authority

21. Regional and District Directors

22. Internal Audit Unit

23. Financial Provisions

24. Borrowing Powers

25. Bank account

26. Expenses of the Authority

27. Accounts and audit

28. Annual report and other reports

29. National Service

30. Submission of list of students qualified to undertake national service

31. Notice to invite application for national service personnel

32. Application by user agency for national service personnel

33. Application to undertake or defer national service

34. Determination of field of operation for national service

35. Duration and scope of national service

36. Exemptions

37. Terms and conditions of engagement

38. Certificate of National Service

39. Failure to complete national service

40. Prohibition of employment of persons required to undertake national service

41. User agency fee

42. Mode of application

43. Appeals

44. Regulations

45. Administrative guidelines

46. Interpretation

47. Repeal and savings

48. Transitional provisions

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

THIRD SCHEDULE

Republic of Ghana

The one thousand, one hundred and nineteenth

Act

of the parliament of the republic of ghana

entitled

National Service Authority Act, 2024

Published by Government Gazette on 31 July 2024
Assented to on 31 July 2024
Commenced on 31 July 2024

AN ACT to establish the National Service Authority to mobilise and post persons qualified to undertake national service in areas of national priority for national development; inculcate the values of duties and obligations, discipline, patriotism, national cohesion and voluntarism in persons qualified to undertake national service; and promote employability, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation among persons qualified to undertake national service and provide for related matters.