GHANA PORTS AND HARBOURS AUTHORITY ACT, 1986

(1) The ports within the limits specified in the Schedule are hereby declared to be ports for the purposes of this Act and any other enactment. (2) The President may, by executive instrument, vary or extend the boundaries of a port specified in the Schedule, and of any other port declared under subsection (3). (3) The President may, by executive instrument, declare that a port, roadstead, bay, place or an inland water shall be a port for the purposes of this Act and any other enactment, and may define the area of that port.

(1) There is hereby established a body corporate to be known as the Ports and Harbours Authority. (2) The Authority shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name. (3) The Authority may, for the performance of its functions, acquire and hold movable property, including electric motive power and immovable property, dispose of property and enter into a contract or any other transaction. (4) Where there is an hindrance to the acquisition of property under subsection (3), the property may be acquired for the Authority under the State Property and Contracts Act, 1960 (C.A. 6) or the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125) or any other law. (5) The President may give directions of a general nature to the Authority, and the Authority shall give effect to them.