Mineral Development Fund Act 912

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Ghana
Year	2016
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Legislation and regulation, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, Subnational governance
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Open data
RGI Questions	2.2a: Does the central government transfer extractive resource revenues to subnational governments?, 2.2b: Are there specific rules governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues (i.e. are these rules distinct from those governing other types of transfers)?, 2.2.1a: Do rules specify which subnational agencies receive the extractive resource revenues transferred from the central government?, 2.2.2a: Do rules specify a formula governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues between the central government and subnational governments?, 2.3b: If there are multiple natural resource funds, which is the largest?, 2.3.2d: From 2015 onwards, has the government adhered to the numeric rules governing the size of deposits into the sovereign wealth fund?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Ministry of Lands an Natural Resources
Author	Ministry of Lands an Natural Resources
Source or API link	http://www.mlnr.gov.gh
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute