In these Regulations, unless the context other wise requires,

"agency" includes a Ministry, Department or Statutory body;

"antecedents" includes personal history of an individual and the personal history of that persons immediate family;

"crime scene" means a place where

(a) a crime has been committed or is suspected to have been committed, or

(b) a search for tainted property is being or has been conducted;

"document" includes a record of information and anything on which writing, marks, figures and symbols appear, perforations for interpretation or anything from which sounds, images or writing can be produced with or without the aid of something else, a map, plan, drawing, photograph or similar things and a medium or device by which information is recorded or stored;

"emergency" means an imminent occurrence of a situation that is out of the ordinary and that threatens to endanger a person, public safety or cause damage to property;

"employee" means a person employed to provide services for the Office on a permanent, secondment, attachment, temporary or contractual basis;

"financial institution" means any natural or legal person who conducts as a business one or more of the following activities or operations for or on behalf of a customer:

(a) acceptance of deposits and other repayable funds from the public;

(b) lending;

(d) the issue and management of means of payment such as credit and debit cards, cheques, traveller's cheques, money orders, bankers' drafts and electronic money;

(e) financial guarantees and commitments;

(f) trading in

(i) money market instruments;

(ii) foreign exchange; exchange,

(iii) interest rate and index instruments;

(iv) transferable securities; and

(v) commodity futures trading

(g) participation in securities issues and the provision of financial services related to the issue of securities;

(h) individual and collective portfolio management;

(i) safekeeping and the administration of cash or liquid securities on behalf of other persons;

(j) any other investing, administering or management of funds or money on behalf of another person;

(k) underwriting and the placement of life insurance and other investment related insurance; and

(I) money and currency changing.

"financial interest" means a contribution of money or any item of value, which is capable of being given a monetary value;

"financial intermediation" means a process of transferring funds from one entity to another entity;

"foreign entity" means a body corporate or unincorporated, an association or group of persons, a firm or a partnership that is not Ghanaian;

"foreign State" means a country other than the Republic of Ghana;

"forensic evidence" means a matter of scientific basis used in a Court process

"freeze" means to prohibit the use, transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of any property for the duration of the validity of an order made by the Executive Director or a Court until a confiscation order or defreezing order is made by a Court and inability to use an object, property, income or money unless de-frozen by the Executive Director or a Court.;

"information" includes books and documents and details from a safe deposit box, financial institution, company, firm, association, society or other body directly or indirectly related to a serious offence within or outside the country;

"material" includes tape, rope and anything suitable to demarcate an area;

"means of conveyance" includes a motor vehicle and motor- cycle, animal, bicycle, aircraft, sea-going vessel, any means by which a person or property can be conveyed from one point to another;

"medical practitioner" means a person registered to practice medicine under the Medical and Dental Act 1972, (NRCD 91);

"mother institution" means the organisation of permanent employment of an officer or a public officer;

"officer" means an authorised officer of the Office;

"out of bounds" means a place that has restricted access;

"personal details" include information on personal property and income, assets and liabilities, marital status and place of residence;

"proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" means a rapid increase in weapons that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans and other life forms that can or may cause great damage to man-made structures, natural structures, or the biosphere in general;

"special equipment" means a weapon and any other tool determined by the Executive Director to be carried or used only by an officer or for a specific operation;

"suspect" means a person reasonably believed to have commit- ted an offence.;

"terrorist act" includes

(a) an act which constitutes an offence within the scope of and as defined in one of the following treaties:

(i) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970);

(ii) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1971);

(iii) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (1973);

(iv) International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (1979)

(v) Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (1980);

(vi) Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1988);

(vii) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation ( 2005);

(viii) Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms located on the Continental Shelf (2005);

(ix) International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999);

(xi) OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism (1999);

(xii) UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999);

(xiii) UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001);

(xiv) UN Security Council Resolution 1718 (2006); and

(b) any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a Government or an international organisation to do or to abstain from doing any act;

"terrorist financing" means the provision of funds for a terrorist act, terrorists and a terrorist organisation;

"terrorist organisation" means any group of terrorists that

(a) commits, or attempts to commit, terrorist acts by any means directly or indirectly, unlawfully and will- fully;

(b) participates as an accomplice in terrorist acts;

(d) contributes to the commission of terrorist acts by a group of persons acting with a common purpose where the contribution is made intentionally and with the aim of furthering the terrorist act or with the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit a terrorist act;

"transaction" includes an act which establishes a right or obligation or gives rise to a contractual or legal relationship and any movement of funds by a financial institution;

, "vet" means security clearance;

"weapon" means a thing designed, used or usable to inflict bodily harm; and

"weapons of mass destruction" means a weapon that

(a) can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans and other life forms; or

(b) can or may cause great damage to man-made structures, natural structures or the biosphere in general.