Whistleblower Act, 2006 (Act 720)

Ghana Whistleblower Act, 2006 (Act 720), assent 16 Oct 2006; stored copy (12 pp.) prints the arrangement of 32 sections but the text stops after s. 25 (ss. 26-32 on fund management, disbursement, accounts and audit, annual report, regulations and interpretation are missing from this copy). Contents: disclosable improprieties, who may disclose and to whom (18 recipients), procedure, confidentiality (offence: 500-1,000 penalty units or 2-4 years), forwarding to the Attorney-General within 7 working days, 60-day investigation, protection from victimisation, CHRAJ complaints and orders (incl. a reward from the Fund), legal aid, police protection, immunity, void gag clauses, Whistleblower Reward Fund (voluntary contributions and money voted by Parliament), reward on conviction, reward of 10% of money recovered or an amount set by the Attorney-General. No statistics. The 10% rule and assent event were already in the data; added entitlement, conviction route, investigation deadline and the confidentiality fine. Sections 26-32 cannot be extracted from this copy (they are absent, not unread). Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).