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(1) No person shall export or attempt to export from Ghana any trophy unless he has been granted a certificate by a Superior Police Officer not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent permitting the export of the same.

(2) The certificate shall not be issued unless the Superior Police Officer is satisfied that the trophy has been lawfully imported or otherwise lawfully obtained.

(3) No person shall import into Ghana, except on production of a certificate of lawful export, any trophy which has been exported from any territory which the Minister has notified in the Gazette as being a territory to which the terms of the International Convention for the protection of Fauna and Flora made at London on the 8th day of November, 1933 applies.

(4) The import or export of any trophy except at places where there is a Customs station is prohibited.

(5) Any person contravening any of the provisions of this section commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of c2million or to imprisonment for six months and any trophy imported or being exported in contravention of the provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section shall be forfeited. [As substituted by Forestry Commission Act, 1999 (Act 571) s. 35 ss. 2c].