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166 NATIONAL MEDIA COMMISSION
(1)
There shall be established by Act of Parliament within six months after Parliament first meets after
the coming into force of this Constitution, a National Media Commission which shall consist of fifteen
members as follows (a) one representative each nominated by
(i) the Ghana Bar Association;
(ii) the Publishers and Owners of the Private Press;
(iii) the Ghana Association of Writers and the Ghana Library Association;
(iv) the Christian group (the National Catholic Secretariat, the Christian Council, and the Ghana
Pentecostal Council);
(v) the Federation of Muslim Councils and Ahmádiyya Mission;
(vi) the training institutions of journalists and communicators;
(vii) the Ghana Advertising Association and the Institute of Public Relations of Ghana; and
(viii) the Ghana National Association of Teachers;
(ix) the National Council on Women and Development;
(x) the Trade Unions Congress;
(xi) the Association of Private Broadcasters.
(b) two representatives nominated by the Ghana Journalists Association;
(c) two persons appointed by the President; and
(d) three persons nominated by Parliament.
(2)
The Commission shall elect its own Chairman.
(3)
A person who is a founding member of a political party, is a leader or a member of its executive or
holds any office in a political party shall not be qualified to be a member of the Commission.
167 FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION
The functions of the National Media Commission are (a) to promote and ensure the freedom and independence of the media for mass communication or
information;
(b) to take all appropriate measures to ensure the establishment and maintenance of the highest
journalistic standards in the mass media, including the investigation, mediation and settlement of
complaints made against or by the press or other mass media;
(c) to insulate the state-owned media from governmental control;
(d) to make regulations by constitutional instrument for the registration of newspapers and other
publications, except that the regulations shall not provide for the exercise of any direction or
control over the professional functions of a person engaged in the production of newspapers or
other means of mass communication; and
(e) to perform such other functions as may be prescribed by law not inconsistent with this
Constitution.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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