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(1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section a grant of any mining or timber rights in any land subject to this Act shall not exceed a term of sixty years for mining and thirty years for timber notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other enactment.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other enactment a grant of any farming right to any land subject to the provisions of this Act shall not exceed

(a) in the case of land for poultry rearing or the cultivation of cereals, a term of ten years; or

(b) in the case of ranching or the cultivation of mixed or permanent crops, a term of fifty years.

(3) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section no grant of any stool land to any one person and no aggregate of such grants shall exceed the following limits, that is to say,

(a) mining rights, 51.80 square kilometers for any grant or, in the aggregate, 155.40 square kilometers;

(b) timber rights, 103.40 square kilometers for any grant or, in the aggregate 621.60 square kilometers; and

(c) right to collect rubber, to cultivate products of the soil (other than timber) or relating to the pursuit of animal husbandry:

(i) for an individual, 2.59 square kilometers or in the aggregate 7.77 square kilometers;

(ii) for a body corporate or unincorporated body of persons established or registered in Ghana 12.95 square kilometers or in the aggregate 25.90 square kilometers.

(4) The President may, in the case of a particular land where the President is satisfied that special circumstances exist that render compliance with the limits prescribed by this section prejudicial to the national interest or to the interest of a stool, direct that the grant of that land or any other interest in that land shall exceed the areas specified in subsection (3) and the land or an interest in the land may be granted although the limits are exceeded.