Sunday, October 17, 2010

Ghana to get Petroleum Law before budget is read

COMMERCIAL LAW
The Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill and Petroleum Revenue Management Bill would be passed before the budget for 2011 would be read in November, this year.

Mr. Cletus Avoka, Majority Leader in Parliament, said when Parliament resumes sitting on Oct. 19, efforts would be made to ensure that those bills are passed.

He, therefore, urged the committee working on the bills to expedite action to get the bills ready for the House to debate on them so that it would have time to scrutinize the budget without interruption.

Mr. Cletus Avoka said this at a three-day workshop, organized by the Parliamentary Centre, with support from the Revenue Watch Initiative and the Canadian Parliamentary Centre for a section of Parliamentarians.

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