Presidential Elections Act, 1992 🇬🇭

Ghana 4 Citing Cases

P.N.D.C.L. 285

Presidential Elections Act, 1992

Published in Government Gazette on 7 August 1992
Assented to on 24 July 1992
Commenced on 7 August 1992
[This is the version of this document from 7 August 1992.]

AN ACT to provide for the election of the President and for related matters.

1. Qualification for election as President

(1)A person is not qualified to be a candidate for the office of the President of the Republic of Ghana unless that person

(a)is a citizen by birth,

(b)has attained the age of forty years,

(c)is a registered voter,

(d)is resident in a constituency for which that person can stand as a candidate for election to Parliament or has resided there for a total period of not less than five years out of the ten years immediately preceding the election for which that person stands or hails from that constituency, and

(e)has paid all the taxes of that person or made arrangements satisfactory to the appropriate authority for the payment of those taxes.

(2)A person is not qualified to be…

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