Paper written following a UNITAR Sub-Regional Workshop on Legislative Drafting for African Lawyers (Kampala, Uganda 20 to 31 March 2000). This article seeks to delineate the role Parliamentary Counsel play in the enactment of legislation. It is a role which is important in the Ghanaian parliamentary system of government. In the modern world today the government cannot effectively govern if that government does not have the ability to pass legislation.