West African Gas Pipeline Regulations, 2005 (L.I. 1814).
3. PERMIT TO SURVEY Grant and variation of permit to survey 3.1 Whenever a survey is required, the Company shall apply to the Authority for a permit to survey. 3.2 An application for a permit to survey under this Regulation 3 shall specify the approximate route or alternative routes proposed. 3.3 The Authority may grant to the Company a permit to survey under this Regulation 3. 3.4 The Authority may, upon application by the Company, vary the route specified in such permit to survey, but such variation shall not invalidate or make illegal any act done by the Company or its contractors, agents and employees pursuant to the permit prior to such variation, nor prejudice the rights of any person under these Regulations with reference to any act done by the Company pursuant to the permit prior to such variation. Rights of Company under permit to survey. 3.5 A permit to survey shall entitle the Company and its contractors, agents and employees to enter together with any necessary equipment or vehicles, on any land upon the route specified in the permit to survey or reasonably close to such route for the following purposes: (a) to survey and take levels of the land; (b) to dig and bore into the soil and subsoil; (c) to cut and remove such trees and other vegetation as may impede the purposes specified in this Regulation; and (d) to do all other acts necessary to ascertain the suitability of the land for the establishment of part of the Pipeline System, and shall entitle the Company, with such persons, equipment or vehicles as aforesaid to pass over land adjacent to such route to the extent that such may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of obtaining access to land upon the route specified. 3.6 Except with prior consent of the owner or occupier, no person shall under the authority of Regulation 3.5 enter any building or upon any enclosed court or garden attached to any building, without previously having given the owner or occupier at least fourteen days' notice of his intention to do so, nor enter upon any cultivated land without having given such notice to the owners or occupiers thereof or having affixed such noticed in some prominent position upon such land. 3.7 No person shall, under the authority of Regulation 3.5, except with the prior assent of the owners or occupiers or persons in charge thereof, enter any of the following land: (a) any land occupied by any burial ground or cemetery; or (b) any land containing any grave, grotto, area, tree or thing held to be sacred or the object of veneration. 3.8. A person acting under the authority of Regulation 3.5 shall take all reasonable steps to avoid unnecessary damage to any land entered upon and any buildings, crops or profitable trees thereon, and shall make compensation to the owners or occupiers for any damage done under such authority and not made good. 3.9 The principles and procedures for quantifying the amount of such compensation (together with procedures for resolving any disputes in respect of such compensation) shall be those applying under the prevailing laws of the Republic of Ghana.
Subject : West African Gas PipelineProcedure to Follow
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Responsible Institution
West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo)
Codemm House, Nii Nortei Nyanchi Street, West Airport
- Email: info@wagpco.com
- Website: https://www.wagpco.com/
- GPS:
- Telephone: 0302 740 190
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