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(1) A member of a registered scheme who is not a citizen of Ghana and who, before reaching the retirement age, wishes to be paid the member's accrued benefits in the scheme on the ground that the member has emigrated, or desires to emigrate, from Ghana permanently, shall lodge with the approved trustee of the scheme a claim for payment of the member's accrued benefits.

(2) The claim shall be in a form specified or approved by the Authority.

(3) The claim shall be accompanied by a statutory declaration by the claimant that the claimant has emigrated, or will emigrate from Ghana permanently on a specified date.

(4) A person who has been paid accrued benefits from a registered scheme on the ground that, on a specified date, the person has emigrated, or was about to emigrate, from Ghana permanently is not, before reaching the retirement age, entitled to be paid the member's accrued benefits from the same or another registered scheme on the ground  that, on a later date, the person purports to have emigrated, or is about to emigrate,  from Ghana permanently.

(5) If a member of a registered scheme claims to be entitled to be paid the  member's accrued benefits in the scheme on the ground that, on a specified date, the  member has emigrated, or is about to emigrate, from Ghana permanently, the approved  trustee of the scheme

(a) before paying those benefits to the member shall notify the Authority in writing of the particulars of the claim, including the specified date of the permanent emigration from Ghana, and the reason for which the claim is made; and

(b) may pay those benefits to the member unless the Authority has within fourteen days after being given notice, informed the trustee in writing that the member has previously been paid accrued benefits from a registered scheme on the ground that the member claimed to have permanently emigrated from Ghana on an earlier date.

(6) The approved trustee of the scheme shall, by written notice, give to the  Authority particulars of the payment within thirty days after paying the member's accrued  benefits on the ground that the member has emigrated, or is about to emigrate, from  Ghana permanently.

(7) The particulars shall include the member's name, the date of the member's emigration, the amount paid and any other information that may be specified by the Authority.  

(8) Sub-regulation (5) or (6) does not apply in relation to the payment of an outstanding mandatory contribution or contribution surcharge under regulation 132.  

(9) Where accrued benefits held in an account of a member of a registered  scheme is paid to the member with a view that the member has emigrated, or will emigrate  on a specified date from Ghana permanently, the member is not before attaining the  retirement age 

(a) precluded from making a further claim on the ground of permanent emigration on that specified date if the claim is for the payment of other accrued benefits of the member held in another account in that scheme, or

(b) For the payment of other accrued benefits of that member in another registered scheme.