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(1) An enterprise which has a paid up capital of

(a) not less than

(i) fifty thousand United States dollars and not more than two hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars is entitled to an automatic expatriate quota of one person;

(ii) two hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars and not more than five hundred thousand

United States Dollars is entitled to an automatic expatriate quota of two persons;

(iii) five hundred thousand United States Dollars and not more than seven hundred thousand United States Dollars is entitled to an automatic expatriate quota of three persons; and

(b) more than seven hundred thousand United States Dollars is entitled to an automatic expatriate quota of four persons.

(2) An enterprise that intends to employ an expatriate shall apply to the Centre for facilitation of the employment and the application shall specify the number of expatriates to be employed, in accordance with the quotas specified in subsection (1).

(3) The application shall be decided on by the Centre on the advice of the Ghana Immigration Service in consultation with the regulator of the relevant sector.

(4) Despite subsection (1), the Ghana Immigration Service may refuse to ^ant a visa to an expatriate to whom a quota relates, if the Ghana Immigration Service has sufficient reason to believe that that expatriate is not a desirable person who should be permitted to enter the country.