(1) The rent to be charged in respect of any lease shall, subject to section 5 of this Act and to this section, be in accordance with a prescribed scale.

(2) The President may grant a lease of any Kumasi town land for any religious, educational, recreational or charitable purpose either free of rent or at a rent lower than the appropriate rent according to the prescribed scale.

(3) Where the lease of a free plot becomes vested in a person not owing allegiance to the Asantehene or in a person who already holds a free plot the lease shall thereupon become subject to the payment of rent in accordance with a prescribed scale.