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(1) If, on the expiration of six months from the making of a deportation order, deportation has not been effected, or if, at any time before the expiration of that period, the Minister is satisfied that deportation is for any reason impracticable, or undesirable he may by executive instrument make a further order, to be known as supervision order, with respect to the person to be deported, requiring that person, while in Ghana to observe any conditions specified in the order as to:

(a) the area in which he is to reside;

(b) the carrying on by him of political activities;

(c) reporting to the immigration officer and the police from time to time;

(d) the means by which he may gain a livelihood; and

(e) his association with a person with criminal record.

(2) The period of six months in subsection (1) shall in respect of a person serving a term of imprisonment be computed from the end of the term.

(3) A person in respect of whom a supervision order is in force who fails to comply with the requirement of that order, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than five hundred thousand cedis or to imprisonment for a term of not less than two months, or both.

(4) The operation of a deportation order made in respect of any person shall be suspended while a supervision order is in force in relation to that person, but shall revive if the Minister so directs and in that event the supervision order shall cease to have effect.

(5) Subject to subsection (4), a supervision order made in respect of any person shall expire after a period of two years from the date of the order and on the expiration of the supervision order, the deportation order made in respect of that person, shall also expire.