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(1) The High Court has jurisdiction for an act which constitutes an offence committed outside this country if the act constitutes an offence in this country where

(a) the person committing the act is

(i) a citizen of Ghana or

(ii) not a citizen of Ghana but is ordinarily resident in this country;

(b) the act is committed to compel the Government to do or refrain from doing an act;

(c) the act is committed against a citizen of Ghana;

(d) the act is committed against property outside the country that belongs to the Republic; or

(e) the person who commits the act is after its commission, found present ill Ghana.

(2) The High Court shall order the funds of

(a) a terrorist,

(b) financiers of terrorism, or

(c) a terrorist organization as designated by the United Nations Security Council in accordance with Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter to be frozen and any person holding the funds shall immediately freeze them.

(3) The terms, conditions and time limits applicable to the freezing shall be defined in the order.

(4) A person holding funds to which subsection (2) relates shall report without delay to the Financial intelligence Centre established under section 4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 (Act 749) the existence of the funds.