(1) Where the Minister approves a request by the Central Authority of a foreign State or the competent authority of a foreign entity to intercept telecommunications in Ghana regarding an offence, the Minister shall expeditiously authorize a police officer to apply to the relevant court with- out notice to the person whose telecommunication is to be intercepted for an order to intercept telecommunications.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a police officer may, with the prior written consent of the Minister, apply to the relevant court for the order without notice, to the person whose telecommunication is to be intercepted in furtherance of obtaining evidence of the commission of an offence under this Act.

(3) The court to which an application is made under subsection (1) or' (2) may make an order for the prevention of crime on reasonable grounds to

(a) require a telecommunications service provider to intercept and retain a specified communication or communication of a specified description received or transmitted by that telecommunications service provider,

(b) authorize a police officer to intercept or listen to conversation provided by a telecommunications service provider,

(c) authorize a police officer to enter premises and to install on the premises a device for the interception and retention of specified telecommunications or telecommunications of a specified description and to remove and retain the device, or

(d) authorize a competent authority to facilitate access to the systems of telecommunication services required to be intercepted to execute the request where there is suspicion of the commission of an offence or the whereabouts of a person suspected by the police officer to have committed an offence is contained in that telecommunication or telecommunications of that description.