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Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29)

State:	Ghana
Date:	Jan. 12, 1961
Language:	English
Status:	Enacted
Version:	PDF

Relevant Keywords

Age of criminal responsibility - national proceedings

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Commission through another person

Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

Disruption of trial - removal of the accused

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Giving false testimony

Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Incapacity - national proceedings

Individual commission

Individual criminal responsibility

Insanity - national proceedings

Intent - national proceedings

Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

Intoxication - national proceedings

Joint commission

Killing members of the group

Mental disease or defect - national proceedings

Mistake of fact - national proceedings

Mistake of law - national proceedings

National penalties - death sentence

National penalties - genocide

National penalties - offences against the administration of justice

Necessity - national proceedings

Offences against administration of justice

Presenting false or forged evidence

Providing means

Sanctions for misconduct before the court - national proceedings

Self-defence - national proceedings