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In this Act unless the context otherwise requires;

"Agency" means the Ghana Meteorological Agency established under section 1 of this Act;

"aeronautical service" includes information, direction and other facilities furnished, issued or provided in connection with meteorological forecasts or data;

"agro-meteorology" means the application of meteorological information and data in the monitoring and management of agricultural activities;

"Board" means the governing body of the Agency provided for under section 4 of this Act;

"Conventions" means the WMO Convention, the Convention of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, Framework Convention on Climatic Change and Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought;

"meteorology" means the study dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Communications;

"operational hydrology" means the practical application of meteorology in relation to water and flood management;

"premises" includes any building or land, ship, aircraft, caravan but does not include a building or place used exclusively as a dwelling place;

"sectoral activities" includes activities related to agriculture, marine, civil aviation, construction and building works, environment, water resources and natural disaster;

"upper air" refers to any level above ten meters from the surface of the earth;

"weather" means the state of the atmosphere which consists of the short-term on the scale of minutes to days variation of the atmosphere.