Trade in bush meatNTFPS Benefit Sharing : Offences and Sanctions:

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10.3 Trade in bush meatNTFPS

I. No person shall be allowed to buy bush meatNTFPs from the CREMA unless heshe is in possession of license granted himher for that purpose by the CREMA Executive Committee CEC II. Non-CREMA traders in bush meatNTFPs shall only buy from recognized licensed traders within the CREMA III. CREMA traders in bush meatNTFPs who also obtain their stock from external sources shall use tax levies receipt issued by the respective revenue collection unit for justifications. IV. Application for a license to buy bush meatNTFPs in the CREMA shall be made to the CEC accompanied by an appropriate fee determined y the CEC.

10.4 Benefit Sharing :

I. Fees of hunting or bush meat trade permits and sales of confiscated wild animals shall be paid into the CREMA account and this money shall be used for community development II. 10 of the CREMA annual income generated shall be paid to traditional authority land owners III. 10 of the CREMA annual income generated shall be paid to shall be paid to wildlife division of the forestry commission IV. 10 of the CREMA annual income generated shall be paid to shall be paid to the Ahanta West District Assembly 70 of the CREMA annual income generated shall be used for community development in the CREMA.

10.5 Offences and Sanctions:

I. Offenders of section 10.1 of the CREMA constitution above shall be sanctioned by the CREMA Executive Committee CEC II. Any person who contravenes any provisions made in section 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 of the CREMA constitution for the first time shall be brought to the CREMA Executive Committee CEC and fined appropriately III. Subsequent contraventions of the provisions made in section 10.2,10.3 and 10.4 of the CREMA constitution shall illicit prosecution in a law court and shall be liable to a summary conviction to a fine not less than: • GH 50.00 or to a term of 6 Months imprisonment for offenders of hunting bush meat trade. 16 • GH 200.00 or to a term of 2 years imprisonment for offenders of poisons as baits for fishing or wildlife animals • GH 100.00 or to a term of 1 year imprisonment for offenders of illegal harvesting or felling of NTFPS IV. Any bush meat or NFTP of wholly protected kind or in closed season shall be confiscated and sold to public and money paid into the CREMA account V. Any person who contravenes the national law that protects endangered species shall be prosecuted in the court of law by the WD in accordance to the provisions made in the Wildlife regulations 1971 L.I 85.

11. EXPANSION OF THE CREMA