Wild Animals Preservation Act, 1961(Act 43)
Section 4: (1) No person shall export or attempt to export from Ghana any trophy unless he has been granted a certificate by a Superior Police Officer not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent permitting the export of the same.
(2) The certificate shall not be issued unless the Superior Police Officer is satisfied that the trophy has been lawfully imported or otherwise lawfully obtained.
(3) No person shall import into Ghana, except on production of a certificate of lawful export, any trophy which has been exported from any territory which the Minister has notified in the Gazette as being a territory to which the terms of the International Convention for the protection of Fauna and Flora made at London on the 8th day of November, 1933 applies.
(4) The import or export of any trophy except at places where there is a Customs station is prohibited.
(5) Any person contravening any of the provisions of this section commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of ¢2million or to imprisonment for six months and any trophy imported or being exported in contravention of the provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section shall be forfeited. [As substituted by Forestry Commission Act, 1999 (Act 571) s. 35 ss. 2c].
Procedure to Follow
The company must undertake the following practical steps to qualify for a casino license in Ghana. It must be emphasized that the steps listed, though briefly stated, are non-negotiable and must be complied with at all costs in compliance with the Gaming Act.
Procedures Include:
- The company must be an established company registered under the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992).
- The company must be registered with a minimum capital of US$2,500,000.00 and must agree to maintain an amount of cash or cash equivalent determined by the Gaming Commission of Ghana.
- The company must register with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and obtain a tax clearance certificate. The tax clearance certificate is a must do requirement of the application process.
- The company must register with Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and obtain a SSNIT clearance certificate. The SSNIT clearance certificate is a mandatory requirement of the application process.
- The company must have an identifiable office.
- The company must have a service mark logo registered with the Registrar of Companies in Ghana.
- The entity shall be partly or wholly Ghanaian owned. Section 14 of the Gaming Act, 2006 (Act 721) makes it mandatory for the company to be partly or wholly Ghanaian owned.
- The dirctors of the company shall be submitted to
criminal background checks by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of
the Ghana Police Service.
Further, as part of the application process, the entity is expected to provide the following additional documents: - Shareholders agreement.
- Financial and marketing plan that details the following
- Evidence of financial capability to generate the business
- Capital budgets
- 5-year financial projection and the assumptions made in considering the figures
- Marketing and financial plan
- The Directors shall submit a Personality Note (PN) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policy document.
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Responsible Institution
- Email: info.hq@fcghana.org
- Website: https://www.fcghana.org/
- GPS:
- Telephone: +233 302 401210, 401227, 401216, 302 7010031
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