# Article 80 — Oaths

- Jurisdiction: Ghana (GH)
- Article: 80
- Index row title: Oaths
- Source document: The ghana constitution
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## Verbatim text

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A Minister of State or Deputy Minister shall not en ter upon the duties of his office unless he
has taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, th e oath of Minister of State and the Cabinet
oath, as the case may be, set out in the Second Sch edule to this Constitution.
````

## What this means (mechanical reading aid, not legal advice)

- The index files this text under article 80 of the Constitution of Ghana.
- The row is titled “Oaths”.
- The passage runs to about 53 words.
- **Caveat:** No rights vocabulary from our fixed word list appears in this passage, so no plain-language reading is offered for it.

> This is a mechanical reading aid generated from the text above by matching words in it. It is not legal advice, not a lawyer’s interpretation, and not a substitute for the provision itself.

## How to cite this

Constitution of Ghana, article 80 (“Oaths”), Portable Lawyer, https://www.portablelawyer.app/provision/2509a674-e29b-4796-8357-2180abb9560a (accessed 25 October 2026).

## Related

- [Constitution of Ghana](https://www.portablelawyer.app/countries/5bb4aa04-bfb4-40e8-883e-d628fd15d66b)
- [Ghana on Portable Lawyer](https://www.portablelawyer.app/countries/5bb4aa04-bfb4-40e8-883e-d628fd15d66b)
- [HTML version of this provision](https://www.portablelawyer.app/provision/2509a674-e29b-4796-8357-2180abb9560a)
- [Machine-readable corpus digest](https://www.portablelawyer.app/llms-full.txt)

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Portable Lawyer · Article 80 of the Constitution of Ghana (indexed as “Oaths”). A Minister of State or Deputy Minister shall not en ter upon the duties of his office unless he has taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, th e oath of Minister of State and…