Division 1 – National Goals and Directive Principles. 25. Division 2 – Leadership Code. 26. 2. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Division 3 – Basic Rights. Subdivision A – Introductory. 32. 33. 34. 3. Subdivision B – Fundamental Rights. 35. 36. 37. Subdivision C – Qualified Rights. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. Subdivision D – Enforcement. 57. 58. Division 4 – Principles of Natural Justice. 59. 60. 61. 62. Division 5 – Basic Social Obligations. 63. EMERGENCY PROVISIONS. FOR CERTAIN OFFICE. OTHER AND AND IN THE AND IN THE NATIONAL BASIC PRINCIPLES THE THE AND AND AND AND AND LAWS. TO OF OF OF ETC. OF OF OF OFFICE. OF OTHER
PART IV – CITIZENSHIP. Division 1 – Introductory. 64. Division 2 – Acquisition of Citizenship. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. Division 3 – Loss and Regaining of Citizenship. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. Division 4 – Citizenship Advisory Committee. 75. 76. Division 5 – General. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. PART V – HEAD STATE. Division 1 – The Head of State. 82. 83. 84. 85. Division 2 – Functions, etc., of the Head of State. 86. Division 3 – Appointment, etc., of Governor-General. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. Division 4 – General. 97. 98. PART VI – GOVERNMENT. Division 1 – General Principles. DECLARATION ACTING CITIZENSHIP. HEAD STATE. THE CERTAIN CERTIFICATE UNDER FOR PROVISIONS RELATING THE CERTAIN FOR CERTAIN
130A. Subdivision I – General. [131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. Division 3 – Special Instances of the Legislative 137. Division 4 – The National Executive. Subdivision A – The National Executive and the Executive Power. 138. 139. 140. Subdivision B – The Ministry. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. Subdivision C – The National Executive Council. 149. 150. Subdivision D – The Power of Mercy. 151. 152. Subdivision E – General. 153. Division 5 – The Administration of Justice. Subdivision A – General Structure and Principles of the National Justice Administration. 154. 155. 156. 157. Subdivision B – The Judicial Power. 158. 159. Subdivision C – The Supreme Court of Justice. 160. 161. 162. Subdivision D – The National Court of Justice. 163. JUDICIAL SYSTEM. JUDICIAL
216A. Division 2 – The Ombudsman Commission. 217. 218. 219. 220. PART IX – CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICE-HOLDERS AND CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 221. 222. 223. 224. 225. PART X – POWERS. Division 1 – Introductory. 226. Division 2 – Periods of Declared National Emergency. 227. 228. 229. Division 3 – Emergency Measures. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. 238. Division 4 – Parliamentary Supervision and Control. 239. 240. 241. 242. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL NATIONAL DECLARATION CONTROL. INSTITUTIONS. EMERGENCY DECLARATION
243. Division 5 – Internment. 244. 245. Division 6 – Miscellaneous. 246. PART XI – MISCELLANEOUS. 247. 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. PART XII – REVIEW. 260. 261. 262. 263. PART XIII – IMMEDIATE TRANSITIONAL 264. XIII. 265. 266. 267. 268. 269. 270. 271. 272. 273. 274. 275. PART XIV – Division 1 – Preliminary. 276. 277. VIA. 278. BEFORE GOVERNMENT. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS
330. 331. 332. 333. 334. 335. 336. 337. Division 7 – Bougainville Referendum. 338. 339. 340. 341. 342. 343. Division 8 – Immunity from Prosecution. 344. Division 9 – Miscellaneous. 345. 346. 347. 348. 349. 1 – SHORTENING AND INTERPRETATION SCHEDULE 2 – ADOPTION, SCHEDULE 3 – SCHEDULE 4 – DECLARATION. SCHEDULE 5 – ADOPTED OF COUNTRIES. SCHEDULE 6 – . TRANSITIONAL
(b) moved within 12 months before the fifth anniversary of the date fixed for the return of the writs at the previous general election shall not be allowed if it nominates the next Prime Minister. (3) A motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister or the Ministry moved in accordance with Subsection (2)(a) may not be amended in respect of the name of the person nominated as the next Prime Minister except by substituting the name of some other person. (4) A motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister or in the Ministry may not be moved during the period of eighteen months commencing on the date of the appointment of the Prime Minister. 146. Resignation. (1) The Prime Minister may resign from office by notice in writing to the Head of State. (2) A Minister other than the Prime Minister may resign from office by notice in writing to the Prime Minister. 147. Normal term of office. (1) Unless he earlier– (a) dies; or (b) subject to Subsection (2), resigns; or (c) subject to Subsection (3), ceases to be qualified to be a Minister; or (d) is dismissed or removed from office, a Minister (including the Prime Minister) holds office until the next appointment of a Prime Minister. (2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(b)– (a) a Minister who resigns; and (b) a Ministry that resigns collectively, shall continue in office until the appointment of the next Prime Minister. (3) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(c), a Minister who– (a) ceases, by reason of a general election, to be a member of the Parliament; but (b) remains otherwise qualified to be a member of the Parliament, shall continue in office until the next appointment of a Prime Minister. 148. Functions, etc., of Ministers. (1) Ministers (including the Prime Minister) have such titles, portfolios and responsibilities as are determined from time to time by the Prime Minister. (2) Except as provided by a Constitutional Law or an Act of the Parliament, all departments, sections, branches and functions of government must be the political responsibility of a Minister, and the Prime Minister is politically responsible for any of them that are not specifically allocated under this section. (3) Subsection (2) does not confer on a Minister any power of direction or control.
PART X. – Division 1. – Introductory. 226. Definitions. In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears– “declaration of a national emergency” a declaration under Section 228 (declaration of national emergency); “emergency” includes, without limiting the generality of the expression– (a) imminent danger of war between Papua New Guinea and another country, or of warlike operations threatening national security; and (b) an earthquake, volcanic eruption, tempest, flood, fire or outbreak of pestilence or infectious disease, or any other natural calamity whether similar to any such occurrence or not on such an extensive as to be likely to endanger the public safety or to deprive the community or any substantial proportion of the community of supplies or services essential to life; and (c) action taken, or immediately threatened, by any person that is of such a nature, and on so extensive a scale, as to be likely to endanger the public safety or to deprive the community or any substantial portion of the community of supplies or services essential to life; “Emergency Act” means an Act of the Parliament made for the purposes of this Part and in accordance with Section 230 (Emergency Acts); “Emergency Committee” means an Emergency Committee appointed under Section 240 (Emergency Committees), and includes a Temporary Emergency Committee appointed and in office under Section 241 (Temporary Emergency Committees); “emergency law” means– (a) an Emergency Act; or (b) an Emergency Regulation; “emergency means an order made under an emergency law, as provided for by Section 232 (emergency orders); “Emergency Regulation” a law that is made in accordance with Section 231 (Emergency Regulations); “internment” means detention that is authorized by or under a law the validity of which depends solely on this Part, but does not include the detention of a member of the armed forces of another country as a prisoner of war; “period of declared national emergency” means any period during which– (a) Papua New Guinea is at war with another country by virtue of a declaration under Section 227 (declaration of war); or (b) a declaration of a national emergency is in under Section 228 (declaration of national emergency).
(a) a certificate under the hand, or purporting to be under the hand, of the Speaker of the pre-Independence House of Assembly; or (b) a document under the hand, or purporting to be under the hand, of the Clerk or other proper officer of the pre-Independence House of Assembly and purporting to be the minutes or other official record of the proceedings of the Constituent Assembly. 258. Constitutional Regulations. (1) The Head of State, acting with, and in accordance with, the advice of the National Executive Council, may make regulations, not inconsistent with a Constitutional Law or an Act of the Parliament, prescribing all matters that by a Constitutional Law are required or permitted to be prescribed or provided for by Constitutional Regulation. (2) All Constitutional Regulations be tabled in the Parliament as soon as practicable after being made, and may be disallowed by the Parliament at any time. 259. Independent tribunals. Unless otherwise provided for by a Constitutional Law, in any case where a Constitutional Law requires the appointment of an independent tribunal, the members of that tribunal shall be appointed from a list of names approved by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission.