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Statute law is very largely adopted from overseas jurisdictions. For example, the Criminal Code is adopted from Queensland; the Rules of Court are those of New South Wales; the Matrimonial Causes Act is the extremely old English statute of 1857 which had been in force in the Australian States before the federal Divorce Act, 1964; the Companies Act ch 146 was substantially the English Companies ...
The Law Reform Commission Act of 1975 established a Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission. From 1975 to 1978 the Commission's chairman was Bernard Narokobi. [2] A separate Constitutional Commission was established by the Constitutional Commission Act of 1993. The 2004 Act united these two bodies.
Papua New Guinean nationality law is regulated by the 1975 Constitution of Papua New Guinea, as amended; the Citizenship Act 1975, and its revisions; and international agreements entered into by the Papua New Guinean government. [1] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Papua New Guinea.
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute [1] (PacLII) collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org.These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu ...
Despite ratifying CEDAW, PNG has yet to incorporate it into the domestic law of PNG. Consequently, it lacks the status of domestic law under that Act of Parliament or Constitution. In the 2010 Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women focused on PNG, the Committee urged PNG to fully incorporate ...
In 1997, the government approved in principle the establishment of a human rights commission for PNG with the minimum standards set by the Paris Principles. [6] This commitment was reaffirmed in 2007 with the presentation of the 2007 Final Option Paper on the establishment of the PNG human rights commission; [6] and in 2008 a draft organic law on the establishment of a human rights commission ...
The use of capital punishment in PNG has fluctuated throughout history and has again become unsettled in recent years. Since 1954, PNG appeared to have maintained a strong "long-standing de facto moratorium" [5] which was later passed into law. The complete abolishment of capital punishment occurred in 1970 whilst PNG was still under the ...