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The legal spouse of a Papua New Guinean who has resided in the territory for one of the past three years; [11] Persons with at least one parent or grandparent who was, or would have been eligible to be except for death, a national of Papua New Guinea; [7] [12] Minor children of persons who obtain nationality through naturalization; or [13]
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 ...
Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] [note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
The Constitution declares the "underlying law" — that is, the separate common law of Papua New Guinea — to consist of the Constitution, "customary law" derived from the "custom" of the various peoples of Papua New Guinea, and the common law of England as it stood at the date of Papua New Guinea's independence on 16 September 1975.
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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.
The Papua New Guinea Law Society is a professional association representing the legal profession in Papua New Guinea. The society has a number of regulatory roles under the Lawyers Act 1986 . [ 1 ]
The Constitution of Papua New Guinea entered into force on the 16 September 1975. It is one of the few unique constitutions around the world that contains almost all the rights and freedoms enshrined the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. The constitution contains many civil and political rights that are ...