Laws.Africa Editor Guide
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  • Welcome
  • Getting started
    • Lesson plan
    • Signing up
    • Digitising legislation
    • What is Akoma Ntoso
    • Terminology guide
  • Managing Works
    • Creating and editing works
      • Working with commencements
    • Deleting a document
    • Amending works
      • Creating the amending work
      • Linking the amendment
      • Creating a new document at the new point in time
      • Applying the amendments
      • Annotating the amendments
      • Example
      • Exercise
      • Consolidating the annotations
        • Simple example
        • Complicated example
    • Bulk imports (spreadsheet)
  • How-tos
    • Tasks
    • Importing a document
      • The importer
    • Cleaning up an import
    • Going back to a previous version of a document
    • Fixing all-caps headings
    • Working with tables
      • Table errors
    • Working with links
    • Working with italicised terms
    • Inserting an image
    • Inserting special characters
    • Resolving editor warnings
    • Making comments
    • Inserting editorial notes
    • Changing a document's date
    • Changing a document's short title or language
    • Search and rescue
    • How to handle different language documents
    • How to mark up defined terms which do not occur in a Definitions section
    • Very complicated amendments
      • Research
      • Undo some amendments?
      • Update the timeline
      • Create the tasks
      • Apply the amendments
  • Markup guide
    • Introduction
    • Marking up the structure
    • Preface, Long title, and Preamble
    • Headings
    • Marking up Schedules / Annexes
    • Marking up annotations
    • Marking up tables
    • Marking up links
    • Marking up images
    • Marking up footnotes
    • Marking up formatting
    • Marking up insertions and deletions
    • Keyword reference
  • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewer checklist
    • Signing off a work
  • Style Guides
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    • Mauritius
    • Pan-African Parliament/ AGP
    • Turks and Caicos
    • Papua New Guinea
    • eSwatini
    • Rwanda
    • Documents in languages other than English
  • Administration
    • Site settings
    • Managing administrators
    • Countries and localities
    • Document subtypes
    • Task labels
    • Taxonomies
    • Notion templates
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  1. Style Guides

Ghana

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Last updated 4 months ago

Import documents

Word docs:

Cleaning up a document

Annotations

References to Acts in the headings' margins should be moved to the end of the section and marked up as an annotation. Where several references appear, they should be captured in a single annotation separated by semi-colons.

References to Acts in the margins should be moved below the text they refer to, and be marked up as annotations.

References to amendments should also be captured as annotations.

Dates in Ghana

We do not have publication or commencement dates for Acts up to the year 1992. We will be using dummy commencement dates (31/12/year) for such years.

For years after 1992, the date of Gazette notification is the same as the publication date.

Documents commence on the publication date unless stated otherwise.

Things to note

  • Some original publications have incomplete words. This may lead to OCR errors in the imported tasks. Look out for these when cleaning the imports.

  • The format of some Schedules deviate from the usual ones, where instead of paragraphs, we have Articles and Rules.

  • In some documents, there is a reference to Rules in the main body, but in the Schedules, these Rules are referred to as paragraphs. When marking these up in the Schedule, we should use PARA instead of RULE.

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