The Petroleum (Exploration and Production ) Act, 1984 ( PNDC Law.84)

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Ghana
Year	1984
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?, 1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?, 1.2.5b: Do rules specify the royalty rate(s) applying to extractive companies?, 1.2.6b: Is the national tax authority required to audit extractive companies?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Ghana Government
Author
Source or API link	http://rgi.nrgi-assessment.org/api/public/documents/GHA-2016-HY
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute